Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social

Clearly still doesn’t know how to wear a mask #NoKings

Cheers to everyone who marched today in big cities, small towns, blue country and red country. Keep bringing the energy. There's strength in numbers, and greater numbers in diversity than hegemony. Hold today close, remember you're not alone, and never let them steal your joy. #NoKings 🇺🇲

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)

Seattle friends! Come to the book launch for Intemperance on October 14, at Elliott Bay Book Company! I’ll be in conversation with these two brilliant authors, who have some irreverent questions planned for me. And there will be an Intemperance-shaped cake because the protagonist loves cake. Ahem.❤️

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working and success is a spirit & craft blunter (you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

Another early poem by Cole Swensen. Can't get this one out of my head.

Ursula K. Le Guin's classic on growing old and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...

The Jaipur Literature Festival is one of the most famous in the world. This isn’t it, but rather the International version that appears in different US cities. I’m glad to be back in one of my favorite cities, Seattle, in conversation with legend Shawn Wong.

Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚

NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!

The Sleeping Pig I love Jenny George’s poems and thought to share this earthy, ethereal one with you today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147680... Find more of her poems on the Poetry Foundation website. Photo by Kameron Kincade on Unsplash

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems Maria Zoccola Formally inventive, funny, and fierce, this collection reimagines Helen of Troy as a 90’s housewife stuck in Southern suburbia. Finally, Helen of Troy speaks! —and her restlessness is real. This is a fast-paced collection that reads like a novel.

If everything ends, why are you sharpening your sorrow —Martha Silano

Sometimes over on Insta I like to post little appreciations of writing I’m enjoying. Going forward I’m going to try and put them here, too. New from Alice James Books is If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. (Alt text below) @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #indiebooks # poetry # reviews

The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.

At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?

From Naomi Shihab Nye's book, Everything Comes Next. #poem #books #writing

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Happy National Poetry Month to those who celebrate. Photo credit: Peter Wong. #nationalpoetrymonth #foundpoem #poets

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

I keep thinking about this too. And landlines.

This “bonsai tree” in Fairy Lake, BC is shaped by its challenging environment and illustrates the art of perseverance 🇨🇦🌲💕

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

“Because life has reinvented them.” Yes. 💕

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

Have you read Laura Read? 👇

Art is everywhere

Bristlecone Pine, a survivor. Oil on wood panel 10x12.

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:

A brilliant Banksy.

This 👇

I keep thinking about this quote from one of his supporters from the first term. www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/u...

Songs in the Key of Life

A little PNW natural wonder for the timeline

ahhhhh!!!! this amazing review dropping on my birthday is the best thing!!!! THANK YOU @susanlleary.bsky.social!!!!

Sure thing! The book is being sold here: asterismbooks.com/product/ragn...

When horrendous news comes at us as fast as it has in the last few weeks, the only way to process it is to come together and discuss what’s happening (and more importantly, talk about how we fight back). Join @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social tomorrow for their weekly discussion.

This new book from Consuelo Wise 💔 @omnidawn.bsky.social

There’s a reason we revisit this beauty by Tess Gallagher:

Celebrate Black poetry. “Duplex” by Jericho Brown.

William Stafford