I have some new blackout pieces from my ongoing project “hem” in the Indianapolis Review! Thanks, @nataliesolmer.bsky.social— and go check them out along with the rest of the issue! (The preview here is cool, but not mine— it’s by Joshua Johnston!) theindianapolisreview.com

Mary Ruefle

If this year has you feeling petty and ferocious (it does), definitely send your poems to @villaineralit.bsky.social

I'll beg

I was browsing for something pretty to post for #BlueMonday but instead found…this thing. Sorry. 😬 Faience blue and white model of a recumbent #lion late 18/19th c. France, possibly Luneville H 13¾in. (34.9 cm) L 17¾in. (45.1 cm) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3...

They have gone too fucking far this time

So the rapture is the opposite of it’s raining men

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This movie understood America so fucking well it’s insane

feel like pure shit just want him back

Our board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is reading TOMORROW with Sara Eddy at My Health Matters community space in Hadley, MA at 7:00. Check out the awesomeness if you can! 🐻🎉🐇 @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @saraeddy66.bsky.social @mhmfitwell.bsky.social

Is the implication that cis women don’t have this “underlying level of aggressiveness” because actually fuck you, Ronny, all girls are family and we’re all mad at you

Yesterday I lost it a little when I saw a car with the vanity plate MRSCAR because there’s no way that’s her married name

SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."

nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy

found this poem in a 2018 file in my notes app

our country rn

I loved listening to this, and it made me want to go back and pay deeper attention to Blake (& swim in the ocean) (& befriend an orca)

trader joe’s has put out a bounty on ICE

The hawks are nesting in my neighborhood again, which means what I thought was early cottonwood raining down out the bay window was actually squirrel tail (currently being eaten atop a light post.) 🫤

I overheard two students chatting the other day about the most overlooked of meals, & heard one ask “so, what’s a good lunch?” So, what’s a good lunch? (My answer: A mineral-y glass of white and very crispy, salty fries that are soft on the inside.)

I have drunk the milkshakes that were in the yard and which you were probably saving for all the boys

As soon as I heard @rachzuck.bsky.social say this about Mary Ruefle’s work, I knew I feel this too: “I'm stepping into this temporal field in which I am reading your book that was written in a different time across time about embodied experiences that occurred across time. (1/4)

How are things with me? Not bad! I mean, the island that appeared on the lake does seem to be moving closer, closer each day, a dark form taking shape in the mist. But work's good and I'm feeling OK except when I find myself gazing at that accursed island, drawing ever nearer. How are you?

Strictly Ballroom, or how I became a fancy girl

Fuck yes to tending our bears forever

A friend at the gym brought up James Tate and I was delighted to share this too appropriate poem.

This fucking sociopath is our president

This is my mantra every time I’m cooking in the kitchen: sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds

Some days I’m in mourning for the book I can’t write, the one that has things I need to uncover in places far from me that I can’t afford to get to, in money or time. I work within the borders of my life, & it’s good work. I’m truly sorry to that other book.

I watched all of Severance S1 during a period of isolation with respiratory illness (which was maybe an unhinged idea, but I am glad) & S2 in real time, but I *finally* convinced my husband to watch it too, & I love watching the pieces click into place for him. What a brilliant, gorgeous show.

Girl in a Bear Suit is available on Amazon now, so feel free to get a wee bit too high and put it in your cart at midnight along with that bucket hat you’re convinced is retro now & a bulk bag of yogurt covered raisins 💖🥲🐻

*snork*

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Motherfucker.

How do we not recognize that this is the same thing that has been done to us, over and over? "Never again" is bullshit if it only means the violent domination of others to grasp at safety.

hear hear

Last night! 🔥 AWP Off Site. On Purpose. @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

Today! 🌟 @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

Digital friends, I’d love to meet you at #AWP2025! This is a rare chance to pick up Girl in a Bear Suit if you’ve been considering it, or just please come say hi!

OOOOOOH, y’all made Pete Buttigieg curse.

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

and named it History. —Clifton

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

My wife: what the heck are you thinking so hard about right now? Me: Nothing My brain:

Corrie Williamson and Jen Jabaily-Blackburn join Sarah V. Schweig for a poetry panel “Words of Healing: Poets on Self-Care and Connection” at the Virginia Festival of the Book this Friday, March 21, in Charlottesville. ♥️♥️♥️ @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @sarahvschweig.bsky.social

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

But we know what happens next.

continually disappointed that the song to most accurately predict my adult life was REM's 'Daysleeper'

So many thanks to Becky & @perugiapress.bsky.social for giving me a bit of a boost at #AWP2025, they are truly lovely!

I’m so tired of these assholes.