A little history for your Friday before the long weekend. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Sixteen Rivers Press and NorCal poets and friends gathered at the Sacramento Capitol Building on Friday Feb 6 to honor and remember those killed by ICE. #BlueskyProtest #NorthernCaliforniaPoets #ICEProtest #PoetryForJustice #ArtAgainstOppression #PoetsAgainstICE

The publishing industry is dismantling itself pretty much right before our eyes www.nytimes.com/video/books/...

Share and enjoy. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Artists and writers are now doomed to waylay the unwary on social media because the people who used to take a cut of our earnings in exchange for explaining how lives would be enriched by owning what we made, decided that making the artists do everything (except make a living) is far more efficient.

This comment by Nancy Mitchell captures a bit of what we lost when Ellen died.

Console yourself: Henry's always got it worsen you open.substack.com/pub/robertpo...

Join NorCal poets in protesting ICE violence at the State Capitol Building on Friday, Feb 6, at 10am. Sponsored by Sixteen Rivers Press. #BlueskyProtest #NorthernCaliforniaPoets #ICEProtest #PoetryForJustice #ArtAgainstOppression #PoetsAgainstICE

Guess I'll spend the next three years quoting poems by Ilya Kaminsky www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Bonus question: Which country has 100% of the world's supply of Bjork?? open.substack.com/pub/gohlkeap...

"If up to one-third of people who contract Covid-19 also acquire some form of Long Covid, this is something quite a lot of authors are dealing with." #AuthorSky #BookSky #LongCovid

I have ordered the Library of Congress number (a little belatedly) for Afterimages, my upcoming book, and hope to be able to share the cover soon. Kid, book, press work, teaching; punctuated by periodic illness, weird world events and U.S. freakiness; a lot of chocolate gets me thru the latter

Daddy Long Legs performs in Winsor McCay's BUG VAUDEVILLE

Happy to have a poem from the upcoming book (Afterimages) in New Verse Review this month. Thanks so much to NVR editors Steven Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, and D.A. Cooper! www.newversereview.com/issue-3-1--w...

There are still pockets of professionalism in the federal government. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

A dark, national déjà vu is upon us. Perhaps the darkness never left. Certainly, it seems we are at a tipping point in our democracy. In 2018 we published an anthology of poems: America We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistancee and Resilience. This collection still sings true today. #poetrycommunity

Well on the upside today, turns out my kid has lice.

While watching perp walks and things explode in Venezuela, this also happened--on Christmas Eve, in a basement, behind a sign reading "Beware of Leopard!!!" open.substack.com/pub/mscary/p...

Hey-o, Northern California poets! It's raining! It's pouring—what better time to polish your manuscript and submit to our awesome press? Think about it! 🙂 #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

MAGAts will be very very busy attending these incredible performances by these outstanding superstars!

A sad, hard read. Nick Kristof's article goes to questions of what we value, of what kind of country we want this to be. Feels like hard times of 100 years ago never quite went away. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

As the ancient tweet said…

New weird poem up at Antiphony. Thanks to Editor Ann Pedone! www.antiphonyajournalandpress.com/current-issue

Cornelius Eady! It will be wonderful to hear him read his poem. Gift link and preview below. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

Artists got integrity, friends. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

Coming up!

Posted a few years ago on Richard Hall's blog, "Faith Stuff"

From The Atlantic: "In August, the James Webb Space Telescope provided this new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disk about 525 light-years away...."

Might or might not be a new Banksy

If you do one thing in this week of endless horrors—public & personal—read Murray Silverstein's astonishing poem "Dante in Auschwitz, Ulysses in Hell" in VOX POPULI. Ulysses asks, "Why am I in hell?" & "Where are we going?" questions we all ask ourselves in these troubled times. #poetry #poetrysky

My response to anything over the next two weeks

I am right now selecting the fonts for my book and I can tell you there is no issue more important on our planet right now than this

Really it's a banner headline day

New serif in town AHAhHAhahah yer welcome

Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief!

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

"They arrived at the arena, the place...seething with the lust for cruelty.... Alypius shut his eyes tightly, determined to have nothing to do with these atrocities. [A]n incident in the fight drew a great roar from the crowd... So he opened his eyes... laying his soul open to receive the wound..."

Jean Follain, "De sentir toute cette beauté dispersée dans des musées …" translated by Mary Feeney

I miss the days when The New Yorker et al published writing that was truly thoughtful and alive. Not sure what else art would be entwined with, if not life. Generally that's how we work towards meaning and relevance in art. The remark about autobiography and therapy is gratuitous.

I posted today around 7am PST. By nightfall, Marjorie Taylor Greene had resigned. You’re welcome.

Howard Lutnick is and has for some time been a baaaaaaad maaaan.... www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Former govt prosecutors discuss the disassembly of the Justice Department and of the rule of law. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Border Patrol is supposed to be restricted to operating within 100 miles of a U.S. border. You do not see Charlotte, North Carolina on this map because it is 170 miles from a border. Just saying. www.southernborder.org/100_mile_bor...

Congratulations and Felicidades, Margarita and Maria, our two lovely new citizens. So proud of you both.

We celebrated two new citizens in Citizenship Preparation class tonight! I'll try to get a picture tomorrow

What real problem has tech solved for you lately

The U.S. government shutdown pitted the broad middle class against the working poor: maintaining health insurance subsidies and reliable airline schedules vs going to the food pantry to put dinner on the table. And then there was this Halloween party with a girl in a giant martini glass...