confirmed: my grandmother is willing to stay alive for crab legs

This is for like 87% of everything happening now

just got back from first softball practice in a year, someone should look into the mood altering effects of purely joyful outdoor physical activity. could be something there

imagining a world where blue state public universities pass policies giving in-state tuition to red state students wanting to escape to safety

Having a very Thursday ass Wednesday

Personally, I believe seabirds are the closest thing we have on earth to angels. They visit from realms we cannot live in, keeping holy ancient rituals of birth and death, migration, occasionally disappearing into the far arctic where we cannot track them even with our fanciest tech.

if you need substack to write, fine, whatever. but anyone with a paid substack scolding people about where their money is going is preaching a gospel they're not willing to follow.

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

If you give Kyle your email address, you get to read phrases like “a look of blissful, flotational disengagement from the sartorial pressures of our suicidal species.”

Go to Chicago to catch Rush, stick around for a really quite amazing lineup

Announcing the next iteration of the AC Reading & Performance Series 7/18/26 - Chicago - Comfort Station - 2579 N Milwaukee - 7pm Readings by @andrew-farkas.bsky.social / @klooky.bsky.social / David Welch Performances by Jack Langdon / Erica Miller / Janna Lee

mothers day is my superbowl

give everyone a raise. give everyone a million dollars

Oh look, Some Kind of Wonderful starring Mary Stuart Masterson as a rebellious drum playing best friend. This better not awaken anything in me….

no one do anything embarrassing or disrespectful today it's my mom's birthday. i am watching you

I listened to Kelly's conversation with Rebecca Solnit and I recommend it. I was particularly struck with what Solnit says here: truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

earlier this week, I woke at 4:19am, wrote this poem, and went back to sleep sharing today for #smallpoemsunday / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“I won’t be able to write from the grave / so let me tell you what I love:” — Fanny Howe . . . This poem appeared in Selected Poems of Fanny Howe by Fanny Howe, published by University of California Press, 2000. Shared here with deep gratitude.

not to be a huge piece of shit but people and sunshine are extremely good

Rae Armantrout

Anyway student journalists have been and remain one of the best reasons to have hope for this country

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is now open for submissions for volume six! Poetry and visual art welcome! 🦬 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬 Please check the website for all the particulars: buffalojournal.tumblr.com/sub #litmag

You are getting played so hard, man.

i am once again furious about the historical misrepresentation of the dodo bird

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

i don't bother wearing hard pants to therapy anymore bc it has come to my attention i must be as honest as i can about who i am

make something Else

still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

new old dog's been with us seven weeks he's doing great, acclimating nicely, today i'm showing him episode five of heated rivalry

Nothing is holding you back from doing your worst

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

Day 14: “one billion flowers” by Kristin Lueke in @glasspoetry.bsky.social. Love the form, repetition, and sound of this piece — feels like a hymn. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...

Congrats and good luck to our 2026 Best New Poets nominees! Hannah Han "Ars Non Poetica" www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025... Kirstin Lueke "one billion flowers" www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you’ve written, or ones you love by other poets :) here’s one by my friend @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social, published this week in Michigan City Review of Books~

You ‘went to space’? Bitch, face your problems

went ooga booga mode on a feral cat this week, which is how i discovered i got a little something in me called ooga booga mode

i'm just doing some research. don't worry about it

I would like a little credit for not posting a stream of the most depressing shit I can think of

Submissions are officially open for our May issue! We're seeking poems, stories, essays, artwork and photography. Deadline April 26. We look forward to spending time with all the many ways you see the world. heroinchic.weebly.com

if we're being honest, i wouldn't mind being ratatouilled, just a bit. just two hours a day. let an ambitious little rat take the wheel

if anyone lies to my mom today i'm gonna lose it

i am not currently accepting pranks of any kind

Roshan is an excellent journalist and person! If you’ve got money to spare, send some his way

It's so nice when an artist manifests a thing that has hit your brain on multiple occasions

heard a few of you guys like poems (thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social i love you)

"His best friend of many years, who had been living for as long as either could remember across the country from him, had told him a secret which he had promised never to reveal; and now she had died." "The Secret" at @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's excellent new journal, @bulbregion.bsky.social

gonna start sending my mom screenshots of my targeted ads so she fully understands who she raised