🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal! Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️ #coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag 1/4

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

CREATURE IS ALIVE 10 songs, 43 minutes Inspired by My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above The Village of Chamounix by @susanstryker.bsky.social Featuring spoken word performances by @gion.bsky.social and @nyantifacatgirl.bsky.social Gooey, angry, horny, tender, alive. Enjoy. Links below.

Like other women poets of my generation, writing long works on themes the world reserves for philosophy as such, I am often called ambitious. The word “desperate” would probably be more accurate: I can't accept the Tyrant's truths... - Alice Notley, "Instability in Poetry" (2001)

Going to miss @midmtn.bsky.social and the dear friends there. Until next time!

Send my love to the Blue Ridge

The horrendous creature moved like Jagger

The British spelling of diarrhoea is so much grosser than the already stupidly spelled American diarrhea. Get that "o" out of there man.

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

the key to avoid this is to lack ambition. Just do things and keep it moving.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Ono no Komachi (trans. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani):

In response to a week of anxiety, migraines, and battling burnout, I have: •made a whipped maple apple pie butter •zested some lemon & mandarin into sugar & I’m letting it sit •written a poem Is it going to solve my problems? No! But it is delicious & nice to create things!

this is one of the best responses I've ever seen a politician give to any question, let alone one this aggressive generational political talent

i have acquired the feminine urge to own a chainsaw

Updated my website & added a little blog section where I’ll post news & things I’m enjoying here and there 🍂 Link in bio!

It’s official

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

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I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Is denying people healthcare, kidnapping people from their jobs to be sent to detention camps, targeting minorities with legislation and hate speech campaigns not political violence?

Applying to fellowships that would blow up my entire schedule (but it’s fine because I probably won’t get in but also I hope I get in but also I will have blown up my schedule a little bit)

We are legitimately looking at a genocide against trans people in the United States. That's not hyperbole. The Department of Justice isn't talking about disarming us so that we can all live quietly in peace. There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.

writing & reading so much that it feels like words are coming out of my ears & I think that’s a good thing 🌻

10-12 absolute cowards attack one guy with a camera. Beyond disgraceful indeed.

but we can try, we can try.

I love HAD (radical sentiment, I know); so pleased they took this weird list poem

Saturday plans: 🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov #Caturday

maybe its too blunt of an object but i will go to my grave thinking a big part of why we got here is a refusal to say dumb people and dumb ideas are dumb. we were too polite, and instead we said "that's an interesting take" when we should have said "shut the fuck up, you absolute dumbass."

Is that good

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

can y'all literally do anything other than clap back or wiggle your stupid fuck ass finger jesus fucking christ

We deserve a little treat. If that is in fact what this is. Perhaps it’s a punishment. Which we also deserve.

it speaks to the technology's hideous and primal appeal, which is that in cases of uncertainty many people would rather be told to do something than to choose to do it

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

Just saying that if Trump can come into my city and just lie about crime, call it a national emergency, and take us over - he can do it anywhere. It’s easier here, but look what he did in LA - just saying I’d care about DC if I was elsewhere in the country because this is bad

No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

John Phillips in the current issue of Noon Poetry

they’re not wrong. lies and fearmongering literally led to this. it’s pizzagate all over again.

If you've enjoyed this poem from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, please do consider getting hold of the book itself. Just drop me a DM and I’ll sort out a signed copy for you! No problem to ship to the U.S., U.K., Canada or mainland Europe…

NEW POEM #257: "The angel in massachusetts" by Justin Lacour "asks me to stand next to him so the cops will let him be maybe he is an angel / it’s always good to have an angel and a train and a hat and a graveyard" stonecirclereview.com/the-angel-in... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!" It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.