A little over a month away from the first of these!!!! Mark your calendar and register for the Zoom link: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

The son "took his father's visa paperwork and Social Security card to the ICE Richmond Field Office off Arboretum Parkway. However, he was told it 'didn't matter.'"

Oh my gosh! I just saw that two of my poems are this month's Amuse-Bouche feature from @lunchticket.bsky.social ! Big thanks to the editors at @antiochmfa.bsky.social for giving these poems a home! lunchticket.org/scientists-c...

🚨✊🏼ICE agents OUTNUMBERED by PEOPLE, forced to retreat! Share this! If Chicago can do this, we can ALL do this. 🚨1/2

A little over a month away from the first of these!!!! Mark your calendar and register for the Zoom link: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Saw John Moreland last night. He’s incredible.

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!! Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org. Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link): beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Been home sick two days. Feeling better, but I need to rest because we’re going out of town for a couple nights — a little getaway centered around seeing John Moreland Saturday night.

I mean look at those lineups!

Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations: Paul Short, Laundry Day Amy L. King, Fade Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? Ryan O’Neill, LDR Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room Antonia Kearton, Sanico Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

I mean look at those lineups!

This is an awesome ‘Ted Talk’ by AOC on our current situation… 💙

It's National Poetry Day! We have a new issue coming out later this month but in the meantime, enjoy our last one: badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!? www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net! You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/

Looking forward to reading the whole anthology, my poem Saw-See-Saw in there somewhere - strange title, you think? Well, only one way to find out...😊

Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike. They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.

shoutout to readers who don’t write, non-musicians who go to every show, art fans who can’t draw, theatre fans who’d never dream of auditioning, movie fans who’d drop a camera art is life and participation doesn’t require creation

Just a little PSA: the October issue of Plume Poetry is out, and it's a beauty. plumepoetry.com/category/all...

Ever try this: rewrite the draft of you poem backwards line by line? It doesn’t usually work, but it can make you feel like you worked on something so you can go make a snack or scroll through YouTube or something.

Sometimes I poetry trick i like is to play “no and” instead of “yes and.” Like I’ll have cool line rattling around in my head, and I’ll put in someone else’s mouth, then say I don’t understand it and spend the rest of the poem talking about something else.

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

But why Congresswoman???? Why must they be blamed? Y'all have to keep telling the public that they control the entire Federal government including the Supreme Court. You have to keep saying this in every single appearance. KEEP IT SIMPLE.

Ever try this: rewrite the draft of you poem backwards line by line? It doesn’t usually work, but it can make you feel like you worked on something so you can go make a snack or scroll through YouTube or something.

Sometimes I poetry trick i like is to play “no and” instead of “yes and.” Like I’ll have cool line rattling around in my head, and I’ll put in someone else’s mouth, then say I don’t understand it and spend the rest of the poem talking about something else.

Acceptance from a favorite print journal of an absolutely brand new poem. I guess I’ll keep at it.

Deifying A Total Darkness is my favorite book ive written To Emit Teal is my most accessible The Second Stop Is Jupiter is my best work and shoulda won something, somewhere and yall cant tell me otherwise (poetry be rigged, af) The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife tries for all three.

A ridiculous little run of luck on the poetry front this week. Thank you, Jamie Poissant, for several benisons: giving this poem a spot in Aquifer & for nominating it for the Best of Net anthology. And thank you, Dean Ward, for letting me borrow this sweet corn & pet moth.

Just catching up to the fact that Ariana Grande made the WH shit themselves today. After posting this they had a “blistering response” says Fox News. This is why their youth support has cratered. Not because all the kids love Ariana Grande. But because they’re a bunch of herbs.

What I remember from 2002 was Wal-Mart & every other retailer selling the crap out of US flags & every other hyper-patriotic thing as consumers were still in shock from the 9/11 attacks the year before. I bet all this nostalgia for the early 2000’s stems in part from the fake unity of that moment.

If you’re feeling nostalgic about 2002, maybe revisit what happened in this country from 2003-2008. The second Iraq War; Hurricane Katrina; the financial system meltdown and the Great Recession just for starters.

God, this is such a layup for Democrats: "Trump has the house and the senate and can't get a bill passed!" "Trump told us to f*** off. Some negotiator!" "Trump is threatening to fire gov't workers. Where was his concern when DOGE started?" This is Easy Mode, but Dems will fuck it up.

I have three poems in the latest issue of Version (9) magazine. Enjoy. version9magazine.com/edition-1-vo...

The interesting thing about this is that I haven’t even shown this poem to my wife yet. Literally the only two people who have ever read it are the editor of the journal and me.

Acceptance from a favorite print journal of an absolutely brand new poem. I guess I’ll keep at it.

Better send the National Guard to Des Moines.

Live footage of the Siege of Portland.

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

Wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

You tell ‘em, killer.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

author copies have arrived; hardback on the left and paperback on the right... and im not any good for the rest of the day.