You heard it here! Duotrope says we’re speedy!

I am RACING to finish my masters before this happens, I’ve already had one class where I was assigned to use AI tools and refused

when i want to read the article

People who have read lord of the rings shouldn’t be allowed to name anything. Their children should be named by an elected county official

New article from @apnews.com today about Kipnuk and western Alaska.

In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com

Reports out of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok continue to be devastating—houses lifted off their foundations and floated away, hundreds staying in buildings with limited power and no toilets: Help options are here if you can afford it: alaskapublic.org/news/environ...

I leave town: husband and The Boy go on like normal, may play slightly more video games & do less homework Husband leaves town: homework gets done, but The Boy and I eat and live like feral cats

We are halfway through our submission period for theme: #Integrity! We have far fewer subs than usual (do you all not like the theme?) so if you’re on the fence about submitting — your chances of being selected are higher than normal! Send us stuff!!!

Replacing all your verbs with nouns in verb form doesn't make your prose more engaging, it usually makes it unreadable.

Morning motivation: these are the days you’ll look back on with nostalgia when you’re a pawn in the Water Wars

every day i read things on here that make me go “hwat” like hank hill

Why would I outsource grading to AI? So I could miss out on this?!

oh hell no

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

About twice a week I accidentally dress like a stage tech whose big show is tonight

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! If you want to get into the Halloween spirit and want to support Indigenous people, may I suggest you pick up Never Whistle At Night, edited by Shawn Hawk with an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones. www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...

Many thanks to @toddedillard.bsky.social for his very kind words about my upcoming selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal.

My TA and I working through a stack of 9th grade study guides

They need to give Levar Burton a game show that’s like Battle of the Books for adults

updates for kipnuk several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village hope help arrives soon

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

Seeing more and more reporting that the ENTIRE dept of ed special education workforce has been laid off

Okay all else aside, “regulation” relations is hilarious.

I always leave judging with a lot more sympathy for my husband. Being married to a former debate kid is a lot.

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL "I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

Once you get to the fifteenth inning of a baseball game they should allow peg outs

God I love judging high school debate. Where else can I hear a fifteen year old girl contend that the UK losing the pound would be on par with Native American genocide

We're bringing back excerpt submissions from unpublished novels and novellas, but adding a criterion: 200 words max length. All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.

“I thought life would be easier than this” 6, overhead trying to put a hanger back in the closet

My tiny little poem “metaphor” was published in issue 13 of Molecule!

6 just proposed that we play Pictionary for “real money” and when I said we don’t bet on family game night he said “do I look like I’m in the mood to not play for money?” And then walked away

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

Two of my sophomore girls have been regularly updating me on their “love square” (girl a likes boy b, both boys b and c like girl d, who, in her words, is married to her career) Guess who gets to make the groups for test review 😊😂😈

my little brother challenged my perspective this morning with some heterodox thinking. why AM i hitting myself. why AM i hitting myself

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social press is a powerhouse! Three of their titles (including my book 🥰) on the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award A real testament to the work @wordperv.bsky.social is doing

Woke up to a midweek 💀 Thanks to @havehashad.com and @jlyocum.com

My wife once asked me what drugs writers take, this is my answer @havehashad.com

Verbs are the best part of speech. Fight me.

Was just trying to tidy the house yesterday when all of a sudden this Caroline Bird poem came on the slow down and then of course I was crying

6 tells me that this picture is titled “Sad at the Party Number 1”

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s “Impossible Princess” by Zack Carson www.ballastjournal.com/zack-carson #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #ZackCarson

6 tells me that this picture is titled “Sad at the Party Number 1”

Very lucky to have a poem from my “Guide to Interpreting Dreams” series in the finale issue of Gigantic Sequins, alongside a stunner by @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

● EXCITING NEWS ● The debut novel by your friend and mine, @fbereaud.bsky.social (author of the sublime San Diego Stories from @CowboyJamboree), is now available to pre-order and is on sale for $2 off in the Stanchion shop. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

🎶my girl’s in/the next room/sometimes I wish she was you🎶

Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:

Hey! You can read my poem, "What Remains" (inspired by the incredible @hanvanderhart.bsky.social ) in Sweet Literary today!

Speaking of aging submissions, here's a piece I published a million years ago with the good people at @rejectionlit.bsky.social rejection-letters.com/2022/09/09/n...

Several of my submissions will be turning one year old at the beginning of November, so I'm planning the party. For a theme, I'm thinking all the decorations will be In-Progress Blue.