Kaj Tanaka

Thanks for waking this one up! It's been taking a very long nap. Excited to see your collection when it's done!

My student told me I dress like a rejected Friends cast member...major moment of self knowledge unlocked!

Anyone willing to share some favorite poetry collections published in the last 5 years?

(Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝)

What the holy fascist fuck?!

teaching in carhartt work pants and boots today which feels like a true level up when you teach at as rural college

Yes... I'm trash

it'll be a while

It hit late

just ate two rancid lindor truffles

Reading list for spring...I always try to teach like it's my last semester because at some point it will be 😸

I have a dairy hangover from drinking an entire thing of eggnog

Love this!

we rewatched it last year and it made everyone grumpy for an evening

No One Deserves Happiness in Christmas Town, by Amber Sparks — Barrelhouse Christmas Town. What a dreadful, dismal, backwater dump Have you been? And what I mean is, have you been since you were small and rather naïve?

I will always be here to see @ambersparks.bsky.social dunk on this long-winded, cruel, uncaring, stupid, incoherent, and somehow (somehow!) beloved children's program

(And thanks @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing it)

www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/n...

Sweet Louise is blindingly sweet

they are both wonderful, but that d&d poem really hit me where I live

that's a good episode!

2 Poems by Simeon Berry The LaMacchia kids were kind of jerks and destined to have unsuccessful mustaches but the older one was a decent Dungeon Master when working theatrically from a module, where he’d surprise us with ...

Oh wow! I love these poems by @simeonberry.bsky.social in @havehashad.com

It's not every day I get to read poems about playing D&D and being a 5th grader...What a treat!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...

Still image from Lord of the Rings in which Sam and Frodo are in the foreground, and in the background is a scarecrow covered in crows

Just noticed maybe the worst scarecrow

I have some notes on the family legend by Jessica Dawn Grandma told us once that great-great grand uncle John lived in the part of the country that gets the coldest[1] and he built a cabin out there,[2] the cabin where he’d count down his last days when t...

Just wow...love this little essay in @havehashad.com by Jessica Dawn

thinking about how to change my classes next semester so I can teach it

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-h...

I assume they swallowed them and waited for nature to return the keys in the usual way, but I actually never asked

I knew someone who locked the router in their car trunk. I remember thinking "I'm so happy I don't need to do that"

The car trunk person did publish their book, so I'm not knocking the process, just grateful it's not mine 😸

Listening to mm... Food while cooking has become a Thanksgiving tradition

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month With 14 New Releases | BookTrib. This month is National Native American Heritage Month. It’s a time to celebrate and recognize the rich heritage, customs, folklore, languages, stories, issues faced by and contributions of Indigenous ...

Proud to see BIG CHIEF on this list of Indigenous fiction. What a lineup!
booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...

firing up disco elysium again to help me make peace with all the knocking chaos

Love that!

Two Poems by Daniel Findlay Unveiling the Dog The fence trembles in the mangled dawn. Pre-disaster blues have got this whole town feeling like death row. No luck the wire cutters seem to be pleading at you. Bleeding all over ...

These pose poems by Daniel Findlay in @havehashad.com

"Lately I’ve been hanging around gas stations. They pull me in like a planet tugs a flailing comet."

🫥 fucking slaps 🫥

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

Here’s a reading list, hung on my fridge, I’ve been working through

Sweet days of discipline is such a hot pick here

Me too buddy... Hoping to make it to AWP this year