The monument for Edgar Allan Poe... There's a relief sculpture of his face in the middle. Pennies on the ground. Shadows of other visitors appear in the frame.
I wish! I'm adjusting to life after AWP back home. Creative Alliance is a beautiful space!
It's as though they think they're in a world of causes without effects.... The denial of science is one form of it: "It would be fine if no one was vaccinated any more." "Burning stuff does not release CO2 which does not further insulate the upper atmosphere so climate change is not a thing...."
Getting to play Radio DJ at my daughter's high school radio station tonight with @aprilist.bsky.social at 8PM. I think we have a good set planned.
Be one of the six people listening here!
wavm.org/listen-now/
My next reading event is at my town's nice little book festival on April 10. Come on by if you're in the metro west area (?) or whatever where I live is called. www.maynardbookfestival.org
The Maynard Book Festival is coming soon. Five days of books, authors, readings, art, poetry and open mics, and more! Get all the info here! @maynardlibfriends.bsky.social
Poets and poetry lovers, please save the date for the online book launch of @gendeguzman.bsky.social’s Karaoke at the End of the World — coming soon from @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🧨❤️
I read writing by humans because humans wrote it and I’m a human and I can feel like a part of something larger while seeing myself through the eyes of another human.
Writing isn’t software predicting things, it’s a damn encounter, a conversation, it’s touching the ethereal with humans.
Loud sigh!
Three Solstice MFA community members standing together and smiling
Three Solstice MFA community members standing together and smiling
Solstice MFA alums Becca Connors and Lisa Allen, who founded and run The Notebooks Collective, standing and smiling with Mary Simmons, Solstice MFA’s 4th Spotlight Poet
It was a time #AWP26! Thank you to all who stopped by to meet us in the bookfair.
Also, many thanks to Mary Simmons, our upcoming Spotlight Poet nominated by @notebookscltv.bsky.social, who stopped by the table.
love to pick up my phone and see 5 - 10 different things each of which successively makes me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire fucking life
Train to charm city en route to AWP. I love how trains give me time to think
sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this
it’s also all related. the men who traffic children with impunity are the same ones who start wars, bomb schools, support genocide, ignore laws, shirk taxes, beat their wives and children, and steal every dollar they can from the people. it’s all an expression of the same belief: no one else matters
illustration on a brown background. It says "all of us deserve a thriving world" in black and "end US imperialism" in pink, with pink wildflowers, stars, and constellations in the roots of the flowers breaking up a bomb
Another one by Olly:
ollycostello.com/portfolio
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
Join me & Lisa @backtoallen.bsky.social for a @notebookscltv.bsky.social coffee meet up early Thursday. Help me mentally prepare for #AWP26
A colorful flyer advertising a "Meet Up & Say Hi! event." Meet the Notebooks collective on Thursday March 5 at 8 am at Matriarch Coffee, 201 E Pratt Street.
No we won't but we're doing a coffee meet up early Thursday if you can join us!
Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope
keeping headphones on without listening to anything = security blanket
Library friends, help support school libraries in #Massachusetts... Send a quick email to your senator to ask them to advance S.2865.
Chat, is it bad when one tech dude having a modicum of a conscience is the only thing hindering the plans of the worst people in the world to use hallucinatory robots to automate crimes against humanity?
We're so excited for #AWP26 Even if I'm already overwhelmed by the number of events, peoples, images, expectations, it's going to be a good time. (This post by @aprilist.bsky.social )
Hi Tricia! Lisa & I will be at AWP too. Hope we can meet up at some point!
It’s a week until AWP, so just a few bits of advice fwiw. These are especially for newbies or folks who have ever been called strivers or try-hards. A thread:
1) Every single writer you will meet was once a writer with no name recognition. You belong in every space, just like they do.
I really like talking to @raviddice.bsky.social.
"Perhaps this thing I am calling kindness
is more simple than kindness, rather, recognition
of the neighbor & the blue, shared earth
& the common circumstance of being here:
what remains living of the last
two million, impossible years…"
-- Aracelis Girmay, “On Kindness”
I think the literary world is still due for its big reckoning with sexual assault and harrassment, and as someone who went to a prestigious MFA program as a very gullible 21-y-o, let’s just say I’m HERE for it
It’s giving middle passage
I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽
Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...
Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
