Lisa Piazza

I couldn't afford an AI companion, so I got a Magic 8 Ball to carry around with me and now we're in love.

recommendation: teach high schoolers how to write a sestina

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

THE DARK HOUR The dark hour came in the night and purred by my ear. Outside, in rain, the plush of the mosses stood higher. Hour without end, without measure. It opens the window and calls its own name in.

Jane Hirshfield

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Blue flier with I’M THE UNDERTOW fun fact: IN THE NOVEL, THERE IS A SCENE IN BARNES & NOBLE. I DIDN'T WORK AT B&N, BUT IN COLLEGE, I WORKED AT BORDERS BOOKSTORE IN SANTA BARBARA WHERE I MET A SLEW OF CELEBRITIES, MOST NOTABLY: JEFF BRIDGES, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS, TROY AIKMAN, MARCUS ALLEN, JENNIE GARTH, AND MY FAVORITE: KATHY BATES.

8⃣ Tuesdays til launch!

🌊I'M THE UNDERTOW Fun Fact Countdown!

During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.

Rick Barot ♥️

A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

For those seeking personal narratives that challenge, heal, and inspire the new CNF anthology from IOE will leave a lasting impact.

It includes writing by @egjames.bsky.social, @athenadixon.bsky.social, and Cris Mazza among others.

Preview and preorder:

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#booktok #writersky

Dan Beachy-Quick

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“You being / inside / means / you’re already hurt.”

— Isabelle Correa

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This poem appeared in Good Girl and Other Yearnings by Isabelle Correa, published by Write Bloody Publishing, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

We are always open for submissions!!

Check out this month’s fiction, poetry, and CNF at the links below.
Fiction by Patrick Johnston: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...
Poetry by Gloria Heffernan: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...
CNF by Lisa Piazza: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...

check out this month’s features! www.thirteenbridgesreview.com

happy to have a new piece of cnf featured here!

Join us this Friday! All words are welcome, as are listening ears, as we sit around a table with beer and water and share poems, very informally. Then troop over with us to Golden Sardine to listen to poets Kelly Gray, Nica Giromini, and Brian Ang on the mic for the @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social launch!

so yes, you can transform a CBS or a CNN into right-wing slop, and yes that will have an impact, but it is also true that americans will have access to a large universe of other information AND they will continue to build new venues for telling stories about the world and sharing their views…

always!

I love this! Can’t wait to share with my students. Thanks for posting it.

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

New online issue is open for subs. A lot going on here these days.

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts

I keep thinking about this and realize it’s because a lot of my work is more about beginning the poem like I’m talking to the dead and ending the poem realizing I’m speaking again to the ones I love who are, briefly, alive again

Greetings from UW - Madison, where the two biggest initiatives of our university in the last four years have been <checks notes> an initiative to hire 50 faculty “innovators” in AI & the creation of <checks notes> a College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence 🤔

BLK History Month If Black History Month is not viable then wind does not carry the seeds and drop them on fertile ground rain does not dampen the land and encourage the seeds to root sun does not warm the earth and kiss the seedlings and tell them plain: You're As Good As Anybody Else You've Got A Place Here, Too

Nikki Giovanni

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with black text and two textured teal ink stripes in the background. It says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with black text, sitting on a printing press bed next to the inked printed type. It says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of wood letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed with ink on the press rollers. The type says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Some more quick letterpress printing: Cornel West's "justice is what love looks like in public"

Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites