A person is looking at a publicity photo of a male in a leather jacket; the words SEE YOU IN HELL written in red on the photo
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A person is looking at a publicity photo of a male in a leather jacket; the words SEE YOU IN HELL written in red on the photo
The National: Conversation 16
Me: Manuscript Rejection 1
🎶 When I look at the hotel artwork, I wanna see me / Stare right back at me 🎶
No one can stop me from using Tom Atkins in a white suit and drinking a cocktail out of a coconut in the spring break module.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
Novel That Begins with a Snake after Nate Logan’s “Poem that Ends with a Bird” A new sorrow has been invented. It arrived at exactly the right time. A full forest, so easy on the eyes. We bulldoze it just to feel something. What would you have done? Either way, things seem bleak.
new poem in the latest issue of Milwaukee Avenue Messenger, inspired by @airbudhockey.bsky.social
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
It’s called Baja Mountain Dew, Emma!
Happy to have a cento in Root Smoke! rootsmoke.substack.com/p/nate-logan
Southside (ft. Gwen Stefani)?!
“After waiting for literally 10 seconds I met with NATE LOGAN, a kind giant tall white, long hair tutor”
Curling!
Macedonia Road for Jess I like music because I like sound that makes me feel, said the Peloton instructor, a former make-up artist, attentive to detail, who knows not of me but pushed me hard and never let me fall. After, as I crossed the grass, demented from keeping time with my butt I wondered, is it ok to just say to Jess how much I love her energy? What you drink / gets into your mouth / becomes saliva You're alive and all living drama takes place within a few vertical miles, totally scannable by the naked eye except for tree frogs, which one rarely sees.
I took a long walk out country roads: down Reed where I’ve walked with Jess before, turned onto Beale where the woods are thicker, had a little scare when a truck rolled by, unhurried. It's a little confusing, isn't it, Jess (we can now acknowledge)? To be a woman in her mid-thirties with a pretty cute ass walking on the road alone at sundown out of earshot — panic, shame at the panic. Some driveways have a security system decal screwed to a tree, one called CIA (the display is by subscription — you can just pay for the sign). So happy birthday. Anyway I turned around, walked back, turned onto Macedonia Road. Suddenly bits of chat flew out of the quiet (first cocktails after months of isolation). Don't go, said everyone ever.
It was like arriving at a party. I made out a small man in hot pink shirt and shorts yelling Shut up with real ire at a pair of geese. Birds were singing on every tree. Tanagers, mostly, lined up on the boughs as the sunset yellowed them the MORE. All nature seemed inclined for the dimming wall before a rest, and I thought of the 1972 bestseller, The Secret Life of Plants, a work of dubious science beloved by poets, where the flowers and tomatoes took lie detector tests, admitted they were really sylphs hoping to move out West.
Callie Garnett #twopageplustuesday
Yeah! If I recall, she says something about getting mail from Minnesota...
My dog only barks when he's in the basement. He's a subwoofer.
Ooo, thanks for this heads-up, rob. I didn't know she had a new book! / Fun fact: she referenced me in an early interview (not by name - I had written her some fan mail while a graduate student).
My second book, Wrong Horse, is now two years old and still a free download from Moria Books. 🐎 www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
A screencap from the episode "Bad Blood" of The X-Files; Mulder says, "I was drugged!" before a meeting with his boss, Skinner
Spring 2024 Jimmy Fallon Book Club Winner
I would feel a little bad if they named the hairpin turn on the mountain after me.
A fun thing!
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs or published works
Inserted in a cornfield is a partial image of someone buried in sand, their head being held
Send us a receipt of your donation to an aid organization in MN and Nate will send you a PDF of his first book!
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
this list by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is excellent & helpful, & of course i hate that we need it, but we really need it. please read & share.
everyone can do at least one thing from this list every day & that's a fact.
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
Acapulco Joe's (Indianapolis, IN): located downtown, my parents would take us there. Interior was large, woodgrain decor, a (very large) portrait of Joe with a United States & Mexican flag on either side. A problematic logo sold on a variety of different colored t-shirts. I'd always get enchiladas.
from "Coke 257" I am of the chosen b/c Recognition for my layover. “Poets are ludicrous. And the best people I know” will be my epigraph, or “Language is…” blah blah … a valiant “those who dare to compose”—O shame—I’m of the chosen b/c Shock of Recognition in my mother’s moist eye, not of her (ick now The Shins?) but bigger Hers like me… of course let it not be enough shock to kill her. She’ll say shock away, I want to dance until my spirits freeze.
Callie Garnett #smallpoemsunday
Johannes Göransson, Claire Hopple, Vi Khi Nao, Zan de Parry, Jay Besemer, Tom Snarsky, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Zachary Schomburg, Joanna Ruocco, Nathan Hoks, Rob McLennan, Todd Dillard, Michael Bazzett, Olivia Cronk, Nate Logan, Sarah J Sloat, Noah Falck, Jeff Alessandrelli, & more
