Adrian Dallas Frandle
LightNews LightNews
banner
adrianf.bsky.social
Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf.bsky.social
1.3K followers 780 following 2K posts
Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Flash Reader for Split Lip Mag. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af.

words -> http://adriandallas.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
adrianf.bsky.social
Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 11d
My new poetry column is up, with a round-up of winter snow poems to consider - featuring poems by Louise Glück, Carl Phillips, @toddedillard.bsky.social, Alex Dimitrov, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo & other favorites.

stratfordcrier.com/a-kind-of-sn...
a little girl is shoveling snow with a shovel and a bag .
Alt: a little child is shoveling snow with a shovel and falls over, only to be righted by their parent.
media.tenor.com
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
xraylitmag.bsky.social
all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on...

friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !

subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.

we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
could kiss this cover
A book cover with some simple text in black red and blue: Between Existentialism and Marxism Jean-Paul Sartre
December 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
For the god of writing is also the god of death. He will punish the imprudent who, in their quest for unlimited knowledge, end up drinking the dissolved book.…To drink the tear & wonder about the strangeness of its taste compared to one's own…

- JM Benoist, The Geometry of the Metaphysical Poets
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
Think we started a new holiday tradition of chocolate chip banana pancakes for Xmas dinner.
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
neonpajamas.bsky.social
Charles Simic
THE BLIZZARD O to be inside a mailbox On a snow-piled street corner Snuggled against a letter Sending love and hot kisses To some lucky fellow out there.
December 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
theonion.com
Emotionally Distant Family Spends Holidays Watching Touching Family Dramas Together https://theonion.com/emotionally-distant-family-spends-holidays-watching-tou-1819566264/
Emotionally Distant Family Spends Holidays Watching Touching Family Dramas Together
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
The Muppet polycule spends holiday time at Mrs. Bear’s house. A classic:

youtu.be/Ovb56dlcodE?...
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) - 4K SuperSampled
YouTube video by topher3683
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
merry xmas
A screenshot of a tv showing 3 drag queens, one holding a trophy, next to the text “The Kennedy Davenport Center Honors”
December 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
saltpeterdraws.bsky.social
and to all the other hermits a merry christmas 🔥📚

#procreate #queerartist
a comic panel in illustration style with slim trees in a black and white winter landscape, snow drifts in the foreground, a tiny house tucked into the wood, a dim yellow light burning from the window. white smoke curls up through the dark woods. the work is bound by a tall rectangle and signed outside the lower right corner: "sp."
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
adrianf.bsky.social
My kink is trying out new varieties of Dr. Teal’s bath salts.
December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
jessicacuello.bsky.social
My poem "Communion" first published in @cherrytreelit.bsky.social and forthcoming in FERAL 2027

#twopageplustuesday ❤️
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
text to poem "Communion"
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Bill Knott
It was that kind of day The kind that goes through you like a skewer but is okay as long as there’s someone beside you waiting ready to lick the skewer when it emerges from you
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
knownforms.bsky.social
Mask up, punks! And get vaccinated! We protect us.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
Took notes-as-poem at the town committee meeting last night & sheesh, are we a pack of weirdos. Democracy is corporeal & spectral, loud, cacophonous, attentive & quiet.
One woman exclaimed “Revive the festival!” Another referred to the past: a “Lady Landscape Artist.” Mysterious & wondrous stuff.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
riverriverbooks.bsky.social
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉

Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Book cover of House of Myth and Necessity featuring an oil painting of Alcestis and her family with a word frame of the title and author’s name
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
mitchnobis.bsky.social
As always, shout-out to @readinstead.bsky.social for a great year with our little @notatawp.bsky.social project/community/online goofiness. LOTS of great writers read for NAWP this year, and most of those videos are here:
m.youtube.com/@notatawp
NAWP
NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. NAWP stands for "Not at AWP" because for years, Mitch and Jared made jokes about being busy teachers and parents who couldn't get away to...
m.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
alinaetc.bsky.social
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
benkline.bsky.social
New collaborative work with @toddedillard.bsky.social debuts today over at Palette Poetry.

Last fall, Todd said, I have this idea for weird Pinocchio poems, and I said, Ooohhh I could enjoy working on something strange, and 2 weeks later we submitted it to

www.palettepoetry.com/2025/12/22/e...
Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews - Palette Poetry
"And that magic's smell—vernix and blood/ and sweat and earth—I didn't register it / as life. I sensed it and saw my decay."
www.palettepoetry.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
toddedillard.bsky.social
so excited to share two excerpts from an ongoing collaboration between @benkline.bsky.social and myself, debuting via the Palette Poetry Pen Pal prize -- here are "Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews" www.palettepoetry.com/2025/12/22/e...
Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews - Palette Poetry
"And that magic's smell—vernix and blood/ and sweat and earth—I didn't register it / as life. I sensed it and saw my decay."
www.palettepoetry.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
kithbooks.bsky.social
kith crit: cohort one
let's get into the weeds
kith crit: cohort one a grassroots manuscript workshop for the trans, queer, Crip, & sick Craft Sessions Who is a Workshop & How is Critique? Text: Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses Lyrical Wordscapes: Uncovering the rhythm of body and voice Text: Wrestling With Cadence: Essays on writing and intuition by Dennis Lee Internal Continuity in World Building aka King William would NEVER say that! Texts: Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill, The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde & Query by Zilla Novikov Reality Check: In which we talk about money & get mad about art Texts: How Artists Make Money & How Money Makes Artists by Dave Berry & The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog Whitespace & Wonder aka Books aren’t 8.5 by 11 and neither should you Texts: How I Bend into More by Tea Gerbeza, Cyclettes by Tree Abraham, & We Need A Breathing Tongue Between by Katarina Gotic Damiani Okay, But, Is It Working? aka Are we going to need eagles to get us out of this jam? Texts: Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin & Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz & David Hayward
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
adamisacson.com
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
adrianf.bsky.social
My bday was yesterday. For belated bday present, please consider donating (or at least sharing).

Folks are welcome to match my $50!

Love.
workshops4gaza.bsky.social Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 24d
Thank you all for contributing and sharing our Blanket Friday campaign. We raised a total of $5,643 for Sameer Project's Give Warmth to Gaza campaign!!!

If you missed us this weekend, you can donate directly to them here: chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
adrianf.bsky.social
🧶: #smallpoemsunday
(cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social)
Skein I love the word labyrinth. The Y always surprises me. Her arms raised, tiny princess of yarn.
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM