Evan Williams
@evansquilliams.bsky.social
Your local prose poem emporium | Contributing Writer at Cleveland Review of Books | co-founding obliterator at Obliterat | An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors (above/ground press, 2023)
www.tallmansgarden.com
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"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss."
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Two by Ruby Rorty
After the metal band, the rubber band
I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss. He is subject to hubris and get smart quick schemes. I absolve myself, but only just...
hexliterary.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss."
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
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Haven't really tried in a while, but what weirdo press might want to publish my book-length erasure poem of the novelization of Ang Lee's HULK? I don't know where to send it, but I don't want to give up on it.
May 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Haven't really tried in a while, but what weirdo press might want to publish my book-length erasure poem of the novelization of Ang Lee's HULK? I don't know where to send it, but I don't want to give up on it.
So proud of my partner, @rorty.bsky.social, who has an op-ed out today in the @chicagotribune.com.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/o...
Steven Levitt and Ruby Rorty: America needs more living kidney donors. Here’s how we achieve that goal.
We can take simple steps to radically increase the number of kidneys available for transplant, but political inertia has stood in the way.
www.chicagotribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So proud of my partner, @rorty.bsky.social, who has an op-ed out today in the @chicagotribune.com.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/o...
…found a signed Merwin??
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
…found a signed Merwin??
finally forming my cover band, Linkedin Park
serious inquiries only pls, cover letter required
serious inquiries only pls, cover letter required
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
finally forming my cover band, Linkedin Park
serious inquiries only pls, cover letter required
serious inquiries only pls, cover letter required
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The next Neon Night Mic is in two weeks! So excited for this stacked lineup
🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social
🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social
🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social
🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer
🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social)
🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)
🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social
🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social
🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social
🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer
🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social)
🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)
April 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The next Neon Night Mic is in two weeks! So excited for this stacked lineup
🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social
🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social
🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social
🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer
🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social)
🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)
🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social
🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social
🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social
🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer
🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social)
🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.
March 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.
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I think the takeaway is that a lot of Democrats are looking for a fighter, and others in the party should take note.
Zohran Mamdani—the NY assemblyman who went viral last week for publicly confronting Trump's Border Czar—raised more than $840,000 over the last two months and has more than 16,000 total donors to his mayoral campaign, per the NYT. Hell yea.
March 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I think the takeaway is that a lot of Democrats are looking for a fighter, and others in the party should take note.
March 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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VOLUME ONE NOW LIVE!!
Capgras hosts and will continue to host “undiagnosable” writing.
Every poem in this inaugural issue is bizarre and beautiful.
Take a fleeting or lingering look, link in bio 🪞🪞🪞
Capgras hosts and will continue to host “undiagnosable” writing.
Every poem in this inaugural issue is bizarre and beautiful.
Take a fleeting or lingering look, link in bio 🪞🪞🪞
March 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
VOLUME ONE NOW LIVE!!
Capgras hosts and will continue to host “undiagnosable” writing.
Every poem in this inaugural issue is bizarre and beautiful.
Take a fleeting or lingering look, link in bio 🪞🪞🪞
Capgras hosts and will continue to host “undiagnosable” writing.
Every poem in this inaugural issue is bizarre and beautiful.
Take a fleeting or lingering look, link in bio 🪞🪞🪞
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Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVP
A permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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BTW, Dems have been making trans people scapegoats for ages now. My colleague and I wrote about it right after Trump got elected: prospect.org/politics/202...
Making Room Under the Bus
After Donald Trump’s transphobic campaign, will Democrats continue to support transgender people?
prospect.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
BTW, Dems have been making trans people scapegoats for ages now. My colleague and I wrote about it right after Trump got elected: prospect.org/politics/202...
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Dems are making their strategy choices and Newsom has evidently decided that throwing trans people under the bus is the way to go. But there's another way! Look at Pritzker in IL and his unabashedly pro-LGBTQ agenda and rhetoric. Newsom should take notes (and so should voters).
the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.
Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports
The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.
www.politico.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Dems are making their strategy choices and Newsom has evidently decided that throwing trans people under the bus is the way to go. But there's another way! Look at Pritzker in IL and his unabashedly pro-LGBTQ agenda and rhetoric. Newsom should take notes (and so should voters).
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I have a poem in the new issue of New Delta Review! It's about a seal & it's inspired by the writing of Rebecca Wadlinger
February 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I have a poem in the new issue of New Delta Review! It's about a seal & it's inspired by the writing of Rebecca Wadlinger
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New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Learning (slowly, humbly) to use a camera this year.
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Learning (slowly, humbly) to use a camera this year.
I have a few new poems in Matt Hart’s SOLID STATE (a free journal, email solidstateliterary at gmail dot com for an issue).
Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:
Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:
January 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I have a few new poems in Matt Hart’s SOLID STATE (a free journal, email solidstateliterary at gmail dot com for an issue).
Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:
Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:
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DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY
poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
out on May 27, 2025
pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
out on May 27, 2025
pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY
poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
out on May 27, 2025
pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
out on May 27, 2025
pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Bear, pursued by exit
December 10, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Bear, pursued by exit
Ok two more, one from @rorty.bsky.social and one from me:
December 8, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Ok two more, one from @rorty.bsky.social and one from me:
And a few collages I’ve done recently
December 8, 2024 at 7:50 PM
And a few collages I’ve done recently