Mitchell Nobis
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
Writer. Doofus. Old man hooper. http://mitchnobis.com. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, dog, or whoever.
Also:
WNS: @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social
NAWP: @notatawp.bsky.social
Also:
WNS: @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social
NAWP: @notatawp.bsky.social
Pinned
Hey! Here, have a pinned thread of my writer stuff.
First, my debut poetry collection came out in June. I'm proud of it. Readers have said it's good, so that's cool. You can get it all the usual places—my favorite is asking an indie bookstore to order it for you via Ingram.
First, my debut poetry collection came out in June. I'm proud of it. Readers have said it's good, so that's cool. You can get it all the usual places—my favorite is asking an indie bookstore to order it for you via Ingram.
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No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
We must speak plainly: January 6th was an attempted coup. It was an effort to nullify millions of lawful votes and subvert the will of the American people.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
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Redditors love the Order of the Blazing Horse
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Redditors love the Order of the Blazing Horse
Changed a car headlight by myself in the year of our lord 2026 and a mounted trophy stag head automatically appeared on my wall?
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Changed a car headlight by myself in the year of our lord 2026 and a mounted trophy stag head automatically appeared on my wall?
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Cade Cunningham sliding into that MVP race like
a man is flying through the air in a desert landscape .
ALT: a man is flying through the air in a desert landscape .
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Cade Cunningham sliding into that MVP race like
Turned my head, snapped a hyoid ligament. Have lived with a chronic pain injury ever since. Literally just turned my head. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
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January 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Turned my head, snapped a hyoid ligament. Have lived with a chronic pain injury ever since. Literally just turned my head. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Happy Detroit v. the Knicks night to all who observe!
I cannot imagine a lit mag wants a Detroit basketball poem, so here, it's on The Bluesky Review now. One note b/c I'm a demure Midwesterner: You read it how you want, but for me that last line means it in the "yeah I mess with that" usage, as in, "Oh I f*$& with a sunny day/burrito/Wu-Tang/etc."
January 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Happy Detroit v. the Knicks night to all who observe!
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
Happy holiday!
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Happy holiday!
Walking the dog and slid on a patch of ice short enough that I didn't fall but just long enough that I put on a Michigan J Frog showstopper for the car going by.
a cartoon frog is wearing a top hat and dancing .
Alt: The old Looney Tunes cartoon of Michigan J. Frog wearing a top hat and dancing while singing "hello my baby, hello my darling..."
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Walking the dog and slid on a patch of ice short enough that I didn't fall but just long enough that I put on a Michigan J Frog showstopper for the car going by.
I admit I don’t really know what I was after here, but I just found this guy in my Procreate files.
January 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I admit I don’t really know what I was after here, but I just found this guy in my Procreate files.
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This⬇️
Why do we keep inventing nonsense like computerized plagiarism-n-pedophilia machines when we could be inventing bombs with implanted tree seeds to turn all the abandoned Rite Aids into instant rewilded forests?
January 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
This⬇️
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After reading Mitch‘s poem “A Jackass Offers an Apology,” I confess why I relate so well to the situation it portrays.
For poets talking about poems and how poetry is not created in a vacuum, tune in wherever you listen to podcasts, or just go to inthreepoems.com
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
For poets talking about poems and how poetry is not created in a vacuum, tune in wherever you listen to podcasts, or just go to inthreepoems.com
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
After reading Mitch‘s poem “A Jackass Offers an Apology,” I confess why I relate so well to the situation it portrays.
For poets talking about poems and how poetry is not created in a vacuum, tune in wherever you listen to podcasts, or just go to inthreepoems.com
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
For poets talking about poems and how poetry is not created in a vacuum, tune in wherever you listen to podcasts, or just go to inthreepoems.com
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
Why do we keep inventing nonsense like computerized plagiarism-n-pedophilia machines when we could be inventing bombs with implanted tree seeds to turn all the abandoned Rite Aids into instant rewilded forests?
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Why do we keep inventing nonsense like computerized plagiarism-n-pedophilia machines when we could be inventing bombs with implanted tree seeds to turn all the abandoned Rite Aids into instant rewilded forests?
My 11yo understands maps and rotary phones, but for the life of me he cannot tell the exact time by the position of the sun OR make barrel staves. And don't get me started on his incompetence around the Conestoga wagon.
my seven-year-old, a Chicago public schools student, can use a compass and tell time on an analog clock
he is WOEFULLY INCOMPETENT at churning butter and shoeing horses tho
he is WOEFULLY INCOMPETENT at churning butter and shoeing horses tho
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
My 11yo understands maps and rotary phones, but for the life of me he cannot tell the exact time by the position of the sun OR make barrel staves. And don't get me started on his incompetence around the Conestoga wagon.
Happy new year from the home of America's sweethearts, Little Caesars Nirvana.
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Happy new year from the home of America's sweethearts, Little Caesars Nirvana.
New year but old inbox.
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
New year but old inbox.
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All right everyone, we gave it our best shot but all we can do now is hope for better things in 2027.
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
All right everyone, we gave it our best shot but all we can do now is hope for better things in 2027.
Oh dang I'd better post my one NYE poem right quick!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bou...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bou...
Bourbon in a Santa Mug by Mitchell Nobis
One time
when the kids were smaller, we came home early from a New Years party at our friends' place because the boys were too little to stay up late, and in those days C often fell asleep next to ...
www.havehashad.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Oh dang I'd better post my one NYE poem right quick!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bou...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bou...
I'm sorry but did your alma mater play for the giant cheez-it dragon today? Because mine is.
December 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I'm sorry but did your alma mater play for the giant cheez-it dragon today? Because mine is.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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This really was a fun conversation, though we talked about some very serious things. We’ve got eight hours before the Stranger Things finale, so there’s plenty of time to listen and still prepare the pork and sauerkraut (or whatever the non Pennsylvania Dutch NYE tradition is).
Want to end your year listening to a conversation about poetry and writing? Here!
Episode 2 with Mitch Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social is up! Listen on any of the regular podcast apps, or just follow the link! We talk about politics, poetry craft, road rage, and gun violence as well as Gary Snyder and the "interpenetration" of nature.
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This really was a fun conversation, though we talked about some very serious things. We’ve got eight hours before the Stranger Things finale, so there’s plenty of time to listen and still prepare the pork and sauerkraut (or whatever the non Pennsylvania Dutch NYE tradition is).
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Solidarity with every author who released a book to *crickets* this year. At least we tried. Right?
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Solidarity with every author who released a book to *crickets* this year. At least we tried. Right?
What’s gonna drive it next? BASKETBALL DADS. [winks at lit agents]
"Readers bought about 184 million print adult fiction books this year." Sharing a gift link to the NYT's survey of the industry's health, which is more encouraging. That's a LOT of books. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
December 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What’s gonna drive it next? BASKETBALL DADS. [winks at lit agents]
Want to end your year listening to a conversation about poetry and writing? Here!
Episode 2 with Mitch Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social is up! Listen on any of the regular podcast apps, or just follow the link! We talk about politics, poetry craft, road rage, and gun violence as well as Gary Snyder and the "interpenetration" of nature.
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
A Jackass Offers an Apology: David Reads a Poem by Mitchell Nobis - In Three Poems
David talks with Mitchell Nobis about his first book of poetry, The Size of the Horizon, or I Explained Everything to the Trees. The poetry discussion spans the topics nature and politics to gun viole...
www.buzzsprout.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Want to end your year listening to a conversation about poetry and writing? Here!
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news orgs really need to stop equating a person's basic sense of humanity with "politics"
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
news orgs really need to stop equating a person's basic sense of humanity with "politics"