Michael McSweeney
@mpmcsweeney.bsky.social
My webzone for stories and poems: https://linktr.ee/macsubhine
Pinned
a plane hits the mountainside – Michael McSweeney - ExPat Press
no rain for weeks & then a plane hits the mountain outside Fallston the air clenches & breaks the jaws of my windows my dying cat hides beneath the bed for the rest of his cautious life fuel glazes th...
expatpress.com
Resurfacing to share a recent nightmare-turned-poem, published by Don't Submit via Expat Press. Western Massachusetts is a spirit place expatpress.com/a-plane-hits...
Steely Dan is the perfect band for unemployment
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Steely Dan is the perfect band for unemployment
Reposted by Michael McSweeney
are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years
Resurfacing to share a recent nightmare-turned-poem, published by Don't Submit via Expat Press. Western Massachusetts is a spirit place expatpress.com/a-plane-hits...
a plane hits the mountainside – Michael McSweeney - ExPat Press
no rain for weeks & then a plane hits the mountain outside Fallston the air clenches & breaks the jaws of my windows my dying cat hides beneath the bed for the rest of his cautious life fuel glazes th...
expatpress.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Resurfacing to share a recent nightmare-turned-poem, published by Don't Submit via Expat Press. Western Massachusetts is a spirit place expatpress.com/a-plane-hits...
Red states get unquestioned support, blue states wait to be punished. A federal decline so clear one should assume it's on purpose.
Kristi Noem: "Some of what for what you saw for our response in Texas is going to be a lot of how President Trump envisions what FEMA would look like into the future ... emergencies are locally executed. They are state managed. The federal government comes in and supports."
July 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Red states get unquestioned support, blue states wait to be punished. A federal decline so clear one should assume it's on purpose.
Michael Palin's travel shows
July 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Michael Palin's travel shows
Ceremonial Congress alert www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show
www.nytimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Ceremonial Congress alert www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
A weird kind of goofy but ultimately earnest game about death was never going to fly in the wake of the incredible run that was FF6-FF9
more people should criticize FFX
July 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A weird kind of goofy but ultimately earnest game about death was never going to fly in the wake of the incredible run that was FF6-FF9
Day two of Elvis' gospel records and yeah he really was the best to ever do it
June 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Day two of Elvis' gospel records and yeah he really was the best to ever do it
Whew
just reread Cody Shrum's "square" on the site today, and the end *literally* gave me goosebumps and made the hairs on my arms stand up, it's so good.
"In fifth grade we had a school-wide read-a-thon for 33 minutes."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pb22
"In fifth grade we had a school-wide read-a-thon for 33 minutes."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pb22
June 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Whew
The Corbyning will continue until morale improves
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Corbyning will continue until morale improves
Pushing health networks further into the hands of private equity is the point, sorry gang
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
www.politico.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Pushing health networks further into the hands of private equity is the point, sorry gang
Writing about the economy
June 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Writing about the economy
Support your local bookstores
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Support your local bookstores
Reposted by Michael McSweeney
It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.
The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions
The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.
matchfactoryeditions.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.
You say heatwave, I say firefly paradise
June 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You say heatwave, I say firefly paradise
So much of war is storytelling
June 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So much of war is storytelling
I'm sure the strategy of trying to break Iran into more easily controlled pieces will go well
June 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm sure the strategy of trying to break Iran into more easily controlled pieces will go well
There is always one more time
June 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
There is always one more time
Blessed by a strong mountain breeze, yes, please, come right in through my wind tunnel apartment
June 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Blessed by a strong mountain breeze, yes, please, come right in through my wind tunnel apartment
I don't miss alcohol
June 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don't miss alcohol
Reposted by Michael McSweeney
I have three new prose poems over at Thirty West, all inspired by dreams
Here's one of them
thirtywest.substack.com/p/three-dreams
@thirtywestph.com / @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social
Here's one of them
thirtywest.substack.com/p/three-dreams
@thirtywestph.com / @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I have three new prose poems over at Thirty West, all inspired by dreams
Here's one of them
thirtywest.substack.com/p/three-dreams
@thirtywestph.com / @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social
Here's one of them
thirtywest.substack.com/p/three-dreams
@thirtywestph.com / @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social
A good short story is the backdoor entry to heaven
June 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A good short story is the backdoor entry to heaven