Marthine Satris
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
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"Many poems fit into five minutes of spare time. Isn’t it better to read a poem than the your 40th blog of the day? What else refreshes our senses and our sense of the world—and fits on our phone?"
fivebooks.com/best-books/a...
fivebooks.com/best-books/a...
The Best American Poetry
The best American poetry, recommended by Elisa New, Harvard English Professor and creator of the hit PBS documentary series 'Poetry in America'.
fivebooks.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
"Many poems fit into five minutes of spare time. Isn’t it better to read a poem than the your 40th blog of the day? What else refreshes our senses and our sense of the world—and fits on our phone?"
fivebooks.com/best-books/a...
fivebooks.com/best-books/a...
I really need to argue w someone on the Internet about this Anna Holmes essay: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... it's so CLEARLY Gen X women chatbait.
Thinking about brain chemistry & memory is fascinating. Her anxiety about becoming her mom & comparing dementia & "perimenopause" is NOT.
Thinking about brain chemistry & memory is fascinating. Her anxiety about becoming her mom & comparing dementia & "perimenopause" is NOT.
January 9, 2026 at 5:58 AM
I really need to argue w someone on the Internet about this Anna Holmes essay: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... it's so CLEARLY Gen X women chatbait.
Thinking about brain chemistry & memory is fascinating. Her anxiety about becoming her mom & comparing dementia & "perimenopause" is NOT.
Thinking about brain chemistry & memory is fascinating. Her anxiety about becoming her mom & comparing dementia & "perimenopause" is NOT.
Reposted by Marthine Satris
Gratuitous pic of Melipona hive & honeycomb. Just a real funky approach to architecture these bees got going on
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Gratuitous pic of Melipona hive & honeycomb. Just a real funky approach to architecture these bees got going on
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A few people still keep stingless bees! But there's a reason most beekeepers would rather deal with full-on venom & stingers than these little guys.
There's a lot of wide-open space between "nonviolence" and "lie down & take it," and boy does it have a way of getting filled.
There's a lot of wide-open space between "nonviolence" and "lie down & take it," and boy does it have a way of getting filled.
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
A few people still keep stingless bees! But there's a reason most beekeepers would rather deal with full-on venom & stingers than these little guys.
There's a lot of wide-open space between "nonviolence" and "lie down & take it," and boy does it have a way of getting filled.
There's a lot of wide-open space between "nonviolence" and "lie down & take it," and boy does it have a way of getting filled.
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People think stingless bees = defenseless. Nope! Here's what they do:
-go straight for your eyes & nose. Hard to work the hive when you can't see or breathe
-get all up in your clothes bc they're too small to keep out without a full bee suit
-not give up ever
-actually annoy you into leaving
-go straight for your eyes & nose. Hard to work the hive when you can't see or breathe
-get all up in your clothes bc they're too small to keep out without a full bee suit
-not give up ever
-actually annoy you into leaving
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
People think stingless bees = defenseless. Nope! Here's what they do:
-go straight for your eyes & nose. Hard to work the hive when you can't see or breathe
-get all up in your clothes bc they're too small to keep out without a full bee suit
-not give up ever
-actually annoy you into leaving
-go straight for your eyes & nose. Hard to work the hive when you can't see or breathe
-get all up in your clothes bc they're too small to keep out without a full bee suit
-not give up ever
-actually annoy you into leaving
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Unrelated ag fact: there are stingless Melipona bees that make honey!
Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?"
Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that
Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?"
Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Unrelated ag fact: there are stingless Melipona bees that make honey!
Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?"
Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that
Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?"
Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that
Reposted by Marthine Satris
Happy to see Perverts Put Out in the latest @coyotemedia.org calendar! This is an erotica reading happening in SF tomorrow evening, and I've been added to the lineup! Alongside some real superstars like Juba Kalamka and @baruchporras.bsky.social <3
www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
COYOTE Calendar: January 8-January 14
This week we've got mushroom talks, multiple repair workshops, bike parties, special karaoke, and a lot of different ways to engage in some sexy times.
www.coyotemedia.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Happy to see Perverts Put Out in the latest @coyotemedia.org calendar! This is an erotica reading happening in SF tomorrow evening, and I've been added to the lineup! Alongside some real superstars like Juba Kalamka and @baruchporras.bsky.social <3
www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
A good scene has good gossip
"He texts, “It’s K. Good to run into you.” He’s a poet, oh boy. J saves him in her phone as K the Poet." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/mysteries-an...
Mysteries and Exes
New Years Poetry, Bathers Library, January 3rd
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A good scene has good gossip
Casita Bookstore, an Afro-Latina owned small business in Long Beach, is looking for a little support to keep its doors open. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-casit... www.gofundme.com/f/keep-casit...
Donate to Keep Casita Bookstore's Doors Open, organized by Antonette Franceschi-Chavez
This is one of the hardest things we’ve ever had to write.
Over… Antonette Franceschi-Chavez needs your support for Keep Casita Bookstore's Doors Open
www.gofundme.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Casita Bookstore, an Afro-Latina owned small business in Long Beach, is looking for a little support to keep its doors open. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-casit... www.gofundme.com/f/keep-casit...
A poem it feels made for me: West Marin, Oakland, persimmons, and the cliff edge!
Beautiful, glad I got to read it this morning.
Beautiful, glad I got to read it this morning.
Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends
it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A poem it feels made for me: West Marin, Oakland, persimmons, and the cliff edge!
Beautiful, glad I got to read it this morning.
Beautiful, glad I got to read it this morning.
This book looks weird as in wyrd as in I want a copy yesterday.
We at Aora and Ayin are absolutely thrilled to announce that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger has been placed on the longlist for PEN America’s 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award!
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
pen.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
This book looks weird as in wyrd as in I want a copy yesterday.
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One of the weird things about the lack of an overpowering algorithm is that sometimes I think someone has stopped posting but they literally just started going to bed at a different time than me
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
One of the weird things about the lack of an overpowering algorithm is that sometimes I think someone has stopped posting but they literally just started going to bed at a different time than me
And here I'd been looking forward to 2026... www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
US findings suggesting ageing is not a slow and steady process could explain spikes in health issues at certain ages
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
And here I'd been looking forward to 2026... www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Essay is out now! Thanks to great edits from Gerald, who graciously accepted my hella late submission, and lots of smart people who read it and talked to me about all the ideas here: it's much better than anything I'd have made sitting in a room by myself. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
January 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Essay is out now! Thanks to great edits from Gerald, who graciously accepted my hella late submission, and lots of smart people who read it and talked to me about all the ideas here: it's much better than anything I'd have made sitting in a room by myself. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
Hurrah!
I'm working on a review of Kim De Wolff's "Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastics and the Persistence of Trash Islands" (@mitpress.bsky.social) for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org & I truly cannot wait to explain why this book is so fantastic & I encourage anyone at all interested in pollution to read it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Hurrah!
There's only one (but very important!) literary event in Oakland today, but it picks up speed as the week goes on.
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, January 6 - January 11 : www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, January 6 - January 11
You cannot kill us in a way that matters
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
There's only one (but very important!) literary event in Oakland today, but it picks up speed as the week goes on.
The essay is out for all to read like a full year later because that's the speed of literary criticism, so everyone, now you can decide for yourself! www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The essay is out for all to read like a full year later because that's the speed of literary criticism, so everyone, now you can decide for yourself! www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
Riding high today on making the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org calendar with @xlenc.bsky.social and pushing it out to our 500+ subscribers AND on having an actual review of books publish today in The Georgia Review, one I started well more than a year ago: www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
The Thrill of Rupture with Two Irish Poets (on Trevor Joyce’s Conspiracy and Randolph Healy’s The Electron-Ghost Casino) - The Georgia Review
To be online, especially very online, in recent years means receiving an intimate, seemingly infinite delivery of disparate conversations and media, some intersecting or repeating, all alongside hot t...
www.thegeorgiareview.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Riding high today on making the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org calendar with @xlenc.bsky.social and pushing it out to our 500+ subscribers AND on having an actual review of books publish today in The Georgia Review, one I started well more than a year ago: www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
It's calendar day, hooray hooray!
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, January 6 - January 11
You cannot kill us in a way that matters
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
It's calendar day, hooray hooray!
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
So beautiful!
Each square in this crocheted blanket represents the cover of a book Andrea read in 2025! (plus month markers)
It’s done - my 2025 year in books (and crochet)
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM
So beautiful!
I genuinely love this DGAF title and subtitle because when an author is so beloved that the title is TOTALLY irrelevant you put her name BIG and her picture bigger and it sells itself.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 AM
I genuinely love this DGAF title and subtitle because when an author is so beloved that the title is TOTALLY irrelevant you put her name BIG and her picture bigger and it sells itself.
I like this hidden bird poem by Ben Gucciardi: www.innerforestservice.com/ben-gucciardi
Ben Gucciardi | Innerforestservice
www.innerforestservice.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I like this hidden bird poem by Ben Gucciardi: www.innerforestservice.com/ben-gucciardi
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The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
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Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
buff.ly/2vAwspH
buff.ly/2vAwspH
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Man, this Palo Alto Safeway: had my king-size Frosted Flakes and rice milk, one last bottle of pineapple Jarritos, anejo Casamigos (at a GROCERY STORE!), and . . . a couple of these, which I sneak-signed:
January 5, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Man, this Palo Alto Safeway: had my king-size Frosted Flakes and rice milk, one last bottle of pineapple Jarritos, anejo Casamigos (at a GROCERY STORE!), and . . . a couple of these, which I sneak-signed:
Just realized the tattoo I reserved back in 2024 for spring 2026 is gonna happen this year! I'm so excited, this is a design I've imagined getting since I was 16.
January 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Just realized the tattoo I reserved back in 2024 for spring 2026 is gonna happen this year! I'm so excited, this is a design I've imagined getting since I was 16.