Avniously
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Our mango tree dropped us a few gifts, so we pulped and strained some nectar. I don’t know how else to describe it, but my kid drank most of this poem.
June 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our mango tree dropped us a few gifts, so we pulped and strained some nectar. I don’t know how else to describe it, but my kid drank most of this poem.
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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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February 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“raining/ the sky opens up like a fist fight”
cropped from a recent erasure made from journal notes
cropped from a recent erasure made from journal notes
February 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“raining/ the sky opens up like a fist fight”
cropped from a recent erasure made from journal notes
cropped from a recent erasure made from journal notes
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99.99% of the time you're going to be the first and last person to read it. If it ever gets in front of another human, it has already survived the insurmountable odds of your own self-rejection, and the odds become much more grim after that. Just go ahead and write whatever you want!
January 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
99.99% of the time you're going to be the first and last person to read it. If it ever gets in front of another human, it has already survived the insurmountable odds of your own self-rejection, and the odds become much more grim after that. Just go ahead and write whatever you want!
🦖She’s a cornivore 🌽
January 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🦖She’s a cornivore 🌽
Jellyfish and cardinal on a Magna-Doodle. Don’t tell my kids.
🪼🐦🔥
🪼🐦🔥
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Jellyfish and cardinal on a Magna-Doodle. Don’t tell my kids.
🪼🐦🔥
🪼🐦🔥
Collab or Perish 🖍️
January 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Collab or Perish 🖍️
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January 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Shifting my focus to what really matters: the thought process of the small creature who had a Robyn dance party at low tide and neglected to invite me.
Feeling miffed, but deep down, glad it happened.
We should all be so lucky.
Feeling miffed, but deep down, glad it happened.
We should all be so lucky.
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Shifting my focus to what really matters: the thought process of the small creature who had a Robyn dance party at low tide and neglected to invite me.
Feeling miffed, but deep down, glad it happened.
We should all be so lucky.
Feeling miffed, but deep down, glad it happened.
We should all be so lucky.
⭕️
1.
my dad
is loose.
He is a
menacing cactus
a
light that shines on
these little punctures, these stupid
thumbs.
2.
No soft muses.
A tree
helps others to survive
Uh, can you draw me
Furies rousing, shuddering under sun-red feathers.
3.
a bald hollow
a mind
scratching like hell
a neon circle ⭕️
1.
my dad
is loose.
He is a
menacing cactus
a
light that shines on
these little punctures, these stupid
thumbs.
2.
No soft muses.
A tree
helps others to survive
Uh, can you draw me
Furies rousing, shuddering under sun-red feathers.
3.
a bald hollow
a mind
scratching like hell
a neon circle ⭕️
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December 28, 2024 at 12:06 AM
⭕️
1.
my dad
is loose.
He is a
menacing cactus
a
light that shines on
these little punctures, these stupid
thumbs.
2.
No soft muses.
A tree
helps others to survive
Uh, can you draw me
Furies rousing, shuddering under sun-red feathers.
3.
a bald hollow
a mind
scratching like hell
a neon circle ⭕️
1.
my dad
is loose.
He is a
menacing cactus
a
light that shines on
these little punctures, these stupid
thumbs.
2.
No soft muses.
A tree
helps others to survive
Uh, can you draw me
Furies rousing, shuddering under sun-red feathers.
3.
a bald hollow
a mind
scratching like hell
a neon circle ⭕️
Collab mode activated 🎨
December 27, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Collab mode activated 🎨
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Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
December 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
Honored to be among these poets who are witnessing natural Florida in all its expressions ⛈️🐦⬛ 🌻
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The Climate of Us
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December 11, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Honored to be among these poets who are witnessing natural Florida in all its expressions ⛈️🐦⬛ 🌻
floridahumanities.online/the-climate-...
floridahumanities.online/the-climate-...
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How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text.
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Anti-Tag Cloud
Visualize the negative space of literary works
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December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text.
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There are 150 baseball players now.
“Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
“Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
“The failure of New College is not itself a failure.” Nearly two years after DeSantis' hostile takeover, what does the New College playbook teach us about what's coming for higher ed? New investigation from me @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
The New College Gambit
The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.
inthesetimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:11 AM
There are 150 baseball players now.
“Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
“Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
… [T]he truth is they are incompetent and institutions are way more complicated than they think they are.” And so, “Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
“The failure of New College is not itself a failure.” Nearly two years after DeSantis' hostile takeover, what does the New College playbook teach us about what's coming for higher ed? New investigation from me @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
The New College Gambit
The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.
inthesetimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:12 PM
… [T]he truth is they are incompetent and institutions are way more complicated than they think they are.” And so, “Of course the only way you’re going to get students there is fully funding the 75-person baseball team in order to pretend this is working.”
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From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:
My SIL hand-painted these shoes for my husband a few years ago. As if it was No Big Deal, but look at them. They’re a huge deal.
December 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
My SIL hand-painted these shoes for my husband a few years ago. As if it was No Big Deal, but look at them. They’re a huge deal.
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November 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
We are having a sale this week, and when we tell you that a single book sale is a big deal, we mean it 📚💙 Shop small, shop local, buy direct from small presses. Keep us here!
30% discount, free shipping with code THANKS 🩷
riverriverbooks.org/store/
30% discount, free shipping with code THANKS 🩷
riverriverbooks.org/store/
The sunset looked like a delicious bowl of ramen the other day, in case you’re into finding the sky appetizing. (I am.)
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
The sunset looked like a delicious bowl of ramen the other day, in case you’re into finding the sky appetizing. (I am.)
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Do you take caregiving absences from poetry and then doubt everything about yourself
(this is also part of the writing life)
(this is also part of the writing life)
Poets are getting to know each other on bsky, so how hardcore are you? Do you read more than an hour's worth of poetry daily? Do you write daily when you can? Do you have lines of poetry tattooed on your body? Do you spend food money on books?
Just trying to get to know my poet-neighbors here :)
Just trying to get to know my poet-neighbors here :)
November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Do you take caregiving absences from poetry and then doubt everything about yourself
(this is also part of the writing life)
(this is also part of the writing life)
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This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
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seen in the wild just now:
“You can’t just make up words.”
Oh, honey.
“You can’t just make up words.”
Oh, honey.
November 16, 2024 at 12:19 AM
seen in the wild just now:
“You can’t just make up words.”
Oh, honey.
“You can’t just make up words.”
Oh, honey.