Can't wait to get my hands on this! I have a short piece about Norbert Blei and Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant. Pre-order is available now, and this will make a great gift for those Midwesterners in your life who love regional history and culture.

Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

The Academy of American Poets helpfully hosts a list of state poets laureate on their website, but there is nothing similar for city poets laureate (that I know of). In general, there is a dearth of writing on city poets laureate....

The Rockford Anthology from @beltpublishing.bsky.social is available for pre-order! Rockford people, pre-order your copy now!!!! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

I've told my upstairs neighbor I can hear her conversations. She doesn't seem to care and continues to scream/talk into her telephone. How long before I start publishing transcripts of her conversations to the internet 😂.

Tuesday at 7pm, join the new Rockford region ACLU chapter for a Zoom update from American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois staff. We've got work to do. Request the link here: forms.gle/DAx8fDPSX3bq...

Trump is concerned that moms & babies crossing the border are criminals while he is blithely releasing people convicted of seditious conspiracy from prison back into our communities. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The lawyers get to work: Trump sued over DOGE

@jamiattenberg.bsky.social's #mini1000 starts tomorrow and I'm going to try it. This is my first go at a book of prose and could use the structure. Let's gooooo!

I'm currently reading a story that requires knowledge of both Buffy AND Tegan & Sara, and haven't felt this powerful in a long time.

Sometimes life really is the L Word.

The idea of giving $15 million to build a library for a group that's more likely to burn books than it is to read them...

I was a juror in a trial for the first time this week. Whoa! It was really tough work, but I'm so grateful I got to go through that.