And now we're going to "rescue coal"?! Maybe 1984 isn't the right analogy. This is some planet-destroying Death-Star-superlaser Darth-Vader shit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

The beginning? What year is it?

Finally, celebrate with me by buying a book from Tupelo's remarkable and important catalogue -- @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social -- and so many more!

The life of a book depends on word of mouth, and this one especially lives in conversation with community. If the themes resonate with you, I’d be honored if you share and promote this announcement. Poetry carries voices despite every attempt to extinguish them. We will not be silenced.

Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye wrestles with technological & corporate overreach, ecological collapse, and the erasure of identity—it coalesces around a personal journey with illness I’ll share more about in the months to come.

Forché’s work reminds us that poetry is a technology of empathy and resilience: it resists erasure, protects cultural memory, and exposes the forces that demand our silence. To have this book chosen by her feels like an initiation into this tradition of witness.

I got this news the same day the NEA announced the end of its artist grant programs. Our cultural institutions and communities of resistance are being dismantled in real time. Even as I celebrate, I'm mindful of this attempt to eliminate our capacity to understand and even to love one another.

Symptoms of The Mumps include:

- Pain in the neck (and critical thinking glands)

- Whole body chills, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, malaise

- Difficulty swallowing (bullshit)