Make Common
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This account does not belong to a poet, education worker, or scholar. Who'd want to read Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean, 2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak, 2024) and etc? Garbage, labor obsessed.
Democratic semi-sentient bag of AIPAC $s Rep. Tim Kennedy making an appearance in his district Sept 20. TK recently unveiled his first major piece of legislation to beef up the federal deportation machine currently terrorizing our communities. He wants thousands of new Border Patrol agents.
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Democratic semi-sentient bag of AIPAC $s Rep. Tim Kennedy making an appearance in his district Sept 20. TK recently unveiled his first major piece of legislation to beef up the federal deportation machine currently terrorizing our communities. He wants thousands of new Border Patrol agents.
USAFA stands for United States Air Force Academy. I don't think the scandal is where this writer thinks it is.
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
USAFA stands for United States Air Force Academy. I don't think the scandal is where this writer thinks it is.
There's a lot of reason for despair right now and I gotta let you know that's not what this new poem in the Bennington Review is about, but it is about mortality, what a sudden piercing awareness of it made adhere.
www.benningtonreview.org/current-issu...
www.benningtonreview.org/current-issu...
August 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There's a lot of reason for despair right now and I gotta let you know that's not what this new poem in the Bennington Review is about, but it is about mortality, what a sudden piercing awareness of it made adhere.
www.benningtonreview.org/current-issu...
www.benningtonreview.org/current-issu...
who killed anyone you mother fuckers
July 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
who killed anyone you mother fuckers
Yesterday house burned down down the block, mayoral election. Cop-lovingest candidate lost. " Turnout was 26,368 votes — roughly 27 percent of enrolled Democrats...a pretty sorry showing for the first open race for Buffalo mayor in 20 years." Despair in this system for a lot of good reasons.
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yesterday house burned down down the block, mayoral election. Cop-lovingest candidate lost. " Turnout was 26,368 votes — roughly 27 percent of enrolled Democrats...a pretty sorry showing for the first open race for Buffalo mayor in 20 years." Despair in this system for a lot of good reasons.
🚽🔥💩 summer of ephemera (nothing might exist soon!): here's a 12'-ish scroll of my dank, excreta-full poems w/ enclosure of bathrooms, imperialism as waste (thx A. Kadri), Paul Hollywood, & sealing hell's mouth in Paradise Lost // Blue Bag Press, printed by betweenthehighway
betweenthehighway.org
betweenthehighway.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
🚽🔥💩 summer of ephemera (nothing might exist soon!): here's a 12'-ish scroll of my dank, excreta-full poems w/ enclosure of bathrooms, imperialism as waste (thx A. Kadri), Paul Hollywood, & sealing hell's mouth in Paradise Lost // Blue Bag Press, printed by betweenthehighway
betweenthehighway.org
betweenthehighway.org
The Israeli public also overwhelmingly supports genocide. The conclusions drawn from 'popular support' of WWIII shouldn't be grudging acceptance to dropping bombs but something far more startling.
It shouldn't be watching the show & checking the polls, it should be the fire of organizing.
It shouldn't be watching the show & checking the polls, it should be the fire of organizing.
June 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Israeli public also overwhelmingly supports genocide. The conclusions drawn from 'popular support' of WWIII shouldn't be grudging acceptance to dropping bombs but something far more startling.
It shouldn't be watching the show & checking the polls, it should be the fire of organizing.
It shouldn't be watching the show & checking the polls, it should be the fire of organizing.
can't wait to get into this issue of Hammer & Hope-- steady, radical light in this tumult. hammerandhope.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
can't wait to get into this issue of Hammer & Hope-- steady, radical light in this tumult. hammerandhope.org
Still hearing Notley's protean voices from her reading in Buffalo. There won't be another. Went looking for older Buffalo connections and came up with...this?
![A Poet's Touch...
"JUST BUFFALO", Allentown's popule poetry reading forum, featured the charismatic Anselm Hollo and placid Alice Notley at its first reading of the season two weeks ag0. Both were received warmly by an audience of devoted followers, numbering approxi- mately 75 by unofficial estimate of coordinator Debora Daley, who began the series four known far and wide [Hollo from New York and Finland, Notley from Rochester] but features local poets as well. Last weekend's reading brought Joanne Kyger. Shown above at the Allentown Community Center are Debora Daley, Alice Notley, and Anselm Hollo.
years ago. The series commissions poetsy
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May 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Still hearing Notley's protean voices from her reading in Buffalo. There won't be another. Went looking for older Buffalo connections and came up with...this?
Can't believe jet from Qatar ended up as the stupidly late line in the sand for Senate leadership to jam up the works & not evisceration of numerous government agencies that make life suck less. The national security concern = cherry on top. Throne of skulls senator objects on imperialist grounds!
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Can't believe jet from Qatar ended up as the stupidly late line in the sand for Senate leadership to jam up the works & not evisceration of numerous government agencies that make life suck less. The national security concern = cherry on top. Throne of skulls senator objects on imperialist grounds!
Yarn apple! Best end of the year present.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Yarn apple! Best end of the year present.
& wrote this one in homage to those fighting the most necessary fights & those who will , wrote it also as in effort towards self-accountability, trying to last
May 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
& wrote this one in homage to those fighting the most necessary fights & those who will , wrote it also as in effort towards self-accountability, trying to last
wrote this one against poets publishing in g*******e denying publications, gladly giving their poetry to fig-leaf empire at a moment of its grossest excess
May 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
wrote this one against poets publishing in g*******e denying publications, gladly giving their poetry to fig-leaf empire at a moment of its grossest excess
reading in Buffalo on Thursday w/Daisy Atterbury. lots of garbage, lots of rage, lots of bruises.
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
reading in Buffalo on Thursday w/Daisy Atterbury. lots of garbage, lots of rage, lots of bruises.
Disgusting statement from University at Buffalo criminalizing the students persecuted by state, targeted for deportation via visa revocation. Particularly gross given this is after first wave of visa revocation where it was clear the state's reasoning was bullshit. www.buffalo.edu/news/release...
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Disgusting statement from University at Buffalo criminalizing the students persecuted by state, targeted for deportation via visa revocation. Particularly gross given this is after first wave of visa revocation where it was clear the state's reasoning was bullshit. www.buffalo.edu/news/release...
How teaching letterpress is going
April 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
How teaching letterpress is going
Here's what's keeping me going. I saved a seed from our calamansi. Nina has already claimed the little sapling.
March 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Here's what's keeping me going. I saved a seed from our calamansi. Nina has already claimed the little sapling.
sneak peak at these two little chaps, one reflecting on Hostile Books, a collective making book problems, the other reprinting HB member @oxidentalist.bsky.social 's Lemon.
March 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
sneak peak at these two little chaps, one reflecting on Hostile Books, a collective making book problems, the other reprinting HB member @oxidentalist.bsky.social 's Lemon.
Apr 5 - Carolina Embeid is coming to Buffalo via Squeeky Wheel's The Image in Its Absence Exhibition (feat. Azza El-Hassan, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh).
I'll be reading a few things too.
squeaky.org/event/caroli...
I'll be reading a few things too.
squeaky.org/event/caroli...
March 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Apr 5 - Carolina Embeid is coming to Buffalo via Squeeky Wheel's The Image in Its Absence Exhibition (feat. Azza El-Hassan, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh).
I'll be reading a few things too.
squeaky.org/event/caroli...
I'll be reading a few things too.
squeaky.org/event/caroli...
in Philly on Sat
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book sales money split btwn Sameer Project (just give em money) & local (to Buffalo) political education projects
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thx @low_gh0st
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(Last time I read in Philly was w/like w/5 Baltimore poets in 2009 or something? Which is hard to believe but I guess true.)
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book sales money split btwn Sameer Project (just give em money) & local (to Buffalo) political education projects
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thx @low_gh0st
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(Last time I read in Philly was w/like w/5 Baltimore poets in 2009 or something? Which is hard to believe but I guess true.)
March 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
in Philly on Sat
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book sales money split btwn Sameer Project (just give em money) & local (to Buffalo) political education projects
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thx @low_gh0st
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(Last time I read in Philly was w/like w/5 Baltimore poets in 2009 or something? Which is hard to believe but I guess true.)
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book sales money split btwn Sameer Project (just give em money) & local (to Buffalo) political education projects
///
thx @low_gh0st
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(Last time I read in Philly was w/like w/5 Baltimore poets in 2009 or something? Which is hard to believe but I guess true.)
Update: we built a pile of trash. Infinite thx to Orchid Tierney for making this happen and everyone who came.
March 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Update: we built a pile of trash. Infinite thx to Orchid Tierney for making this happen and everyone who came.
Tomorrow. Bring your favorite piece of trash. Really. We're going to build a pile.
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tomorrow. Bring your favorite piece of trash. Really. We're going to build a pile.
dude named Milton. no comment.
February 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
dude named Milton. no comment.