W. Todd Kaneko
@toddkaneko.bsky.social
Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
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W. Todd Kaneko
@toddkaneko.bsky.social
· Dec 10
The Cranky Poets shirt started as a Twitter joke a while back with Kelli Russell Agodon and Mitch Nobis about punk band names and poets being cranky.
I always say that only cops and crooks call me by my first name and I got this letter today, a scam that targets people with Asian last names offering to split a nonexistent inheritance. Sharing it so my friends with vulnerable relatives can be on alert. Too bad because I really could use the money.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I always say that only cops and crooks call me by my first name and I got this letter today, a scam that targets people with Asian last names offering to split a nonexistent inheritance. Sharing it so my friends with vulnerable relatives can be on alert. Too bad because I really could use the money.
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
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One week left to submit your poetry manuscript, translators! $1500 prize, publication by University of Wisconsin Press in their prestigious Wisconsin Poetry Series. You can submit more than one year (different judge) and more than one manuscript.
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One week left to submit your poetry manuscript, translators! $1500 prize, publication by University of Wisconsin Press in their prestigious Wisconsin Poetry Series. You can submit more than one year (different judge) and more than one manuscript.
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Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Alan Moore knows the score
Meta suggests this AI version of an old photo of mine but in addition to it’s inability to render fingers, Facebook seems unable to comprehend the crucial detail.
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Meta suggests this AI version of an old photo of mine but in addition to it’s inability to render fingers, Facebook seems unable to comprehend the crucial detail.
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Edward Hirsch
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Edward Hirsch
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So y’all know about the ring doorbell and partnerships with flock and thus ICE, right?
Get these devices off your homes.
Get these devices off your homes.
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
So y’all know about the ring doorbell and partnerships with flock and thus ICE, right?
Get these devices off your homes.
Get these devices off your homes.
Remember back in the day you wrote your own emails, took your own photos, and thought your own thoughts. The only difference nowadays is that big tech wants you to believe you never could and still can’t, so should have AI do it for you. I believe in you way more than I do big tech. You should too.
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Remember back in the day you wrote your own emails, took your own photos, and thought your own thoughts. The only difference nowadays is that big tech wants you to believe you never could and still can’t, so should have AI do it for you. I believe in you way more than I do big tech. You should too.
Thanks to the guy on YouTube with the advanced toilet plunger technique, because now I don’t have to buy a toilet auger and a shop vac and spend the day taking out my kids’ toilet.
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thanks to the guy on YouTube with the advanced toilet plunger technique, because now I don’t have to buy a toilet auger and a shop vac and spend the day taking out my kids’ toilet.
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It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
This king. Fight fascism.
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This king. Fight fascism.
This king. No others.
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This king. No others.
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Another broadside, this one I made for GVSU Poetry Night with Tyehimba Jess this week.
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Another broadside, this one I made for GVSU Poetry Night with Tyehimba Jess this week.
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My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
Today in Intro to Creative Writing, we are starting to talk poetry, which means that between Richard Blanco’s “Translation for Mamá” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” I can’t promise not to weep in class.
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today in Intro to Creative Writing, we are starting to talk poetry, which means that between Richard Blanco’s “Translation for Mamá” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” I can’t promise not to weep in class.
I made this limited edition broadside of one of my favorite stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell for her reading and craft talk at GVSU today.
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I made this limited edition broadside of one of my favorite stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell for her reading and craft talk at GVSU today.
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Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖
Nomination details at link below.
Nomination details at link below.
The 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project judge in poetry is @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, author of LARKS and others. Read their bio, along with the bios of the other judges, on our website. AWP member program directors can submit nominations October 1–November 30, 2025.
AWP Intro Journals Project Judges
awpwriter.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖
Nomination details at link below.
Nomination details at link below.
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working
and success is a spirit & craft blunter
(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)
and success is a spirit & craft blunter
(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)
October 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working
and success is a spirit & craft blunter
(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)
and success is a spirit & craft blunter
(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)
What a blast, getting to visit BGSU to see my old friend and poetry co-conspirator Amorak Huey and his amazing students (championship edition) to talk about poetry. Now driving back to Michigan where I am going to hug my kids until they tell me to stop.
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What a blast, getting to visit BGSU to see my old friend and poetry co-conspirator Amorak Huey and his amazing students (championship edition) to talk about poetry. Now driving back to Michigan where I am going to hug my kids until they tell me to stop.
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News outlets should be saying in every story about the coming shutdown that Republicans control both Houses of Congress. Senate Republicans can end the filibuster & pass the bill if they want to.
What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.
What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.
September 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
News outlets should be saying in every story about the coming shutdown that Republicans control both Houses of Congress. Senate Republicans can end the filibuster & pass the bill if they want to.
What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.
What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.
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Did you know we accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, we do! But ✨ please✨ withdraw your piece immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. It makes our process easier!
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Did you know we accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, we do! But ✨ please✨ withdraw your piece immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. It makes our process easier!
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“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...