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Happy solstice! Here is the kind of luck I have—Emily Hancock of @stbrigidpress.bsky.social has made my poem “One Lightning Bug,” from Might Could, into a tiny letterpress-printed pamphlet. Emily showed me that the cover does this!

Most accurate palindromic expression of my feelings about AI

I know some of my people have things to say about PFAS. I know I do. Good this is happening, thanks @andrewhemmert.bsky.social & thanks @ecorhetor.bsky.social

Beaucoup thanks to @bittersouth.bsky.social and @kyletibbsjones.bsky.social for including this poem among such good company in their issue 14. Love that back cover 💗 Tisko Tansi for scale bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-14/...

WORD FACT Greek “strephein” (to turn) ultimately gives us the word “strophe” — a “turn” in poetry. It also gives us: Catastrophe → an overturning/downturn [1/3]

BREAKING: EPA is launching a study of water contamination that will, for the first time, test for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Anti-abortion groups consider it a major win that could pave the way for restrictions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Must you have a part in everything? William Carlos Williams, in Nancy Willard's Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey (1998)

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

​To help address the upcoming shortfall, the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus has set up a GoFundMe.

On #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, our latest #BHLat20 post explores some of BHL’s most precious treasures: extinct species descriptions. BHL’s historic literature preserves information about what we’ve lost, and what we can still save: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/09/exti... 🧪 📖

So happy to see NYC lead on this! AI has no place in our schools. Kids need to learn to use their own brains to solve problems & read & write & play. I hope they extend the ban to high school next. I am all for HUMAN schools!

Next time your local or state legislature parrots some lobbyists talking points trying to tell you data centers will "increase our tax revenue," ask them about this NINETY-ONE PERCENT LOSS in tax revenue in Georgia & elsewhere, and whether & How they can guarantee the same thing won't happen to you.

Thanks, Wendell Berry.

Just hours left to comment!

posted in the lefty folk group chat

I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was

💯 💗☀️ h/t @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social

Northwestern University is reportedly shuttering its 80-year-old Program of African Studies, laying off staff and keeping students in the dark It is the "first formal academic program focused on Africa in the United States."

A delight to talk with Autumn Newman, about meter & rhyme & plants & ecological trauma, for @southrevbooks.bsky.social 💚

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

This month on The ARTWIFE Podcast, we welcome Anna Lena Phillips Bell to talk about her most recent collection of poetry, Might Could. We talk about the process of titling poems, the elements of craft that are often neglected in prose but amplified in poetry, and what we can learn from plants.

This week’s feature is the wonderful Anna Lena Phillips Bell, with an artist statement reflecting on kindness, mutual flourishing, and the care we share with the plants around us. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/phillips-bell

Thank you to @readalittlepoem.bsky.social for including this here anticapitalist aubade, from Might Could & first published in the much-missed Gettysburg Review <3

ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

😍😍 #poetrycommunity #bookarts #poetry #booksky

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Palindromists have taught the world that daffodils love to slide. (They do.)

Just such a delight to talk with Amanda Hawkins for @therumpus.net. Thank y'all! 💚✨

"Against Stoicism" among the columbine! Thank you, @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social! 💗💚

Logged on and immediately saw an exhausting conversation. Remembered these words.

Sharing this belatedly here but with much appreciation for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social—for everything they do, and for featuring two poems from Might Could and a series of river photos <3

Thanks for the shout-out for Might Could, @clmporg.bsky.social! Just seeing this! 💚