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Good day for turning up the radio and playing the Waterboys youtu.be/4GbqnY9uuzQ?...

Friends: Katie & I are teaching this online class as a fundraiser for the wonderful Alice James Books, which has published so many beloved poets. Join us to chat about poems & poets & you can also speak to the one and only Carey Salerno about editing, publishing: www.alicejamesbooks.org/masterclass

he carries a sorrow inside his chest that only the birds can reach

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

happy bday British writer Doris Lessing, b.1919. “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

A humble wreath for someone I revere Wendy Cope

“A society which can produce great novelists and which can appreciate great novelists is a society in which tolerance and respect for the existence of other persons is likely to flourish, with all that that implies of independence of mind.” —Iris Murdoch

I've just learned that Matt Howarth, cartoonist and lover of (among other things) science fiction, has left the planet. On my blog I lay a small wreath of words on his grave. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/matt...

Most interviews about fascism don’t end with me almost crying about the wonders of Pacific wild salmon, but somehow this one did. One of the best conversations I’ve had on tour so far. Thank you Oli Dugmore and The Exchange. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social youtu.be/JdfMaPrMBW4

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.actnowni.org/petitions/he...

It's pub day for Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight With with TV's First Visionary! If you're still on the fence, I've got an entire chapter — about Rod's service in World War II — available as a free sample:

The poet, writer and monk Thomas Merton wrote a deliciously subversive "confession of crimes against the state" in 1960-- in middle of the Cold War, as the McCarthy era was just beginning to ebb, and the Vietnam War had already been underway for five years. He knew from jingoism. This is a treat:

But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself William Blake

"A DHS rep did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment."

Not to piss on anyone’s chips, but Hookland won’t be doing any ‘31 days of spookiness’ malarkey. Halloween is not that big a thing in a county that does hauntings in a matchbox every day of the year. The gothic is not tinsel on this ghost soil, it’s a bone tattoo.

"I do not know what I expected. Perhaps to find a doddering and frail praying mantis, whispering about the station, blown by seawinds, a chalk-white ghost who would husk at me with voices of grass and reeds blown in the night." Ray Bradbury, Emperor of The October Country.

The death penalty is a moral abomination.

Being bitter about the work of other is not a default writer setting, it is a choice. A bloody awful choice. Don’t do it kids. It withers your soul and the rest of us get bored hearing about it.

Today is National Native American Day 4 by Layli Long Soldier from 'Whereas' which examines the pitiful 2009 Govt Apology There's no word in Irish for sorry, instead we say 'tá brón orm' sorrow is upon me This poem is for all nations waiting for sufficient apology #poetry #poemoftheday #Gaeilge

well they removed the mask mandate down at the lesbian bar last night

The Coltrane estate advertised this on their instagram account. Couldn’t resist. Edited by Ravi Coltrane.

One year ago this week we lost the great writer Kaleb Horton. I am still very sorry that I won't ever get to read anything new by him ever again. Today his partner @katehascats.bsky.social joins us to write about her experience of loss and grief.

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My upcoming essay collection from @acrebooks.bsky.social has a page (cover coming soon). Available even to pre-order now, if you like to get in on a good thing early 🙏🏻

Great cast in this, across the board. There may even be some future stars in it.

my tribute to the late great Annie Dillard; thanks to @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social and @sojo.net for running it sojo.net/articles/opi...

Grab this joyous morn by the scruff of its neck; spirit it away under your cloak. It belongs to you now. Let it suckle at your teat until it grows into a fat and happy cocktail hour.

I’m honored to serve as the President of PEN/America, which has been defending free expression and celebrating literature for over a hundred years.  pen.org/press-releas...

RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE. (Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")

On September 15th, join Nghi Vo, Karen Joy Fowler, and Brian Attebery for an online event celebrating the publication of Library of America's Complete Earthsea!

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love apples and honey apples and honey what is not lost is paradise -Lucille Clifton, "Rosh Hashanah" 2001 No words suffice, so sharing Clifton's. #everynightapoem

Finally saw the movie "Blue Heron," which had been recommended to me multiple times. Lovely and devastating and useful in seeing the world in new ways

We live in dark times. I don't have to tell you that. But today I'm reflecting on all the light so many of you bring into my life. I love and appreciate how you brighten the path through the darkness. If you're reading this & you are in my life, know that I am talking, and thinking, about you today.

Good morning, dumplings. I hope today that your coffee is hot and all your enemies drop dead.

In case you missed this: it's as good as you wanted to be, a pleasure to watch and think about, even when it's going dark

Haibun by Clare McCotter.

Haiku by Ria Collins. From her delicately beautiful collection shaping darkness.

The record for this rescued dog at the shelter said she liked two things: water and sand. So the first thing her new owner did after adopting her was take her to the beach… Original post

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project in partnership with The Nation has gathered five contributors who knew or were greatly influenced by Barbara Ehrenreich to honor her legacy 25 years after the release of Nickel and Dimed. https://bit.ly/4h7yrBF

Look at what arrived today. Publishes October 27.

bee crawls on a withered flower September song

Oh Wendell Berry, another great elder become ancestor 🪔. So many favorite writings by him, holding this as reverence and passageway. “.. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings”. 📷: Guy Mendes.