FM Stringer

"...When she asked what happened to the tequila in the fridge he stood there looking for it like he didn’t know exactly where it went. This is how Haley catches me up anyway since I dozed off watching..." !! today from FM Stringer https://www.havehashad.com/twfvy

Quick ctrl+F of the manuscript, was alarmed to find 12 instances of "love." Relieved to find two were "glove"s.

lil jon is performing “turn down for what” on a toys r us parade float is soo 2025

Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com

“When Did You Get Hot” sounds like if Ariana Grande was in Incubus. This is praise. #sabrinacarpenter

on top of everything else this guy is literally carmen sandiego

Donald’s big boy birthday tank parade

Among my millennial habits is Googling words for their definitions and being annoyed when the results are all AI startups named whatever I was searching.

Our signs for #handsoff in DC today. @fmstringer.bsky.social

The only thing keeping me going is our annual March rewatch of Derry Girls.

Boost the "Trump Hates Dogs" signal. It's the one thing that might break through and lift the curse on the MAGA-brained.

From @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social's book, Lucky Fish. Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social #poem #poetry #books

From Ukrainian-born poet Ilya Kaminsky. Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation. Don't have this one in a book, so making a rare exception to my only posting own photos rule given the circumstances. #poem #writing #ukraine

In the canon of cartoon playground bullies there's usually a big hulkin' guy and then behind him a little ratfaced goblin boy jeering. I don't know who the first guy is but the second one is definitely JD Vance.

Just pretend this post is a gif of Ben from Veep saying “We are at DEFCON Fuck.”

"on the ocean when you die, I don't like imagining your gawky bag of bones incinerated, sprinkled like fish flakes over an aquarium." You'll want to linger with FM Stringer's poem of grief and regret on Open Space here: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Better report my accomplishments for the week before the deadline

First post and it's a new poem about loss and longing. Thank you to the editors at @northamerreview.bsky.social for selecting it for Open Space. I’m a big admirer of this magazine. northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...