Kyla Houbolt

Ho! Have received word (via official tracking!) that my copies will arrive on the 31st. 7 copies are already spoken for but I have others available if you want one signed. DM or contact via kylahoubolt.us Or you can order direct, either book, e pub, or pdf, here: pearlpirie.com/product/litt...

I’m up—nothin’ new in. Hurtling toward Thursday with vicious speed. I need $1,415 by then. Can anyone please help? Fifty people giving $30 each gets me that and a bit more. Gas, laundry, copays, rent. Backlogged bills. Breathing space and a slice of hope. Never underestimate the power of #MutualAid

On a walk with family the other day I was suddenly astonished by the moon and cried out, "The moon!!" A few minutes later my partner (a very nice man) said "You guys, look at the moon." "Mama just said that," said our child. "Well--" began husband. Child interrupted. "Stop moonsplaining."

Decided I should probably give away most of my remaining plants. I still have American groundnut Purple-headed sneezeweed Obedient plant Columbine (tiny tho) Upland and NY ironweed Culver's root Golden alexanders Helmet flower Blue-eyed grass Blue-stemmed goldenrod Tall aneome Smooth beardtongue...

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the idea of an internally consistent poetry collection is in line with monoculture, neurotypical, elevator pitch, poetry as commerce.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 69. If you are lucky enough to have #solitarybees in your garden - LOOK AFTER THEM! They build small solitary nests in cavities in the ground/timber/walls, fly for only a few weeks, don’t swarm and are superb #pollinators. #bees #nature #gardens

Currently reading: The Great Refusal by Casey Gerald. Highly recommend. Inspiring. Radical. Sharp.

[CW: slavery, SA] I wish this were true, but it's not even close to true.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Wishing and hoping that you may yet live to increase the debt which our Country owes you" - Pres. Madison, to Pres. Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings was younger than most of Epstein's victims.

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌲🌿🍂🖌🐡Seed dispersal is really important to plants. So there are many strategies & forms of seeds, and many terms for them. What is a diaspore? The entire dispersal unit that contains seeds, along with anything that helps it disperse. Diaspores can be very small, or enormous. #BUC2026

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Let's not get carried away, sayeth caraway?

Hot fresh poem.

Spittoon Movie-Telling Night @ Comedy Citadel, Thursday 8 pm. 8 performers are going to narrate silent movie clips with their amazing poetic texts, bringing back the art of movie-telling to Beijing.

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Please can you help our sanctuary out of the mud? We have launched our BIG WINTER fundraiser! We need specialist mats fitted in our grass free, rehab paddock to stop the sinking mud! Please can you help us reach our target? Details: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... Please SHARE 💚 #rescueanimals

The other day, at a thrift store, I bought an old record album called "Sounds Wasps Make". When I got it home and played it, I said to myself, "This doesn't sound anything like wasp sounds." Then I realized, I was playing the Bee side.

Oh I was wrong! That third Ars Poetica I mentioned is not, in fact, collected in Dance On, nor is it collected in Mapless. Huh. I was sure....Sorry, I flubbed it! 🙄

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

🚨🚨ALERT #OnceInALifeTime event is happening right now with my #BlackBamboo 🚨my potted #Bamboo is blooming which means this variety is blooming all over the world 🌎 at the same time 🤯last time was 1905 or 1908 #Flowers #Gardening #WorldWideEvent #Nature

As I was looking for the Patchen piece, I discovered I have yet another Ars Poetica (making 3 all together; the 3rd is collected in forthcoming Dance On.) So this #SmallPoemSunday gets 2 from me. Thanks, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !

it’s a very exciting #smallpoemsunday bc Tired Light is now out in the world from @thirtywestph.com!! here’s a snippet from TL, + a small Self-Portrait originally in Loser IX & featured today @plaguecircus.bsky.social. I’m also excited to be reading in less than 2 weeks w/two amazing poet friends :)

#smallpoemsunday title poem by Jamie Hood, How to be a Good Girl

Wonderfully descriptive alt text. If only I didn't have to write alt text on my phone, I might be able to do this also. However.... my thanks to those who can, and do! (My alt text is usually very brief.)

Wallace Stevens, Harmonium

By the way, I was then wakened at 7:30am (on a Saturday!) by the road being paved which shook the house for the entire morning. I am so sleepy 🥱 #birds 🌿

So, nothing in for days, and now I’m jot even sure $1,600 will be enough. My “October surprise” was being led on and gaslit by a prospective employer who said, “LOL, no!” last minute. My health issues might cost me another (shitty) job. My need’s much deeper. But even $300 of this would be a help.

Mount St. Helens is located 52 miles (83 km) north of Portland, Oregon, and 98 miles (158 km) south of Seattle in Washington State. A 1980 eruption of its volcano reduced the peak elevation from 9,677 feet (2,950 meters) to the current peak elevation of 8,363 ft (2,549 m).

Thank you for this space! My ER visit Wednesday resulted in a severe infection from my broken teeth. I need antibiotics that are sitting at the pharmacy - $20. I MUST take them with food - I need $200 worth of groceries for my family. It should last a few days. Please help if you can! $mhj915

One happy story in this - a friend was entering a novel competition, was devastated to find she’d left a typo on page one. Agent judge said “oh it was fine, instantly gave me confidence it wasn’t ai”:)

Erica says THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much. (anything Bluesky doesn't donate I'll cover, but shhhhhh)

Light makes way like fire Angela Ball

An Irish writer reached out to me recently about her book and would I like to quote on it. Unfortunately I read the message when I was on the road and now can't remmeber a) her name b) the name of the book c) which socials it was on. If that was you, please shout! If it wasn't, please share?

Mount Haguro, Yamagata, Japan

the wind tossing the colors right through me it's hard to be serious when your blood is a pinwheel

Wolves are now roaming into Finnish villages after Google cleared over 56 million square feet of forest habitat to build AI data centers. "We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest." futurism.com/future-socie...

I got a new poem published in @somewordslit.bsky.social