Mike Ingram

I’m on my way back to philly so the people at the table won’t be me but I’m sure they would also enjoy talking to you

Still thinking about them

Someone left Dunkin Donuts munchkins by the sink in the AWP bookfair bathroom, and I’m kinda ashamed at how much deliberation it took for me to not eat one

Then go visit the @barrelhouse.bsky.social table (1185) and talk to nice people

Vacation Photos, San Francisco (2005, Kodak paper) In which I consider the ways people fall in and out of our lives

if you’re at AWP and need a break from small talk you could go sit in a quiet place and read this little essay about my dead friend

Looking forward to tonight’s AWP offsite event, which is me taking a train back to Philly and then lying on my couch for a while. I hear there may be snacks.

Oh wow. Jealous!

AWP offsite event idea: no readers, cozy fire, we all sit quietly with our books, occasionally a cat climbs onto your lap

Barrelhouse booth 1185

Nothing says "we have no bosses" like an 8 foot rainbow-laser-eye cat banner. Come see us at booth 1185 at the AWP bookfair today, writer nerds!

Gonna tell everyone at AWP that I’m Michael Chabon

fake barrelhouse university "MFA degrees" to use as prizes at the Barrelhouse AWP conference booth

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social University we care about education, and that's why we will be conferring these MFA degrees next week to lucky wheel-spinning degree-seeking participants at Booth 1185 at the AWP Bookfair. The children are our future, even the poets.

Look how cool we were (someone send this to the Criterion people for their “the 90s do the 70s“ feature

Like the prison scene in Goodfellas, but it's me using a razor blade to slice the banana I put on my morning yogurt

Vacation Photos, San Francisco (2005, Kodak paper) In which I consider the ways people fall in and out of our lives

My friend Kyle died several months ago. I'd been wanting to write something about him, but not sure if I should, since I didn't know the whole story. But then I found these old pics from a 2005 trip I took to see him in San Francisco, which seemed to offer a way in.

it pains me every time i see danny ocean has dragged yet another poor soul into his breezy life of lighthearted crime

Is AWP more or less stressful when you don’t drink anymore, wrong answers only please

I really should have weighed the relative costs and benefits of doing that versus buying the AWP badge

Ooh! I like the cut of that guy's jib.

Where you can find me at AWP:

-Barrelhouse booth
-Aquarium
-Eating crab cakes down by the docks
-I work on the docks now?
-This is my new life

That kid lived in a Victorian style house and his mom wouldn’t let them have a normal Xmas tree, it had to be decorated with only matching ribbons and glass balls, so I did have at least some sympathy for why he was kind of a wiener.

Pete Hegseth has the same energy as this kid in my neighborhood who was always badgering everyone to play pickup football in full pads, and when we finally did, he got leveled on the first play and started crying, then went home because we were “tackling wrong” and ”didn’t know our fundamentals”

Wonder if I can get this in time for AWP or if I should ship directly to the convention center

I know "college professor" isn't as prestigious as it once was, but c'mon man, don't I at least merit Banana Republic?

Got an email that I’ve been pre-approved for an Old Navy branded credit card, which honestly feels offensive

When I was a kid multiple teachers showed us this Nostradamus “documentary” and, after all the wars and death, the final scene was this very peaceful field, wind rustling the grass, and lately I’ve been thinking about that a lot

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

When the grocery store self checkout loudly announces that I’m buying a donut, that‘s a HIPAA violation

Trying to write something about my college friend who died in the fall and the jazz station just decided to play Sarah Vaughn's cover of "Send in the Clowns," good lord

I feel like we could probably make this happen at some future date, via creative plea deal

I’m not even a big Elvis guy, but the Baz Luhrmann concert movie is great, definitely worth seeing in the theater. The only downside is now I want to go hang out in Vegas circa 1970.