Isaac Pickell

I agree it won’t make other modes of thinking irrelevant, but it might make other modes of thinking unprofitable, and that may have the same effect.

I like a great many of hers—long may she be read.

oh no! she was fantastic.

I HAD THOUGHT THINGS WERE GOING ALONG WELL But I was mistaken.

happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈

not for lack of trying!

"we love what we love for as long as we can..."

She's right, it's not Act Three yet.

Early Retirement Plan Rich kid poets have so much fun doing their art, taking their risks, stepping on necks when real life people don’t really like their shit— if my parents were paid, I’d buy a silver palisade to wrap around the whole city limits & announce a parade to see my gilted words until everyone knew the feelings my bright gold brain had made.

Sometimes it's okay to write poems just because it's fun.

Thank you!

Thank you, Gregory.

Thanks!

Glad it moved you, Ken, but a couple notes — Andrea used they/them pronouns and this is actually my poem honoring them, not one written by them.

Before you go for Andrea Gibson when the famous poet dies— the one who sheltered death from slander and promised us it was no act of leaving— you try to follow their lead and plead to the sun I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place. it hurts to become something new before we go [satellite, volcano, open door] and you aren’t ready yet: you still think you can write to survive your heartbeat [like our vessels will outlast us] but they were always spilling love like it would never run out and maybe a life doesn’t need any longer than that.

"Before you go"

for Andrea Gibson

thank you and also I agree!

Thank you Hannah!!!

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thanks James!

Thank you Majda!

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BIG NEWS BIG NEWS CAPITAL LETTERS BIG NEWS—

Mark your calendars! Save your dollars! My second full-length collection, THE SMALLEST MISTAKE WE CALL HUMAN, is forthcoming June 2026 @blacklawrence.bsky.social!

Couldn't be more excited to be working with Diane on another project. You're gonna love it.