Jenna Goldsmith

Can't wait to get my hands on this! I have a short piece about Norbert Blei and Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant. Pre-order is available now, and this will make a great gift for those Midwesterners in your life who love regional history and culture.

Lingering Inland

Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

City Poets Laureate in US

Thank you! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm asking for the public's help in curating a list of city poets laureate in hopes of building some kind of record of this unique role in the literary community making. Will you help me by adding what you know and re-posting the below?

The Academy of American Poets helpfully hosts a list of state poets laureate on their website, but there is nothing similar for city poets laureate (that I know of). In general, there is a dearth of writing on city poets laureate....

The Rockford Anthology Edited by Rachel LeónOctober 21, 2025 Now available for pre-order! Screw Capital of the World. Forest City. Home of the Rockford Peaches of A League of Their Own fame. Rockford, Illinois, has many ide...

The Rockford Anthology from @beltpublishing.bsky.social is available for pre-order! Rockford people, pre-order your copy now!!!! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Going to start calling this the #BrendaChronicles.

Today one of her bank accounts got frozen. She thinks it might be hacked.

Whew. I'm already feeling better! Thanks, bluesky!

Also, she's a therapist and has a bad potty mouth.

Thank you!

I've told my upstairs neighbor I can hear her conversations. She doesn't seem to care and continues to scream/talk into her telephone. How long before I start publishing transcripts of her conversations to the internet 😂.

Tuesday at 7pm, join the new Rockford region ACLU chapter for a Zoom update from American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois staff. We've got work to do. Request the link here: forms.gle/DAx8fDPSX3bq...

GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION – The White House BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Trump is concerned that moms & babies crossing the border are criminals while he is blithely releasing people convicted of seditious conspiracy from prison back into our communities. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The lawyers get to work: Trump sued over DOGE

@jamiattenberg.bsky.social's #mini1000 starts tomorrow and I'm going to try it. This is my first go at a book of prose and could use the structure. Let's gooooo!

I'm currently reading a story that requires knowledge of both Buffy AND Tegan & Sara, and haven't felt this powerful in a long time.

Sometimes life really is the L Word.

The idea of giving $15 million to build a library for a group that's more likely to burn books than it is to read them...

I was a juror in a trial for the first time this week. Whoa! It was really tough work, but I'm so grateful I got to go through that.