October 1 Boston Poetry Slam feature, $4 for entry, 21 or older event. At the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Featuring Quintin Collins with a tarot workshop by Micah Rich. Workshops at 6:30pm, doors at 7:15pm, open mic at 8pm, feature at 10pm

Next Wednesday, I’m featuring at Boston Poetry Slam. Hope to see you there.

Me: "Hey guys, don't let Trump win or the damage will be irreversible."

Yall: "Things are already bad and cant get any worse!"

*Trump wins*

Me: "Yeah, we're fucked for a generation."

Yall: "Well, what are you going to do besides complain about it?"

Image of a Black American man with glasses and locs, Mass Poetry Fest 2025, Goin’ Up Yonder: Religion in Black Poetics with Matthew E. Henry, Sarah Kersey, & Porsha Olayiwola May 31, 11:30am, St. Peter’s Church - Large Room Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief with Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Jennifer Martelli, Susan Rich, & Cindy Veach May 31, 3:15pm, Peabody Essex Museum - Morse Auditorium

For those of you heading to the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, MA, at the end of the month, I have a couple of events on May 31. Come through if you're around.

Back to back 🔥🔥🔥

That’s a good one to return to years later. Even with memory of the key mechanics, it’s still fun to solve the puzzles again.

These days, I often find myself being content watching someone else play a game that I’m currently into rather than playing myself. That or I go back to N64 game speedruns.

I’m Wordle>Connections>The Mini>Strands as soon as I wake up.

Almost had to throw the whole new pope away

I recently passed one year of submitting my current poetry manuscript. So I'll share some stats so far: -27 total submissions, with 16 rejections and 11 still active -$526 on submission fees It's definitely challenging to see those decline emails come in, especially when more than one arrives on the same day. However, this is the work, and I continue to believe it's important that we're honest about the work. The wins are fun, and the losses are part of the process. Additionally, the losses aren't just about quality; readers'/editors'/judges' tastes, timing, and more can get in the way of that coveted acceptance letter. This is not to say the publishing industry still doesn't have a ton of work to do in terms of diversity, fairness, and more, but sometimes, everything that's meant for you is just ahead.

Some poetry book publishing thoughts:

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A lot of things to love about Andor season 2, and this song is right at the top:

It’s all so beautiful and so brutal.

Big fan of the warmer weather. Not a big fan of all the wasps I can already seeing flying outside my window.

Utility charges are a scam. Winter and the heat is on? Bill is high AF. Summer and the AC is on? Bill is high AF. Spring or Fall and you had a good day? Well guess what. The bill is high AF.

I wish you had to invite lizards, flies, etc. in your house before they could actually enter it like vampires.

Let’s start this evening off on the right *shoeless* foot.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris

Andor season 2 as of episode 2 is already going 10/10

My morning routine now includes Wordle, Connections, Strands, and The Mini.

Could go for a Pepsi Blue right now.

What seems to have happened here is that an anthology was updated and Junot Diaz's work — like dozens of other authors — was taken out.

Were previous editions destroyed? No.
Are Diaz's stories no longer available? No.

How has he 'been disappeared' exactly?
www.chronicle.com/article/juno...

Make more time to read 📖

poem where no one is deported By José Olivarez now i like to imagine la migra running into the sock factory where my mom & her friends worked. it was all women who worked there. women who braided each other's hair during breaks. women who wore rosaries, & never had a hair out of place. women who were ready for cameras or for God, who ended all their sentences with si dios quiere. as in: the day before the immigration raid when the rumor of a raid was passed around like bread & the women made plans, si dios quiere. so when the immigration officers arrived they found boxes of socks & all the women absent. safe at home. those officers thought no one was working. they were wrong. the women would say it was god working. & it was god, but the god my mom taught us to fear was vengeful. he might have wet his thumb & wiped la migra out of this world like a smudge on a mirror. this god was the god that woke me up at 7am every day for school to let me know there was food in the fridge for me & my brothers. i never asked my mom where the food came from, but she told me anyway: gracias a dios. gracias a dios del chisme, who heard all la migra's plans & whispered them into the right ears to keep our families safe.

@joseolivarez.bsky.social’s poem “poem where no one is deported” is an affirmation that within community, there is power.

We don’t talk enough about how much it sucks getting food, particularly parts seeds from things like raspberries, wedged in the top of a molar. Unlike popcorn kernels in the gums, it doesn’t hurt, but damn it so annoying and difficult to dislodge.

"What are your dogs' names?"

Me: "Calvin and Klein."

"Isn't that a brand of underwear?"

Me: "Exactly, they're boxers."

Car ownership is such a debtor's prison. On top of just paying for the car itself, you have insurance, license, registration, plates, stickers, gas, maintenance, parking, etc. Then the unseen potential costs; ticketing, tow truck fees, how many people have SiriusXM just for the commute?

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