Joshua Mehigan

The Ramone

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

What a lineup! We are very proud.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

James Comey, planning a crime: before I do it, I'm going to give a hint about it with these shells

My son is in the military and I sent him this telling him to check on his Navy buddies cuz something is off with them...He sent this back and said it doesn't take too much digging to link it to Trump.

sick shit

Thanks to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for running a poem of mine in their Apr./May issue. I get to appear there with @amitmajmudar.bsky.social & @ianduhig.bsky.social , poets whose new poems I wait for, & teach. I'm tickled to death about it. thelondonmagazine.org

Art.

.sgniw dednetxe no ssenkrad ot drawnwod ... os dnA

The Protest List

There are 900 US protests on Sa 4/19. If you loathe the current administration, you'll want to find one & go register your opinion loudly. If you are happy right now, I have no idea what to say to you, except I hope you soon see the president for the circus grifter he is. tinyurl.com/y2wvv48y

I am honored and so happy to report that my second poetry collection, Might Could, has won the 20th Anthony Hecht Prize. Huge thanks to judge Shane McCrae and to the Waywiser Press.

You can see some poems from me and from the other finalists at the link—I love this tradition of Waywiser's. ❤

Go JB!

HAPPY NATIONAL POTTERY MONTH!

Poetry by @ianduhig.bsky.social, Alex Wong, C. P. Nield, Dane Holt, Larry Narron, Malene Engelund, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, Heidi Williamson and Gaspara Stampa (trans. Harry Cochrane).

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Register by March 30th to explore the sonnet with
@joshuamehigan.bsky.social or eco-somatic poetry with alma valdez-garcia! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Don’t miss your chance to explore the intersections of poetry and hip-hop, nature, the sonnet, generative prompts & more this spring in these upcoming workshops with Karl Michael Iglesias, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, alma valdez-garcia & @storiesandnoise.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Get ready for National Poetry Month in workshops with dawn lonsinger, alma valdez-garcia, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, @geg2us.bsky.social & others exploring hip hop, love, lust, nature, the sonnet, the brain, eco-somatics & more! mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
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Chuck Schumer Should Resign to Spend More Time With His Imaginary Friends The bad news is that the Democratic Senate leader isn’t up for reelection until 2028. The good news is that he can resign right now, and should do so—twice.

The bad news is that Chuck Schumer is not up for re-election until 2028. The good news is that he can resign right now—in fact, he should do that twice.

I also never felt like Disch tried to use reviews to position himself, as many polite & many impolite reviewers, including Logan, seem to. (Disclosure: I got Loganed c. 2015. But his self-positioning has seemed obv to me since c. 2005.)...Harsh poetry reviews seem still to be more common in the UK.

Disch was very funny. In one of his poetry reviews, he made a quiz of unattributed quotes from major contemporaries and then also from Rod McKuen, and you really could not tell what was what. Another review, books by Carver and Leithauser, was called "Barroom Buddy and the Prom King.". . .

Auerbach’s Mimesis (Wikipedia photo) has just this week made the move from Tsundoku shelf to Tsundoku desk stack. But I do read books from these piles. In 2020 I read Fat City (Gardner), which had moved continually from Tsundoku pile to Tsundoku pile since 1995. It was great. Duh. Turn, turn, turn.

Sanders Warns Musk's Call for $700 Billion in Cuts Is a 'Prelude' to Social Security Privatization | Common Dreams "Why do you lie so much about Social Security? To get people to lose faith in the system, and then you can give it over to Wall Street," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sanders Warns Musk's Call for $700 Billion in Cuts Is a 'Prelude' to Social Security Privatization www.commondreams.org/news/musk-so...

Is it a peace process? (short video) Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video

Is it a peace process? (short video)
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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.

Let that sink in.