Jen Moore

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Saw her read from In Time at AWP! Such beautiful work ✨

North Dakota's GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program North Dakota's Republican governor has vetoed bills to further restrict sexual content in libraries and to create a private school voucher program.

There's still an adult in the room in North Dakota. Republican Gov Armstrong has done the reasonable thing and vetoed a bill that would censor libraries, saying it represented a "misguided attempt to legislate morality through overreach and censorship".
More of this pls 🙏
apnews.com/article/nort...

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

February 13, 1975 Tomorrow is St. Valentine's: tomorrow I'll think about that. Always nervous, even after a good sleep I'd like to climb back into. The sun shines on yesterday's new-fallen snow and yestereven it turned the world to pink and rose and steel-blue buildings. Helene is restless: leaving soon. And what then will I do with myself? Someone is watching morning TV. I'm not reduced to that yet. I wish one could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

A.R. Ammons

ICE confirms no immigration activity on Muni. But SFUSD helped spread rumor. SFUSD sent emails notifying families that a middle school student claimed to have been approached by ICE. It wasn't true.

Don't spread rumors. Stick to substantiated data. Here's a rumor that spread a panic that this excellent news source found no basis for. missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd...

Two people looking at a couch that’s been wedged between a wall and a pole but remains several feet off the ground on one side

Actual footage of me turning a T/Th course into a M/W/F course.

Mary Ann Samyn

when I was in grad school, I remember overhearing a professor saying that it takes two years to break a department and at least ten years to build one back

and I keep thinking about this, but for every institution

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER: the 'tuesday poem' series is open to general submissions; send poem(s) and bio as .doc w/ photo to rob_mclennan(at)hotmail(dot)com with the subject line: 'tuesday poem submission,'

#smallpoemsunday w Andrea Cohen

Thank you, Jen! 💜

I wrote “Human Creators” this summer—thrilled to be included in the new Sixth Finch. It’s a beauty of an issue! Enjoy!

Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild A group of grandmothers is a tapestry. A group of toddlers, a jubilance (see also: a bewailing). A group of librarians is an enlightenment. A group of visual ar...

Today’s required reading.

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you, Mary! 💜

I wrote "Life Story" this spring after not writing a single poem in close to 4 years. Excited it's found a home in Radar Poetry, which is my first journal publication in 4 years, too. I hope you enjoy it and the rest of the beautiful work in this issue ✨✨✨

Lines by Louise Glück, who died today, from her poem “Twilight”: I open my fingers—/ I let everything go.// Visual world, language,/ rustling of leaves in the night,/ smell of high grass, of woodsmoke.// I let it go, then I light the candle.

Thank you, poet 🤍 (from “Twilight,” Louise Glück, 1943-2023)

Heartbreaking news. Rest in peace, beautiful poet.

“What’s terrifying about autumn is not so much the end of things, but that there’s a hidden beginning in some middle you can’t yet see but feel, the way one feels the earth move when a bulldozer tears down a building while the world turns red and yellow.” Mark Irwin

In Autumn When within ourselves in autumn we feel the autumn

This beauty by Mark Irwin 🍁🍁🍁

I’d start with Nightshade (2019) or Everything (2021)!

Andrea Cohen!

Mountain Man’s Made the Harbor, Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter, and Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood are October biggies for me 🍁🍁

Submissions are open at Polaris Literary Magazine (Sept 1st through Feb 1st) the national undergrad lit mag from Ohio Northern University. We accept fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual art, and give cash prizes in each genre! Tell your students to submit!
polarisliterarymagazine.com