Liam

book distribution by big cannon. load up the book cannon

what happens if Ingram is bad

It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives.

The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)

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Soooooo fucking grim to see the sycophantic "yes-and" machine of GPT-4o affirming the aesthetic and narrative virtue of this kid's suicide plans

Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!

In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

I feel like when it's really hot we should dig little tombs for sleeping in, to cool off, like 6 feet deep, right down into the ground. Why should only the dead be cool.

I’m hunting for a job that can’t be automated maybe I’ll pick delicate juicy berries until I die

Alien Enemies | Brandon Shimoda The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

“What is an alien but the hallucination or projection of a haunted, mortified body—a person, a people, a nation—in the midst of being separated from its soul? Doesn’t that also describe an enemy?” thebaffler.com/latest/alien...

saw Lydia Lunch at The Knockout last night. the best thing about punk, the worst sound you ever heard cut off after 15 minutes, is wanting it

true of any good artist I guess but you get up close to his paintings and you’re like “this is insane”

I respect Legion of Honor’s homage to Wayne Thiebaud at the Wayne Thiebaud show

fun to think about these circles, these poetries, especially because they don’t really compete just coincide. probably break them up in a number of ways: poetry schools (new narrative, spoken word, ecopoetry), school-schools (stegner fellows), or venue (bar reading, house reading, bookstores …)

that’s the truth

“The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua … infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.”

I wish Ocean Vuong's first books of poetry, published by small presses, got mentioned more. No (YesYes Books) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press)

A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival by Emily Pinkerton | Mid-Atlantic Review This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival Don’t bother with weapons. Those are for abled people.You don’t have the mobility to [hit, throw, aim] and the adrenalineof a fight will kill you. Instead,

New poem day! I wrote about what it’s like living with #VerySevereME and #LongCovid. Thanks to the Mid-Atlantic Review, and please read in landscape mode for correct linebreaks!

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fwiw good cheese out in Cuba, New York

A painting of Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus helping hang laundry on a tree branch

Lucio Massari, The Holy Family, or, St. Joseph and Baby Jesus help with the Laundry, 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi)

Happy to share that preorders are now open for Glove Money, my second full length collection of poetry. Preorder here or from your best loved local bookstore nightboat.org/book/glove-m...

The four children Black text with black and white photos illustrating each character The Count says "1, 2, 3, 4! 4 children in the haggadah, ha ha ha ha ha!" Kermit, the wise child, says "Hi ho, this is Kermit the Frog, and I'm here to ask, why do we celebrate Passover with a seder? What's the meaning behind these foods and customs?" Oscar the Grouch, the wicked child, asks "What are all of you making such a fuss about? Why is the house so disgustingly clean? What did you do with my crumbs?" Elmo, the simple child, asks "What's going on?" Slimey the worm, the child who does not know how to ask, says nothing.

I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year!

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it’s a trope now, innocuous and tired, a signal like “wow profound.” treated like the Big Kiss at the end of a romcom. fatigue and brokenness has place, but also pick up the pieces a little

it’s true! I think so too. I’m sure the clinical pressure of recording an audiobook is unforgiving, flattens the readings of actors and authors. but a worthwhile (human) undertaking tho

something to be said for the correctly abject