Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)

Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.

Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A large red banner with blue and white lettering that spells out the word: VOTE.

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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.

I know what I’m seeing.

A hand holding the tiny glass figurine of a unicorn pegasus under a purple UV light. Bookshelf kitsch in background.

2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲

Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽

Let’s mock them still

poet laureate but it’s all trump acrostics

I’m sure they will, now.

Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.

(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)

This sits on the bookshelf in my office, and it’s by far one of the most popular things students pick up to read, or colleagues pop in to ask to read.

A call for submissions to the Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Who's the king? How does being the king, or the expectation thereof, impact our mental and social well-being? Defining "king" broadly as someone who expresses themselves in a masculine way regardless of gender identity, Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology seeks to explore and express the interconnected challenges which now impact our public and private lives. Now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Submissions open from July 5th, 2025 to December 1st, 2025. Email submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com. Email Subject Example: Poetry Submission Submissions open for print anthology. Works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art are welcome. Poetry: Up to 5 pieces. Prose: Up to 5k words. Visual Art: Show me what you got. Formatting: Be reasonable. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please let me know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work may be considered if author retains the rights, but please include acknowledgements. No Al-generated work. I cannot compensate contributors at this stage. Now accepting Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Visual Art for print anthology.

About the Editor. Find him at scarletwitchy.bsky.social. Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) is a writer-activist with a Philly attitude and a background in LGBT+ studies. He is dedicated to the belief that art shapes ideology and that education is crucial for achieving social justice and social mobility. Former Managing Editor and Fiction Editor of Rathalla Review, Stephen's poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, mostly queer ones. He is the author of two multi-genre chapbooks, A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space (2025) and His Boyfriend Materials (2024), both of which are available from Bottlecap Press.

Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity

Call for submissions! Who’s the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Now accepting poetry, fiction, and visual art for print anthology! Send submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com

Subs open until Dec 1 #SubmissionCall

The evil that men do lives after them

My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth

the demand for yassification of authors, a class traditionally allowed to look like freakazoids, is an assault on me personally

A print literary magazine entitled Metachrosis featuring a painting of a girl squatting over a plate with a butter knife and a jar of jam.

A glimpse of the inside of Metachrosis literary magazine, showing the title of a poem “Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive” by Stephen Brown.

Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social

printers absolutely yearn for death’s sweet embrace, yes

Her street sweeps align too well with GOP treatment of the housing impaired.

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

I trust orb. 🙏🏼

two women are talking in a store and one of them is saying big mistake big huge ALT: two women are talking in a store and one of them is saying big mistake big huge

In my diva moment of my life, I had a woman removed from WF South Street for bumping me twice with her cart.

Consider the attack on
Public Broadcasting.
Right-wingers, w/their
boners for autocracy,
say they hate communists
as they undermine
communities,
&
say they hate socialists
while butchering society.
Funneling all the money
to the top 1%'ers has no
appeal to most of humanity.