Lisa Piazza

Happy, happy pub day, Amber!!!!

Rose Byrne stares down the breaking point of motherhood In “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Mary Bronstein reveals the messy truth of modern motherhood.

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” understands how nightmarish it is to juggle love and living in the modern age, when simply surviving is a task that requires all of our energy.

Late Wonders My face is now gone. Instead, I have a hawk's face. None of the poets notice, they only want fame. Fame is a bucket of eyes.

Victoria Chang

The Dangers of using AI to Grade Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Absolutely!

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

oleada.io/publication/...

The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure

Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14 By Tyler Cowen

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

YouTube video by Billy Bragg It Says Here - Billy Bragg on Breakfast TV

And it says, here
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock

If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land

“He let me drive the winding
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.

I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
@uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...

I SHOULD HOPE SO Next year when this book is pulped and the pulp recycled to print your Collected Poems, will I still be here still writing this?

Bill Knott

love this

I had to become the moving water I already am, falling back into the human shape in order not to frighten my children, grandchildren, dogs and friends. Our old cat doesn’t care. He laps the water where my face used to be.

Jim Harrison

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

The adults are pushing AI on the kids. Don't get it twisted.

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

*secondary educator

Same

What Are You? by Sammi LaBue | Eight and three-quarters.

I love this flash essay by Sammi LaBue via @short-reads.org (& originally published in The Sun).

www.short-reads.org/what-are-you/

To me this is a pretty obvious result of a culture that prioritizes "producing" above all else. I'd throw the framing of education in general as essentially job-preparation as a big part of that culture. AI let's people produce & since they don't know the value of creating, they use AI to produce

“Form is never more than a *revelation* of content.” — Denise Levertov

"Reader who or the unsettling charms of Shirley Jackson’s or Daphne du Maurier’s stylish, gothic-imbued brand of horror and anyone who loved the cliquish, killer cast of characters in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will be enthralled with Dunham’s exemplary debut." —Library Journal, starred review

My novel is comped to Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Donna Tartt in this ⭐ STARRED REVIEW ⭐ at Library Journal!!! 🤩

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

Will be getting Suzy Eynon’s BEING SEEN up for pre-order order tonight! @suzyeynon.bsky.social

Sorry that I missed this little cnf also dropping yesterday... I wrote this piece while I was still teaching middle school, and re-reading makes me remember what I loved about it.

"Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter— my own nakedness or the grief of the reader? I want my stories to be so good they are unforgettable; to make my ideas live and my own terrors real for people I will never meet. It is a completely amoral writer's lust. If we begin to agree that some ideas are too dangerous, too bad to invite inside our heads, then we stop the storyteller completely. We silence everyone who would tell us something that might be painful in our vulnerable moments."

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility?What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter . . .

- Dorothy Allison

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