Egan Garr

Revenge is sweeter in Paris

IM NOT GONNA USE GEMINI

IM NOT GONNA USE COPILOT

IM NOT GONNA USE CHATGPT

IM NOT GONNA USE CLAUDE

IM NOT GONNA USE GROK

ALL YALL CAN GET FUCKED INTO THE SUN

Verse of April Submissions Open for Poets-on-Poets Interviews and Poets-on-Poets Essays.

Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions

(Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Last night’s inauguration of the Netherlands’ new poet laureate, my dear friend Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad. As Sahand Sahebdivani put it in his speech: “What a gift it is to speak many languages” @uitgeverijpluim.bsky.social #dichterdernederlanden

"My identifying features / are rapture and despair."
- Wislawa Szymborska, Sky

A drawing by Erik Satie which cannot resist its fancies.

We’ve extended the submissions deadline to March 1.
Still plenty of time for you to submit and for us to get our chicks in order (starting a lit mag definitely comes with a learning curve :))

In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Happy annual mute AWP day to all who celebrate

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

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If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process

The Netherlands’ new poet laureate and a dear friend:

YES

There's a lot of issues with the myths around nonviolence and protest. A big one is that they erase the actual history of the civil rights movement — complex coalitions whose struggles and strategies are vital to understand — into a whitewashed saintliness that gentry liberals are comfortable with.

“[M]y books share my natural openness to loose connectivity, grammatical fluidity, and promotion of connections related to word sounds over specific meaning:” An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina... The phenomenon of Jennifer K. Dick’s bilingualism all started for me at Ivy Writers Paris, a cycle of bilingual readings that she has organized for nearly twenty years. It was there in the early 20…

"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?"

Jennifer K. Dick

minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...

A poem very close to my heart has appeared for public viewing @glasspoetry.bsky.social - much love to Tony for trusting this work

“Espionage”

Lol I don’t think she’s in view of the guy with the rusting dumbbells

This is the best description of forts I’ve ever read

Right!

Today a neighbor complained to me and my kids that the fort they’d made on our patio was not “aesthetic” and was like homeless
people had moved in. She did this while holding her naked breasts over her balcony. “I didn’t know kids lived here,” she said, of an 18 story highrise in Amdam north . . .

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.

The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Voor De Gids schreef ik over mijn veranderde verhouding tot het russisch, mijn tweede taal in plaats van het Kazachs, en over de historische, traumatische gebeurtenissen van Bloedige Januari in 2022. Hier te lezen:

www.de-gids.nl/artikelen/qa...

White guy gets a little validation from other men and immediately starts praising the taliban lol

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DA Resistance Events Democrats Abroad hosts resistance events all over the world. Find one near you today!

Democrats Abroad "Hands Off" protests around the world. #handsoff #april5 #5April #democratsabroad

And please don't forget that the SAVE Act requires in-person voter registration (in many states that means every year). This will disenfranchise Americans abroad (or force them to pay to travel to the US), including the military, as well as the elderly and disabled. Stop the #SAVEAct !

As of this morning, Humanities Tennessee and all state councils have receive a notice of termination of our NEH grant. What does this mean for Humanities Tennessee? What will we lose? Free reading and book programs like the Southern Festival of Books, HT's annual largest annual event connecting readers and authors for 36 years, and access to book news and events via Chapter16.org Young writer and reader programs like Student Readers Days that connect school students with authors while providing free books, plus our annual writing workshops for high school students Shared Futures Lab podcast spotlighting Tennessee stories and exploring ways to create a thriving future for all Tennesseans History programs commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Opportunities for K-12 students across the state to participate in Tennessee History Day and National History Day competitions Funding for rural museums and historical societies Scholarships for volunteers at small museums to attend the annual Tennessee Association of Museums conference

The NYT reports DOGE has recommended cuts that would likely result in the shutdown of the NEH. This would gut Tennessee Humanities, which funds the excellent Southern Festival of the Book, as well as Chapter 16--the only outlet in TN that still reviews books. This is heartbreaking.