@akasomeguy.bsky.social
Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
New, corrected version of the video: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
07.08.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My son makes hella interesting videos about extreme weather events. Here's one about an outbreak of fire tornadoes, which I didn't even know were a thing before he told me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyZ...
02.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...
23.07.2025 12:57 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A few months ago, I thought I was done writing these. But maybe not quite yet? I’m so grateful to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and everybody at @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for publishing this sonnet. I hope you like it. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...
27.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
NYT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JJ...
FT: www.ft.com/content/c3a6...
In the past few days, some extraordinary and heartening things have happened, and I’m feeling less down about my poems. The New York Times Book Review podcast recommended “New and Collected Hell,” and the Financial Times included it on their list of Best Summer Books of 2025! I am so, so grateful.
21.06.2025 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0It's a good suggestion! But there's nothing I can do. My edition was guided by, in part, a remark Berryman made about it being up to readers to slot in with his complete edition any Dream Songs published after it. So "Only Sing" looks like previous editions, and, like them, includes no notes.
11.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm afraid not. As far as I know, no such edition exists. Hopefully, if a complete, scholarly edition of Dream Songs is ever published, a complete, scholarly edition would include annotations.
11.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A thing arrived in the mail today.
04.06.2025 19:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0RIP Alice Notley
20.05.2025 16:54 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I guess I miss England pretty hard--I saw a Cadbury Twirl in a bodega this morning and almost started weeping.
16.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This morning, for the first time in a long time--a decade?--I submitted to a journal that only accepts physical submissions (which is also a journal on my list of journals to which I'm afraid to submit), and wow it felt good and weird and good. The tactile! Communication via the mails!
30.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The book comes out in December, but here, now, via the New Yorker, is “Henry’s Ode,” from “Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs,” by John Berryman (edited by me). I am so grateful to everyone involved, especially Kevin Young and Hannah Aizenman. Woo, y’all! Woo! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
28.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1The eye deliberate
May qualify the joy
And that which we create
We also may destroy.
Folks, I'm reading with @rika99.bsky.social on Friday, April 18th. Jason Schneiderman will be the host, and if you're around I hope you can make it if for no other reason than to hear what Erika and Jason have to say. www.nyhistory.org/programs/poe...
15.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you everybody at Action, Spectacle for publishing a few of my poems alongside wonders: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
14.04.2025 19:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
John Berryman has been a central poet in my life for more than half my life. But I never imagined his name and mine would be on the same book cover. And yet here they are, together. The book will be published in December, and I hope you like it. I still can't believe I had anything to do with it.
12.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 83 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 4I’m now live! Like and share to get this vital information out to people! #wxsky #tornado m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4g5...
30.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"New and Collected Hell" is out today! If you read it, I hope you like it. I'm grateful to Melissa and my family and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social. A decade of work, a decade of hells emerging and seeming to fade only to reveal themselves as indelible. In the poem, Trump is a demonic beetle.
11.02.2025 13:24 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Obviously boys should not be presidents.
10.02.2025 14:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never again.
05.02.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just deleted my Twitter account! The joy! The freedom!
04.02.2025 21:57 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"New and Collected Hell" is reviewed in the February 10th New Yorker holy moly I can hardly even think about it! I'm so grateful to Elisa Gonzalez and everybody at
@newyorker.com! Such a beautifully written review. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Friends, I'm so excited to tell you that I have edited the uncollected Dream Songs of John Berryman, and they will be published in December by FSG! "Only Sing" was a long joy to work on. I am so grateful to Berryman's family, and Jonathan Galassi, and Chris Richards! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
29.01.2025 23:03 — 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 1Hey, y'all! I'll be reading at Poets House with the wonderful and best poets Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, and Evie Shockley on the 30th! You come too. poetshouse.org/event/ebeid-...
27.01.2025 14:36 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Another revised poem, since we're back to where we were.
24.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
I still can't believe I had anything to do with the making of this wonderful thing, this opera, but if you're in New York you can see it on February, 6th! I am so stoked about this! Here's the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgcd... And here is more info: www.nationalsawdust.org/.../michael-....
23.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0A sudden urge to vomit.
20.01.2025 17:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Revising poems for a forthcoming chapbook I came across this ugly poem I wrote about an ugly thing and published before it was ready. So I revised it some more.
17.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now, I'm just a simple country lawyer, but I thought I would like "Don Quixote" more.
11.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
