Douglas A. Martin

Rehearsing being spontaneous for the reading.

Quick warning about a new scam targeting writers that we've suddenly had about 20 authors reach out about in the last few days: book club requests! A fake book club reaches out saying how much they want to feature your book. They frequently ask for a full PDF and some cash. Be safe out there.

Pictured is my much used Spanish volume of Jelinek’s poems, a contents page, and a folder for “Die Süße Sprache.”

Compiling notes for my translation.

Kurt Cobain stands in front of a theater marquee in Times Square, NYC, 1993, with Jenny Holzer text work that reads "MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE"

I regrettably missed Kurt Cobain's birthday yesterday but am still going to use the opportunity to post one of the all time great photos of him: in Times Square in 1993 with Jenny Holzer theater marquee

Surely all this is not without meaning.

-ette issue 7 cover with writers names and snow graphics

Issue 7 is now live! With new work by:

Lauren Camp
Theodore Heil
Marc Kaufman
@yukondawn.bsky.social
@nataliemarino.bsky.social
Adam McOmber

www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

41 days of rain since January 1st in Portugal.

Off to see it tonight!

This is one of my favorite books ever. Thank you.

Pam Bondi is literally saying what does it matter if we let rich men rape and traffick kids if the economy is doing well (it is not).

There it is y'all.

Naked, unabashed late-stage capitalism.

picture of my markings on poem I am working on translating this morning from the German original, “wie sie sich gegenüberstanden/ prachtvolle flurwächter die zwei”

#elfriedejelinek

You got it!

snow shovel(l)ed sidewalk
pigeons fly ahead
of my run

#haiku

With alt text.

“sweet sweet amaryllis”

Teaser: we’re getting ready to do an open call for queer artists at the gallery where a series of work will be exhibited and turned into a very small run edition of prints. This is the poster. Keep an eye out!

Holding out hope…

Loved this.

Me?

Still translating #elfriedejelinek and finished my version of her poem “adventure” (she gave title of English word) today…
24 more poems to go… @sevenstories.bsky.social (Greed) @yalepress.bsky.social (the Children of the Dead) @poetryfoundation.bsky.social (spring, contempt, our motorbike, tonight)

Makes me so happy—so sick of the ugly POTUS’s face, body, slime.

haiku in my handwriting reads: that old narrative I run around the park track the blue jays are back

#haiku from before it got colder again.

Thanks!

Ready to learn about Pauli Murray.

I heard she did a commendable, impressive, not to be missed job with it.

christmas eve morning
the snow plow beeps away
while he snores beside me

My cat Jimmy James sits in a furry light pink dog bed on a black pleather chair against an avocado green wall a kid’s plastic yellow tiger Halloween mask hangs on above.

#caturday

Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159 McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.

"Femmunist Intimations," my contribution to the eflux journal masculinities issue. Which includes a tribute to one of my teachers, Raewyn Connell.

We haven’t gotten there yet…. I’m sort of in?

The FIFA trophy for Trump, gold hands reaching up to a gold planet....

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?