Catherine Rockwood

Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom? One of Trump’s tricks is to send people to Louisiana where they get harsher treatment. Mahmoud Khalil is pointing out the iniquity of it.

Since Mahmoud Khalil's initial immigration hearing, new evidence has come to light that makes clear the government targeted him solely for his speech.

That's why we have filed a new motion with the Board of Immigration Appeals urging them to consider these documents.

CAR COVERED WITH SNOW Before I clear the windows, I sometimes sit inside. And the stillness is such that I lose how the day works. It soaks up all the steely details: March ripped out of February, a raw thing. Sometimes my son has patience. And we sit a few minutes like this in the weird half-light. He says: we're in a closed fist, Mama. Or, it's like the car's eye is closed. We're deep in the brain then, seeing as the blind see, all listening. Outside, the cardinal tinks tinks his alarm call, his scared call. I hear it: the snow so terribly white. And he is brilliant, conspicuous.

March / ripped out of February, a raw thing.

Marianne Boruch

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this

Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

I’m going to AWP for the first (and probably only) time this year because it’s being held where I already live but I did NAWP last year and it was fantastic. Don’t miss this!

listen.

i devoutly believe in the Pan-Africanist Communal Matriarchy of Black Women (having grown up on & endured White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy) so Toni is a Saint without hesitation; however, i will openly revisit any discussion of her flaws in, say, another 250 years? cool? cool.

Howl It So: A Review of Catherine Rockwood’s Dogwitch by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). 28 pages. $10 Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025) As family lore goes, I was a little girl who required an extensive colle…

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Thread from last night. I live in KS. It is a state with a small population (just under 3 million). There is a vibrant LGBTQIA+ life here, but resources can be scarce, and a lot of awfulness happened quickly. I will be adding to the thread when I have more information.

I had a bunch of good stuff this year in poetry but if you have just one space on your poetry ballot, let it be "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social BRAINROT anthology fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

the texts of this war, on the US side, are chatGPT generated.

this is like a chatGPT text of a war.

Reminder that if you’re in a position to organize or do community work of *any* kind today, it might enormously bolster your ability to cope

I really love being here on this earth. It’s so beautiful and humans are capable of such astonishing things & every culture is fascinating to me & the splendor of our natural world & the diversity of species is like an actual miracle. We must escape the Capitalocene and build something better.

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Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

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Goodnight from Ashcourt Borough Council, where tonight’s meeting has been disrupted by angry calls to tackle the worsening phantom tram problem. Goodnight from the River Stannis, swollen with rain and a desire to break its banks in revenge for pesticide pollution. Goodnight from Hookland.

YouTube video by Kris Drever - Topic Change

glad there is a new Kris Drever single out today, I needed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQf...

A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius Namwali Serpell’s study of Toni Morrison – Omari Weekes

My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

Boston, everybody's dysregulated or teetering on the verge of it today: if you're driving, do what you can to slow & safety-check things, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists.

Boston, everybody's dysregulated or teetering on the verge of it today: if you're driving, do what you can to slow & safety-check things, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists.

as democratic politicians start writing up their statements i want them to pause for 30 seconds and think of the last time the anti-war people were wrong

love Boston-area "traffic blending" in the early afternoon of a new-old war
and when roads are narrower, visibility worse, due to snowbanks.

That's a helpful expansion, thank you.

No words. Love to you and your mom, Majda.

extremely ready for the problematic genderqueer future.