Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪

I really enjoyed it. The three movies I've seen from this director duo are all fantastic

Randall James Tyrone

Poetry reading flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

Book fair flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

movie poster for Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)

Someone said "James Bond on LCD" and that feels right

A startlingly beautiful spy film

This Saturday! With readings from Moni Garcia / @annekyoder.bsky.social / @neonpajamas.bsky.social

+ performances by Twilight Furniture / Jacob Stovall / Wolf3000

Passing this along to those living in or visiting Chicagoland!
Poets For Chicago charity event 📖
Details 👇

CC: @haymarketbooks.org / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social / @deepvellum.bsky.social / @acrebooks.bsky.social / @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social / @sarabandebooks.bsky.social / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social / @rhinopoetry.bsky.social / @chicagoqreview.bsky.social / @rosemetalpress.bsky.social

Poetry reading flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

Book fair flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

COVERING GROUND Gun rights activists find tiny knives in their overpriced cannabis dip. A famous healer protests the war from his yacht. A land mine planted upside down. A mound of all we’ll become.

one of my two poems in the print issue of Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine

awesome! It's a wild one

only when it's a tax write-off

NEXT NEON NIGHT MIC! 📚

@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social takeover edition, celebrating the launch of AASE’S DEATH by Swedish author Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Göransson)

🎤 Johannes Göransson
🎤 Hedgie Choi
🎤 Paul Cunningham
🎤 Carrie Olivia Adams
🎤 Brian Foley
🎤 Nathan Hoks

Dark comedy. Surreal and strange. Funny at times but also quite emotional/touching.

Definitely going with the insect calendar year. This is very crucial.

Honestly, I was trying to state that it's not a 2025 film, but one I watched and enjoyed this year. 'Calendar' can be taken out of the above sentence. All is well. You can rest easy tonight.

Karaoke Storytellers People tell a story about a song Then sing the song

I've learned such an idea already exists!

karaokestorytellers.com

There will be a special Aase Berg night in Chicago in January. I will read with a bunch of Chicago writers to welcome my translation of Berg's AASE'S DEATH into the world.

Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.

NEXT NEON NIGHT MIC! 📚

@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social takeover edition, celebrating the launch of AASE’S DEATH by Swedish author Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Göransson)

🎤 Johannes Göransson
🎤 Hedgie Choi
🎤 Paul Cunningham
🎤 Carrie Olivia Adams
🎤 Brian Foley
🎤 Nathan Hoks

A masterpiece. Emotional and strange and deeply moving. Maybe my favorite movie I've watched this calendar year.

Reading on Saturday for @alwayscrashing.bsky.social curated series & they made this video collage to promote

Text: “Unknown Cento” by me

Music: “A Moment in Hamburg” by Twilight Furniture

Press & Presents Holiday Market: Makers and Small Publishers. 2p-5p at Parsons Chicken and Fish (2952 W. Armitage Ave.)

if you're in Chicago, there will be Piżama books available at this holiday market! Did we mention it's inside of a chicken & fish spot? Did we mention there's beer?

👀👀👀

Stop by* but also stay by, that's works too

I'll be here later today! Stay by, say hey, grab a book, support small presses

Sunday is the foxes’ day of rest. It’s going to get harder, no minimum, reckless angels forgetting their power.

Tom Snarsky with a very fitting #smallpoemsunday

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@animalheartpress.bsky.social

lot of rumors going around that I’m going to have a relaxing reading day tomorrow

working on some writing with friends & realizing (or perhaps I knew it all along) collaboration unlocks something new in the way I approach the page

Honored that Test is included here! Chicago is lit. 🤓🎤✨

www.timeout.com/chicago/thin...

fourteen of my literary fairy godmothers

Joy Williams
Sabrina Orah Mark
Rikki Ducornet
Taisia Kitaiskaia
Aimee Bender
Kelly Link
Karen Russell
Ottessa Moshfegh
GennaRose Nethercott
Samanta Schweblin
Natalia Theodoridou
Kate Bernheimer
Diane Williams
Alice Notley

graphics from the 1992 video game Aero Fighters, showing two military men and a map of bomb sites, with the caption reading: "When kids read about drone strikes, we want them to think we're just playing"

continuing to write sarcastic anti-war captions on vintage graphics

"The Blizzard" by Charles Simic & "Christmas" by Heather Christle instantly came to mind