THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
the chodes said the NFL was gonna lose their audience and Benito responded with the most-watched halftime show in history
Recently, when I encounter something I don't know, I'm trying not to pull out my phone and look it up. Feeling certain all the time has terrible consequences for art.
-- Ross White
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
Memories of walking home from my retail job on Broadway, next to Shakespeare & Co, blocks from Washington Square Park, and The Strand: in that slim strip of time when broke but happy was still possible
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Friends, @jacklegpress.bsky.social
is relaunching Maureen Seaton’s Undersea to honor the long lines she intended, with a beautiful new cover, and all the original magic that was Maureen. You can pre-order your copy today! 💙
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
In deep sadness, we mourn the passing of Jubi Arriola-Headley www.justjubi.com
Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley
“I hear that song,
that unending crescendo, feels like I’m the one who’s unbreakable.“
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jubi Arriola-Headley.
Our condolences to the Miami poetry community and to the many who knew and cared about him.
Always remember: if slavery was so great, they wouldn’t be scrubbing mentions of it from public spaces.
Also remember: as long as there is somebody alive who was told by somebody who was told by somebody who was told by somebody who experienced what we now call history, it will never be erased.
Thank you to my friend Zoe for sharing this wonderful memory of me writing during the last day of @omiamifestival ‘s Room of One’s Own: A Teeny Tiny Poetry Residency at the Wolfsonian’s Bridge Tender House in April 2019. So magical.
I’ve written and deleted a half dozen posts; there’s nothing sardonic enough, hopeful enough, or despairing enough. It’s all so impossibly absurd.
"before I could speak
I was a wandering eye
my silence made me feral
once it came"
@yaddyrap.bsky.social performs her poem "What If the Sound of the Humpback Whale Lived in My Mouth?" in a 2024 film created with @omiamifestival.bsky.social.
Terence Stamp is Pasolini’s Teorema, sitting outside with his legs wide open, reading Rimbaud’s Illuminations.
RIP Terence Stamp
Makes me happy to think of Mahmoud Khalil holding his son for the first time.
The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday in an airplane crash.
Guess Hulu didn’t pay for the pro Zoom.
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Someone asked on Reddit what can they scroll that's interesting and not on the internet.
A person replied, "A book."
LMAOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! skskskskkskssk
Congratulations to Carl Phillips for being a National Book Critics Circle poetry finalist. ICYMI here is our deep dive into his latest book together. A highlight for me from last year
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
@bookcritics.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social
And
“When you are outside language, you are in the realm of feeling, the unconscious, waves. That was David’s world. Because there’s room for other people — as the listeners, the audience, the other end of the line—to bring some of themselves.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...
Wonderful guest essay by Kyle MacLachlan in todays’s NYTimes.
Some excerpts that stood out:
“David didn’t fully trust words because they pinned the idea in place. They were a one-way channel that didn’t allow for the receiver.”
I’m feeling a bit down and in need of a mood boost.
You know what cheers me up?
Cute pens, pencils, stationery, art supplies and affordable art.
Send me recommendations!
Thank you, David Lynch for widening the field of possibility. You said, “I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents” + “It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way when you have a great failure” + opened doors to wondrous + terrible rooms. A companion to my creativity. R.I.P.
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Of Absence by Linda Gregg I climb the mountain up steps the moon has already taken. Of absence. Of things broken. To see if the moon is a mouth. To see if I am what it wants.
can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
Not this again