Predictive and imitative/derivative. Blech.

Looking forward to seeing fellow small presses & those who support them tomorrow at the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Fest’s Small Press Fair, 10-4 in Hamilton Smith Hall @ UNH. Thanks to Casey Roland & volunteers for organizing the fair & Danielle Jones of the UNH English Dept. for organizing the fest!

How a lost and forgotten LA writer is coming back into print after 36 years Boris Dralyuk, who has two new books coming out, talks about getting the poet Henri Coulette published again.

The great SoCal bookman @erikpedersen.bsky.social revisits his story about Henri Coulette, now that the poet’s work is back in print—and Alexander Voloshin makes a cameo, too.

www.ocregister.com/2026/04/17/h...

Ha! Happy birthday!

AWP 's The Writer's Chronicle is looking for submissions! They'd like writing prompts and articles. The opening date is April 15 (that's next week!). Query them! And follow them here on Bluesky: @awpwriter.org

It was a revelation -- I already loved Schiele & Kokoschka, but it made me think of Klimt in a totally new (non-ornamental) way.

Found it -- www.musee-orsay.fr/en/program/w.... Had forgotten about Moser (oops).

Yes, exactly -- it was a Klimt, Schiele, & Kokoschka exhibit -- toured Europe ca....2005? SO GOOD

"Schiele/Kokoschka hands" makes me think you saw the exhibit years back!

Grateful to OSU's The Journal for including my little weirdo poem in their latest issue. Shout-out to the scratching in the walls, source of all inspiration. Read the whole issue at thejournalmag.org/archives/24842.

Folks still bucking against the participatory obligations of modernism. Merp.

Ghost in the Machine: Brain Predicts Images Before We See Them - Neuroscience News Researchers use afterimages to prove the brain predicts eye movements with 94% accuracy, revealing the internal "efference copy" mechanism that keeps our vision stable.

Hypometria is our little glitch

neurosciencenews.com/afterimages-...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

> @covie93.bsky.social

So beautiful!

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

RARE!!! - Fred Astaire playing the drums in his bedroom YouTube video by My Lovely Dead Friends

Good for what ails you.
#FredAstaire
#DrumSky

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

For teens starry-eyed to angst-ridden: All are welcome at Friday's workshop on 🫀🫀LOVE POEMS🫀🫀. Just in time for the day of St. Valentine! Brookline Public Library, 3:30 pm, 2/13. Please share with those you think might be interested!

@brooklinenews.bsky.social
@brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

NOW THAT MY MOTHER HAS APOLOGIZED SUSAN L. LEARY In the bathroom mirror, the soft configuration of her face. Toweling off my hair or brushing my teeth, it knows to startle, offering itself nightly in the surest flashes through mine. Eye through eye, light through light, is this mercy or a muddle of stars? A flicker of my girl-life's apocalypse. I want to say I don't care what my mother thinks of me now nor ever, but how could this be true when our mothers are the only real gods? Even now at the sink, she resists my every attempt to steady her, yet there she is looking back at me, warped to impossible perfection like one of Dali's ticking clocks. What is it I have been waiting for from this part ghost of a woman who insists on tangling the th-reads? Until, in turning from the mirror, I see my mother, seeing me as I have so badly wanted to be seen.

ORA CHE MIA MADRE HA CHIESTO SCUSA SUSAN L. LEARY (trad. it di Matteo Fais) Nello specchio del bagno, i delicati lineamenti del suo volto. Asciugandomi i capelli o lavandomi i denti, sa come sorprendermi, offrendosi ogni sera in apparizioni troppo forti perché io le possa rifiutare. Occhio nell'occhio, luce nella luce: questa è misericordia o un groviglio di stelle? Uno sfarfallio dell'apocalisse della mia vita di ragazza.Vorrei dire che non mi importa di ciò che mia madre pensa di me, né ora né mai, ma come potrebbe essere vero, quando le nostre madri sono gli unici dei reali? Anche adesso, al lavandino, lei resiste a ogni mio tentativo di metterla a fuoco, eppure eccola lì che mi guarda, deformata fino a un'impossibile perfezione come uno degli orologi molli di Dalí. Che cosa stavo aspettando da questa donna, in parte fantasma, che insiste nell'aggrovigliare i fili? Finché, voltandomi dallo specchio, vedo mia madre che mi guarda, come ho desiderato così disperatamente di essere vista.

Biggest thanks ever to Matteo Fais for translating my poem, “Now That My Mother Has Apologized," into Italian as part of an American poetry feature in Il Detonatore Magazine! This poem also appears in MORE FLOWERS, out NOW with @triohousepress.org! Check it out, friends! 💙♥️

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?

RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

R: No

"I think you realize that you love a person when they do something they would consider forgettable, but you see it every time you close your eyes." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, "On Seatbelts and Sunsets"

www.triangle.house/hanif-abdurr...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

'Priceless' medieval Shrewsbury school text found to be unique The 14th Century manuscript has been found to be the only complete copy of Richard Rolle's text.

Exciting discovery!
Mind you, I'm still hoping that we one day find a book written by a medieval housewife describing daily life in detail, especially about all the bathing they did ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune