With 80% of my Fine Arts Work Center students yesterday! 💙

Another:

Saw a Watch for Manatees sign. Walked fifty feet, looked down. My birthday present!

I’m going to fix my face in this position for the next several days (though I will not be holding office hours).

I’m coming back to Cape Cod. Again.

One more.

This file might be too big for Bluesky but I’ll give it a try.

On Friday night, I read from SONG SO WILD & BLUE with brilliant @kendra_mckinley, who sang a range of Joni songs through Hejira. This was the fourth event where I’ve been paired with a musician, and I love how these collaborations lift and stir the air, two forms talking to each other in real time.

Closer.

Last night from the Lincoln Tunnel Helix. That’s sunlight doing that.

Mount Greylock, which I first started thinking about years ago through a window in Melville’s house.

Western MA friends—this is tonight! Doors 6PM. WANDER in the Berkshires. Can’t wait to read alongside Kendra McKinley, who will be singing Joni.

A few more pictures:

I am back home after giving a reading at The Sea Ranch in CA, and I’m still thinking about these sheep nearby.

He’s back.

Maybe it’s time to come back to Bluesky. (My blue visitor just now.)

Scars On The Soul John Kelly and Paul Lisicky on storytelling, subversion, and a voice that still breaks our hearts—Joni Mitchell.

I got to talk with John Kelly about Joni, a joy! on.SoundCloud.com/PU5qUNuxhgqZ...

More here: birdcast.info

Look up look up 349 million birds in migration last night

so blue-colored/it's almost blue Joshua Clover, 1962-2025

I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover:

elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...

This!

SONG SO WILD AND BLUE in the @theglobeandmail.com today! 🌎

“Art Is Pressurized By Endings” Paul Lisicky on choosing your mentors, pushing against cynicism, & finitude in art

I loved having this conversation with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social at @prairielights.com this week, and love that it has another life here: open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...

Three days, Iowa City! Can’t wait to talk with Garth and see you! 💙💙

A new piece in The Writer’s Chronicle, a spinoff of SONG SO WILD AND BLUE. (On Joni, Jude, love, alligators, writing, Louisiana 🐊) writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

Thank you, Barbara’s Bookstore O’Hare! 🛫

Thanks so much, Vipassana! 💙

With @marthaannetoll.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social last night.

Today marks a month since SONG SO WILD AND BLUE has been out in the world. Thanks to everyone who’s read the book, bought copies for friends and family, talked about it to friends and family, and posted reviews online. Sending clear, calm, and light. 💙💙💙

Tonight, DC! @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave, 7PM. We’d love to see you 💙💙