THE WILD WORD ITSELF IS HOLY in black paint on roughly textured painted concrete beneath some plump pillars

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Officially out May 19! Available to pre-order now at your local indie or right from us at chbooks.com/Books/N/Nebu...

Look at what came in the mail!

Nebulas was born in 2022, inspired by the brightest objects in the cosmos & the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It feels gorgeous to hold it in my hands today — hot off @coachhousebooks.bsky.social’s antique litho press.

Preorder now wherever you buy books ✨

The graphic features an author photo of poet Meghan Kemp-Gee; she is pictured smiling at the camera wearing a dark blue lace top. In the bottom left corner of the graphic is the cover of her poetry collection, NEBULAS. In the upper right corner is the ALU logo, as well as the "POETS / RESIST" text for the #ALUPoetsResist series.

In NEBULAS (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), award-winning poet @meghankempgee.bsky.social looks to the stars to make meaning out of loss & sacrifice in unprecedented times.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with #ALUPoetsResist & read our full interview with Meghan at alllitup.ca/poets-resist...

It’s long been my “Win The Lottery” dream to start a comics imprint where cartoonists get to adapt their favorite movies.

My next poetry book is about those exact bad vibes! How does the universe just keep spinning after all that? How much “just pretending” can we get away with?

The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

A windfall tax on the Canadian oil industry could raise $46 billion this year... and the industry would still pocket $44 billion in profits.

My analysis with @davidmaccdn.bsky.social for @policyalternatives.ca: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence What is power? It is at its most essential the ability to influence an outcome on any or all scales, to protect one's own at a minimum and to influence, even control others at a maximum. Violence is c...

I think my 90th essay at my newsletter is one of my best there. A meditation on cooperative power versus violence, with detours on Iran/Vance/Orban/Swalwell, and a zen ending, literally.

An argument They placed us under blockade and prevented trade with even our closest of neighbors. It was for our own good they said. A kind of kick in the ass. To jumpstart a thirst for our own freedom. As if the prospect had never occurred to us. Some of us soon took up arms against our own leaders. Such arms as were at hand. Could be thrown together in haste. That provided the bravest and the most desperate among us with an eternal kind of freedom in short order. Next it came time to receive their always inevitable bombs. For our own good they said once again. I thought of a time when my father made me smoke an entire pack of cigarettes in front of him and yet here I sit smoking now. I watched a missile arcing through the night sky toward the town where he is buried and one of ours snaking upward to embrace it. It was like a sentence scribbled in orange ink in the clouds with an unsteady hand. I had this silly thought about how to prevent them both from ever landing but I haven’t yet learned how to convince you that other people are real.

An argument

Alex de Marcos (Spanish, b.1985)
"Esther and Lola," 2024
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

More birds need evaluative adjectives in their names:

We have:

The Superb Lyrebird
The Resplendent Quetzel
The Parasitic Jaeger

But what about:

The Appalling (Brown-headed) Cowbird
The Infuriating (Grey) Catbird
The Pestiferous (House) Sparrow
The Duplicitous (Northern) Mockingbird.

Others?

Students were told for a decade about how incredibly important free speech on campus was. And then it wasn't. What lessons did we teach students over the last year? If you are a student today, do you feel confident that the government, media and university will support your speech rights?

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate Southern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.

This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

some author activity: Ross, Nećakov, Earl, Kemp-Gee, Crosby + Marlatt, Stuart Ross has a new poem up at NewPoetry.ca ; Lillian Nećakov has new work up at The Galway Review ; Amanda Earl has a piece in the "poetr...

some above/ground press author activity: Stuart Ross, Lillian Nećakov, Amanda Earl, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Gregory Crosby + Daphne Marlatt, / @amandaearl.bsky.social @meghankempgee.bsky.social @razovsky.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

"Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding."

Why not credit the artist, Asher Perlman?

a ghost makes friends with a cat, but they can't touch. the last panel the cat is also a ghost and he has picked her up and is petting her and smiling

1-page comic

Selling queer comics and showing anti-fascist pride at WonderCon! Stop by the Prism Comics table at booth 1401 for cool LGBTQ+ comics, including the latest from Stacked Deck Press!

“Hidattinbin” is the first word of Cotton Eye Joe

The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI My speech for U Washington’s Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series.

Stop scrolling and read this. Cory Doctorow’s upcoming book explains everything good and bad about AI, and why we need to turn from reverse-centaur (a robot we move) to centaur (the robot that moves us). I’m laughing and crying EVERY LINE. He is SO GOOD. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

One thing I’ve learned from lots of experience as a composition teacher is that mechanical skills and cognitive skills are deeply intertwined.

Dishonest or shitty op-eds address an audience of readers who don’t recognize the mechanics of a bad argument.

And on and on goes the carousel of BS.

This always frustrates me too!

Engagement with specific examples is a basic reading & writing skill that so many ppl struggle with…

But it’s absolutely essential to making a good faith argument, critical thinking, & media literacy.

🚨 Be skeptical of writers who cannot or will not be specific!

If any editors are looking for fresh talent with a unique look....

Jaime Burnet, Jordan Tannahill and jaye simpson shortlisted for 2SLGBTQ+ writing awards | CBC Books The Lambda Literary Awards celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ storytelling and recognize authors in 26 categories. This year, a handful of Canadians received nods.

Come Out and Play @queersportsproject.bsky.social gets a mention in this CBC Books article about Canadian @lambdaliterary.org finalists!

www.cbc.ca/books/jaime-...

Thank you! 😊

A screenshot from the CBC article where it talks about Nebulas, including a picture of the book cover (showing a fox constellation dancing in the stars) and the author Kemp-Gee

Nebulas is on the CBC Books list of Spring poetry titles! Very exciting to be here along with exciting new books by poets incl. @robmclennan.bsky.social, Sue Sinclair, Jordan Abel, NourbeSe Philip, and Michael Ondaatje.

Preorder them now, wherever you buy your books!

www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...

How can this go on for another 3 years?

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.

Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project is a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of LGBTQ+ Anthology! Congratulations to co-editors Megan Praz and Meghan Kemp-Gee! Winner announced June 12th! You can get your own copy at stackeddeckpress.com!

I love referring to myself as an “elder millennial,” like kids these days should be seeking out my pearls of wisdom 🧐