The cited information but not the quote written in white at the bottom of Jonah Mixon-Webster's author photo. To the left of these words is the book cover for Promise/Threat with the full Rumpus logo on top.

"Reality and fantasy are refraction mirrors which shape endless images and experiences between both."

@dustinkpearson.bsky.social interviews Jonah Mixon-Webster about Promise/Threat (@aaknopf.bsky.social).

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I had a conversation with Jonah Mixon-Webster in March about his new collection Promise/Threat, out from Alfred A. Knopf. We talked about hopes, dreams, and the precarity of the imagination, among other things. You can read that conversation today at The Rumpus.

I haven't let anyone cut my hair since 2017. I was talking with my brother and he said he pays $55 to get his hair cut. Does that sound about right to you all?

Another cat named Luna is my favorite artist

Another cat named Luna poetics

Pump of syrup is my favorite artist

Pump of syrup poetics

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Image of ASU alum Dustin Pearson, who wears a hooded sweater and stands in a park.

"They rush past the periphery / in sunlight. What was that, / a friend asks, as if briefly / my torso had begun to slip / from my legs..."

From "A Scurry" by ASU English alum @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

Read the poem in Waxwing: ow.ly/5fhj50XpBUJ #ASUHumanities

Jumpin' jubilation! I just got my cream city review, with the poem "On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls" Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, & I wrote together. Thank you to all at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
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The University of Toledo is hiring an Assistant Lecturer to teach in the Composition Program. This position has a start date of Fall 2026. Please see this link for the complete job listing, which I learned was posted yesterday: careers.utoledo.edu/cw/en-us/job...

A screen of Dora Ilce's piece entitled At the Party. It shows a fantastical animal creature in a bathroom sitting on a toilet reading a red book with a bottle of wine and a glass of wine.

I have two poems in the new Waxwing. I so much love the art by Dora Ilce. I've included screens of one poem and of the issue art, but here's a link to the full issue: waxwingmag.org/index.php#top

The magic of oven cooking in conjunction with food ya hafta flip at half time. Ya grab the oven mitt and reach in to get the food and that wave of heat feels like it singes all the hair off yr arm but it remains there if ya have it in the first place and that's not even the half of what can happen.

Had it in my mind to get a dirty chai in a coffee shop yesterday. It rung up as $8.50. Decided to get some dinner at home instead.

Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale (@dustinnightingale.bsky.social ) has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or pay whatever you want!
HUGE thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

Thank you, Christopher. 🙂🙂

Two poems in Denver Quarterly

Love that finally replaced all the lightbulbs in the fixture brightness and feeling.

The Third Birthday

My glasses are some of the best company I can keep. My glasses get on my last fkn nerve.

Dustin Pearson’s poem “A Wash after Entering” as it appears in the spring 2025 issue of Sixth Finch.

A new poem in the latest issue of Sixth Finch. Here’s a link to the entire issue: sixthfinch.com

Sixth Finch Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Megan Alpert, Michael Bazzett, Matt Daly, Chris Haven, Rebecca Hawkes, David Dodd Lee, Timothy Liu, Malia...

Our spring issue is live: sixthfinch.com
Featuring @meganalpert.bsky.social @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @timothyliupoet.bsky.social @thatjanemorton.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @dia-roth.bsky.social @pagestar.bsky.social and more

9 Poetry Collections That Build Immersive Narrative Worlds - Electric Literature These poets build entire worlds inside their pages

So happy seeing the Hell poems get some shine here.
electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...

9 Poetry Collections That Build Immersive Narrative Worlds - Electric Literature These poets build entire worlds inside their pages

So happy seeing the Hell poems get some shine here.
electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...

I asked my students to tell me one of their staple foods. This eventually became them telling me one of their favorite foods. One student said "dippy eggs." I said: What's that?!? 💀

It’s officially socially acceptable to cry for the rest of the year.

It's almost declaration season

Was playing Fortnite the other day with folk and said: I really look forward to the supermarket scenes and when folk eat cans of beans in post apocalyptic movies.

Wow! Laurel Review accepted 3 of the collaborative poems Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote: "We End and the World Begins, Where?" "A Change of Occupation" and "Three Deaths near a Body of Water." HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher!
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