I got to call this place home for a Summer.

North Carolina Literary Review Online Spring 2026 A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!

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I cannot wait to read this!

Jake Skeets, Horses PART THREE           MEMORIAL I trace the outline of horses encased in hydrated lime              an offering to return home to loam to ...

Jake Skeets, Horses / @milkweededitions.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ;
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Christopher Nelson | lowercase gods lowercase gods by Christopher Nelson. Number 33 in our Robin Becker Chapbook Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. [ cover image from the film Sacré Collège! (Cadinot, …

I'm tickled pink to say that my new chap is available from Seven Kitchens. Many thanks to Ron Mohring and Steve Bellin-Oka.

"What sumptuous landscapes of attraction and hurt lowercase gods makes visceral and real." —Richie Hofmann

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I 💚 Summer weekend car bans!

That's the high end of my street!

This always makes me happy.

"Language, like algebra, operates usefully only within certain limits. It's a tool for making representations of the world, which, unfortunately, we then go on to mistake for the world itself."

— George Saunders

And also...

Got there a little late this year, but finally saw the cherry blossoms at the University of Washington.

Real Rent Duwamish Pay Rent to the Duwamish Tribe: Support the Duwamish Tribal Services through Monthly Giving

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Ilya Kaminsky, “We Lived Happily during the War”

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

vol 7 i.1 - Ink In Thirds “Where flowers bloom so does hope” — Lady Bird Johnson. Come explore more in our 10th Anniversary Issue: vol 7, i.1...

My poem "Dahlias" appears today in the beautiful 10th anniversary issue of Ink In Thirds. Thanks to Grace Black and @inkinthirds.bsky.social for including me. You can sample the issue with the link below or digitally download the entire issue at a reasonable price. inkinthirds.org/vol-7-i-1/

Cannon Beach, Oregon

For the poets out there, what's a more stressful April 15th deadline: getting your income taxes filed, or getting your yearly submission in to The Threepenny Review? #poets #poetry #writingcommunity #submissions

No Kings only trains

For today's centenary of poet Frank O'Hara.

(Frank O'Hara beside a portrait by Larry Rivers at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, 1954)

The journey this poem by @colinpope.bsky.social takes you on before bringing you back.

My first time back to Portland Art Museum since the renovation. Blew my mind!

Happy Vernal Equinox!

Agreed.

Seattle Aquarium

Seattle woke to this today!

Senate Bill 6346, "establishing a tax on millionaires", just passed the Washington House on a 51-46 vote after more than 24 hours of floor debate.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

Please read, act, and share widely! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

This artwork, titled Song Cycle, is by Chris Kallmyer.

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You can now see and hear me read my short poem "The Birthday Cannoli" on Instagram. The poem appears in Issue 18 of the wonderful UK anthology fourteen poems. Give it some love (if you love it) and check out all the other great poems while you're there! 💚 www.instagram.com/reel/DVbrI9W...

"When I'm writing well, there's almost no intellectual/analytical thinking going on," says George Saunders.