thank you!!

Thank you very much indeed!

thank you noah!

we could pay women the same as men so it’s not cheaper to hire a woman?

Feedback is not just feedback! It is relationship-building! This should be obvious! Hire more teachers so they/we can do our jobs properly!

If you figure out its resemblance from that, maybe you will feel impressed with how well the two things are doing with their task of resemblance. Maybe you will clap your hands.

If you are trying to figure out what something is like, it can help if you try to imitate its shape or movements with your own body.

If it makes you feel ridiculous that's probably good. We usually do not spend enough of a day being actually ridiculous.

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

thank you for causing me to experience my favorite misreading of my day so far: "University of Duende"

They want to make us criminals for needing to pee.

Please understand that this is the tip of an agenda designed to give trans people two choices: house arrest or imprisonment.

Either we lock ourselves inside or they lock us up and forcibly detransition and torture us.

This is exterminationist.

Jack Spicer shout-out!! 😍

HEATHER CHRISTLE, MONICA FERRELL & DIANE МЕНТА: POETRY READING FRIDAY, MAR 13 2026 IN-PERSON EVENT 5:00pm - 7:00pm Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House 58 West 10th St, New York, NY 10011

More poems this evening for anyone into that kind of thing

screenshot of three consecutive posts on Bluesky: Greg Pak thunder in brooklyn Susan Rinkunas thunder so loud in brooklyn that my cat just scurried so fast across the wood floor it sounded like tap shoes CHOAM: Spaceknight people are so mad Zohran Mamdani's wife is hot

Look the feed made a poem

It seems unfathomable that something that feels as good as writing poems actually exists and keeps happening.

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

You can't put anything into words; they are already full; you can only ask them to occur in an order and then notice how they respond to each other and you.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Also I cannot get over the perfection of "tongs." Just looking at the word makes it (them? tongs!) politely extract a sugar cube from my head.

The word dismantle has been dogging me in various forms all morning. (Not kindly, not unkindly. Determined.) And the image of a sugar cube. And I do not have time to write a poem. And my notebook is out of reach. So.

This exactly why I tell people to fight misogyny and child abuse if they want to fight authoritarianism. Those are pillars of fascism that so many people think are “normal” parts of a “democratic” society. News flash: they have no place in a democratic society.

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key.

“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

It’s a shame that Glasgow don’t have any artists.

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall.

I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.

Next year I'll use this.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

In a country with an actual free press, the photo of that poor old man would be the cover of every single paper with a headline that reads ENOUGH.