I have it on good authority (I am a spy) that these WHIP ASS and are gonna BLOW SOME MINDS.

God DAMNIT ben

What's your current social media strategy?

WAIT!! WHAT'S THAT SOUND?!?!

IT'S JOE HILL'S MUSIC!!!!!!1!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjwA...

declaring 250 federal holidays in order to boost wages without congressional action

& the cornfields are just where they should be this time of year. Amorak Huey

Read a new poem by @amorak.bsky.social this morning! “Knee High by the Fourth of July”:

moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/08/12/k...

A bold graphical gouache of a coffin against a black background above which a grinning kind green skull floats with pink worms writhing through the eye sockets & flying into the dark from right to left

Painting created c.1970 by GD Cotterell, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where he was compelled to live.
Tormented by a belief, without basis in material reality, that he’d caused an accidental death while driving, much of his work attempted to persuade himself of his innocence

NEW POEM #155: "When Love was in Fashion" by Francine Witte

"And we just had to show up,
young and unwritten on.

Back then, candles would light
themselves, glittering even

as wax and time dripped
silent away."

stonecirclereview.com/when-love-wa...

#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Major restructuring due to this shit being a side gig.

He doesn't complain usually, but he's a Cancer, so now with a couple sports drinks and a $12 red, he's getting gator winey.

Academicians use the words "clear," "transformative," "powerful," or "obvious" instead of "decisive" because what you mean is not what "decisive" means challenge.

Difficulty: inconceivable.

Neil Caiman

*with apologies to the eusuchiformes out there

Painting of an ornate wood cabinet housing colorful frogs and toads with mini habitats. In the center, an urn holding a leafy plant with three small frogs reads: “IN PULVEREM MORTIS DEXUSISTI MI.” Flanking the urn are two closed, numbered drawers.

Hi SLM FAM! 👋🏽 We missed you while on our summer break.
Have you check out our wonderful JUNE ISSUE lately?
https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

tripping through a sus milieu

[getting the printing house on the line]

Hiya, toots! Gimme a box gross of flappy eyestampers pronto!

[falling out window, dragging landline telephone along]

Free poetry book title #8
Given Chigger, Given Snot

Visiting an Elusive Writer, and Revisiting His Masterpiece Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined “The Known World,” recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.

This was a fascinating interview with Edward P. Jones, not least because he cites his Black conservative classmates—including Clarence Thomas!—as inspiration for Black slaveholders in The Known World. (Gift link)

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Optimizing to quarterly earnings reports is probably the worst way to organize a market, very slightly edging out central planning. This tweet is about your unfinished novel. #OffTopic #CareerAdvice #Writing #WritingCommunity #novel #economicsisbadactually #DeadInternet

Too everything to actually set up and maintain a Patreon
… OR …
Having a baby and everything is extremely normal (for when you have a tiny baby)
??
… SURVEY SAYS …

This sounds super fun! And also we could never, because we'd be paranoid about norovirus and covid the entire time.

Can we please stop ending fiction with the main character's su¡cide. It's tacky and dull.
#writing #books #fiction #literature #hottake #shortstory #flashfiction #boredom #ennui #exceptionmakestherule

Chain-Gang All-Stars Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahI became an abolitionist for real the first time I walked into a jail and sat down to talk about poetry with people who were incarcerated. They were te...

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS is imho one of the most moving books I've read in years, and I hope every single person in America reads it--and then starts reading Mariame Kaba

www.joannerixon.com/post/chain-gang-all-stars

In Intricate Detail, Ann Wood Sprouts Myriad Mushroom Sculptures from Paper — Colossal Ann Wood’s elaborate fungi look like they were just plucked from the ground, but these stunning specimens are made entirely from paper.

In Intricate Detail, Ann Wood Sprouts Myriad Mushroom Sculptures from Paper www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/ann-...

We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe

We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe

We cannot do otherwise: we are coming out
against bad things,
and for good things.

Folks, I need to borrow $15,000

shitposting, but it's a magazine with a print run of 2500 quarterly for seventy years

That show operates on telenovela physics.