Everything else is a dumpster fire, but then there’s this. 🌖 🧑‍🚀

me & my oldest kid (tall white guy in blue duffel coat with brown hair and short white woman with yellow knit cap, sunglasses, and grey and black puffer) in a crowd of protestors. I’m holding a cardboard box top with the word NOPE on it but the E is a sideways crown.👑

Crowd of protestors in front of the WI state Capitol with signs. One says Bella Ciao.

Protest sign that says We the People taped to a hockey stick in front of the Capitol building in Madison.

Woman on a bench holding an American flag with a sign that says Drop Files Not Bombs.

#nokings Madison, WI

omg is that Morgan Spector from the Gilded Age?

We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

🔥ONE WEEK FROM TODAY🔥 Join us for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

List of events I’m doing at AWP which can all be found in accessible version at erikameitner.com/events

#awp26 where I’ll be, mostly—come see me!

Assembled Audience | Milkweed Editions

Y’all, I have a book cover + a pre-order page for my 7th book of poems, Assembled Audience, due out from @milkweededitions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! milkweed.org/book/assembl... #poetry #poetrycommunity

White lady with yellow hat and gray down coat at a protest holding a “Child of Refugees (Abolish Ice) sign on cardboard above her head with people around her

Yesterday - Madison, WI

Madison Wisconsin State Capitol where a huge crowd of people came to make their voices heard! Abolish ICE!

Thanks for the shout out, Mark!

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Stumbled across this podcast episode today. I love Levine and this poem. Meitner’s close reading really adds to my appreciation of it. Also, shout out to the power of a great poetry anthology. The Poulin anthology she mentions, I found at a used bookstore in my hometown, struggling, post undergrad.

Crackdown Writing through history and heartbreak.

"This isn’t the time to say nothing."
Indie journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully and heart-breakingly reminds us how important it is right now to find solidarity in our neighbors, wherever they're from, and fight the power being rained down upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.

challah. so much challah.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

Sadiq by Brian Turner It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

…it should break your heart to kill.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

From Darkness to Light: Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah, Tues 12/16 8-9pm EST on a blue background with menorah and dreidels

List of many names of readers (Jewish Poets)

It is possible that this Hanukkah, especially, you might need a little poetry to bring some light through the darkness. If so, we’ve got you covered. #hanukkah #poetry

Register (for free) here and join us on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.

We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week!

We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress

lithub.com/its-best-of-...

#100smallpress

Chocolate cake that looks like an actual log with rosemary and cranberry and mushroom garnishes

You guys: this is an actual Buche De Noel complete with fondant mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 that my amazing colleague @bethnguyen.bsky.social made for our Secret Wisconsin Interdenominational Solstice (gift) Swap (SWISS) + party!

Hanukkah is just a week and a few days away. Sign up for @notatawp.bsky.social's third annual Hanukkah reading!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1976404024...