A wonderful profile in Publishers Weekly! A lifetime author bucket list dream, fulfilled. I’m looking forward to COYOTELAND book tour events in San Francisco, Orinda, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Sacramento, and more in May and beyond.
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A Foggy Drive - Michael Boehl, American, b. 1972, oil on panel
it’s so nice that jesse welles wrote a ballad for us to sing when our health care claims get denied
Stellar!❤️
Take advantage of the presale pricing on my new collection of ghazals and golden shovels forthcoming in 2026 from Casa Urraca Press, a book which Brian Turner calls "gorgeous, nuanced, jeweled in the poet’s craft." casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/...
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
Love the bear stories! Wonderful collection.
A cropped image of the cover of I Have Not Considered Consequences with the legs of a woman and bear dancing above a keyboard
I talk about bear consciousness, bear context, bear longing, and bear consequences in I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES with host and producer Kara Holsopple at The Allegheny Front, a great environmental show aired and streamed on WESA - 90.5 🐻 @autumnhouse.org @wesa.fm #booksky #flashfiction
Haha, this is exactly right, again from Elizabeth McCracken: “If you’re not afraid of failing as a writer, it means you haven't risked enough. Or you might be a sociopath. There are some good writers who are sociopaths.”
My little big Texas book tour for I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES is done. Austin/San Antonio - yay! Big thanks to @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social and Bookwoman, @ramoreeves.bsky.social for organizing it all, and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for reading with me. 💜 🐻 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
Congrats to @sioneile.bsky.social who won the Historical Fiction category!
WEEDS The danger of memory is going to it for respite. Respite risks entrapment, which is never good. Don't debauch yourself by living in some former version of yourself that was more or less naked. Maybe it felt better then, but you were not better. You were smaller, as the rain gauge must fill to the brim with its full portion of suffering. What can memory be in these terrible times? Only instruction. Not a dwelling. Or if you must dwell: The sweet smell of warm weeds then. The sweet smell of warm weeds now. An endurance. A standoff. A rest.
Diane Seuss ♥️
from MODERN POETRY (Graywolf Press)
Day 21 - #SealeyChallenge
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Lavender and lilies in the foreground, mixed evergreens and deciduous trees in the background that border a babbling brook.
Good morning from Nova Scotia. I hope you get outside and see something beautiful today.
Find joy, love your people, AND stay vigilant. They count on our complacency.
Thank you for this honor South 85 journal! The latest issue is wonderful and I hope many readers find it. www.south85journal.com
TBR: @loriostlund.bsky.social's new collection of stories that <explore class, identity, loneliness & the specter of violence that looms over women & the LGBTQ+ community.>
And one was included in both BASS & O. Henry!
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Tell me there’s a prettier planet. I won’t believe you.
Class … such an important topic. For anyone who has not read Caste: the Origin of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, I highly recommend it. The film version, Origin, was released in 2023.
Pleased to have a super-short story in @okaydonkey.bsky.social:
It’s not a game. I despise Janelle but it’s not like I truly want her to disappear. I pick up her racket, curving my fingers into the grip, touching the warm, worn leather where Janelle’s fingers were
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My heart breaks for the man sent to El Salvador and for the idea that we are now a country that ignores due process.
What can't be erased or taken away from artists and intellectuals (even as we're being attacked by this administration): curiosity, idealism, hope, passion for what we do. That's the unspoken agenda of all this disruption. To stop intellectual life. Don't stop. Just don't.
It was my pleasure to chat with Rus about his satirical novel set at the fictional Coors State University, where history professors work concession stands and the English department is banished to tents. It’s all there in his novel about the overemphasis of sports on college campuses.
You are worth the effort. Treat yourself with love.💕
Wow!
I recklessly bought a big volume of high-end vanilla a while ago and was like, “This is silly, it would take me a long time to use this much high-end vanilla.” Now, I plan to use it to fund my retirement.
Austin today
The good news today: Wisconsin, Cory Booker, and rain for my Texas garden