“Either whey, what used to be a private practice of mine has gone public.” Same, man, same.

A book of poems with a subway station on cover sits on a parquet floor.

Consider What to Carry Into the Future—esp good if you’re into poetics of place, hybrid forms, ecopoetics, and/or mass transit/city nerd stuff.

You were terrific. Looking forward to getting my copy this week! Congrats!!!

Screenshot of LD Lewis in conversation with Mia Tsai at Charis Books.

@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app laying out why we will all love her new novel, Year of the Mer—incl. mermaid factions, monstrous leaders, hyper-competency, a prologue that is meant to be read, chicks with problems, and def not romantasy.

Omg.

Is he stealing from the rich or giving them too much stuff? Hard to know I guess. If only there was some way to think about the last set of complaints in relationship to the new ones.

Donate to Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!, organized by Jules Wernersbach Hive Mind Books Needs Your Help to Save the Last Queer Bookstore in Man… Jules Wernersbach needs your support for Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!

The Bureau needs our help! Here’s an easy ask this morning for those who can chip in! www.gofundme.com/f/save-manha...

Donate to Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!, organized by Jules Wernersbach Hive Mind Books Needs Your Help to Save the Last Queer Bookstore in Man… Jules Wernersbach needs your support for Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!

The Bureau of General Services has been good to us; be good to them and help save Manhattan's last queer bookstore please! www.gofundme.com/f/save-manha...

Also if you live in NYC, a low lift thing you can do to support adequate funding for our libraries is to make a copy of these half sheets and drop them off in public places in your communities. Also share with co-workers, family members, etc.. drive.google.com/file/d/1Cm2L...

The Train Doesn’t Care What Gender You Are Let's Get Boarding Trains Quickly. An ode to the queerest mode of transportation.

“The train does not care where you come from or where you are going. The train does not care who sleeps in your bunk. The train only cares about one thing: The next stop.” @samanthaallen.bsky.social in a glorious ode to trains in Them www.them.us/story/amtrak...

Poetry, its readers, and its practitioners, have always been and continuously will be, alive and well.

And to think, that’s how Ivana went, too.

In case anyone needed a reminder about not watching any trailers today.

Just finished automatic noodle and loved it! The self-executing contract chapter is laugh out-loud funny. (“A proxy entity idk was in charge.” Facts! 😭🤣)

Feeling seen this rainy Monday morning by a group of preschoolers discovering worms on the sidewalk screaming, “Not dead!”

The Ratchet In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.

www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Happy map 100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

Today's delight: pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...

A dark map of the United States containing hundreds of colored dots. The light blue dots indicate ICE ERO field offices in major US cities. The pink dots represent sub-offices or hold rooms where people have been detained at check-in appointments.

The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop.

tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

If you’re a cis person (like me) but you don’t know who Jesse Singal is, his whole grift relies on exploiting cis ignorance of gender-affirming care cuz he thinks we’re easy marks. Don’t fall for it

Good news.

Oh dear, been there…

All this over three hundred people. Three hundred fucking people!

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-new-...

I am genuinely confused: @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Tish James made a vid a few months ago promising to help trans people in and OUT of NYS maintain healthcare.

But has she done anything to Mt. Sinai & NYU Langone IN NYC for stopping care in violation of NY law? www.instagram.com/reel/DSaU-G_...

A dream come true for this pedestrian!

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

This is one of the reasons I really appreciated reading Celina Su’s new book, Budget Justice, on this very topic!

Have you read Brian Teare’s Agnes poems—The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven? It’s great, too! Can’t go wrong with Agnes!

Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

“We are not customers at the public library, and many in the U.S. simply cannot fathom any other way of relating to institutions...The public library is therefore a basis for reclaiming a grammar of the commons for the average person in the 21st century.” prisonculture.substack.com/p/mayor-mamd...

Fabulous! New York electeds, take note!