Our students fucking deserve better.

If you don’t want me to put my head on my arms and say “I am so tired of this crap” in class stop mandating I teach shoddy materials riddled with typos and illogic.

“No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse!“

Another really cool aspect of AI is how it will destroy faculty morale.

Less a hobby than a vocation.

Ahh thank you, Carlos 🙏💙💙 That is so kind of you to say! Inspired by the Maritime museum in Reykjavik 😌🙏

Many thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing this new poem of mine @chaudierebooks.bsky.social for National Poetry Month! 📚💙

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, Ars Poetica as Arctic Explorer I point my boat into the silent cold. We all make choices towards and away from each other.   The Farth...

Put on this coat of goose feather.
These sealskin boots. Wipe tallow on your lips.
We may see a gam of whales today.

When we return, our loves may still love us…

Han VanderHart #poetry #NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth 📚💙

Poems, on occasion , On Occasion: Poems for the People, ed. Sina Queyras (Coach House Books),

"... these are poems that refuse to remain still. If you know someone who wishes to begin with poetry, or has begun and not gone far, this might be the perfect volume."

@robmclennan.bsky.social re: On Occasion, ed. Sina Queyras (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) robmclennan.substack.com/p/poems-on-o...

Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

Picture of a book "My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge" by Paul Guest

Used bookstore score! @paulmguest.bsky.social

Staring into the abyss of a student using a blog post off of an “assignment helper” website that boasts “plagiarism and AI-free,” human generated essays/assignments for pay.

Good afternoon poetry is a community

for-profit publishers stop preying on writers challenge

Good morning poetry is not a commodity

me: (casually) what is it with the influx of evil lately

Happiest birthday today, Claire 💙💙💙 hope it is full of joy!

midlife by Claire Taylor I wish I could go back hold that girl in my arms & tell her sing your off-key songs the world is deaf to the pleasures of women no one's listening anyway

41 today. Woohoo.

If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider getting a copy of my book, or if you’ve read it and liked it, recommend it to a friend, or request a copy through your library. Or just go out and be kind today and try to enjoy your Monday.

www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...

One of the best decisions we ever made was purchasing a Netherland moccamaster 10/10 and 10/10 again

What! Gregory! Said!

Omg Chris—you are so gifted 💙💙💙 We need minds like yours in this world. Thank you, dear friend ❤️📚💙

I love writing prompts bc I love thinking about ways to start writing

many thanks to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for thinking my ideas aren’t worthless

get to writing, my dudes

A number of our authors have offered writing prompts for National Poetry Month over at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social! 📚💙💦 Hope you enjoy writing alongside these wonderful poets & nonfiction writers.

National Poetry Month: Prompt 20, from Chris Corlew Something a lot of people don’t know is that a lot of groundbreaking research on gender and sexuality was happening in Weimar Germany. Another thing people forget is that the city of Cordoba …

National Poetry Month: Prompt 20, from Chris Corlew! 📚💙 On memory and narrative and protecting what we love.

@thecorlew.bsky.social #NaPoMo #poetry

National Poetry Month: Prompt 19, from E.G. Cunningham Collapsing the Phenomenal: An Incredibly Rad and Deceptively Simple Prompt for Poets  1.     Go outside.  a.     If you’re unable to go outsid…

Catching up on our socials today—here is Prompt 19 from the poet @egcunningham.bsky.social, author of FIELD NOTES from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 🌾 📚💙

Try your hand at “collapsing the phenomenal”!

Ahh I love Skeets’ essays 🥰🙏 thank you, Tara!

Language is a Fluid – Jake Skeets Featuring two pieces from his new collection, Horses, this new op-ed by Diné poet Jake Skeets explores how poetry sidesteps the failures of language when it doesn’t attempt to do anything.

"Language, however, is more a fluid. It morphs and changes. Even if I demand its rigidity and scripture-like authority, language finds a way to river and creek across the page, no meaning, all meaning, obscured meaning, clear meaning. I find the poem on a foggy morning in gray light. It comes..."

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Those pushing AI written work fundamentally misunderstand the value and point of writing.

Writing can’t “optimize” for word patterns or “token frequency”—writing is about experimentation, externalizing inward experience, and making connections, writer-to-reader.

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers: