“Gosh, I sure hope gas prices don’t increased due to the war,” I think, as I pull around the corner to see, at the nearest gas station, that gas prices have increased 60¢ a gallon

I always used to slot a pencil through the thumb hole, back when I broke my arm. But an elbow cast is something else entirely!!

The upcoming issue of MockingHeart Review is going to be amazing! And you can still submit until the end of this month! #mockingheartreview #poetry #journal

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

Me, walking past a dog in the neighborhood: hey cutie! How’s it going??

Me, immediately after: did i just catcall a dog?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

The older I get, the more I care less about these award shows.

More to the point, the shows' & participants' & designers' displays of obscene wealth are an affront to the millions struggling daily to keep their jobs, homes, healthcare, and food on the table.

Poetic.

The end of the semester is here! Good luck to my students taking finals this week. #teachersky

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

The poster from last night’s reading. Thanks, friends!

That feeling when last nights poetry reading goes so well, you see good friends AND sell out of books! Thanks for coming to ContinuumArt for the release reading of WORDS FOR COFFEE and WHEN I GO WEST, everyone! #poetry

#booksky

Good to talk with @flaujae.bsky.social today at Matherne’s Market! Proud of all you’re doing.

My book WORDS FOR COFFEE is coming out with Spartan Press in a month! On October 1st, be ready for these poems!

an escape room where the only way to get out is to write the novel you tell everyone is almost done

Schoppenfreude—the satisfaction you get from others not couponing as well as you at the store

You got it, man! I’ll keep you in the loop. I hope your own work is going well!

My eighth book of poetry, WORDS FOR COFFEE, Will be published by Spartan Press! I’m so excited for this collection, which delivers into the life of my late grandmother, a Kansas City psychologist.

Holy smoke

A propos of Congress: Kill Bills

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie

Return of Two Jedis

Reading Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of #tolkien today! Powerful.

Grading Intro to Poetry finals today! Such a rewarding process. I’m so proud of how my students have learned to love poetry! #teachersky

Nothing has helped me gain confidence in my writing more than fully accepting and understanding that all the things I think I’m supposed to do to be “relevant” are just things some 20 somethings on the internet made up to feel good. Also relevance is made up. Who cares! Write things you love!

Okay so I know most of my posts are about writing, but just for fun I have to know: what’s your favorite dinosaur?

Michael B. Jordan is mad he couldn’t see #PrincessMononoke in IMAX

“I was really upset … there was only a 3-day window and I was [busy], it actually bothers me, I need to see it in IMAX”

(via IMAX)

"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day

Today’s fountain pen ink: Sailor Shikiori Doyou! #fountainpens #writersky