HOW?!? HOW?!?! How am I just NOW learning about the poet Etheridge Knight from Corinth, MS? Just goes to show how growing up white in Mississippi I was blind to all the Black genius surrounding me. Today's poem:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49932/...

Thank you @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social !

omg thanks so much, Patricia!!❤️

NASCAR Sunday — By Lindsey Pharr — The Palisades Review It’s Mother’s Day, and you wake up mad. Hands up like a boxer against any gesture of solace. This year it’s official: your mother has been dead as long as she was alive. Put that on a fucking Hallmark...

Thank you Palisades Review for reaching out and for giving this one a home.
www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

Dead Letter Orchard by Cate McGowan When the post office burned, the volunteers saved the flag and two shelves. The letters went to ash. Allen Pike shoveled what he could into a bus tub, took it home, and worked the ash into the lot beh...

"TAKE ONLY WHAT NAMES YOU."

This week on hex, some absolute magic grows from ashen remains. You won't want to miss this new wonder by @catemcgowan.com. Bask in its mystery, in each carefully crafted sentence! Dead Letter Orchard is up now!!

First Amendment Troop returns to the Lincoln Memorial with “ResistDance vs Redaction” —

A protest with young dancers blindfolded, with Epstein Files printed on their leotards to symbolize redacted survivors.

The piece reinterprets 13-yr-old Jane Doe 4’s testimony about Trump through movement. ❤️‍🩹

OMG YAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

Yay! Go for it! I love the Truro hostel too, the one in the old ramshackle coast guard house.

so real, friend.

There are two nonprofit organizations who caretake the dune shacks to check out. There are opportunities to stay in the shacks via lottery and via artist residencies.
thecompact.org
www.peakedhilltrust.org

The Provincetown Dunes are one of my very favorite places in the country. I've been lucky enough to stay in a couple.

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.

I just borrowed this book about John Cage from my local library and I'm so excited to read it:
www.themarginalian.org/2012/07/05/w...

3/13, 2nd Round: (11) Kate Bush vs (14) Tom Waits — March Sadness 90s Edition

It's time for

"you know what, I don’t care, you don’t have to like her."

vs

"Who else but a drunk says shit like that to an empty room?"

@marchxness.bsky.social

WOW.

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

YESSSSSSSSSS

@barlowadams.bsky.social making me cry on a Tuesday morning. Brilliant🤩

a cat is driving a car with its paws on the steering wheel and says on my way . ALT: a cat is driving a car with its paws on the steering wheel and says on my way .

I'm going to try by best to scramble by one enough to say hi and hopefully catch a. reading before bolting off to my own. Wish I could clone myself and be in both places at once!

48 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Baltimore Discover 48 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Baltimore from Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death to The Horse You Came In On Saloon.

www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do...

I'M IN!

SAME

be the fourteen-foot werewolf you wish to see in the world. ❤️

Love Like Lightning In a secret Appalachian grove, Lindsey Pharr waits out a thunderstorm to witness synchronous, blue ghost fireflies in Western North Carolina.

Huge thanks to @salvationsouth.com for giving this little glowbug of an essay a home.
www.salvationsouth.com/love-like-li...

I love this so much.

🤩

swoon.

I'm very honored to have work forthcoming with Palisades Review.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I, on mushrooms, once woke up my housemate because one of the kitchen knives had a bent tip and was wailing in tremendous agony from the kitchen drawer. So I'm probably not a great candidate for this retreat haha.