Right to Read Day The right to read is under attack. On Right to Read Day, April 20, 2026, take action to support your library and protect your freedom to read.

Happy Right to Read Day to all those who celebrate (the freedom to read and against censorship)!

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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Stop what you're doing and listen to/watch this right now.
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I am supremely intrigued by the idea of this book!

Checking in from lovely Wasilla, AK.

Nothing unites quite like a common enemy! ❤️

Don't get my hopes up like that, TBQ.

As someone raising a young boy and always questioning how to best help him grow to be a good man, I appreciate this thoughtful thread so much.

Another data point in the “everyone is 12 (or under)” convo: I was answering some questions my 10yo had about the war, trying to explain who is attacking who and why, and he interrupts to say, “So, like what I do with my Lego guys?” And yes, exactly that.

Okay, but a reason to listen to Winter again and watch the video and get all in my feels on a Monday morning?? I’ll take it.

These are so beautiful! The expression in the people’s eyes… Thanks for introducing me to this artist.

It is fun! (In that writer-artist-struggle kind of way…)

Info about the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Alaska Pacific University: Study fiction, literary non-fiction, or poetry; Get one-to-one mentorship throughout the program; Complete in 2 years, 3 months, with 3 summer sessions and 4 mentorship semesters. About the program: The low-residency MFA is a 36-credit program combining individualized study with an on-campus summer residency in Anchorage, Alaska, every July. Pre-residency online instruction begins May 2026. Apply today! Admission requirements: Application & $35 fee; Portfolio; Personal statement; Recommendations. Application deadline: April 1.

Yes, the world is burning, but you can still get your MFA, and in Alaska nonetheless! (I mean, why not? After all, the world is burning...) Come read and write and frolic in the fireweed with me and our other amazing faculty and students this summer 😎

Exactly right. And they're all just sitting there listening to it!

Thanks for this thread and for attending the meeting and giving the rest of us a thoughtful evaluation of candidates, as they presented themselves. I completely agree with you that we don’t need to - can’t! - settle for mealy-mouthed centrism, especially not now!

Presidents’ Day? Nah. Elizabeth Peratrovich Day? Yes please!

Sweet deal. Gonna jump on that and say “I love you” to my lovable self.

I’m not crying. You’re crying. 🥺

Lots of colorful bathroom stall graffiti messages, such as “Fuck Trump w/a HARD DICK” and “FUK ICE keep our Latina mamis.” Oh, and “Death to Amerikkka.”

Just a few neighborly messages from a women’s restroom stall at the Cancun Airport, where I’m waiting for my flight to ICE infested MSP. Fun world we live in these days…

Super awesome to be en route to one Latin American country while your government is starting a war with another Latin American country.

Definitely makes me feel safe and good about the world.

Can we add “lack of December snow” and “endless windstorms” to the list? I know I know- weather vs climate- but still, it’s all related. This is the most depressing beginning of winter…

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Quite chuffed (and apparently British) to see my name and book on this list! (Scroll down almost all the way and you'll find it...). Tons of great-looking books on this list - and we should all be buying all of them for ourselves and for gifts!

waveforms: a short course in piano tuning a short course in piano tuning

It's Small Business Saturday, so time to do a little self-promotion... My chapbook is available through bookshop.org, or you can go to your local bookstore and ask them to order it (available through Ingram for bookstores). It'd make a great gift for any pianists or prose-poem lovers in your life!

Happy quakesgiving from AK 🌎🦃

Love being woken up by the earth at 6:30 on a Saturday.

It felt like two to me. One slightly smaller/farther away, followed by a bigger/closer one.

I love this a lot.

Northern lights in green, yellow and red shining up over a river bed and mountains, with some white human lights below.

Whenever I get to see a good light show I like to try to get my brain to forget all the science I know and just let myself be awed by the unknown.

Screen shot of an email stating that Academia.edu’s AI has “turned your research into an easy to understand analogy” and inviting me to “explore impact hub.” Gross.

What fresh hell is this??? For reference, the “research” this AI has supposedly turned into an analogy is a couple of poems published in a university-linked literary journal. Like, I’m kind of curious to see what kind of “analogy” it made out of my lines… but also, WTF? Not today, Satan.

Also works for Monday reset.