How Joe Brainard spent Christmas in 1961: played in the snow all morning, completely broke his glasses, worked on a self-portrait collage, went to a Chinese restaurant & had chow mein & 6 whiskey sours & then stayed up all night & wrote a 34-page story

concrete jungle? more like concrete jungle gym

ft. Stephanie Wambugu Kara Rota Abigail Welhouse ☀️👄🧀

"Mary was also afraid that she was secretly bad at everything, and that no one had ever told her." A relatable story about confidence and cheese from Abigail Welhouse. 🧀 dirt.fyi/article/2025/0…

this is the first time I've published fiction in like 15 years so you should read it

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Occasional reminder that we are @schaffnerpress other places too 🦋

My new book is officially out today — thank you Coffee House Press!

Tomorrow I'll be reading poems for the Boog City Arts Festival. My timeslot is 1:10 PM ET and if you're not in Brooklyn, you can join via livestream while petting a dog at home (if you have a dog at home). wordpress.boogcity.com/2025/02/07/wel…

made a lil graphic for my Boog City reading tomorrow. full schedule and livestream info: wordpress.boogcity.com/2025/02/04/wel…

Thanks to Academy of American Poets for featuring this interview with me about my new book, Out of the Blank, in their enjambments series! Sample poems in author link. poets.org/text/enjambmen…

love to be headed out the door with all my Items

do you guys think getting my ham radio license will fix me (I just passed the technician's test)

Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

Reading poems this Sunday by the Gowanus Canal. See you there 🛶

My friend Joe Pan in the New York Times!!!!!! FLORIDA PALMS out this Tuesday nytimes.com/2025/07/20/boo…

Friends who love #truecrime: I'm working with 26th Street Books to get them started on social media and publicize their first book, CONVERGENCE by Jonathan Dixon and Gregg Owen. The book comes out September 17th and I have some review copies available (both digital and print).

A new poem published by Be About It Press: beaboutitpress.substack.com/p/advice-from-…