100 years ago tonight, in the small town where we live, thousands of klan members came to march through the Irish catholic neighborhood. To get there they had to funnel over this bridge. When they got there it had been blocked by a truck. Which should have been a warning.

Black Sunflower Seeds with 'Classic Ranch' Flavoring I Bought from Giant Eagle Market District Because I Foolishly Entered the Grocery Store When I Was Hungry 🤘🎸

looks like yet another good quarter for the big 5, firing old-timers and paying less for younger people etc etc.. might as well go completely out of your way and buy books from independent publishers

I lived with a bunch of people who loved Phish and they tried hard to get me to love Phish. but I do not. I physically and emotionally am incapable. what finally got them to stop trying is one night I said, "I don't like the way it sounds." and that finally worked

i actually have run out of copies of my own book so I just ordered 5--remember all proceeds go toward a palestinian family trying to escape israeli bombardment & genocide.

I subscribe to like 50 bookstore newsletters and they all have basically the same author events and staff picks (I say this every year). but the ones that stand out REALLY stand out as a result

25 years of The Fragile.

at a very young age, reading pitchfork enlightened me not about what music was cool or good but what type of dudes to avoid in college

please remember to register for the upcoming “Poetry Reading for Gaza,” where i will be reading with friends & comrades to raise money for Hamza, a Palestinian writer & student of the late & poet beloved poet Refaat Alareer. please support & share widely! workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-poe…

I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel. They were in town to play the New Jersey Devils. He invited me to the game but I was performing that night.

this dog on the cover is actually clearing a very low bar

shit show, part 47 "SPD Dissolution Process Moves Forward" via Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

when a big 5 publishes poetry, the subtitle must always be "colon Poems." it is a rule. we wouldn't want someone to accidentally open a poetry book

Announcing OUT OF PLAIN SIGHT: A feature documentary based on environmental reporter Rosanna Xia’s haunting reporting on the thousands of barrels of toxic waste dumped just off the coast of Los Angeles. @docnycfest; #DOCNYC outofplainsight.com

i have freed myself from spookily-poignant-song-over-the-credits premium tv shows since the pandemic on every streaming platform. I no longer care. I don't miss them!

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and

I think I hold the record of my order being skipped at a cafe/fast food place. it's like clockwork. I should start ordering with real charisma

Sure, we might not be a subsidiary of News Corp, owned by media supervillain Rupert Murdoch, but we *also* won’t sell your art to a computer so it can more accurately write horrible marketing garbage for NFT-brained weirdos

This is a good gig. We have an all-star team here.

My new book The Afterlife Is Letting Go — on the memory/forgetting of Japanese American incarceration — is alive City Lights Books: t.ly/hnVas. Love to everyone who helped make it, esp. the 200 survivors and descendants who speak, in their own words, throughout it.