Next week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I will be taking the Fighting Oligarchy tour out west. We will be in Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado to hold town meetings with working people who are profoundly disgusted with what is going on in Washington, D.C. I hope you'll join us.

In these dark times there is still light in the form of a beautiful poem by Henri Cole in this week’s New Yorker. 🙏Henri Cole

BREAKING: A huge protest has spun up outside the Capitol to protest Donald Trump. Americans are fed up. This is huge.

Sometimes, when I can’t write the line I want to write, I just describe the line I want to write instead, a formal substitute, which often makes a better, more mysterious line

I'm devastated to hear that there was an arson attack at the same Paris kosher supermarket that experienced a deadly terrorist attack in 2015. I remember visiting this site and meeting with incredible survivors. My heart is with the Paris Jewish community today. We hope law

MER features authors' books: merliterary.com/2025/03/19/mer… I'm on the list today! So happy MER offers this. My book of poems focuses on: mothering with chronic disease; managing or not managing work life; the complexity of the medical world. Buy your copy and make a poet happy!

The video speaks for itself. 34,000 people out in Denver. Largest political rally there since 2008. The message is clear: NO to authoritarianism. NO to oligarchy. NO to Trumpism. We are ready to fight back. Now it’s on to Tucson.

Really enjoyed this delightful and moving novel about... the Sicilian expedition, Euripides, and putting on a play:

The surge in LGBT+ censorship laws across Europe is alarming. From Italy to Hungary, our rights are under attack. Tell the EU: Take action NOW to stop discrimination! Sign & share a.allout.org/s/P3jya/

🚨BREAKING🚨 Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student detained by Homeland Security agents yesterday, is currently detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, despite a federal court order to keep her in Massachusetts.

The absentminded city meets blank stares as it dreams in the soft evening breeze. —Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell poets.org/poem/rain-7

"Welcome to poetry, I said." The Bark by Mary Ruefle for #smallpoemsunday

If needed, you can download a PDF of the calendar with clickable links that lead to explanations of the form: drive.google.com/file/d/1n8rczc…

🚨NEW: Senate Democrats plan to launch a Social Security War Room tomorrow, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren. They plan to do town halls and rallies around the country against cuts to Social Security. RETWEET to thank Elizabeth Warren for standing up for Social Security!

June’s a way off, but if you want to get in there early – I’ve posted a class at northseapoets I thought might be fun. Basically a whistlestop tour of some of my favourite ‘stuck poet’ resources northseapoets.com/events/how-to-…

― Ursula K. Le Guin

This book, A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous, is absolutely brilliant and timely.

As Trump shuts down the suicide hotline, Canada has broadcasted their national hotline which now has a toll-free American version: 1-877-330-6366