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Work today at Blustem: bluestemmagazine.com

Not a single elected official in the state of Alabama has the courage of the high school student who, in trembling voice, recited her Dreamer/DACA poem at Poetry Out Loud yesterday. Not a single one.

I only wrote one poem last year and it's in this week's New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Bull is a class act. Keep Submittable away from it

BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ just slapped cuffs on Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan—without ever producing a real, judge-signed arrest warrant. 1️⃣ Agents admitted they only had a civil “administrative warrant,” not the judicial criminal warrant she asked for. 2️⃣ Dugan sent them to the

So, after 17 excruciating months on the market, I am vague at long last! #WritingCommunity

So after 17 months on market with my book— with an agent who’s most accomplished and loved my book— I can relate to Shadeur Sanders a bit. Waiting hurts a lot. You still can make good.

Reading final comp essays and intro to CRWR portfolios, I must say: the world may be burning, but the kids are all right.

Elated that “Seeking Eden,” has found a home with University of Iowa Press!

#writerLift #WritingCommunity #writing #writerscommunity

Damn, there goes the NEA. What will be next, the Department of Education? The NIH? NSF? No really, I’m taking betting odds.

Lol Bill Simmons must be losing his shit

Please read this thread. I am begging this world to divest from supremacism. There is no other way forward. Supremacist positions are committed to genocide by the nature of the Other constructed as threat to the purity of the 'political body.'

Being anti “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,” means you’re for segregation, discrimination, and exclusion, right? So when Trump goes after DEI the idea is the more racism, sexism, classism, prejudice, ableism, homophobia, etc, the better.

A good day for some ovenwork! (And no, those brussel sprouts are NOT too charred— they’re perfect).

Word

First poppy of the season

In the new issue of Gulf Coast (my third time in GC— I think the only places I’ve been in as much are Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, and the The Arkansas Review).

Headed to NonfictionNow! This is the first time I’ve been to a nonfiction-based conference, and with my second book of literary nonfixtion, “Seeking Eden,” under contract with University of Iowa Press in fall ‘26, I’m looking forward to meeting new writer-friends!

It’s my 45th birthday, and here’s me at dim sum place celebrating this past Sunday (today I’m at a conference).