everybody asks “how do you write novels AND have a full time job?” & they never want the answer to be “i write for an hour every night after work, saturdays & sundays from 9-5, and then i take a two-week vacation & write through that” but it’s the goddamn truth.

She dreamt of living in a beautiful city, so she transformed her neglected Detroit block into a vibrant eco-village. cnn.it/3PmUnfA

people get mad when you explain how much work it takes to write because they want it to be magic or they want to make the labor of it disappear so they can say it isn’t a big deal & not pay writers

Free books! Any professor/teacher want a classroom set of banana [ ]? I have some extra copies that I can mail to you, if you wanna teach it. DM me!

When she said Grief is energy and she has enough energy to change the world, I started crying. This is a beautiful story. I’ve lived here my whole life & never heard of this. She is amazingly beautiful.

I'm curating a new poem-film series at the Action Books blog called #Accelerants! I thought we'd begin with some neon-glitching radioactives by Vidhu Aggarwal

Here are the current standings for the inaugural #PigCup between Fulham Football Club Nottingham Forest Southampton FC Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United & Wolves. Week 37 between West Ham United & Nottingham Forest to decide if Nottingham or Wolves take home the bacon.

Oh hey, I have a new book!

8½ (1963 dir. Federico Fellini) (Cinematography by Gianni Di Venanzo)

We are literally just $52 away from meeting our goal of completely replacing the National Endowment of the Arts funding that was taken from Deep Vellum and Open Letter: secure.givelively.org/donate/deep-ve…

My book Our Human Shores forthcoming from Black Ocean is now available for pre-order! blackocean.org/catalog1/our-h…

Today marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 78,000 people in an instant. The U.S. has never apologized and continues to support Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which has dropped the equivalent of “six Hiroshimas” in tonnage.

Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. on.ft.com/4oSXFqi

ALCS, HERE WE COME! #SeizeTheMoment

Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.” D.W. Baker (D.W. Baker) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation. Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn

New review up at Variant Literature! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities." variantlit.com/residuum-and-r…

Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry, BRILLO: youtube.com/watch?v=v7ObJP… Release date: November 15, 2025

from my review of OUR HUMAN SHORES by Josh Fomon (2025, Black Ocean)