often thinking about charles bernstein on poetic risk, failure, difficulty: "the risk for invention is that your invention fails; it usually fails, since most art produces failure, no matter its successes. The risk of not inventing is to succeed—at little or nothing...

fyi this essay is from his book Attack of the Difficult Poems. a professor in my MFA recommended i read it and it was exactly what i needed then - whilst having a crisis in my own work about legibility - and ive never looked back since 📙 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

People have asked over the years & I’m finally doing it this fall. If you’ve ever wanted me to read & workshop your poems (or to take a class with me on the New York School of poetry) now’s your chance. You can do this from anywhere. Rock n roll. alexdimitrov.substack.com/p/if-youve-wan…

Grateful for this opportunity. RSVP for this hybrid event. Link in bio. Thank you Poets House and Diane Seuss 🎉

I'll be giving a first lecture, or talk, in Seattle on October 10 -- followed by a reading two nights later from a new book -- I'm to read the whole thing -- which is pretty fucking long -- & then doing some further talks next year in various places tbd -- how odd

I’m launching a new bookstore that is going to be extremely welcoming and inclusive toward every single living author I am not personally holding a grudge against at this time. I can’t wait to share these six books with you!!

When Titouan Droguet shots a 360 backhand in US Open qualifying 😵‍💫

Border Simulator is brat

How have they not caught him?

I have a poemfilm collaboration with filmmaker, artist and musican Oliver Scott in Action, Spectacle. The piece is "The Spanish Trail Motel," and we are in great company as you can see. Special thanks to Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Adam Day. action-spectacle.com/summer-2024-pa…

I’ve issued an extra challenging Rattle prompt this week, to “Use the random feature on Wikipedia twice to find two articles. Write a poem about one of the topics, and use the other as the title.”

Michael Ondaatje: "I tell you all of this quickly for now the hour darkens and a bishop walks through his town towards a home-made fire."

“Sir, UTEP, the Harvard of the Borderland, plays football at Nebraska this week”

Remaking La Bamba, when they’ve yet to make a movie about the guy from El Paso who faked his own kidnapping so he could party in Juarez, makes no sense.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.

Lydia Davis

T-shirt idea I saw in a dream

We are open for translations! Spread the word! waxwing.submittable.com/submit

Love a good story about the Texas-Mexico border that isn’t about drugs or violence, so Enjoying this documentary. Recommend. On Netflix.

"Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches." --Federico Garcia Lorca