"Everyone thought they were Dumbo." - 'The Idiot,' Elif Batuman

Indiscriminately muting everyone but Doomscrolling Reminder Bot for the rest of the year.

This poem does me in every single time... Laura Gilpin, "The Two-Headed Calf"

The one and only time in my life I appreciate Beltway drivers. That convoy will be so glad to go home.

I'll admit, when I wondered what kind of music my kids would be into when they got to the age of finding their own music, I didn't guess "sea shanties."

#happymothersday Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? newyorker.com/books/under-re… via The New Yorker

There's definitely a link between the threat to Roe v. Wade and the formula shortage: our culture's unspoken but deeply entrenched contempt for the dignity and well-being of the pregnant and post-natal.

Tx @AnnaWhately I suggested the term #Neurodiversity to name the emerging Political/Human Rights Movt by ppl devalued/disadvantaged by purely negative interpretations of their kind of mind If you'be been thus disadvantaged & want to add yr voice to the movt, see /2

TFW you get Covid two years into a pandemic, have no idea which variant or what the variants even are anymore, and try to look up info but everyone is already talking about monkeypox. My level of uncool is so epic.

Driving through Berks County in the summer, these lines always come to mind.

what kind of shithole country gives more rights to a gun than to a woman

NEW: FrancesSteadSellers & I have been investigating Dobbs' consequences. We found the standard of care for incomplete miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and other common complications is being scrutinized, delayed — even denied — jeopardizing maternal health wapo.st/3PrUH9y

Back to grad school tomorrow after a decade and a half, feeling ready; hope I am.

Mari Ruti is an amazing philosopher and critical theorist who is in need of urgent cancer care. Please help if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Ruti

Thank you so much, Ghost City Press, for including my poem, "Landscape With Goat," in your April issue. It was written in a fleeting moment of despair about a year ago, several months before my father went into hospice, and then passed away in December, at 90 yrs. old, too soon.

can't quite get over the bird. I liked the bird.

Thanks so much to James Diaz and the great people at Anti-Heroin Chic Anti-Heroin Chic - On Hiatus. for including my poems, "Siren" and "Memento Vitae," in their August issue, alongside a lot of very moving work.

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Heck, yes, I'll vote for someone who's making history in multiple ways while keeping fascism at bay. It's an obvious choice and I have no desire to over-complicate it at a time when we just need to do the next right thing. #Kamala