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Everyones always asking where the real blue collar American writer is, well, theyre at work & no one really wants to publish that person anyway. They want the good looking guy with rich parents & a hot connected girlfriend bc the crumbs from that taste better, & everyone knows it

Just one week left to submit your poems for the Frost Farm Prize! The winner receives $1,000 and an invitation, with honorarium, to read at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Aug 14, 2026, in Derry, New Hampshire. Ryan Wilson will judge. frostfarmpoetry.org/prize-2026

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I get to hang out with quite a few better-known writers in the first issue.

@JMWSPT Groovy!

Welcome to the Colosseum. colosseuminstitute.com/the-colosseum.…

This whole ‘there are cherry blossoms’ in neighborhoods and not just the tidal basin always cracks me up. YES! The awesome Casey Trees even has a map!

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I don't want your AI slop. I would rather go out of business than deliberately publish AI slop.

Folks, hard to believe #Petrarch launch is 15 days away. Wanna help? 1) If you are an editor or a chronic reviewer who has not received the e-copy, please let me know; 2) Next week call or stop by your bookstores & libraries and sweetly inquire if they have the book "yet"; 3) If you are on other social media or have kind literary friends who are, please help get the word out on other social media (I only do this one). Thanks!!!

I think if the military sends Lara Trump to the Strait of Hormuz and tells her to sing until the Iranians re-open it, they will re-open it.

Nothing makes me feel safer at an airport than seeing masked people with guns.

Surveillance isn't inevitable. Let's stop normalizing it.

The last few years have exposed a critical reality about American tech oligarchs: They are not merely greedy opportunists seeking profit. Many are dangerous, out-of-touch extremists who possess massive, unchecked power and absolutely no capacity for introspection

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“In 1997, I was raped here by Harvey Weinstein.” The day Asia Argento shook the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.

📚 #RCINewYork announces #TheRopeinBloom, a bilingual edition by #RaduVancu, translated by #Paula & #CyrusConsoleȘoican. 🌍 The first full-length English translation of this major Romanian poet, now in the U.S. 📣 More: shorturl.at/ab6lL #PoetryinTranslation #RCINY

Generative AI will never be welcome at Bad Hand Books.

"The Book of Daniel" and Cogito - two #sonnets by #DanCampion: amethystmagazine.org/2026/03/21/the…

@l0ftzilla @GaryGrumbach @KFILE @Polymarket That comment is Fyre.

@GaryGrumbach @KFILE @Polymarket Cheese sandwiches trading at $0.32. Get in while you can.

The viral, much-anticipated @Polymarket “Situation Room” is not going as planned. Due to a power issue, most of the TVs aren’t working. This globe is, though. Doors open to public at 8p

@DavidHochberg @donwinslow Good dogs.

@donwinslow My dogs started barking uncontrollably as soon as they heard her voice.

I am sorry Tom Petty. You don't deserve this. I am sorry Tom Petty. You don't deserve this. I am sorry Tom Petty. You don't deserve this. I am sorry Tom Petty. You don't deserve this. I am sorry Tom Petty. You don't deserve this.