Justin Marks

Holding my new book for the first time & I honestly could not be happier with the way it turned out. Thank you @barrelhouse for believing in it & @BloofBooks @Shanna_Compton for the beautiful design work!

@paulkillebrew Let’s hang and read poems.

The guilty feeling of loving conversations with poets (podcasts, interviews, irl) as much as if not more than reading their books…

@paulkillebrew Just back from a week tree bathing in Maine. It was cleansing

Meanwhile, the Greek Coast Guard is straight up letting migrants drown. Imagine mustering these resources to help people fleeing from war and persecution instead techno-narcissistic billionaires.

@whyrobynwhy Only if you eat for eternity?

Pop quiz, hot shot: If time is a flat circle, and so is a pancake, then does an all-you-can-eat pancake special equal eternity?

@SandmanSimonds I read it before my kids were born but watched the movie when they were about 2 years old. Also quite the experience.

@biancastone It’s like Roth was stunned a woman could be a whole, complex person.

These 1960 blurbs on the back of this Grace Paley book ARE the little disturbances of MEN 😵 JFC I'd never have let that Roth one on. But even the "Miss Paley" reeks of condescension.

“Sister stopped beating the cutting board and felt my forehead with her wet hand”—Lee Young - Ju, translation by Jae Kim

@sarahroseetter Smokers in nyc aren’t even bothering with masks.

will never forget during the annual wildfires in SF, the sky was apocalypse orange & i saw a man slide his n95 face mask over & take a drag of a cigarette

Timeless

@JohannesGoranss Also Blade Runner 2049

My smoke-filled neighborhood

@JordanDavisPoet Was watching son’s basketball tournament this weekend & as non-athlete was fascinated by how competitiveness, when done well, is strictly on the court and within the rules. When it’s over, it’s over & you go back to being people. Healthy conflict and resolution.

He’s got my vote

@heartbarf When Henry was 8 he was obsessed with Queen. This was one of his favorite songs!

Having one of those all-my-writing-is-crap-and-a-failure kind of days.

Thank you Heavy Feather Review for this thoughtful take on my book. heavyfeatherreview.org/2023/06/01/if-…

@SandmanSimonds They are literally inventing things to be angry about and incite violence over.

@vagtalk @jeffpethybridge Definitely want to do all those things though I guess I’d have to dye my wig as I am bald.

@AmishTrivedi @vjoshuaadams Ken won? I think that is dude is very close to taking his own life and May now he able to pull himself back.

So, in retrospect, Greg is the only one who really “won.”