your annual reminder that, every year, bookstores make a third or more of their money between now & New Year’s ☺️ meanwhile, Amazon supports & abets ICE most bookstores ship nationwide. A lot of them also have stores on bookshop.org

friends, I’m back trying to get this book into more public libraries

biggest dork loser prize for biggest dum dum moron book www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs

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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I somehow missed this when @anthonymoser.com published it last year. It's SO GOOD: "Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again."

don’t let me go to bed without meditating tonight !!!!

Bob Sykora@bobsykora.bsky.social · last mo.

as of this morning I’ve meditated for 101 straight days and played at least one game on the chessdotcom app for 365 straight days so pretty sure I’m unstoppable now

Bernadette Mayer’s writing exercises are always so good to revisit… “Write a perfect poem.” www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

It's here! My graphic narrative, "Busytown Fights ICE" is part of the latest @anmlymag.bsky.social. Thank you to @sarahclark.bsky.social and Parisa Karami! 🔗: anmly.org/ap43/chiara-...

as of this morning I’ve meditated for 101 straight days and played at least one game on the chessdotcom app for 365 straight days so pretty sure I’m unstoppable now

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water

Hear Bob Sykora read from UTOPIANS IN LOVE on Episode 92! Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522 @bobsykora.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

my wife, watching Lord of the Rings for the first time: “ok so this is just Twilight for boys”

NEW THE LINE BREAK @bobsykora.bsky.social and I talk about my book, then read poems that remind us of each other 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/4ZKe... SC: soundcloud.com/user-2642861...

Chris Has A Book Coming And Other Poems

Podcast Episode · The Line Break · September 22 · 1h 1m

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thinking about marmosets

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:

“like a poetry of boogers stuck to your face”!

o blazerskate

great art articulates eternal truths

I have another idea for you.

Can’t unsubscribe with enough fury

finally had a chance to listen & so grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for the sweetness and thoughtfulness and laughs—I had great time when we recorded but a double delight to hear us spending time with the longer, more unwieldy poems in the book & all the places your reading of it took us!

Of Poetry Podcast@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Of Oneida, of heartbreak, of hotel rooms and mansions, of travelling to research poems, of Utopians & dragon flies & the seas turned to lemonade & &! Hear @bobsykora.bsky.social read from his gorgeous collection UTOPIANS IN LOVE @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522

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thinking about my old roommate playing that truck soccer video game

Listen to Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias) here: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522 #poetry 📚💙🎙️ @bobsykora.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

It’s release day for Laterals. I hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. 406press.com/product/late...

Laterals - .406 Press

Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.

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Of Oneida, of heartbreak, of hotel rooms and mansions, of travelling to research poems, of Utopians & dragon flies & the seas turned to lemonade & &! Hear @bobsykora.bsky.social read from his gorgeous collection UTOPIANS IN LOVE @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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