'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

WORDS NOT YET INVENTED the tipping point when the world is more fire than forest

My latest poem is in Space & Time Magazine! Here is the observation from the editor in the intro. p.s., the world is burning, let's go back to the sea.

Perfect advice! No notes.

Kyle Aisteach@badwriter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Step 1: Read the nominated works. Step 2: Ask yourself, "Did I like this poem?" Step 3: Rank the poems on the ballot in order of how much you liked them. That's it. You don't need any special magick or training. Which did YOU like best?

Explore the literary communities of Portland. Come say hello on Friday night! Thanks for hosting @wilwrite.bsky.social

SF & F Poetry Assn@sfpoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

Portland based poets! It's time for the 2026 Writer's Fair! Catch our very own @bugthewriter.bsky.social, Katherine Quevedo, and @richardleis.com The event is free, and a great chance to connect with community groups. 5 – 7PM Friday Belmont Ballroom ⬇️ willamettewriters.org/2026/02/25/5...

Today is the day! (Probably, we can't know 100%) but the vote on a Poetry Hugo is scheduled at today's WSFS meeting, 12EDT/9PDT. If you're attending #LAConV you can come and vote! Please do. More info at the link about the business meeting: www.lacon.org/businessmeet...

Help us make it a reality! Let’s keep celebrating poetry at the Hugo Awards!

Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · 3w ago

Last year, we successfully passed a vote for a permanent Hugo Award for Best Poem -- but the job isn't done! To go into effect, the amendment needs to be ratified this year (the current Hugo is a Special Award and therefore temporary). Details here: www.poetryhugo.com

Fuzzy logic is a good descriptive name, but AI isn't. I propose we call word scramblers "the sloppy algorithm."

Term limits! Ask your senators and representatives what they are doing to build the next generation of leaders. Ask how they plan to say goodbye. How much time in power is enough?

Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

I'M SO EXCITED! The team has been so passionate and engaged, and I think we're going to have an absolute blast!

InkFoundry@inkfoundry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

Excited to see what’s next for Jordan! Support her work with ko-fi!

Jordan Hirsch@jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · last mo.

Day 1 of #JulyWritingJar is done! I pulled out the first slip of paper this morning (before feeding the cats, even), and it said to update my Ko-Fi page - the one I was least excited for 😅 But! I added a new goal since we no longer have student loans 🎉🎉🎉 Check it: ko-fi.com/jordanhirsch

If you're looking for a break from the world cup drama, here are some poems! One fresh-and-new and three reprints are showcased in this essay. Published under Marge Simon's column BLOOD & SPADES.

Now would be a lovely time to support my writing and community building. Chip in at my Patreon: ilikethispoem

I have an anti-prime deal for you. Head to ilikethispoem dot com and subscribe at any paying level, and then download free digital copies of my three chapbooks.

Ask your senators and representatives about the Private Prison Information Act. It's time to stop using privatization to dodge constitutional oversight. FOIA needs to apply to prisons that receive federal dollars! Uncover the hidden stories.

The universe exists, sure. Nobody quite knows exactly why. I’m reminded, day by day, that things happen because someone wakes up in the morning and does it. You can make it happen. You can be part of progress.

Why do we send guns after shoplifters? Too many avoidable tragedies come from dangerous, trigger-happy police officers.

As writers, we tease death. As humans, we meet him. One of my most exciting moments while running Parody was when a submission arrived from Jane Yolen. Her poem "Death Rides USAir At Night" made it into volume 5 issue 1, playing in the ideas of Emily Dickinson. I hope Jane is having a good flight.

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

Perhaps a risky thought to share, but I think about it often: the privilege that white writers have to not have to be concerned with whether their fiction is representative of any community or element of reality is actually an overwhelmingly thick layer of separation in creative spaces.

I want you to read me because you like my words, trust my ideas, trust me to be curious about the world and make (hopefully) a valid universal insight. I don't want you to read me the way a tourist eats doubles--excited to experience something exotic & challenging. I want you to eat to be nourished.

At the Nebula Ceremony, Ryka Aoki shared my poem and a few others. Shifting celestial winds carried us to the first ever Nebula Award for Best Poem! Comics also joined the crew with their inaugural award. What a night!

Antifa Lit Journal tosses art at ICE. Watch the video for words and stories from an anthology of resistance. Catch my poems around the 5-minute and 59-minute marks! I was out of town, but glad to have the chance to participate virtually.

Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC@notapipe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On TILTING AT WINDMILLS, @benjamingorman.bsky.social and @chryslaw.bsky.social host the launch party for the @antifalit.bsky.social VOLUME 3: DIVERSITY OF TACTICS YouTube: bit.ly/WNWHome Patreon: patreon.com/Benjamin... Substack: substack.com/@benjam...

What if California sued Trump for slander as a way to fight the fear mongering about voter fraud? How is it that he can endlessly run his mouth about the same empty rubbish?

Hotel desk guy: Thank you for your continued loyalty. Me (but not out loud): Yes, I suppose day 1 is an important one for loyalty.

It's fine. It doesn't need to be a call. You can email your senator! You can use their online form. Send them a poem. Send them flowers.

I love walking into @skeuomorphpress.org & finding amazing things that our students & patrons made!

If everybody in the US chips in about $5.25, we can afford to pay one person $1.8billion. Ask yourself if you really need that gallon of gas more than one person needs his ego stroked.