Registration is open for both sections of my 9-Month Novel Intensive with @literary-arts.org! All levels and all genres of novel-length fiction are welcome. Join us via Zoom on Wednesday or Thursday evenings, beginning next month. literary-arts.org/event/nine-m... literary-arts.org/event/nine-m...

Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays

This course for dedicated writers is designed to guide you through the writing and/or revising of your novel. It runs from September through May. Some weeks you’ll have craft assignments to complete o...

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If you write about what you wish to change, it will change. If you keep it inside, it will eat you alive.

What’s the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine’s footlong hot dog.

D. A. Powell@dapowell.bsky.social · 10h ago

What's the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine's flapjack shortstack.

Pop Tart picnic. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (love this game)

What's the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine's flapjack shortstack.

I am a happy misreader of words. Like...my eye sees the word "details" and I get all excited because my brain has received it as "oxtails."

August has entered the chat.

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That's poetry.

Hey-o, friends, poets, good people! Sixteen Rivers poets Lenore Myers, Carolyn Miller, & Dane Cervine are road tripping once again, this time reading at one of our favorite Northern California bookstores—Readers Books' in Sonoma. Come for a cool reading on a hot August night! #poetrysky #poetry

Crooks being crooked. Donors getting cooked.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · yesterday

Three months after it was unveiled with fanfare in the Oval Office, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's reality TV road trip series still hasn't released a single episode despite millions in donations from the very industries he regulates.

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Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · yesterday

Study reveals cognitive decline linked to drinking Diet Coke daily

Every time I read the words "wild fire" I relive the trauma of that song.

I usually don't intentionally read anything that's good for me, but I read this poem and felt not only that it was utterly delightful but also that it was good for me and I hope it's good for you as well. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Ondine | Timothy Donnelly

To speak freely, I could never land on anything worth talking about    but from the moment they shut me up, I’ve been full of things to say.It’s not that

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New: In about 10 minutes the Senate should start an initial vote on a continuing resolution. The CR contains a provision that would temporarily (but completely) block OMB's proposal to overhaul federal grants. Our story on that Senate measure and some of the pushback which lead to it:

Controversial White House plan to overhaul US science funding faces Senate opposition

Proposal to put political appointees in charge of research grants could be temporarily halted if lawmakers’ efforts are successful.

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The construction of a bunker/fortress ("the ballroom") & the funding of an extra-legal, loyalist army (ICE) is already alarming. If Trump succeeds in installing a permanent head of our Justice Dept who's willing to break the law on his behalf, we are done. Call your senators: NO TODD BLANCHE

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Capital One quietly closed Trump's accounts over money laundering concerns — and kept it secret for five years. Now, Trump's lawsuit forced it into court, but acting AG Todd Blanche is trying to shield Trump from IRS audits.

Trump's lawsuit backfires as filing reveals accounts closed over money-laundering fears

Court documents revealing that President Donald Trump was de-banked after a money laundering probe have been linked to a reinvigorated effort to protect him from prosecution by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.Capital One's July 31 filing marked the first time a bank formally tied anti-money lau...

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This is discriminatory and evil. But also a continuation of Trump's effort to squelch education that includes ideas and forms of expression he finds intimidating and contrary to his small lizard brain.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Thimbleberries are ripe! 🌱 #AlaskaSky #Alaska

The Party of Trump is also the party of Covid, Measles and Explosive Diarrhea.

"Radical Mycology Convergence" sounds so much more academic than "Shroom-a-Palooza"

Cascade Mycological Society@cascademyco.bsky.social · 3d ago

The schedule for the 2026 Radical Mycology Convergence is out 🍄‍🟫 mycoculturerad.com/pages/radica... #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

This does not even begin to make him more appointable. Blanche is breaking the law every day as he continues to withhold documents that implicate Donald Trump as a rapist.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" to compensate his political allies. n.pr/4fJbfbV

If you write about what you wish to change, it will change. If you keep it inside, it will eat you alive.

hobbies include falling asleep and waking up again

I, too, am a middle-of-the-night-writer

Because today is Lammas, here is Robert Duncan's poem "My Mother Would Be a Falconress," which he wrote on 1 August 1964 based on a dream he had. He noted that it was Lammastide, 2am, and the poem poured forth quickly. poets.org/poem/my-moth...

"He [Putin] is a monstrous person, and the society that supports him is deeply sick... They choose to spread death," Zhanna Maidanska, whose relatives survived in a partially destroyed building in Solomianskyi district, told the Kyiv Independent.

No work will be done in Hookland today. It's the Puck Fairs. Epic bouts of storytelling, drinking, love-making and other funs of the fair. #Lughnasadh