was just reminded of this @toddkaneko.bsky.social shortie, the first thing we pubbed (post launching w/ something by myself) and wow it's still so so good "My mother was an alien once, until she was naturalized, from Canada and not allowed to come to America because her grandmother was from China."

Say It For Sour Patch Kids by W. Todd Kaneko

Another word for father is worry. —Li-Young Lee, “Words for Worry” In the late 70s, Mars Men was a candy made in Canada, soft sweet-and-sour gummies shaped like alien beings. If you can’t say...

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I get to be online with all these cool people on Tuesday evening (4/7, 7pm CT) for the launch of the March Xness anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music from Split Lip Press. I can’t promise that my kids won’t barge in and wreak havoc. Register at: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 5mo ago

TOMORROW: @marchxness.bsky.social Anthology launch event at 7pm CT! Featuring @danchaon.bsky.social, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @dellegeller.bsky.social, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @elenavox.bsky.social, @mossyair.bsky.social + @martinseay.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Poet mutuals -- can I get a roll call of Michiganders??? I know I know two lovely Michigan-based poets (@mitchnobis.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social) and yes it's a huge state BUT... kinda possibly dreaming of a midwest poetry roadtrip. Show of hands?

a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and says `` anyone ? '' .

Alt: Anyone? from Ferris Bueller

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I always forget who's currently in Michigan v. who *was* and what the Venn diagram is with who's on bluesky. I know @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @dlassell.bsky.social, @mspencerpoet.bsky.social, @britrogers.bsky.social, @moonsatdusk.bsky.social are on here. Who else?

Chiara Di Lello@chiaradilello.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Poet mutuals -- can I get a roll call of Michiganders??? I know I know two lovely Michigan-based poets (@mitchnobis.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social) and yes it's a huge state BUT... kinda possibly dreaming of a midwest poetry roadtrip. Show of hands?

Happy to have two poems in this big, beautiful, double anniversary issue of Sugar House Review—AND is has eight book reviews MY HEART! 🩷🥰📚🎉🎉🎉 @sugarhousereview.bsky.social

I don’t believe in New Year Resolutions but tonight I went to a roller rink and watched my kid figure out how to skate the hard way, then came home and started picking up some toys the twins left out including this little ball with a message written on it. Happy new year everybody.

I haven't published many poems this year (kids, work, kids again), so seeing this poem "White Hot Star" featured on @slowdownshow.org today is a special honor to close this year out. Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for selecting and to the Cincinnati Review for 1st publishing. link in coms.

I got this newest one by Jack Bedell, FIGHT NIGHTS, about boxing and fathers and sons and more. Man I love this book.

I always say that only cops and crooks call me by my first name and I got this letter today, a scam that targets people with Asian last names offering to split a nonexistent inheritance. Sharing it so my friends with vulnerable relatives can be on alert. Too bad because I really could use the money.

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME: We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties. 📚 Pre-order details coming soooon Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹

One week left to submit your poetry manuscript, translators! $1500 prize, publication by University of Wisconsin Press in their prestigious Wisconsin Poetry Series. You can submit more than one year (different judge) and more than one manuscript.

Alan Moore knows the score

Bethany Black@bethanyblack.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Really enjoying my new Dan Brown book, the world’s greatest code breaker took three chapters to figure out a word was written backwards. My first draft looks like fucking Shakespeare next to that

Meta suggests this AI version of an old photo of mine but in addition to it’s inability to render fingers, Facebook seems unable to comprehend the crucial detail.

Edward Hirsch

So y’all know about the ring doorbell and partnerships with flock and thus ICE, right? Get these devices off your homes.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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Remember back in the day you wrote your own emails, took your own photos, and thought your own thoughts. The only difference nowadays is that big tech wants you to believe you never could and still can’t, so should have AI do it for you. I believe in you way more than I do big tech. You should too.

Thanks to the guy on YouTube with the advanced toilet plunger technique, because now I don’t have to buy a toilet auger and a shop vac and spend the day taking out my kids’ toilet.

It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

This king. Fight fascism.

This king. No others.

💔💔💔

Nicole Tallman@natallman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Miami lost a beautiful person and poet today with the passing of Jubi Arriola-Headley. Sending comfort to all who loved him as I did. Let us hold him in our hearts and continue to celebrate the wonderful words he left for us.

Another broadside, this one I made for GVSU Poetry Night with Tyehimba Jess this week.

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

Today in Intro to Creative Writing, we are starting to talk poetry, which means that between Richard Blanco’s “Translation for Mamá” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” I can’t promise not to weep in class.

I made this limited edition broadside of one of my favorite stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell for her reading and craft talk at GVSU today.

Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖 Nomination details at link below.

AWP@awpwriter.org · 12mo ago

The 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project judge in poetry is @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, author of LARKS and others. Read their bio, along with the bios of the other judges, on our website. AWP member program directors can submit nominations October 1–November 30, 2025.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working and success is a spirit & craft blunter (you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

What a blast, getting to visit BGSU to see my old friend and poetry co-conspirator Amorak Huey and his amazing students (championship edition) to talk about poetry. Now driving back to Michigan where I am going to hug my kids until they tell me to stop.

News outlets should be saying in every story about the coming shutdown that Republicans control both Houses of Congress. Senate Republicans can end the filibuster & pass the bill if they want to. What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.