Eric Colburn
@etherealcolburn.bsky.social
Parent, partner, poet, pedestrian (Pedestrian poet? Perhaps…) https://www.ericcolburn.net/
Happy to have a sonnet up at pfpoi, along with a bunch of other good poets. Check out the whole issue: pfpoi.blogspot.com/p/september-.... My sonnet:
It’s true ; Paris is indeed a world-class biking city. There are *tons* of bikes, and much of the space newly dedicated to bikes (along the Seine especially) is amazing. I lived here 30 years ago and never once rode a bike; back for 1 day so far, I can’t imagine getting around any other way.
My amazing daughter wrote about the data center pushback at Common Dreams: www.commondreams.org/opinion/hope...
Finding Hope in Community Pushback Against Data Centers | Common Dreams
Despite billions of dollars put into trying to change individuals' opinions to fit the needs of corporations, people continue to hold onto values of health, well-being, community, mutual aid, and dem...
commondreams.org
Halfway through @luaz.bsky.social ‘s excellent book, Mapless, which is a treasure trove of wisdom and whimsy. Here’s a poem I really enjoyed:
My son is starting law school this week, planning to try to help people and make the world a better place, and I am very proud of him!
Looked at my step count. Doing okay; hoping to up it this sabbatical year…
From Camille Dungy’s new book, America, a Love Story:
Here’s my latest #poem. It’s called “Poem.” I know, I know, but read it and you’ll see. Thanks to the magnificent @rustandmoth.bsky.social for taking it.
Poem | Rust & Moth
He asked an AI bot to write a poem about the angst that living in these times creates in all of us, set in the home of some untethered soul, with end-stopped rhymes, and wholly built on unlinked metap...
rustandmoth.com
Got a couple of poems I'm fond of accepted into a journal I like. Hooray!
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains
@Shamlet@shamlet.bsky.social · 2mo agoPost a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains
The smoke from Colorado wildfires wasn't great earlier this month, but it was nothing like what folks in NYC have experienced recently. We should probably try harder to stop warming the planet. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
theatlantic.com
Wedding anniversary today. 28 years of very happy marriage, 30+ years of spending nearly every possible minute together—even if we seem to be pretending we didn’t know each other in this photo in her college dorm:
Published a bunch of poems this month. Here’s one I wrote as part of a dialogue with a brilliant young poet at my school: pfpoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/ques...
This afternoon I worked in our tiny backyard: built some planters to hold extra dirt and redid the patio pavers. It looks a bit better.
Cleaning out my garage, I found a sonnet I wrote when I was nineteen:
I’m happy to have a poem up today at Some Words. My youngest brother died 6 years ago, and I’m still always thinking about him. somewords.boards.net/thread/162/e...
somewords.boards.net
👏 Pushing caretaking roles on women is also tied to a broken healthcare system. My mom ended up a caregiver bc private-pay home-health nurses weren't affordable. My parents also had no Longterm Care insurance. My dad got to live at home til the end, but my mom & I bore the weight of a broken system.
Eric Colburn@etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy daughter wrote a piece for The New Feminist about how sexism and destroying the environment go together; I think she's basically right. thenewfeminist.co.uk/2026/06/retu...
My daughter wrote a piece for The New Feminist about how sexism and destroying the environment go together; I think she's basically right. thenewfeminist.co.uk/2026/06/retu...
The return of the tradwife and the soaring profits of big oil are part of the same system - The New Feminist
The rise in energy prices and the rise of the trad wife seem to be unrelated - but what if that isn't the case? There is a deep connection.
thenewfeminist.co.uk
We should all write thank you notes to people we appreciate; one of the nice things about being a teacher is that a lot of kids do it—their parents probably make them, but it is really nice to get them!
Found this cleaning out the basement. Those were the days—back when I was a “FODR”!
I have an ebike without a battery (a radmission i bought with a discount from @crschmidt.net) that I need to get rid of. Bikesnotbombs won’t take ebikes without batteries; do I just put it out for the trash?
Glad our trip to Brooklyn to help our son move out of his apartment coincided with the knicks’ victory. We ended up standing around a pet food store that had set up a tv on the sidewalk. Community!
On the bike bus this morning I heard some middle school kids railing against AI—and now I see this from my wise colleague and her wise students. Heartening!
Janet Kelley@janetkelley.bsky.social · 3mo agoEnd-of-year anonymous feedback from my creative writing students:
Thrilled to have a few poems in Paradoxa, a new anthology from Solid Food Press; my copy arrived yesterday from BC and is a model of the bookmaker's art, beautifully printed and handbound:
