Right now, poetry-wise, I’m very interested in how to craft verse narratives that are both fun but also self-critical, especially about questions of people’s history, using shifts in register and poetic form to communicate it

@alyankovic.bsky.social should do a style parody of Bruce Springsteen where he just summarizes the plots of different Eddie Murphy movies

One thing about myself I’m very proud of is having several years of experience as an adjunct professor. It’s the most labor intensive teaching, the most precarious working conditions, & the least respected. No working academic deserves those conditions, but now there’s very little I can’t handle.

My current long, communist, speculative poetry narrative loosely based on the Hudson’s Bay Company’s raced-classed-gendered-ecological exploitation might not sound very exciting, but next year all the long, communist, speculative poetry narratives will be loosely based on the Hudson’s Bay Company

In Animorphs, the humor (especially comic relief character Marco) is definitely for kids but it’s also pretty funny, and in a way that’s totally different than present-day Joss Wedonesque or Tina Feyesque quirky humor, which feels really played out. Empty comedic rhythm vs. humor rooted in character

I used to be too much of a schlub to use cleaning as an excuse to procrastinate. Instead I’d just research pointless trivia or write poetry like a decent human being. Now I’ve grown up and have just picked up a million tiny children’s toys off the floor instead of planning for the fall semester.

Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It’s always a good day to support Indigenous sovereignty. Many threats to our sovereignty link directly to extractive capitalism, proliferation of AI, pollution caused by data centres, and global food insecurity.

It must have been cool being the jazz flute player on the Home Improvement theme song. They probably got a lot of dull session work to pay the bills, but on that theme they really got to shred

Just drafted a poem from the POV of a dying biosphere that I suppose could be considered cosmic body horror. I planned on writing more after drafting it but it honestly spooked me a little

Some overdue poetry updates: I have a poem apiece coming out in Dreams and Nightmares, Penumbric, & Strange Horizons! The publishing timelines for each of these poems could range between now and the spring, but I’m really stoked that these weird heartfelt sci fi poems will be coming your way soon!

I’ve made tomato pie loads of times, but this one might be the best I’ve ever made

The deadline for SFPA’s Annual Poetry Contest 2026 is August 31st. Get your submissions in! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @mrpoemguy.bsky.social

Naomi Simone Borwein@nsborwein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The SFPA Annual Poetry Contest 2026 opened June 1 for subs of poetry in dwarf, short, and long poem divisions! The deadline will be August 31. Submit your entries now: bit.ly/SFPAcontest2... For more details: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co... @mrpoemguy.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social

I just heard a four-year-old telling a big imaginative pretend story about someone using AI to get him in trouble for breaking something

This is the summer of hit-and-run drafting, I have a perfectly good novelette and poem in the drafts, but I’m working on another novelette and more short poems before the fall semester starts - then its revision through the school year

I love writing poetry

@alyankovic.bsky.social should do a parody of Lana Del Ray’s Summertime Sadness but instead “Afternoon Sleepies” about getting drowsy after a big lunch

Over a decade ago I ironically followed Baja Men on instagram so I still see updates from them every time I scroll

This poem I’m throwing together doesn’t do anything super ambitious, but it does ask: what if someone in the far future found an ancient crystal palace style building 14 miles wide, and had trippy thoughts about it? Chance to write something vivid and funky

I am overjoyed that the Poetry Hugo Award has once again PASSED. It will need to be re-ratified in 2029 to be officially officially permanent. Complicated rules aside, thank you to everyone who voted or supported this goal. Us poets truly love y'all! To read more about this see poetryhugo.com

Speculative Poetry Initiative

What Works Are Available for Nomination in the 2026 Awards?

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This is the most important topic my wife is writing about: influencer work as labor, and the unique stresses of doing lower-paying content creation as your main paycheck. She is writing novels about working class influencers navigating financial precarity and the shifting attention economy.

My head is so cluttered with editing work, submissions I’m waiting on, ane teaching, that my current writing I want to revise feels more like another job than a fun thing. I both need to write and am too burned out to write. I needed an idea for a fun short poem and luckily I ended up with one!

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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We had almost a hundred more Specpoverse submissions than last issue, so there’s lots of great poetry and a lot more hard decisions we’ll have to make!

My professional org, CCCC, was just dissolved for political reasons

Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 3w ago

There it is. #CCCC #NCTE

The National Council of Teachers of English has disbanded the Conference of College Composition and Communication and related journal, lovingly referred to as “the Cs” by colleagues who attended regularly. Though I never went, it’s a major blow to my field & people should pay close attention to it.

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Please Sir, May We Have a Speculative Poetry Hugo? Again?

Contemporary Speculative Poetry and the Colonization of Form

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I would like a complete list of every medieval epic poem across Afro-Eurasia that either features Alexander the Great or compares one of its heroes to Alexander the Great. I know of at least two such works (Epic of Sonjara and The Shahnameh) and I feel that there has to be more

600 AQI last night, settling down to a nice 300-400 for the next few days

After reading an article about it and recalling what I read in The Fort Bragg Cartel, I think this is really just cover for reducing oversight in soldier drug and steroid use. As always, the far right rhetoric covers an existing continuity of bad stuff

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · last mo.

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

Being an American has completely desensitized me to commercialism, so while I understand and respect people hating the World Cup’s added halftime and water/commercial breaks, I don’t feel it. Capitalism is the US civic religion such that even some communists go to the equivalent of Sunday mass!