Just finished Go Went Gone. Amazing. thank you for the recommendation

I’m back in the game—the reviewing game, anyway. I read Maggie Nelson’s new book Pathemata in one gulp in one commute, and decided to write about it. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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This is the best book I’ve read in a while. Intimate human entanglement in the pain of history, in what it means to live in history. Speaking of the pain of history. #sentenceoftheday

The physical object shall prevail. Without further notice. #sentenceoftheday

Saturday 3/29 at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity in Ossining @4! If you’re still out east and looking for an hour to catch your breath with books and conversation around habitat, catastrophe, embodiment, interbeing, Elizabeth Zuba and I’ll be celebrating Mary Newell’s ENTWINE. We’d love to see you!

Got caught behind a wildfire, one road back to the mainland, closed. Poisonwood smoke. Waited it out, feet in the water, waited for a pre-dawn opening to cross another scorched earth. Countless creatures dead, another countless. The state with the prettiest name.
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Commit, recommit. Align, release. Go to the source. Not sure how it connects, this bit about the future, this future, the word from grow and become. #sentenceoftheday

All those adverb clauses hanging off an airy nothing. All our human folly and escapist fantasy and aspiration and somehow, still, in that second apostrophe, the truth of interbeing. #sentenceoftheday

Saved my life this brutal week to find out Chagall made these small collages with scraps of fabric and paper as preparatory sketches for his sublime stained glass windows at the Union Church. Amazing curator’s talk at this beautiful exhibit at the DR Center in Pocantico. Keep light alive, friends.

Don’t let the pilot light go out. Hear testimony. (All the banned keywords here: foreigner, queer, pandemic, AIDS, desire, resisting the disciplinary state). Don’t let them corrupt all the sentences, don’t let them lop them off into their fascist soundbites. #sentenceoftheday

Take back the word asylum, for starters. Take back all the words. Refuse the impoverishment of the language. Draw upon a mental armory. Microresistance. And macro too. #sentenceoftheday

Self-portrait as Giles Corey. More weight, more weight!

Happy weekend, friends. Resist!

If you have to walk a dog or take a train or drive home, listen to this and let it sustain and expand you (especially if you are, like me, feeling the constrictions of anger and fear). Talk by Helen Douglas, (Love & Arms: Violence & Justification After Levinas) www.patreon.com/posts/122563...

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

If you are a teacher of English or a human being or both, you should go see Sanaz Toossi’s “English” on Broadway, a superb production of this breathtakingly simple classroom drama about the inexorably complex experience of bringing another language inside your body.

I have never been so embarrassed to be an American in all my life and that includes the Freedom Fries era

Tonight’s commute. Hortative let with bare infinitive taking subject. All the Xs are you. (Subjects in the objective case!) (I still shudder at the existential there.) Little prayer.

As we go off the cliff, I’m taking some books with me, including Maria Zoccola’s Helen of Troy 1993. Check it out, and her roundup in Electric Literature of poetry books that build immersive worlds, apocalyptic and otherwise, with a nice mention of Ceive. electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...

A little light on this darkest day: my 7th book, Disaster Porn, will be published by BOA in 2027. Pulling over for trash couches for years! Inspired by these pages by Maira Kalman, the book features The Husband, the Devil, Goya, teenage Cassandra, and the OG disaster porn—Pompeii.

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A bright note this week seeing ecopoems by writers at Bedford Hills CF in the pages of this issue of Exchange. Pam Hart brought the Floodwaters Workshops there—read her piece and remember what’s real. The climate crisis is real. People caused it. Mass incarceration is real, and unjust, and deadly.

I’m looking forward to being part of this conversation on Saturday at Manhattanville College, with thanks to Iain Haley Pollock for gathering us. Hope to see you there!

Thrilling to see Ceive on screen: Axial Theatre's short film "Robust Admixture," an adaptation of my novella in verse, can now be viewed here: www.axialtheatre.org With huge thanks to Cady McLain for her vision and these brilliant actors for their work.