NOT released yet. Shame on those spreading rumors that it has been. This is disrespect of family and his community.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

oof

Hanif Abdurraqib 💙

from A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER (Tin House)

Day 24 - #SealeyChallenge

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💃MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! 💃

Send us your weirdest, coolest work! Submissions close September 9

I’m so excited to announce that after years of planning, The Tightwires Anthology is officially open for submissions! I’m especially thankful for our two incredible judges— Hanif Abdurraqib will judge poetry, and Hannah Whitten will judge fiction! hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

This week on Tightwires, I spoke to Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social, author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-- out today from @eccobooks.bsky.social! Kate Davis, former fiction editor of The Arkansas International and my best friend, co-hosted!
youtu.be/7cHaB5_TA6s

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

We started a new literary magazine with @colnol.bsky.social and @hhtahir.bsky.social!

Send us your work!

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

Hiba Tahir in conversation with Mandy Shunnarah

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRi...

Jfc.

Mere hours before announced he'd ordered strikes on Iran, Trump was loudly complaining that he'll never get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Just. Wow.
"In Kocher’s analysis, since January, detentions of immigrants with no convictions or charges have had a relative growth 3 times greater than those of convicted criminals—the
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Final Curve by Langston Hughes

#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?

—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Rosa Castellano was such a delight! The latest on Season 10 of Tightwires. ALL IS THE TELLING is already out from @diodeeditions.bsky.social!
youtu.be/f2YKtxoEZkM

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.

The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

And this is why we instantly block every single number that ever texts us for money.

Have you worked on verse novels, by any chance?