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In the Eye of the Elephant—my first full-length collection of poems—drops today, April 2! So grateful to @sixteenrivers.bsky.social for publishing! I feel like I’m a *real* poet now, whatever that means! To find out more, visit sixteenrivers.org. #PoetrySky #writing #nationalpoetrymonth
We find ourselves within a forest dark . . . the straightforward pathway has been lost.
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
We find ourselves within a forest dark . . . the straightforward pathway has been lost.
I am never inclined to repost Fox media, but this exchange between Quanell X and an angry, deliberately-blind-to-the-history-of-our-country white man, blew the doors off the house for me. Had to repost.
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am never inclined to repost Fox media, but this exchange between Quanell X and an angry, deliberately-blind-to-the-history-of-our-country white man, blew the doors off the house for me. Had to repost.
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Oh this is a beaut. Perfect.
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Oh this is a beaut. Perfect.
Northern California poet friends! Please share this Sixteen Rivers call for submissions! Grazie! 🙏🏻
Hey-o, Northern California poets with a manuscript waiting in the wings: You've got 51 days, 3 hours, & 40 minutes to submit your manuscript to Sixteen Rivers Press! The call for submissions ends Feb. 1, 2026 @ 11:59 pm! You can do it! #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrysky
sixteenrivers.org/submit
sixteenrivers.org/submit
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Northern California poet friends! Please share this Sixteen Rivers call for submissions! Grazie! 🙏🏻
Smiling.
Been a long day. Good night everyone❤️
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Smiling.
The Da Vinci Junior High School poets have got it going on! This Thursday, December 4, 7:00 pm. Natsoulas Gallery, Davis! ❤️ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NatsoulasGallery
Friends! If you happen to be near Davis on December 4, why not drop on by the John Natsoulas Gallery at 7:00 pm & have a listen to the Da Vinci Junior High School poets read work from their latest glorious chapbook: TO THE HUMAN RACE? Hope to see you there! 521 1st St., Davis. #poetrycommunity
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Da Vinci Junior High School poets have got it going on! This Thursday, December 4, 7:00 pm. Natsoulas Gallery, Davis! ❤️ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NatsoulasGallery
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ICE is the secret police now. Josef Goebbels would be proud. This song/slideshow calls attention to the danger. Please pass it on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2w-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2w-...
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
ICE is the secret police now. Josef Goebbels would be proud. This song/slideshow calls attention to the danger. Please pass it on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2w-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2w-...
Yay me! 🤓 #poetry #pushcartnominee
Diggety! Hats off to poet Moira Magneson whose poems "Death Deluxe" and "Mom Drives Fast" are the last of our nominations for this year's Pushcart. Both poems appear in Magneson's first full-length collection: "In the Eye of the Elephant." To find out more about Moira Magneson 👇
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Yay me! 🤓 #poetry #pushcartnominee
“In the hands of a clever poet, then, AI can help unleash all kinds of horrors.”
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“In the hands of a clever poet, then, AI can help unleash all kinds of horrors.”
Kindness is truth, truth kindness. ♥️
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Kindness is truth, truth kindness. ♥️
O happy day! Friend & fellow poet Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has just been nominated for a Pushcart! And if you haven’t read it, “the department of peace” is a stunning book! ♥️ Just saying!
We are thrilled to nominate Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong's "fugue" & "if i had a cousin in jerusalem" for a Pushcart Prize. Appearing in Kwong's third collection of poetry, "the department of peace," both poems speak to the charged, political times in which we live. To find out more about Bonnie Wai-Lee 👇
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
O happy day! Friend & fellow poet Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has just been nominated for a Pushcart! And if you haven’t read it, “the department of peace” is a stunning book! ♥️ Just saying!
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Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
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We are enraptured with Camille Norton's poems. In millennial parlance, they are literary thirst traps: wild, allusive, down-to-the-bone funny, yet also dwelling places of grief & sorrow. Reading them, we want to laugh & cry all at once. Come hear Camille Norton's startling poems as she reads with
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We are enraptured with Camille Norton's poems. In millennial parlance, they are literary thirst traps: wild, allusive, down-to-the-bone funny, yet also dwelling places of grief & sorrow. Reading them, we want to laugh & cry all at once. Come hear Camille Norton's startling poems as she reads with
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the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St., Davis. It should be a blast!
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St., Davis. It should be a blast!
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
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poet Rosa Lane this Thursday, November 20, 7 pm at The Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetnews #Berkeley #PoetryFlash
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
poet Rosa Lane this Thursday, November 20, 7 pm at The Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetnews #Berkeley #PoetryFlash
Important 🧵: Em Bee reporting from the front lines of teaching college writing. AI rolls through the classroom like an M4 Sherman Tank, destroying
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
I think some common advice about responding to AI writing is very well intentioned and predicated upon teaching 10-25 students / term and not 60-125. The advice is "just ignore it if you can't prove it, give them vague feedback, and keep going."
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Important 🧵: Em Bee reporting from the front lines of teaching college writing. AI rolls through the classroom like an M4 Sherman Tank, destroying
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
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The utter sad, sweet gorgeousness of D.A. Powell wrecks us every time. Check out his poem "Senescence" and see/feel it for yourself!
I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The utter sad, sweet gorgeousness of D.A. Powell wrecks us every time. Check out his poem "Senescence" and see/feel it for yourself!
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Something wicked this way comes. OpenAI/ChatGPT is some bonafide evil shit. A TechHydra that must be destroyed. It’s no surprise that this monster came of age during Trump times.
#AI #evil
#AI #evil
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Important & harrowing thread about the inhumane & criminal conditions in US deportation facilities, which are, let’s face it, concentration camps. 🧵
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Important & harrowing thread about the inhumane & criminal conditions in US deportation facilities, which are, let’s face it, concentration camps. 🧵
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With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.