Paisley Rekdal

Once again, trying to make a good faith effort to find this site engaging.

Maybe, at some point, we have to make the hard admission to ourselves, readily seen by the rest of the world: In fact, this IS who we are.

Issue Fifty-Six Visit the post for more.

Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social.

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A Thanksgiving poem for us all: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...

Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--

No, seriously: can we PLEASE not learn anything more about Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK JR? As a poet, I implore the universe to black- hole vaccuum those sexts up. There is no basement to the awfulness of this story.

flit [sparrow] a ghost garden last year’s still blooms / on the patio an undying marigold

Look at this beautiful poem by my friend, Lisa Bickmore!! poets.org/poem/flit-sp...

Today, today: come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read from BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, 7 PM, Finch Lane Gallery. Free!

Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony

Huge contragulations to Patricia Smith and Rabih Alameddine for winning National Book Awards!! www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...

Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.

Mapping Salt Lake City | Stories, Memories & History - Joe Hill After his execution on November 19, 1915, envelopes containing Joe Hill's ashes were sent to IWW union halls around the country. Every state but one received their share of the famous labor organi...

In memory of Joe Hill today! www.mappingslc.org/this-was-her...

I mean this in the best way possible! I thought I'd be a journalist and political reporter. Every day I listen to the news, I am so grateful not to do that work.

Actually, almost nothing I'd planned for my life worked out. And I'm grateful for it.

Honestly, as a young writer, I thought I'd grow up and live in NYC but clearly that did not happen.

This Thursday! Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms event, celebrating launch of BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD. Come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read at Finch Lane Gallery, 7 PM. Free and open to the public--

$50K #SchnitzerPrizeoftheWest honors exceptional collaboration and innovation in addressing issues such as water scarcity, tribal rights & sovereignty, conservation, wildfire & climate adaptation, and the dynamics of human communities, migration & identity. See highdesertmuseum.org/schnitzer-pr...

World may be on fire, but sometimes it's pretty to witness:

Better photo of the dogs:

Not featured: my tequila cocktail.

Imagine that a child sex trafficker calls *YOU* the worst person he knows.

The view from home tonight:

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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Just me in a stained t-shirt in hotel room, watching crap TV while eating a small bucket of eating cheesy potatoes and writing Guggenheim recommendations and an intro for my talk tomorrow. This is it, guys. The very definition of "mid-career writer." Also, possibly, "future heart disease patient."

ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME Turn your clocks sideways to the hour where no- body can get a good clean shot at you. --Kenneth Patchen

ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME

Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.

--Kenneth Patchen

C'mon, guys, this isn't a Coldplay concert--

Amazing photo!

Well, Jane Goodall never gave up, either activism or hope. So I won't either. Rest in Power.