Juan Martinez

America voted for a drunk driver and shoved the world into the car.

…Beck covered this one when he played Ravinia last year! With a full orchestra. It was glorious.

just a gentle reminder that you can work out while watching the news so you can get your self-care AND your self-harm in at the same time.

Doodle of a bill w an adorably drawn mouse or cat and my daughters name, Rosa, scrawled on it

A lil 4yo hand drawing the bill

If anyone is freaking out about the current state of the US economy, pls know that my daughter has designed her own currency & u are welcome to use it

According to all reliable reports, your #awp26 book haul was interesting AND delicious.

Sharpie doodle of a tote bag that has all kinds of tentacles poking out of it

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the thing that took over your @awpwriter.org conference tote bag bc your book haul was just too interesting to pass up.

Photo of a clay house that looks like an alarmed critter w googly eyes, the door a surprised mouth

the 10yo made a house

So freaking excited for this!

Benson is one of my favorite deep-cut midcentury New Yorker stalwarts. (My other all time deep-cut fave is Jessamyn West.)

aw!!! have so much fun in Baltimore!

a bunch of adorable big eyed multilegged bugs, many of them carrying tote bags

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is all of us at the @awpwriter.org conference

The girl is a secretary. She is facetious. All she wants is a box of matches.

Sharpie doodle of a startled multieyed tote bag w fangs surrounded on all sides by some judgy lemons

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a vampire tote bag and some problematic citrus

Screenshot of Klaus Kinski in Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo

Follow your dreams: find a career in the arts. Drag that boat across a mountain. Wreck the lives of those around you. Wear a white suit in the Amazon. Build that opera house. Nothing is impossible!

…a lil outline of Heater would be too difficult to embroider, right?

Swirling jellyfish-ish creatures swell around three alarmed tote bags

Today’s #postitdoodle is the primordial soup in which the #awp26 conference tote bags were forged.

* checks phone *

* checks burn book *

* refreshes phone *

* refreshes phone again *

what’s important to remember, in these dark times, is that the Dow is over 50,000 right now.

Sharpie doodle of a surprised toothy tote bag carried by a multieyed horned starfish thing

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a tote bag and her poet at the @awpwriter.org conference.

sorry but the GOP can’t just play the same three hits every time they tour

Behold! The Shadow Bunny.

Shadow of two overlapping skillets

Photo of Shadow of two overlapping skillets this time w googly eyes

Shadow tilted so that’s the handles look like bunny ears, the googly eyes below

behold! a Shadow Bunny.

have fun at AWP, everyone!

(bring me back a tote bag)

The closest to a decent NA wine is super super chilled rosés, but even those are a lil weird

love the NA beers though. they’ve gotten so good

pitch: a reverse portrait of dorian gray thing where the president of a major superpower is both the portrait *and* dorian gray

Thank you!

Doodle of an enormous multieyed yellow monster reading shyly from a piece of paper, tentacled wrapped around the Chicago skyline

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle: every seven years the poet emerges from Lake Michigan to read new work to a captive Chicago.

(given the dowager’s current delicate condition, it is acceptable to adopt a village infant for these purposes)

you should also consider becoming a parent, filling you days w chaos for many years so you train yourself to spend every spare moment w a fearsome, ruthless productivity utterly unfamiliar to childfree writers.

Photograph of a squirrel eating a full slice of brioche by a fairy house

oh to be a squirrel eating a full slice of brioche by a fairy house

A small wooden car, wedge shaped, panted black w blood-like spatter at the front and back, w two giant googly eyes

we will not be taking questions about our pinewood derby car design at this time, thank you