People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.
made up words for sustained delusion and it's hilarious to see in action
the same people went from "stuff, we should sell more stuff, coffee makers! in a bookstore!" to "books books more books we don't want to see space on tables OVERFLOWING WITH BOOKS" within a year
okay the funniest one recently was a sequel by the "wealthy barber" guy, which sold like absolute shit (at least where I am), and there was a corporate visit where it was the only book they mentioned saying how much they love it
I do like to put the latest "smart guy big thoughts wow" next to romance on a new releases table just to watch it be visibly extremely unsold
it's really deeply embarrassing for everyone involved but all of them are the most shameless people available so there is zero sense of that and it just continues despite being successful maybe 1/50 times
move slow and repair things
I just wanna talk to the publishers and buyers who think these are going to sell
You can actually disagree with tyrants & warmongers no matter who they are & without caveats.
I'm still not seeing a lady
and has done its best to erase or marginalize anyone present here who does have a long-term view, which simply cannot be tolerated
Ancient Iran (Persia) has roots stretching back to the 5th millennium BC.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
how I learned I was not following you and fixed it to see roundish friends
You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.
- Helms Jarrell
Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership
a live service game is simply a very long bus ride to an unknown destination
the noem reverse
these kinds of stories are just so much more interesting on why things are how they are than scientific explanations
someone was saying they thought maple syrup just came out of the tree, and it’s funny because we have a story about this in ojibwe
like, the syrup used to come out that way but people got lazy and fat so the creator thinned it out into sap so we wouldn’t take it for granted
I mean, Gaza was getting bombed for about 15 months while she and Biden were in the White House, but what do I know, I’m just some Ojibwe scholar who studies settler colonialism for a living.
the most intense examples are Seeing and 2666 I think
or Le devoir de violence, which I couldn't finish
the list was immediately too long and this is a very nice way to ask me why I don't read more pleasant things thank you
colder than advertised, a march in montreal story
the public school system should teach you how to make prosciutto
very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation
I don't think "affair" is the really right term when he was texting a congressional aide explicit messages and she wrote back "this is going too far, boss"
markywayne and the funky bunch covering ice ice baby
hide another and then a lot of lilacs," or Schuyler's "lilac trusses" that "stand in bud." or William Carlos Williams's "boys fifteen and seventeen" who "wear two horned lilac blossoms / in their caps" or the late lilacs Bernadette Mayer "must get back to," or Lorine Niedecker's lilacs, vacant lots, / taxes, no work, / debts" and "Good-bye to lilacs by the door / and all I planted for the eye," or Ronald Johnson's elisions of "Evocations / of Whitman's lilacs" and those "lilacs we played inside," or Zaina Alsous's "Syringa explosives / LILAC! LILAC! LILAC!" or Elizabeth Willis's "air in the head of a lilac," or Zuzanna Ginczanka, whose "wintry evening flowers bloomed lilac with memory," or John Wieners's "Roses, lilacs, and rains / over smell of earth," or Maria Sledmere's "I convalesce lilac all over again," or Amy De'Ath's "right-wing policy think tank, a lilac banner," or Jesie Gaston's "If there are many flowers, the lilacs c'mon strong, / but there weren't any, ever, / just a bunch of letters," or, better still, though it has not yet won out among my mind's immediate references, Etel Adnan's "laurels and lilacs," which bloom around her head because she "stood up to the sun"-
Rainer Diana Hamilton, from Lilacs
catch Misha Solomon @mishasolomon.bsky.social launching his full-length poetry debut this month at VERSeFest!
March 24-30, 2026: readings + performances in English and French (and Polish)! 2 new Hall of Honour inductees!
workshops by Sheri-D Wilson + Paul Vermeersch! & a free reading at Carleton University by Karen Solie!
check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
