It's looking like "redesigns" can't hide the essential downward trends in US SAT scores...from the 'Harvard Gazette': news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Beautiful poem up at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social. "There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk" by Lindsey Wayland, chosen by Matthew Olzmann.

Good Lord. All those people in government, and not one can raise a flag on this?

Grateful to OSU's The Journal for including my little weirdo poem in their latest issue. Shout-out to the scratching in the walls, source of all inspiration. Read the whole issue at thejournalmag.org/archives/24842.

For teens starry-eyed to angst-ridden: All are welcome at Friday's workshop on 🫀🫀LOVE POEMS🫀🫀. Just in time for the day of St. Valentine! Brookline Public Library, 3:30 pm, 2/13. Please share with those you think might be interested! @brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

Boston-area friends, please join us in celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. today -- 3 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theater.

Enormous congratulations to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on winning this year's National Book Award for Poetry! And what a speech that was. 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...

CD Wright: "Death is death and none other." Somehow it carries tragedy & destiny--how? Paradox is small comfort. Wrote this poem after a loved one's death--it came out this summer @southerninreview.bsky.social. But after losing my father suddenly last week, it now seems the poem was always for him.

Stay dangerous, indies. 💪 Friends, please support these presses by donating or by buying their (amazing, radical) books.

("Ypres" is from Rick Barot)

How moved to find my sad spontaneous overflow at home in the wonderful Georgia Review, alongside work from writers I admire. Here's my girl, whew, here she is, friends, be gentle, snapped w/ a few other poems that caught my eye. What an issue! 🌾 Grateful for poetry. #nationalpoetrymonth

Afternoon fire + balm of Danez Smith in conversation with @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Can't wait for this timely symposium at the Hutchins Center at @harvard.edu: "The Future of Hip Hop Studies" feat. H. Samy Alim, Regina Bradley, Adam Bradley, & Mark Anthony Neal w/ closing remarks by Tricia Rose. @adambradley.bsky.social hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/hiphopsympos...

"Just Once," Anne Sexton photo courtesy of @patrycjasara.bsky.social

The saddest, realest pietà I ever saw. Anguish, not serenity. Sculptor was Pietro Giuseppe Tito. In Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.

One of the better craft books I've read in a while: 'Structure and Surprise', ed. by Michael Theune. Chapters from Mary Szybist, D.A. Powell, Prageeta Sharma, Christopher Bakken, and so many more. Only a few chapters in -- but definitely recommend. #poetry

“Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed.” - Käthe Kollwitz

My PA heart loves that I'm associated at all with this smolder-town. Got a poem about it in my collection, 'The Clearing'. Originally published in South Dakota Review.

Psyched that this saucy little poem, "Jubilee," came to rest at 'Copper Nickel'. What an issue--including the quasi-cento on the back cover. (Camera haze is from falling into an Icelandic stream, which was surprisingly delightful & unsurprisingly chilly.)