: ⭐️ 🌬️ #Make a Ritual of the Thing You Dread, after CA Conrad, poetry prompt #5 Poetry is …
: Classes start back up next week, here’s an excerpt from my prep-reading, too good not to share, from …
: ⭐️🌬️ #Play Roget Roulette (poetry prompt #4) “the chatterbox sun, the cat burglar in the solar room, …
: “If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and …
: Want to binge all of his stuff now. It’s no wonder he’s received that sweet sweet Pulitzer. Finished …
: ⭐️🌬️ Keep an Observation Notebook (poetry) prompt #3, on being a butterfly catcher
: As brilliant and as devestating as I expected ❤️🩹 Finished reading: The Going Is Forever: Poems by …
: ⭐️🌬️ September Prompt #2 #Build a Labyrinth like an Oulipian Oulipians are “rats who build the …
: ⭐️ 🌬️ Happy September! I love this month & the beginning of Fall. I figured I would do a poetry …
: ⭐️ New Blog Post! I wrote a disjointed (sorry!) blog post on thoughts I had after watching Coyote …
: 🎵 One of Bob Dylan’s Theme’d Radio Hours where he talks about a theme and pairs songs with that …
: love mornings in my apartment
: 🎵 Midweek Music! Alot of Racing Mount Pleasant (which is sad, sorry! the whole album is so good but …
: Like many people, I felt emotional hearing the news about Dolly Parton passing. I was touched to see …
: 🌬️ What an example of a debut poetry collection! I am going to keep this one in my back pocket to …
: 🌬️ Beyond excited to read Elizabeth Metzger’s new poetry book, The Going Is Forever, where she …
: weekend again and new tattoo 🐎
: ⭐️ New Blog Post Up! I wrote a long-winded research essay on the temperature of reality TV called: …
: 🎵 Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend Album: I came to Lost Weekend nervous for what six years of silence …
: Hi New York. Back & can confirm Florida tan is different than California tan
: ⭐️ New Blog Post Up! # The Sovereign Interior / a door is a door is a door The diagnostic everyone …
: Finished reading: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imaginat… by Wallace Stevens 📚 What …
: 🎵 This Is Lorelei’s single came out today, I was nervous he wouldn’t be able to top his 2024 album, …
: ⭐️ New Blog Post Up! #The Common Denominator: Girlhood and the Education of the Body in Eliya …
: 🌬️ If you’re around Smith Street in Brooklyn this month, check out the store-front poems at Poetry …
: Full moon yesterday from Pier 17 🌕
: Saw Wolf Alice under a full moon! Ellie Rowsell is a rock star. I loved hearing some songs from Blue …
: Finished reading: Metamorphoses by Ovid 📚. I just finished Stephanie McCarter’s translation of …
: 💬 In Something Close to Music, some of John Ashbery’s music playlists are listed. So much of it is …
: 🌬️ In honor of his 99th, here is a John Ashbery marathon from me. Below is a favorite poem of mine, …
: ⭐️ New Blog Post Up! #Getting Down Into the Thing: On John Ashbery Read the full thing → Here So …
: Thrilled PSA posted more about the fellowship I was part of, such a genuine group of poets that have …
: 💬 John Ashbery’s 99th birthday is tomorrow! I loved reading Robert Wood Lynn’s substack post this …
: 💐 I’ve been obsessed with the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, here are some recent favorite names of the …
: Desire comes from the Latin, desiderare, “from” and “star” 💫 Desire, desire, desire, that’s what …
: 🌬️ new poem published at Poetry Society of America Notes from the Mezzanine I mean the hard …
: Grateful to have been published in Thimble Lit Summer Magazine print edition. It’s so gorgeous! …
: 🌬️ Currently reading: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imaginat… by Wallace Stevens 📚 …
: 🌬️ Thoughts on Elisabeth Camp's "Metaphor and That Certain 'Je Ne Sais Quoi'" In Camp’s essay “Metaphor and That Certain ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi'” she breaks down why Juliet is the sun …
: 🌬️ Still beaming to have been part of such a generous & kind group of poets. All thanks to the PSA …
: 🌬️ New poem published! Thank you to the Poetry Society of America for selecting my poem, “And Even …
: 🌬️ Grateful to Brooklyn Poets for the finalist mention for their Summer Fellowship. Congrats to …
: 🌬️ Excited and very into this visual poem by Eugenia Leigh in Poetry Mag: “Oh I Thought You Knew, …
: 🎵 Obsessed with this remix/reimagining of The-Dream’s “Rockin’ That Thing"
: Happy Father’s Day to my beautiful dad. He was simple, brave, and integrious. Here are some songs we …
: 🌬️ New poem published! Thanks to Nadia and the whole Thimble Literary Magazine team for publishing …
: Finished reading: The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis by Fernando Pessoa 📚 >Happy the man who sees …
: 🎵 Came across this playful substack piece Maggie Rogers wrote about accidentally casting a spell …
: 🎵 After the LIVELY game last night, it feels like it should be Friday. That said, here are some …
: The trailer for Broadway’s Hadestown pro-shot is out! I love the original cast, and this musical is …
: Carroll Street! Let’s go Knicks!!!
: Need to know what was said in the pep talk the Knicks must’ve had before this last quarter. Wowow!!
: 🎵 Chanel Beads surprised me with their June NTS show. I definitely expected electronic or strictly …
: 🎵 Songs of the week: Pitter Patter Goes My Heart — Babygirl (Broken Social Scene cover) Defender — …
: I wish I had the time to write all my favorite quotes, there are so many. >“Grace fills empty …
: ✏️ Here Is to Bravery My father passed away a year and a half ago, and with Father’s Day approaching, he has been very …
: 💬 Finished reading: Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul … by Paul Celan 📚 >“Once …
: A Few North Stars I Can See 💬 💬 In an effort to clarify my core values over the past few months, I’ve been collecting what I …
: Here is a gorgeous radio series on Miles Davis from NTS–Hours of curated jazz, put together to …
: Streaming vs Radio: A Soapbox I am becoming more & more obsessed with radio. It started with NTS and lately has drove me into …
: Been thinking about truisms— partially prompted by Jenny Holzer’s Truisms at MoMA: …
: Very happy that the company I work for, Nen Creative, was featured in The New York Times this week! …
: A few more notes on the episode of Binchtopia I highlighted earlier today about the shittification …
: Pretty obsessed with this podcast, Binchtopia, lately. I got into it because I kept commenting on a …
: 💬 King Lear: So we’ll live,/ And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh/ At gilded …
: Finished reading: Waiting for God by Simone Weil 📚 > “The beautiful is that which we desire without …
: 💬 Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 📚 > “A single person is missing for …
: Excited for the new Drake album dropping tonight, just heard a leak and I am ready for his dramatic …
: there is no printer that truly works
: I’m very much back on Spotify after a well-fought battle to move to Apple Music… 🎵 Songs going into …
: Finished reading: Obit by Victoria Chang 📚 >🌬️ > >“What if we call the waiter over and God comes …
: Wish I could get my hands on all my favorite artists music playlists Finished reading: Something …
: 💬 “The death of a parent, despite our preparation—indeed, despite our age—dislodges something deep …
: Finished reading: The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 📚
: Love this video/edit of this goat dodging an attack. Such a strange animal…
: 🎵 Music from the week: whats good - Oklou Piotr Wiese - Waltz in B Janet Jackson - Someone To Call …
: Thrilled to see one of my favorite musical artists Oklou at Teriminal 5 in New York City last night. …
: Finished reading: How to Maintain Eye Contact by Robert Wood Lynn 📚
: Finished reading: Transcription by Ben Lerner 📚
: 💬 “And death with a top hat quietly laughing at us as he passed, even that we will miss. Even that …
: Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet 🌬️ >“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions …
: 🎵 Songs for the week: Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon Out of Town by Water From …
: Hilarious. I loved this and had so much fun reading it. I can imagine it being a TV series …
: Excited to share that I’ve been selected for a Summer Fellowship with the Poetry Society of America! …
: Just pre-ordered Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, that comes out next week. I haven’t been …
: I just discovered Eternal Family Streaming which is a “curated, artist-run streaming service …
: >“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”
: I was in an MFA class with Woody Brown at Columbia and I was a better thinker and writer for it, …
: Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚
: Brilliant article from The Paris Review, Kafka’s Misdiagnosis by Aaron Schuster: >”One of the …
: Gorgeous evening jazz at Saturn Road in Brooklyn
: Finished reading: My Work by Olga Ravn 📚
: >“Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of never again.” - Kevin Young 🌬️
: Finished reading: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård 📚
: 💬 “The true has about it an air of mystery or inexplicability. this mystery is an attribute of the …
: Hania Rani the composer of Sentimental Value was a guest on NTS Radio, a gorgeous selection of …
: Rad venue underneath an instrument store, local bands only. Main Drag Music in Williamsburg, …
: As an avid fan of the party game Mafia/Werewolf, I’m loving the show The Traitors. I want to be on …
: Finished reading: The Bronze Arms: Poems by Richie Hofmann 📚
: 🎵 Songs going into the weekend: >$ex Appeal by Baby Keem > >Shoot From the Heart by Jude Tzuke > …
: Finished reading: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July 📚
: 🌬️ Poem: Nothing in That Drawer by Ron Padgett One of my favorite sonnets – >Nothing in That Drawer >Ron Padgett > >Nothing in that drawer. …
: 🌬️ Poem: [Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up By Bernadette Mayer >[Sonnet] You jerk you didn’t call me up >By Bernadette Mayer > >You jerk you didn’t call me up >I …
: 📖 Thoughts on On Photography by Susan Sontag Finished reading: On Photography by Susan Sontag 📚 What a brutal criticism on photography. I don’t …
: 🎵 Music: Songs I have been listening to today: >◾️Turiya & Ramakrishna by Alice Coltrane >Spotify …
: 🌬️ Poem: I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again By Vievee Francis >I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again >By Vievee Francis > > >Those who live to have it and >those …
: 💬 Quote: > Poetry gets as close as possible to the unsayable and then fails—that failure is poetry. …
: 🌬️ Poem: I Love by Jacques-Bernard Brunius It’s the week of Valentine’s Day, and I’m having my undergraduate students write sonnets and explore …