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Microfiction for the Mini Bin SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! UNTIL 10th MARCH 2026 For this short sharp Pop-Up we’re looking for short sharp microfiction for our mini bin. Writing smol stories is a real skill and we want to embrac…

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Just over 24hrs now to get your micros into the Mini Bin call.
50-175 words, any genre.
Use the words wisely - we need story, we need character, we need the feels (any feels).
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The Oakland School That Keeps Producing Stars Once, they were kids walking the hallways of Oakland School for the Arts. Now they're at the Grammys, publishing bestsellers, and performing at the SF Ballet.

They were high school poets, dancers, and rappers. Now they're headlining shows, publishing bestsellers, and performing at the SF Ballet. @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social checks in on five of his former OSA students who've gone on to extraordinary things.
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Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth ! 💜

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A colourful illustrated image on a deep navy blue background with playful hand drawn lettering reading “Signs that you are HUMAN.” Surrounding the text are bright cartoon space themed characters including a pink ringed planet, a purple comet shaped character, a smiling yellow star with a pink trail, a green crescent moon with a small star beside it, a fluffy white cloud with a rainbow, and a pink planet shaped like a hand. Each sits next to phrases such as “you say the wrong things,” “you change your mind,” “you are unproductive and messy,” “you have ups and downs,” “you feel unsure at times,” and “you make mistakes.” The colours are vibrant pink, yellow, teal, purple, and white, giving the illustration a warm, playful feeling that celebrates the everyday imperfections of being human. Picture by Nikki Miles.

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” Brené Brown

We say the wrong things. We change our mind. We have ups and downs.

All signs that we’re wonderfully human. 🧡

#kindness #humanness #learning

Picture by Nikki Miles

Coming March 6th, 2026, LOVE THAT FOR US by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) and Sam Herschel Wein (@samforbreakfast.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!!

www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/love...

I was so happy to get the chance to see this (and in this lovely setting)! Final performance is March 8:

Two days ago, I posted a 1895 photo of The Great Incline funicular that took tourists up Echo Mountain. This 1910 photo show how they got there: Pacific Electric Railway streetcar from 6th & Main in DTLA to Pasadena and then a 2nd car to Rubio Canyon in Altadena.

I am IN LOVE with @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

The Feb. 20, 2026 episode of Vibe Check with @theferocity.bsky.social has an amazing discussion of Serpell's book, too!

The Egyptian Theatre in was named in Time Out’s list for “The 100 Greatest Cinemas in the World Right Now” 📽️💛

7 Poetry Books That Expand What an Elegy Can Look Like - Electric Literature These poets explore grief about families, nations, and systems of oppression

Read Preeti Vangani’s recommendations for 7 poetry books that expand what an elegy can look like.

One of my absolute favorite journals! 🩸🍯👇:

launch day promotion for SHINE Quarterly, Issue 6

🍾 It's here, SHINE Quarterly, Issue 6...23 writers from ~10 countries! You can hear selections from this issue here:
youtu.be/m4rEeYTZjH0?... & grab your copy here: www.tinyurl.com/shinepoetryI6 or worldwide via Amazon. 🎇

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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Gen AI ys coole yf you reallye fuckinge hate water

‘Unsung Heroines’ Is a Rollicking Feminist History of the Bay Rae Alexandra’s new essay collection celebrates 35 leaders, activists, and rule-breakers we should have learned about in school.

I've been reading Rae, and occasionally editing her, for ... 13 years? I am deeply unsurprised she wrote a book and also unsurprised it's this good.

was a delight to interview her for @coyotemedia.org about Bay Area women who *should* be household names www.coyotemedia.org/unsung-heroi...

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

Independent @coyotemedia.org delivers culture writing about the Bay area “with a bite!” Co-founder @soleilho.com will speak at this year’s IIJ freelance conference on how lifestyle freelancers can thrive in today’s media environment: theiij.com/sessions-26

Touching and Being Touched The music was turned up too loud for talking

This poem-a-day from Jenny George!!!:

"...once you turned my coat collar at the door
to make it even, and then I was ready."

poets.org/poem/touchin...

““But I like it / “Because it is bitter, / “And because it is my heart.””

— Stephen Crane

I read this at a friend's wedding! It was perfect

“I dance in my kitchen on Friday nights, / singing like only a lucky girl can. ”

— Amy Fleury

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This poem appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Volume 41:2, Fall/Winter 2002. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Toad is buried under the covers in bed. From "Spring" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

Daily Memo: ICE Detains U.S. Citizen With Infant As Kavanaugh Stops Continue

@eltragon.bsky.social

Poster for the series. More info at link in post

Join us in March as we pay tribute to beloved character actor Bud Cort, who built a career out of making the unusual so unforgettable 🌼

🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...