"No one wants to see a feminist spin on Frankenstein" is a thing I actually just read.
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"No one wants to see a feminist spin on Frankenstein" is a thing I actually just read.
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
The literal worst version of it has to exist first if you're ever going to get anywhere, so you might as well embarrass yourself by writing it
Born #onthisday in 1533, the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Aged 38 he quit public life to devote himself to leisure, reading + reflection. He began writing experimental meditations he called “essais” and thus a new literary genre was born: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #OTD
Wrote on @literaryhub.bsky.social about a win for fiction: the strange case of a piece of speculative writing spooking tech investors this week
Image of the prairies, tall grass under a grey blue sky with a rotting shed in the corner. The PF logo in brown with text: bury my body in the tall prairie grass— this ruined house of rusted cans and porcelain shards, boards and plaster. What is true will remain. From “Homecoming” by Morgen Jahnke Prairie Fire’s winter issue on sale now at prairiefire.ca
Our winter issue is on sale now on our website and in stores around the country!
Featuring new work like this haunting new poem from Morgen Jahnke.
Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
We've finished spotlighting the poets in our new issue! Read the whole thing, 'Wildfires', here badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
Necessary reading
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
“Whenever we go past that school, Ty's like: ‘Am I going back to jail, Mom? Are you taking me back over there?,’” Ty’s mother said. “I felt like nobody at that school was really fighting for him. They were too busy trying to justify what they did.”
(Pub. Nov. 2024)
My dear friend, the poet Sandy Shreve, has died.
A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:
“A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.”
~ Allen Ginsberg
"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE
Done!
I just wrote a 100-page book about Apple Wallet. Yes, that’s right. You heard me. There were so many pain points that I dug deep into the app, its settings, how Apple Pay works, and more. If you’ve ever been frustrated with Apple Pay or Wallet, this ebook is for you: www.takecontrolbooks.com/wallet/
Thrilled to have a poem published in this new issue of Prairie Fire!
They changed my headline; I said Barbie was always autistic and they made it into a question. But here you go! If Autistic Barbie isn't you, good news - another Barbie might be:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neur...
Thank you @psychologytoday.com
i guess this is me until further notice
Your devices may sync your messages even when you have Messages in iCloud disabled. Here’s why and what you can do about it @sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2026/01...
You can supplement the column with my book, Take Control of FaceTime and Messages! www.takecontrolbooks.com/facetime-mes...
Book cover for The Ravenous Sky by K.D. Kirchmeier on a blue background
Excited to get my hands on this sequel to The Shadow Road by Saskatoon author @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social!
“Write to the market.”
You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
The leaders of the country’s biggest white nationalist group believe that “the Nazis were right” and that a violent “race war” for Canada’s future is underway
youtu.be/scR4OZX4g4s?...
Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).
I thought it was fantastic! Congrats :)
Cover of Brick: A Literary Journal. Yellow background with an inset photograph of a figure standing in a rocky landscape
Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social
“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” —Alice Oswald
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
That would be mine too.
