Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

Lush green moss mounds on the leaf-littered forest floor.

Some excellent moss.

Tomorrow morning at 10:35 in Room 308 at #AWP26, you will like it

Panel is called "Teaching Writing Despite 'AI': The Noncoercive Rearranging of Desire" & includes @eireannmor.bsky.social , Arisa White, @shanayoungdahl.bsky.social & me

[Exit Murderer.]

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

I would love to see this happen.

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two loaves of freeform sourdough manoomin bread and two plain Italian loaves on cooling racks

Baking result, pre-AWP edition

Here's part of an email I sent yesterday to some of the very good people at a progressive organization I do a little work for--who I respect and admire very much--asking them to avoid using generative AI even with the explicit goal of enacting justice

yesterday i walked up over a big awful hill to get groceries. my reward for doing this was the absolutely insane view from the top of the hill, out across the city to the hills beyond. i'm trying to lean into friction lately.

Wolf doesn't think "blueberries have no flavor" because wolf has never set foot in a globalized megacorporate grocery store. Try to be even just a tiny bit more like wolf please, if you can?

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Every time more of Gorodischer's work appears in translation, I buy it. I have not once been disappointed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%...

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

A waterfall in Bedford Ohio

Follow your urge to go outside if you can.

All use of generative ai is imoral. It is stolen intellectual property weaponized against humans to benefit billionaires. You'll want to migrate from ChatGPT to your own brain

view uphill of Michigan woods in late February thaw

I come on here and the first 5 posts are people telling me to get off here and do something good. Sometimes it ain't so bad among you kind people. Thank you.

In the woods yesterday, during the thaw

also: yeah, it's hard not to repost everything that feels -- emotionally accurate? satisfying? -- right now. But filter and assess, if you can. Strongly stated is not the same thing as true, and all kinds of propagandists are at work in a moment like this.

Witness in horror and then act in love.

If you don't do the first part, you get crazy, but also, if you ONLY do the first part, you get crazy.

I was biking across my local 4-lane highway, in the crosswalk, with the walk sign, when an Oakland County Sherriff's Dept mega SUV nearly flattened me. I stopped, they stopped, they waved me on, all was well except the terror I had to swallow and the (I hope) utter mortification of that officer

New poem up today at the new journal Electric Pink. 💗 With audio!

www.electric-pink.org/poetry/apost...

Thanks, @marissalingen.bsky.social, for bringing this to my attention

I think about Tom Joad about as often as I'm told other financially solvent middle-aged white men think about the Roman Empire.

But did you know Steinbeck ripped off The Grapes of Wrath from Sanora Babb's WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN, to whom he never gave credit?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanora_...

Please check out the podcast so it's worth Tina's time to have had to deal with narrating all the weird multilingual-sound-combining words I made up! (Also I love this story and I hope you love it too.) (Also also check out @melmulrooney.bsky.social's lovely bouquet of a story while you're at it!)

Michigan senators urge DHS to reverse plans for Romulus detention center Michigan's Democratic senators contend the Romulus warehouse is not zoned for or meant to house people and doubt ICE completed required due diligence.

As ICE tried to move a facility into Romulus, local leaders were shut out every step of the way. ICE has lost the benefit of the doubt from the American people.

This facility should not move forward, and Michiganders need answers. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Our woodland

Find a tree that fits your posture. Sit & use your senses to really ‘know’ the woodland

Don’t sit for a minute, sit for an hour. You start to be aware of things that weren’t there before, smells that appear from nowhere, feel leaf and branch debris on your face.

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Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

Find subscribe links here:

Reckoning's green and spiny Maya style skull guy logo by Monica Robles Corzo and the words #AWP26 booth T714

Reckoning will be at #AWP26 in Baltimore next week, March 3-7! If you're around, please come visit us at booth T714? Meet @cgaubrey.bsky.social, @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social, @ruthjoffre.bsky.social, @martin65.bsky.social, and @andrewkozma.net and chat about creative writing on environmental justice

a fresh loaf of bread is sort of a tragic thing because even as you’re eating that first magnificent slice you know the bread is already getting worse. beauty never lasts. happiness is evanescent

The winter of our discontent? Definitely now.