🚨NEW: Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts has announced his run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Texas. He is also a 28-year Air Force veteran and served as the International Space Nation Commander. RETWEET if you support Terry Virts as he runs to flip Texas Blue!

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission's multi-billion-dollar mechanism for expanding phone and internet access to rural and low-income communities. cbsn.ws/46jsEot

“MIRROR NATION offers the best of what poetry can provide—a new way of seeing. Once you have read it, it will live in you and with you for the foreseeable future.” Don Mee Choi’s collection (Wave Books) is this year’s Firecracker Award winner in Poetry! wavepoetry.com/products/mirro…

Happy #CanadaDay to the very fine press, IceFloe Press -- thank you for all the good work you do internationally! 🇨🇦🍁🍁🍁 I have some poems appearing in upcoming collections--hopefully--which were first published with you. 🙏😊🙏

My broadside from Ethel, a Micro Press a unique companion piece to FATHER TECTONIC: (Art & text on vellum.) Very limited availability. #art & #poem #hybrid, "To Everyone With Father" by Robert Frede Kenter. Production, incl. haptic sewing, layout, publisher & presence: Sara Lefsyk 😎

It has taken me too long to post about the arrival of these four beautiful handmade books from Ethel, a Micro Press Hybrid, experimental, devastating-wondrous-thought provoking work from RobertFredeKenter Dr. Katie Schaag 🏳️‍🌈💅🔮✨ Ali & Jenny Irish (who I can’t find here!)

RIP Connie Francis 🕯️ youtube.com/watch?v=7EQX70… Marian Christie Vikki C. Moder_poet_Tim Katy W Ethel, a Micro Press Moder_poet_Tim Paul Brookes Joseph Schreiber Jacob Wren Laura Kerr moirajsaucerPoet Julian Day Rhona Greene Gayle J. Greenlea🟧🌻🏳️‍🌈@GJGreenlea.bsky.social Catherine Graham The Winged Moon Magazine SUBS OPEN 1 JUNE zach

From summer issue of US based journal, Cable Street, Father Tectonic is a 'summer reads' feature. An honor. A truly special journal, Issue 9 also includes an amazing essay on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong-o; & poetry, art, and sundry. Father T. is published by and available at Ethel, a Micro Press❤️‍🔥

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Can Americans love poetry again? An article by AM Juster. A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton April 2026)

Congratulations to Hussain Ahmed, whose collection BLUE EXODUS has been shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize, awarded by Arrowsmith Press! The winner will be selected by Ishion Hutchinson & announced in October. Read the announcement at arrowsmithpress.com/walcott.

Wrote this collection about Ogun Owo, the grief of unexplainable disappearances happening in Nigeria—ritual killings, human body parts black markets, soka, etc. I decided to tell the story we Nigerians are pushing under the carpet. 1994 to present day.

What a delightful response from Tom D’Evelyn to come home to on a Sunday night... 🙏🙏 Thank you to Shearsman for getting it to the US so quickly! (And hi, lovely Seren Books 😊🤗x)

Really exciting news - small clinical trial finds larazotide safe and effective at clearing spike antigen in children! #LongCovid

Multiple data sources show that COVID-19 rates are gradually rising across the country. Some states, including Florida and Hawaii, are seeing significant activity. To see how the summer COVID wave is impacting your community, visit pophive.org/respiratory-di….

For #SealeyChallenge /1 book a day #Day1 Re-issue of Canadian poet Erin Moure's Pillage Laud Book*hug Press (experimental computer generated prompts circa 1998 meet queer eros poetics.) Wrestling intimate meaning from structural systems. See: Open Books: A Poem Emporium #gaza fundraiser

This is pretty fucking insane.

You can now order Suzy Eynon’s Being Seen! ethelzine.com/shop/being-see… Suzy Eynon is a writer from Arizona. She's the author of the prose chapbook Commuting (Ghost City Press summer series) and the novella Terrestrial (Malarkey Books). She lives in Seattle. Suzy Eynon

BREAKING: CDC REPORTS US HAS LARGEST SURGE IN COVID POSITIVITY SINCE JAN 1, 2022! 7 REGIONS HAVE THE HIGHEST RATE, OR SPIKE SINCE SUMMER 2024, AND ALL INCREASED AS OF AUG 2.

Jakky Bangkong-Obi for Day 9 of The Sealey Challenge A beautiful chapbook from Akashic Books ongoing New Generation African Poets series. Jakky's work explores intergenerational love, relationships, ecologies, family dynamics, a dialectic of hope, pain and epiphanies.