I’m thrilled to have a poem in the Spring 2024 issue of Lake Effect about John Constable’s 1826 painting “The Cornfield,” a painting that’s dear to me, with its own fascinating and tragic story that I’d like to tell here.

wrote about the very stupid conversation over free speech and why we should not fall for it nymag.com/intelligencer/…

For BYLINE, I talked with Janet Frishberg about video games, my guilty pleasure that maybe wouldn't be a guilty pleasure if not for the excess
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Poet and scholar Refaat Alareer has been killed—along with his brother, his sister, and her four children—by an Israeli air strike. lithub.com/poet-and-schol…

Refaat Alareer was killed by Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 today.

In his recent interview in October,
'There is no way out of Gaza. What should we do... drown? Commit mass suicide? Is this what Israel wants? And we're not going to do that.. I am an academic, Probably the toughest thing I have at

Proud to have an essay in this. It's called 'I Struggled a Long Time with Surviving,' which is a quote from one of my favorite games. iykyk.

Hermit crabs, time loops, dossiers, baskets. Join Elissa Washuta as she takes us on a deep dive into form. How much can we mold our story & still have it remain true?What if no form matches our lived experience? How do we find/make new ones that do? Audio:
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This is a thread about my story collection that comes out today, THIS IS SALVAGED, and also about luck in publishing. First of all, here's where you can find it! But that's not the interesting part. (1/x) wwnorton.com/books/97803935…