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longrules.bsky.social
Author of two books of poems, Nine Acres (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021), and a book of essays, Joy (or Something Darker but Like It): Poetry and Parenting (University of Michigan, 2024). Also a runner, musician and cocktail maker.
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Zelenskyy should host @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social . This week. A redo of the oval office insanity. He'd be amazing

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

Cyberstuck

Mexico should change the name to El Golfo del Pene Pequeno de Trump

You know if Musk wants to go to Mars so bad that seems like a great solution. Let's put him on a rocket tomorrow

This is my dog, just sleeping in a birthday hat

Ok, if we're on the Pequod at this point, is Musk Fedallah?

This is the best book of poems I've read in a while. @floodeditions.bsky.social never disappoints, I know, but this is special

Que tengamos todos en este momento los huevos del presidente de Colombia.....

Amazing

Don't believe the BS you hear about how students aren't interested in the Humanities. They might think they aren't interested because everybody in their lives--parents, grandparents, the media--tells them the Humanities are "useless," but then they get their minds blown in their HUMA gen eds.

Tonight's activities involved a rooster wrapping paper challenge

I think it is funny how Celsius people act like their temps are actually cold. Like, my dude, -11 is still above 10 F. Settle down