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nfako.bsky.social
he/they // mfa student // loser // MAR something or other // poems forthcoming in West Trade Review, Porcupine, and other wonderful places
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Pay teachers a living wage? Or spend millions on AI to do their job worse? Hmmmm

Reading through an ARC of Leah Barber's The Mirror of Simple Souls and man is it good.

Don't buy shit, write your book

To the Young Who Want To Die, by Gwendolyn Brooks

Very important news. I have a poem coming out in a litmag themed entirely around frogs.

I just wanna go hang out with some cows in a field somewhere.

Pastan

Rilke

YUSEF

Guess I'll be using DDG from now on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My friend Nain is in this! Go listen!

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

"I am waiting for the inauguration of money. I am watching the rights I had growing up get stripped away from kids who know and understand and do better than we could ever have done as children." @ajfields.bsky.social opens our Jan/Feb issue: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

This Corrie Williamson poem is amazing!

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. - Audre Lorde

sometimes you watch someone clothesline themselves on the turnstile at the rec...

Fred Moten

pharoah forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=prGe...

Great teachers tend to be about 30% stand-up comedians

Make it gayer. You can't go wrong

Cool poem poets.org/poem/dear-si...

First acceptance of the year just came in. Two poems. Awesome.

Shout out to Abel, world record holder for being dead the longest

There should be a job where you are a tiny 3 inch tall naked man in the forest who drinks dewdrops off leaves

I know I'm late to what I assume was a party but Kenneth Branagh in Henry V. Damn.

I'll have what she's having

In case you missed it this morning...

Poet's dads are roads

This is a cool poem thediagram.com/24_4/orsi.html

Loved Appropriate so high expectations for this one..

"Tell the jasmine flowers / so small and so white // I don't want to look

Man I love this one.

Everything about this poem is wonderful. One of my favorites. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Old Me: punishing my body out of self-loathing New Me: punishing my body out of self-love