Well, we did it again, everybody! Another April — and another National/Global Poetry Writing Month — have come and gone.
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AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper
I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...
blackout poetry generator
Turns any web page into a work of procedurally generated blackout poetry!
It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
This post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu...
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
A week of poetry, music, dancing, workshops, exhibits, conversations, food and fellowship, rooted in tradition but focused on today’s rural West.
#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
Cory Doctorow: Rules for Writers
In 1991, I read two documents from Bruce Sterling that changed the course of my professional and literary career. The first was “The Turkey City Lexicon”, which Sterling co-wrote with L…
Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry
Apr 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).
I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write. Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.
The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment
augment.inkFinally finished writing, sorry 😭😅 It was honestly kinda fun to write stuff like this, I might continue by writing about other stuff too :O
ATmosphereConf 2026
whenlifehandsyoulemons.leaflet.pubMight I recommend this poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, which is a response to this sort of comment
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
youtu.bePoetic Research Journal Club
Readings and Resources for the Poetic Research Journal Club
AI as the Catalyst of the New Paradigm of Science? | Cadmus Journal
Reinventing Discovery
