@JoyceCarolOates You don’t change your name from Beetlejuice.

@LousyLibrarian And truly not many things are goid things.

A fine review of my Autobiography of a Book at rain taxi. Yay!

@broadwaybabyto You know Trump is always talking about himself when he accuses others people of bad behavior.

@shaneschick Make it really bad, maybe really, really bad. Then make it better.

@stephenRB4 There are some in the White House like that, too.

@bernardtjoy But you’re too busy doing other things?

@brclothwrites Banning one thing forever

If you run a literary contest, but none of the entrants are of high enough quality to deserve the prize, what do you? Run the unwinnable contest every year and collect the entry fees without ever having to pay out.

@Katie_Dozier I have been told that an editor can read a poem or story without changing the submission status at all. Presumably that means your writing can be rejected (or accepted) without ever passing through a period “in progress.” Submittable can be a black box.

@JaredWeegmann @TheRickWilson There’s something hilarious about eating plums?

@stephenRB4 I call it late for dinner.

@JaredWeegmann @TheRickWilson Now I know who ate the plums that were in the icebox and that I was saving for breakfast — it was Chelsea f-ing Clinton.

A essay on the writing of my Autobiography of a Book is now up at periodicities, an online journal of poetry and poetics.

@Katie_Dozier O the precision!

My latest Heart Demons letter uses a dialogue between two voices to figure out what’s good and what’s bad.

@rebeccawwrites Think of the doubt as another character in the Rebecca story.

@GaysForTrump24 @Madonna You think?