This Week's Writing 5/3/25

Lots of bleak posts on politics...and a new poetry book.

Kitty close up!

Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Trump’s polling has already collapsed. (Public Notice)

Elon Musk is murdering millions. (EIH)

What would it mean for Trump to lose? (EIH)

Did Trump voters want deportation? They did. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

De Palma’s SNAKE EYES, an extroverted ode to sleaze. (Splice Today)

Etran de L’Air’s 100% Saharan guitar. (Chicago Reader)

Wallace Stevens and the whiteness that is there. (EIH)

Poetry

My new book of sonnets, GNARLY THUMBS, is out from Anxiety Press!! (EIH)

An SF short story about the founding fathers. (Lothlorien)

A poem about the day getting the better of me. (Synchronized Chaos)

Dog poem. (Five Fleas)

Good Dog

The good dog has one job:
do not step in poop.

She failed.

Me reading from some of my poetry. (Periodicities)