This Week's Writing 7/26/25

new chapbook! fuck Angus King! and more!

Muppet, my brother’s cat, making a special guest appearance here.

As usual this week was more or less awful. Here’s what I published, though.

Politics

CBS didn’t cave; it likes fascism. (Public Notice)

Why is E. Jean Carroll left out of Epstein coverage? (EIH)

Fucking fight, you useless fucks. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Open Mike Eagle and heartbreaking nerd rap. (Chicago Reader)

Bernadette Mayer takes the eye out of the sonnet. (Splice Today)

I Know What You Did Last Summer and hating kids. (EIH)

(Don’t) think like Steve Harvey. (EIH)

You’ve got your genre in my lit fic, Mr. Norrell. (EIH)

Poetry

I’ve got a fun new chapbook called Spamtoum! (above/ground)

Reverent historical poem. (New Feathers)

George Washington Is Still The King

I cannot tell a lie I
enslaved a lot of people and
whipped them and separated
mothers from their children I
made money from it.

The cherry tree thing was bullshit though.
I wouldn’t do that.

Short weird thing. (dadakuku)

sack of take it
gas bill
and a thousand pounds of
snot
there goes my arm

Cheerful poem. (Five Fleas)

Despair

The to-do list keeps telling me
that I have done absolutely nothing.