Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC. > Site: rosswhite.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlw7nezfrc2zNOW PAY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw7nezfrc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlw4qlufqs2cTimes New Roman Arial Garamond Gibson Minion Pro Comic Sans [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw4qlufqs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlw4jpxzos2cFinally open. As a reader, this is like Christmas and birthday rolled into one. Send your manuscripts, dear ones... I'm so excited to see what you have been working on. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw4jpxzos2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlvij5s52s2rTax every sports wager. Tax every AI token. Tax anything Meta does. Tax everything concentrating wealth in the 1% and destroying lives & habitats & democracy.15 May 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvij5s52s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlu46lmt3k2kI feel bad for the people who don't have a third place. My third place has been meeting Thursdays at 5 for 30+ years and it remains one of the best things in my life.15 May 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlu46lmt3k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlr2axvldk2xpsst psst psst [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr2axvldk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlqtjt4irs24YES I am complaining about a thing YES doing/going to/interacting with/tolerating that thing that was a choice I made NO I am not complaining about the choice, just the thing BECAUSE13 May 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqtjt4irs24https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlqs43zjqs24I think way too much about Americans' financial situation and I'm not an elected official13 May 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqs43zjqs24https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlp4l3ntqk2jsort of amazed at how many commercials now end with someone walking away from people and looking dead-eyed at their phones13 May 2026 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp4l3ntqk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlei2uai4c26If you were in a profession where they told you, "Hey, between your fifteenth and twenty-fifth years at this job, we aren't going to give you a raise, ever," would you stay? Obviously not! So why does NC chase off its veteran, committed teachers? https://www.dpi.nc.gov/documents/fbs/budget/fy26webschedulespdf/download?attachment08 May 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlei2uai4c26https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mldpeyoegc2hI bought a bag labeled Granny Smith but when I got it home it was full of Golden Delicious and if that doesn't fill my heart with murder nothing will08 May 2026 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldpeyoegc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mlcduyat622gjust finished a required security training where it was evident from the design that even the people making the training felt it was bs07 May 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcduyat622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3ml4mfm36ok24I know there's no such thing as an honest politician but I sure wouldn't mind if a comet were to strike some of the exceptionally dishonest ones05 May 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4mfm36ok24https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3ml4dkgsnes22yes yes yes make art make noise05 May 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dkgsnes22https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3ml2jwq5pck2wMy Advanced Poetry students handed in chapbooks today, and friends, I could not be more proud. This is just a sampling.04 May 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2jwq5pck2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mky3hxx7gs2sI do the back end for several websites, and let me tell you, scammers are first-rate a-holes who need to eff right off03 May 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mky3hxx7gs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkxecwijfs2vyou guys, I just did the thing: revised a poem for an hour, made change after change after change, tried this, tried that, then at the end of the hour, had changed one pair of commas to em-dashes and that was the only change that stuck03 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxecwijfs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkpyzof36s2jI'm looking forward to the pizza where the crust is stuffed with a whole burrito30 Apr 2026 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpyzof36s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkievdtp3c2iCincinnati, you may be an excellent city, but I will never, ever, in a million years learn to spell you correctly. Also: disparate and analogous stump me every time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkievdtp3c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkg27hwi4k2t [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkg27hwi4k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkfew4bbwc23A taco truck at Bread Loaf [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfew4bbwc23https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mkbbfb7i5k23This is such an honor. Thanks, Melissa, for building a lesson plan around my poem! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Apr 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbbfb7i5k23https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjyu5k6ghc2hI love when I get to see little pieces of my upcoming book. It's not due until February 2027 but already the publisher is sharing little tidbits with me and I'm squealing! Will share with you all when I can!21 Apr 2026 11:15 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyu5k6ghc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjysoi6rnc24New issue of Four Way Review is up: fourwayreview.com/issue-35/ https://fourwayreview.com/issue-35/21 Apr 2026 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjysoi6rnc24https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjun73zves2eI've got two poems in the newest DEEP SOUTH: https://deepsouthmag.com/2026/04/15/two-poems-by-ross-white/19 Apr 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjun73zves2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjsuwovxic2fI have to believe that I will recover from this flu before 2027 but the data so far doesn’t look good19 Apr 2026 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsuwovxic2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjp6sxb2c422Now I want a primetime Muppet medical drama immediately [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp6sxb2c422https://bsky.app/profile/rosswhite.com/post/3mjf6se3afs2uno false idols, amirite?13 Apr 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:3gpuoa4ifalnw6orzxusgvhb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf6se3afs2u