Nightshining + The Eighth Moon (Milkweed Eds 2024 + 2025). Upstater. Art writer. Essayist. Rural rabble-rouser. Socialist. Member Margaretville VFD.https://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3mbtp3np3xc2lThis plant threatens capitalism's penchant for wealth held in real estate & is probably the world's largest vascular plant & the world's largest single female organism. EG finding my way to love knotweed for @thebaffler.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtp3np3xc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3mbtotnbyi22lSnow, snowmaking, ski racing! All in the Believer's sports issue. Elvia on snowmaking me on the racing... [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtotnbyi22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lwwtffwhps27I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2025 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwtffwhps27https://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lw2ldbfby22yDaniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2025 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw2ldbfby22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lvqmssze5k2b🙏🙏🙏 @tissetakagi.bsky.social from the side of the mountain I live on! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqmssze5k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lseb3vs7nk2wTo which I add one of the rabbits rabbiting about today in the heatwave in our shit-show world. (Also rank Mamdani No. 1 and please don't rank Cuomo)... [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jun 2025 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lseb3vs7nk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lsbiips2ws23(Also in this issue of BOMB: Ocean Vuong interviewed by Bjork, new work by Catherine Lacey and Ed Park-- eg the issue is amazing and I feel lucky to be in its pages.... ) [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbiips2ws23https://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3loqg6ppz322h"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2025 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqg6ppz322hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3lk6tvym6vk2lSmall reminder: North America's largest rodents are waving the red flag. My epistolary response and support for my beaver-fever heroes🦫🦫✊: Beavers Are Socialist | New York Review of Architecture https://nyra.nyc/articles/beavers-are-socialist12 Mar 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6tvym6vk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3ljv7q4fqwc26Just found the telegram my parents sent the White House and Justice Dept after this: “ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO PROTECT THESE PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO ASK ONLY WHAT MOST OF US TAKE FOR GRANTED.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Mar 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljv7q4fqwc26https://bsky.app/profile/jenkabat.bsky.social/post/3ljv7gv63q226"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.08 Mar 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:ezmbxbbx56dfriibbbeeecv2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljv7gv63q226