Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07https://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mtbujpwte22gI feel honored and grateful beyond full expression, that “New and Collected Hell,” alongside “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always,” by Douglas Kearney, and “Reprise,” by Golden, is a finalist for the 2026 Legacy Award from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. www.hurstonwright.org https://www.hurstonwright.org/17 Aug 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbujpwte22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3msvaid4tkk2jVillanelles are hard to write! But I tried to write one, and @newversereview.bsky.social was kind enough to publish it in the Summer 2026 issue. Thank you thank you to everyone there.12 Aug 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvaid4tkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3ms6khrmf7c27Today, the impossible feeling that I might start writing essays--about poetry!--for real.03 Aug 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6khrmf7c27https://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mpyy6jgcls2uFinally I OMGosh have the issue of Oxford Poetry edited by Hall and Hill, and with Hill's poems, written when he was a baby, in it! And I'm sharing the wealth, y'all, as you will find every Hill poem from the issue here! I have been searching for this thing for YEARS!06 Jul 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyy6jgcls2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mp4tjgdwss2yYa boy has an essay on [...] and [...] in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to [...]! Whaaaaaat?! Quite stoked, y’all, quite stoked. Edit: Not a Cambridge Companion to me!25 Jun 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4tjgdwss2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mobeuynrgs2eTomorrow at 7 at Dear Friend Books in Brooklyn I will be reading poems with the brilliant Anna Lena Phillips Bell. Oh I do hope you can come! 343A Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY.14 Jun 2026 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobeuynrgs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mm7qolllls2oWhen I learn that a writer about whose work I had been curious has used AI to help her write her latest, forthcoming novel, that invalidates her previous novels for me, too, and she becomes a writer I will never read. Which is fine! There are so many writers! But I'm bummed about it anyway.19 May 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7qolllls2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mkxqdakags2aThe more I read this, the more I love it: https://www.literarymatters.org/18-2-piano-practice-from-the-german-of-rainer-marie-rilke/03 May 2026 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxqdakags2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mk3htnnq3c2fRIP J.H. Prynne, who meant a world to the art and to me.22 Apr 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3htnnq3c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mj2xu72an22sI've been working on a group of poems about someone who is the last non-plant living being on Earth and I am so grateful to Wayne Holloway-Smith and everybody at The Poetry Review for publishing some poems from the group and I really hope you like this one. https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/from-last-on-earth/09 Apr 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2xu72an22shttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mfttiyrbwc2sI wrote a sonnet about his hands. And I’m grateful to Ken Gordon at The Sonneteer for publishing it. And I hope you like it, I really do. And I’m sorry for making you think about his hands. https://thesonneteer.substack.com/p/jones-very-sonnet-on-the-mirror-stage27 Feb 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfttiyrbwc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mdbbip7pmc2bLast year, Omnidawn published a chapbook I wrote, "Two Appearances After the Resurrection," and I'm so grateful! If you want to hear amazing poets, and also me, read from books Omnidawn published at around the same time: today, 1 PM Pacific! I hope to see you there! https://app.gopassage.com/events/omnidawn-fall-202525 Jan 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbbip7pmc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mbtr2njg422hI use this video to teach my students about amphibrachs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5YqFKjTCY07 Jan 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtr2njg422hhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mbh6qqlgfk2lAnd, breaking into a canter, I set off on the long road south Which was to take me to so many strange places, That room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, That room in Cambridge, this room in Cambridge02 Jan 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbh6qqlgfk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3mbf3pmy2nc2aThe poet is necessary for the creation of the poem, and (except, perhaps, with regard to the poem intended only for performance by its author) irrelevant to its functioning.01 Jan 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbf3pmy2nc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3ma6vj7r4xs2x"[M]eter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order—rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all structure—are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter writ large."17 Dec 2025 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma6vj7r4xs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m7xwvhzx5s2yOnassis.14 Dec 2025 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xwvhzx5s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m7kzsnjzk22pJessica Laser's review of "Only Sing" is wonderful and I am so grateful for it! https://kismet-mag.com/reviews/panic-rules09 Dec 2025 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kzsnjzk22phttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m7kskr3dqc2yToday is the publication date for John Berryman’s "Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs." A few days ago, I read the book for pleasure for the first time. And though I can’t speak to the quality of my introduction, the poems are wonderful. I think you’ll like them.09 Dec 2025 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kskr3dqc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m7iieibzec25Thank God I am neither marketable nor likable.08 Dec 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7iieibzec25https://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m6a4xo6g322pIn the--excruciating!--throes of trying to decide whether to keep using Garamond, or switch to EB Garamond.22 Nov 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6a4xo6g322phttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m4u2w63ujc2lZohran!05 Nov 2025 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4u2w63ujc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m4l53dbfv22kHi! Just in case you already have my Gmail address, which I'm phasing out, and want my new email address, it's the same as my Gmail address but with @proton.me at the end of it instead of @gmail.com. That's all! I hope you're having a good weekend!01 Nov 2025 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4l53dbfv22khttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3m2c6quifos2wOn Thursday, October 9th at 7PM I’ll be reading at the Book Culture on W 112th with Phillis Levin and Rosanna Warren in celebration of Rosanna’s brilliant new book, Hindsight. I hope hope hope to see you there! Info and registration here: https://www.bookculture.com/event/112th-poetry-reading-phillis-levin-shane-mccrae-and-rosanna-warren03 Oct 2025 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2c6quifos2whttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3lxk7heypt22dMy gosh do I love the ending of this Dream Song from "Only Sing" (obliquely, one of Berryman's many Elegies for Delmore Schwartz). Thank you @elizabethscanlon.bsky.social and everybody at @ampoetryreview.bsky.social for publishing it. https://aprweb.org/poems/long-distance29 Aug 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxk7heypt22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3lxa4tdsbd22pHowdy, y'all! So, I mentioned a few weeks ago that my son makes rad videos about weather. Well, he has now created a fundraiser to help him fund that work, as well as his life goals in general. Thanks for taking a look. https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-nicholas-education-stability-career-fund25 Aug 2025 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxa4tdsbd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3lwhbfxmfgs24It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.15 Aug 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhbfxmfgs24https://bsky.app/profile/akasomeguy.bsky.social/post/3lvgcvia7tk2iMy son makes hella interesting videos about extreme weather events. Here's one about an outbreak of fire tornadoes, which I didn't even know were a thing before he told me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyZlL4-8Os02 Aug 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:oenymfukecdmaa4p456ckflp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvgcvia7tk2i