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The mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #86, the emptiness issue. It features my anti-fascist incantation "spell," along with poetry by Sonya Taaffe and Jennifer Crow, fiction by Devan Barlow, and much more. I'm delighted, as always, to have my work in this venerable magazine, and, especially, that my poem shares a page with Sonya's. (I'm less delighted that anti-fascist poetry is so damn relevant in 2026.)

The mail also brought a CD of Jane Birkin's final album, the gorgeous and haunting Oh! Pardon tu dormais... (2020) which I heard for the first time a couple of weeks ago and have been obsessed with ever since.

I wish I could buy a DVD of the horror romcom musical Your Monster (2024); I have lost track of how many times I've watched it (six times, maybe?). It's not often that a recent film captures my imagination the way this one has. I'm hoping Criterion will eventually give it the treatment it deserves, and I can't wait to see what director/writer Caroline Lindy does next.