Judith Vollmer

God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

“Tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that spreads through the air, is considered such a serious public health risk that there are state laws specifically related to controlling it. The law makes clear that 'investigation is not optional'...” coloradosun.com/2026/08/07/a...

"All told, the economy has added 542,000 jobs over Trump’s 19-month second term, a dramatic decline from the nearly 2.7 million jobs that were added over the previous 19 months under President Joe Biden..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

"For Our Students Reading the Odyssey" by Brenda Hillman. From her 2022 book In a Few Minutes Before Later.

BREAKING: LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors announce they are seeking extradition of Tate brothers from US on rape, sex trafficking charges.

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

Last night’s reading at #whitewhalebookstore with remarkable poets Carrie Salerno and Anne Marie Macari. Special thanks to events coordinator @metamorphosis.pgh and host for the evening Amari

Wonderful book!!

May 30, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Tonight / 6 pm / May 28: Join the CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS & AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS in celebrating the PGH book launch of Meredith Nnoka's LES PORTES. Meredith will be joined by renowned poet and 2025 CAAPP Prize judge Cameron Awkward-Rich. 2007 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Honored to be in this newest issue:

Great issue—grateful to be here.

We’re 5 and 3⚾️🏴‍☠️🖤💛woohoo!

Cozy up with the Loneliness issue. Now available: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

Glad to be here, among so many others!

Contributors include @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social @kurtandersen.bsky.social @poetandrewgarvin.bsky.social @alextretbar.bsky.social @jtreev.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @scottcairnspoet.bsky.social @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social and more.

Thanks to @rhinopoetry.bsky.social and guest editor Naoko Fujimoto for including this review of Kristen Berget's luminous poetry in Kathleen Maris Paltrineri's translation. It's a whole translation issue--translators, have fun with it! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/kris...

Today’s the official pub day—reading @pittsburglectures.org this Thursday March 12, 7 pm.! Thanks White Whale Bookstore and 💜💞@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

Today’s the official pub day—reading @pittsburglectures.org this Thursday March 12, 7 pm.! Thanks White Whale Bookstore and 💜💞@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

In one week—March 12, 7 p.m.🥰

In two weeks! THE PAVESE STONE launches at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, March 12, 7 p.m. @pghartslectures.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social Books will be available—thanks White Whale Books!

I’m excited to launch my new book, THE PAVESE STONE, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Thursday March 12, 7 p.m.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I’m excited to launch my new book, THE PAVESE STONE, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Thursday March 12, 7 p.m.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Ukrainian-born French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, Rythme colour, 1946 #womensart

👇👇👇👇👇👇 "Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to 'overturn election results in certain states,' and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data..." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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Make it viral.

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If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012,  jacquard tapestry #WomensArt

MORE from Jack Smith: "The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts."

Lantern Parade (late 19thc) by Danish painter Anne Sophie Petersen (1845-1910) #WomensArt

Trump just attacked a woman reporter for the sixth time in the span of a month.

Please don't lose focus of what's on the ground: russia's targeted attacks continue to plunge Ukrainians into severe power outages, aiming to freeze us this winter. Here's what I experience today. The Int'l Criminal Court called russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid a crime against humanity.

coming in 2026 from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social THE PAVESE STONE I’m feeling it!

Democrats' 2025 election wins go beyond the big races: In Pennsylvania, Dems swept the top "row offices" in Bucks County, electing the county's first-ever Democratic DA and defeating an incumbent Republican sheriff. Dems notched victories in county executive races in Erie, Lehigh and Northampton.

Couldn't we use a breath of fresh air from abroad? If you're in Tucson on Thurs., 11/6, come to a reading of translated literature! I'll be reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer and translator whose poems focus on themes of exile and love. Friends & colleagues reading as well!

For 10th time, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is in blackout now. russia is a nuclear terrorist who keeps Europe's largest nuclear power plant hostage and no one gives a sh*t to do anything. Complete impotence of international law. Radiation has no borders www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“crime in the White House” —Neil Young

Labor Day. I thought of the lines from Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, as I contemplated the poster of Donald Trump that now decorate the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. I thought of labors of creation, and of destruction. snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...

Surprise! Our Fall 2025 season just got a little bit bigger. We're excited to announce that AJB will publish Judith Vollmer's 7th poetry collection, THE PAVESE STONE, in March 2026. Welcome to AJB, @jtreev.bsky.social 💜 Visit buff.ly/rxzyv1F for more info!

coming in 2026 from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social THE PAVESE STONE I’m feeling it!

Sen. Jon Ossoff has signaled support for impeaching Trump. On Trump's meme coin last week: “When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him, there is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense."

'Days become longer' by Olga Kvasha, contemporary Ukrainian painter #WomensArt

Today's Featured Poet: Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.

Sen. Van Hollen says the Salvadoran government will NOT facilitate a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and that it doesn't plan to release him because "the Trump administration is paying … the government of El Salvador."