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Kevin Lichty

@kclichty.bsky.social
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Writing instructor, author of THE CIRCLE THAT FITS (Driftwood Press 2022)…occasional runner.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Psst... we're looking for novellas and poetry collections... you should submit yours to us... you even get paid upfront and get royalties... just gonna slip that the link to submit right here: driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit
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Driftwood Press Submission Manager
Hello! We're so excited that you're considering sending work to us. Driftwood Press is an independent magazine publisher & press. We publish chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, comics,…
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Man, sometimes you don’t even realize how hot your feet are until you take your socks off.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hey, zombie apocalypse writers/fans. Switzerland has over 330,000 nuclear bunkers, enough for all 9 million residents in case of catastrophic event (like nuclear war).
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Big news!
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You known it’s hot when your biodegradable straws biodegrade by the time you get them from the cart into your car…
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A sunflower seed just showed up mysteriously on my leg…
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
So apparently Safari will only allow you to have 500 tabs open at one time (do not ask me how I know this).
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Don't sit on that novella or poetry collection — send it to Driftwood Press instead! Use the link in our bio for details. #callforsubmissions
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I was interrogated on the whereabouts of Pac-Man this morning.
Light and shadow in the shape of a Pac-Man ghost
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Maybe one of the best anti-AI statements I think I’ve read comes from Roland Barthes: “I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe, and I think.”
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
On tools: “that which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace” ALL TOMORROW’s PARTIES—a lot of supposed “tool builders” right now should take heed this advice.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My new syllabus epigraph (and counter-AI pedagogical philosophy) “I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe, I think” Roland Barthes
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
How about it @tacobell.bsky.social? A sponsorship is in order.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative offers grants for writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Found @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Our Missing Hearts at a free little library at a municipal park in Clarkdale, AZ and feel like it should be mandatory reading.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This American Life is an absolute must listen this week.
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Want to submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology? Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sharing my favorite Christmas themed podcast episode as I’m listening to it for the millionth time (get to the end it is worth it). overcast.fm/+AAVy3rfIN2I
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109 A Christmas Carol (SNES, 1993) — Imaginary Advice
After all these years, we finally get to see the “good ending” of the 1993 SNES classic A Christmas Carol Written, produced and performed by Ross Sutherland. Support the show: Become a patreon & get a...
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“If commerce is completely unfettered and unsupported by watchful governance and culture, it easily becomes crime…” Stewart Brand THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW. Brand et al looking at 2025 from the lens of the late-90s.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Horror and thriller writers, Amazon lockers can pick up and broadcast radio signals!!!
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I have not mentioned this person, but I want to throw my support behind Olga Ravn. Go read The Employees and The Wax Child
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poetry for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The savagery as these two associatiative memories merge! From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
She remembered the old man showing her how you kill a catfish. Catfish had a hole in its skull, covered with skin; you take something stiff and skinny, a wire, even a broomstraw did it, and you just slip it in…

She remembered Cleveland, ordinary mind of day before it was time to get working, sitting up in Lanette’s, looking at a magazine.  Found this picture of Angie laughing in a restaurant with some other people, everybody pretty but bey me that it was like they had this glow, not really in the photograph but it was there anyway, something you could feel. Look, she said to Lanette, showing her the picture, they got this glow. 

It’s called money, Lanette said. 

It’s call money. You just slip it in.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“The imagination is revolutionary or it is nothing at all.”
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I loved this book. Everyone should read!
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“The mind can only poke at a text a little bit, further poking breaks the surface tension and then the mind is just poking at the ripples…when the mind/text relation gets ripply I experience a corresponding disturbance to my instrument, my writing soul, that I have learned to treat as dangerous”
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
No one will make a lot of money in the process. But it's fair and feels less extractive than more corporate models. Authors need to abandon the linear thinking of being "promoted" to big 5--do your big books with big publishers and give their weird, less sellable stuff to smaller places.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A massive thank you to @samsanders.bsky.social for giving me a new obsession, which is the first song (Big Mike’s) on this video of Dijon’s Absolutely album youtu.be/FEkOYs6aWIg?...
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Dijon - Absolutely (Film)
YouTube video by Dijon
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 20/08/2025
Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
Lost/Found Submissions! Looking to home your out-of-print book? Try us at Lost/Found, a new imprint at Split/Lip Press. Rolling submissions begin on 9/3!
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Danger zone III: 113 outside. Your chest in perpetual state of near cardiac emergency. A dog runs at you from across the street and you actually pause and calculate what would be worse—to get bitten or to run—before you run.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Danger zone II: 110 outside, you walk into shade and blurt out loud “that is fucking amazing”
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
You know you are in the danger zone when it’s 113 outside and a hot wind blows and your body thinks “oh, that’s a nice spring breeze!”
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This timeline just gets more and more dystopian every day: www.bbc.com/news/technol...
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How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen
The case of Jaswant Singh Chail raises questions about the safety of AI-powered chatbots.
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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's here! An enlightened summer reading list ✨ with fiction, poetry & creative nonfiction recs from ASU English's creative luminaries, including Mitchell Jackson, @kclichty.bsky.social‬, @nushpowell.bsky.social‬, @beelzebebout.bsky.social + more. Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities
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Cool reads, hot days: Reading recs from ASU’s English department | ASU News
If you’re looking for book recommendations from folks with serious writing cred, look no further.Faculty from Arizona State University’s Department of English — with its concentration of Pulitzer, Gug...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our Adrift Short Story Contest is OPEN! Guest judge is Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love. Use the link in our bio to submit! #writingcontest
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social
A stack of books showing the so far complete Cities of the Weft series by Alex Pheby: Mordew, Malarkoi, and Waterblack
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This benefactor’s mustache game is strong:
A bronze wire likeness of a rich white man with a rather exaggerated and bushy “English?” or “handlebar?” Mustache depicted
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Desert spring
A brilliant red and yellow cactus flower bloom.
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
LAST CHANCE: In honor of AWP, we'd like to offer 10% off books in our shop! Use the code 'AWP2025' to get your discount + we're now offering free shipping on orders over $100. Thank you for supporting our small press! #shopsmallbusiness
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Don't sit on that novella or poetry collection — send it to Driftwood Press instead! Use the link in our bio for details. #callforsubmissions
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’ve often said William Gibson was my gateway to literary fiction and this ending to “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” is a great example—the quietness of the moment, technology as both connection and disconnection, the lyricism of the moment—one scarcely realizes they are a reading a dystopic future.
A hologram has this quality: recovered and illuminated, each fragment will reveal the whole image of the rose. Falling toward delta, he sees himself the rose, each of his scattered fragments revealing a whole he’ll never know—stolen credit cards — a burned out suburb — planetary conjunctions of a stranger — a tank burning on the highway — a flat packet of drugs — a switchblade honed on concrete, thin as pain. 

Thinking: we’re each other’s fragments, and was it always this way? That instant of a European trip, deserted in the grey sea of wiped tape—is she closer now, or more real, for his having been there?
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
20th Century archeology. South Phoenix, 2025
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Year four of only buying books from small and independent publishers and using the libraries for the rest of my reading. Here is my list for 2024: AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF @taraisonwriter.bsky.social IG Publishing Abracadabra, Sunshine Dexter L Booth Red Hen Press
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
In Phoenix, every day of October has set a new record for heat so far…
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
When I heard Percival Everett wrote a retelling of Huck Finn I knew I had to read it; and it’s every bit as good as I thought it could be and more. Just a masterful reexamination of the source material.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
This piece taught me that there didn’t have to be any space between fiction and poetry and The Bulb Collective graciously is giving it a second home: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/this-mo...
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This Mother - Kevin Lichty — Bulb Culture Collective
The tag on the Persian rug in our living room said Made in Pakistan, because Persian rugs made by Persians were dangerous things.
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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
This is one of the first stories I ever published. So happy for it to get a second life here: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/ode-to-...
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Ode to Guthrie - Kevin Lichty — Bulb Culture Collective
PFC Charlie Goodkind sat in a VA clinic examination room at Walter Reed Medical Center waiting patiently to hear the word “no” come out of his doctor's mouth.
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