George Yatchisin
@gyatchisin.bsky.social
Santa Barbara Poet Laureate 2025-27
Write, read, interview, eat, drink, cook, repeat
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always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
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Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves
Most Of The Blame......
Most Of The Blame......
January 16, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves
Most Of The Blame......
Most Of The Blame......
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ICE are paid agitators.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
ICE are paid agitators.
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There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
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We're going to need a bigger Hague.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
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In case you needed one more reason to loathe Russ Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget is dismantling a center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Gov. Jared Polis warns that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR puts "public safety at risk."
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December 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In case you needed one more reason to loathe Russ Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget is dismantling a center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research.
Stick through it to the very insightful end.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Stick through it to the very insightful end.
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
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According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
My latest essay for California Review of Books is Halloween-time appropriate, a spooky tale about sisters in 18th century England who just might turn into dogs.... (Plus, sighthounds on the cover--how could I resist!) calirb.com/the-hounding...
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Holt Review by George Yatchisin Xenobe Purvis can write spooky, but then there are all sorts of haunts, aren’t there? Her debut novel The Hounding, set during the 18th-century in Little Nettlebed …
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October 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My latest essay for California Review of Books is Halloween-time appropriate, a spooky tale about sisters in 18th century England who just might turn into dogs.... (Plus, sighthounds on the cover--how could I resist!) calirb.com/the-hounding...
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As I write in my newsletter today, there are several reasons why the media is utterly failing in its coverage of Charlie Kirk. These are the big three, however. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
As I write in my newsletter today, there are several reasons why the media is utterly failing in its coverage of Charlie Kirk. These are the big three, however. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
I was given the great honor to guest edit the new issue of ANACAPA REVIEW! Check out these terrific poems. anacapareview.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I was given the great honor to guest edit the new issue of ANACAPA REVIEW! Check out these terrific poems. anacapareview.com
Ah, the writer’s life. Happy to learn that artistic endeavors were rewarded on St. George’s Day, though.
Writers gettin' paid less today than they were 650 damn years ago.
![From Geoffrey Chaucer's Wikipedia page: "A possible indication that his career as a writer was appreciated came when Edward III granted Chaucer "a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life" for some unspecified task.[28] This was an unusual grant, but given on a day of celebration, Saint George's Day, 1374, when artistic endeavours were traditionally rewarded, it is assumed to have been for another early poetic work."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vevk6lgrt6o4wncrbp7joij3/bafkreia4v7fa7kcbjskx2h4gbqc3eczmkao6ekcp37xqvkifvcadeppwxq@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ah, the writer’s life. Happy to learn that artistic endeavors were rewarded on St. George’s Day, though.
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Same with this
August 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Same with this
It's been a crazy run of acceptances for me lately, so here's another just published poem. Thanks to Jackdaw Review for including "Duplex for the Days of Dusk" in your new issue. www.jackdawpress.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's been a crazy run of acceptances for me lately, so here's another just published poem. Thanks to Jackdaw Review for including "Duplex for the Days of Dusk" in your new issue. www.jackdawpress.com
Welcome to my Poet Laureate project Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Now I have the first 8 segments posted on my website Podcast page. Go and listen up, because we need poetry more than ever. georgeyatchisin.com/podcast/
Podcast
One project I’ve begun as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, 2025-2027, is Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that originally airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 somewhere around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Each ...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Welcome to my Poet Laureate project Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Now I have the first 8 segments posted on my website Podcast page. Go and listen up, because we need poetry more than ever. georgeyatchisin.com/podcast/
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A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...
Breaking Out of Los Angeles
This is serious enough to break in on the weekend. You’ve seen...
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June 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...
Thanks for publishing my poem.
'We required enemies to keep us whole...'
In just under 160 words, poet @gyatchisin.bsky.social dives into a nation's so-called good ol' days. New work in the #Bully issue, out now. #prosepoetry
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In just under 160 words, poet @gyatchisin.bsky.social dives into a nation's so-called good ol' days. New work in the #Bully issue, out now. #prosepoetry
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Where Prospect Met Crescent by George Yatchisin | The Woolf
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May 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thanks for publishing my poem.
Pleased the Indy has agreed to publish my installation poem as SB Poet Laureate. They always called city symphony films "poetic," so figured you could just do one as poetry itself. www.independent.com/2025/04/24/f...
From the Pen of Our New Poet Laureate
An ode to Santa Barbara from its newly anointed supreme scribe
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April 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Pleased the Indy has agreed to publish my installation poem as SB Poet Laureate. They always called city symphony films "poetic," so figured you could just do one as poetry itself. www.independent.com/2025/04/24/f...
Thanks, Indy--my journalistic home for 30 years now--and Leslie Dinaberg for the sweet story and Ingrid Bostrom for taking photos of me that don't make me feel too bad. It was a day I will cherish. www.independent.com/2025/04/22/g...
George Yatchisin Is Named Santa Barbara’s 11th Poet Laureate
Longtime ‘Independent’ contributor joins a “League of Laureates” that includes Melinda Palacio, Emma Trelles, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Enid Osborn, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Chryss Yost, Paul Willis, Davi...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks, Indy--my journalistic home for 30 years now--and Leslie Dinaberg for the sweet story and Ingrid Bostrom for taking photos of me that don't make me feel too bad. It was a day I will cherish. www.independent.com/2025/04/22/g...
There's no creative mind I value more than Brian Eno's, so to get to engage with his thoughts (and those of artist Bette A.'s) reviewing "What Art Does" was a challenge and delight. Here's my latest from California Review of Books. calirb.com/what-art-doe...
April 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There's no creative mind I value more than Brian Eno's, so to get to engage with his thoughts (and those of artist Bette A.'s) reviewing "What Art Does" was a challenge and delight. Here's my latest from California Review of Books. calirb.com/what-art-doe...
Alas, this is a too timely poem, but good to have it in a proper home. Thanks, Moonstone, for including "The Ever Was," in your latest anthology.
April 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Alas, this is a too timely poem, but good to have it in a proper home. Thanks, Moonstone, for including "The Ever Was," in your latest anthology.