grateful to be in @literaryhub.bsky.social today, responding to another essay while also thinking more broadly about reviews, art, honesty, and motherhood. 💛

saw a turkey today waiting at our front door for the rain to stop #birds #birding

gmail really doesn't know a single thing about sending out a manuscript...

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Just heard poet @readinstead.bsky.social read his work on WNYC and that is how to start the damn day!!!! YES Jared Beloff, get your poet life!

Back on Croquis Cafe for some figure studies:

It’s definitely my birthday month if the gods have conspired to put my heresies in the hands of a writer I admire so much. Thank be unto the rams of the cosmos! 🫀

So grateful. 🙏🏼❤️

Thank you to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for the honor of a lifetime, to Caridad Moro-Gronlier and Richard Blanco for paving the way for me, and to everyone who supports poets and poetry. I love you all. ❤️❤️❤️ (Link to announcement in comments below.)

For National Poetry Month, I reactivated LinkedIn after being dormant for more than four years. I'll be posting an anti-LinkedIn poem every day of this month.

send us your words!

this is magic ✨

flew right over our heads!

A Palm Sunday poem therumpus.net/2022/04/16/n...

Elane Kim, from Antibody (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

No prayers for you. You're doing it wrong.

Choose your fighter (left spine) and I’ll show you their handwriting:

The personal essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to not just live year to year, but to capture a bit of our experience. And beyond that, the essay is flexible, fun, and fascinating. Join me next week? writingcraft.com/.../pleasure...

Read the original, legendary 162 page word document, knowing literally no one involved thinks this is a real magazine but everyone is just making it up and doing it anyway and also doing it surprisingly well tacobellquarterly.org/wp-content/u...

Luddites unite!

Glad to be back with 2 nanos!

it's all happening @pizamapress.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Hey, it's me! I've entered my Board Member Era. Excited to support the press that has supported me so well and to work with the amazing board that is already in place.

It is easier and more fun to do your hobbies when you aren't slogging through extreme depression so don't forget to squeeze in a mental health walk too

Heed the Frog God's call! New speculative historical fiction (?) up today at the wondrous @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=3208

I wrote about octopodes for this and it was my favorite thing I wrote all year! Write for FUN again. This is the perfect opportunity!

First bookstore sighting!!

mussel or clam shells nested in estuary sediment and grasses; guessing recent heavy rains raised the Housatonic River and the outflow swept through the low salt marshes, into the Long Island Sound (and onto the beach with the tide); there were many...

“Soft as jade sky behind mountains.” I have a new poem, “Soft Landscapes,” in the new issue of DMQ! www.dmqreview.com/vanderhartsp26

the robins are back and they are watching you - from @bendinggenres.bsky.social in 2022: bendinggenres.com/reading-dete...

bought a tree bark camouflage t-shirt from a hunting catalog so the trees would feel more comfortable around me

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

ICYMI, our SLM Winter roundup came out last week! We're so proud to shout out all our SLM staff and contributors, past and present 💕 Have a look and enjoy the victories of art ✨ buff.ly/xGqerzB

Another Lara Croft sketch. I was far too smooth brained to finish the few Tomb Raider games as a kid, but I still have a fondness for them. Becoming overly familiar with the eerie atmosphere of the caves or jumping around the Manor. Very cosy memories.

The degree to which I'm willing and able to embarrass myself cannot be overstated

hi. i made an art book with some of my finished art from 2026 and a collection of sketches. you can pay $0 or whatever you want for it ko-fi.com/s/33cdad3746

If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

second pot let's goooooo ☕

Have you ever worked as an adjunct prof or contingent faculty? This brilliant, biting, hilarious, heart-break by Carol M. Quinn in the new @splitlipthemag.bsky.social will speak to you. "Cogs, Heart and Soul": splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0326...

My essay collection has three essays on C.D. Wright 🙏❤️📚 And is 48k words which is, for a poet, a lot of words. This work really does take years.

A tiny one from 2022 in @havehashad.com for #smallpoemsunday (cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social) www.havehashad.com/hadposts/3-s...

From now on my weekly blog will be posted exclusively to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/wouwouandt... I’ll still use my website for standalone topics and announcements, but Patreon feels like a better fit for these weekly updates.

forty-five. 🎉

a pair of local ravens appeared today after a long winter one calling to the other with the sound of water droplets (💧); this pair first appeared last year, almost to the day. #birds #birding

any of you f*ggots own a boat? the gay potential here is limitless

the bunch has been busy!

The Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 24,000 followers in the sky. I can't even use the Paris Review over here as my villain because I'm crushing them. We are about to surpass Lit Hub. Taco Bell is your Literary Hub now.

"Some mornings I wake up already furious. Other mornings I wake up trying to be patient, reminding myself that she cannot help it, that no one is choosing this. Both versions of me fail." Exceptional piece from Pham Thu Trang in @xraylitmag.bsky.social today... xraylitmag.com/nothing-can-...

what's this???????? hex literary is opening for subs soon??????!!!!

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.