In collecting Poems for Katie, it was astonishing to see how much the poems knew before I did. I was sad for so long, deeply but so quietly even I couldn't hear it. This one became the cover image.

I have a few extra copies of my debut poetry chapbook. If anyone in the continental U.S. would like a complimentary copy, message me your address and I'll do my best to mail it soon. Also, if anyone has a chapbook they'd like to swap for mine, I'm game.

🌺🌸 Happy birthday to me! 🌸🌺 And happy book sale to you! Let me send you some flowers! $6.22 includes shipping! DM me! @triohousepress.org

We're 2 months away from the 1st birthday of my book Street Cats & Where to Find Them. An offer: if you order a copy (from Amazon, where it's cheapest, or buy it anywhere) & send me proof of purchase, I'll send you an issue of Stanchion Magazine for FREE. Deal? Please & thank you! amzn.to/4b5i2eu

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to the amazing Mor Poets! Their brilliant and beautiful poetry anthology Wild Women is out today! You can order this gorgeous anthology here: www.inkfishpress.co.uk/wild-women

Super late posting but grateful to the lovely folks at Ocean State Review for publishing “The Fifth Swan,” a poem which also appears in MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press)! Really happy to be alongside some friends in this issue, too! 🦢🌸 @triohousepress.org

Five reasons to read Whatever You Do, Just Don't (with thanks to Andy Hopkins @nightjrrs.bsky.social)... andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/m...

I had a wonderful day at the Montco Book Fest! The response to my cat book was once again overwhelming and the reaction and excitement about the Stanchion books I've published was remarkable!!

Issue 23 has FINALLY been printed and shipped to me. Meaning that I get to send this beauty away to pre-orderers and subscribers next week. 🧡 If you'd like a copy of this 92 page lit mag issue with 23 stellar pieces of writing printed inside, please visit the site to order. 🖤

This is Stanchion's 2026 so far. And I still have 2 more magazine issues and 4 more books to make and share with you.

Gonna start doing social media profile banners for each new book release. Here's the forthcoming rural masterpiece The Moose Lottery by @real-immirage.bsky.social . Pre-order sale on now.

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2026 literary competitions! Rachel Hadas has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Tristram Fane Saunders, and Adam Johnson has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Alexa T. Dodd. 1/4

Dana Gioia

Celebrate RHINO’s 50th anniversary from wherever you are at our virtual launch, featuring RHINO 2026 contributors from all over! Readers: 🥳 Dorsey Craft 🥳 Alejandro Escudé 🥳 Zahraa Farhat 🥳 MK Francisco 🥳 Elisávet Makridis 🥳 Anne-Marie Oomen 🥳 Margaret Wack Register here: bit.ly/rhinovirtual50

Thank you to the folks who make @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for giving this one a little extra flight. Head over to the site (first link) if you want me to read it to you.

New Issue now available for preorder themadridreview.com?utm_source=s... Youth! Dr Helen Scales! Sinéad Morrissey! More! @helenscales.bsky.social @unep.org @unepwcmc.bsky.social @fiddes.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social Out on #worldoceanday #environment #oceans #poetry #writing

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Here's my new poem from this week's issue of The Spectator. I do hope you enjoy it...

Concerned that the nice lady at our local post office might think I'm constantly looking for excuses to visit her, but the fact is yet another batch of books are now due to head off, this time to Leicestershire. Just drop me a DM if you'd like yours to join them...

A couple poems from my forthcoming chapbook.

Submissions OPEN from NOW until midnight Sunday 24th May. atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz

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Last week I left my bag in a black cab. Assumed it was lost forever. Moments before I passed through security at Heathrow, the cabby—who’d identified me by my books—contacted me on Twitter. An hour later, bag in hand, I was ready to fly. He asked for a poem. Here you are, Gary Vidgeon!

Love this one! 🐈🐈‍⬛ @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

A poem from my forthcoming chapbook.

May is a free submission month! 🚨 We're especially on the lookout for your flash, nonfiction, and book reviews. Send us your work before we reach our submission cap!

And...we're open for Issue Seven submissions! Send us your poems, your prose, your artwork...your oddballs, your beloveds, your I'm-not-sure-who-will-like-this. We want to see it all! asteralesjournal.com/submissions

Stanchion Magazine ain't gonna be around forever. The 24-hour submission window tomorrow is a chance to be a part of this thing I make, to be paid a bit, printed beautifully, and championed to the best of my ability for the duration of my time in the indie lit community. 1/2

Rapid response purchases are now open for tomorrow's 24-hour submission window. If you crave a reply within 3 days + a PDF of anything I've ever published, this might be up your crooked, moonlit street. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Just like the best songs need a few plays before their ear worm gets into your head, so decent poems benefit from a few reads. Poets and publishers rip through books far too quickly these days. Collections require time to find their readership. And a slow burner lives far longer than a sparkler...

19 poets, 19 translators, 15 languages from Amharic to Uzbek—don’t miss New Verse Review’s special translations issue edited by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social & Mary Grace Mangano, featuring translations by @bdralyuk.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @aestallings.bsky.social, and many more!

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From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620 #poem #booksky #writing

'Water Babies' - an original piano piece written for World Piano Day a few years ago. Never shared here before. Also an excuse to dwell in this beautiful ocean again. A refuge from all the dis-order. 🎹 I hope it takes you where you need to be ❤️ #poetrycommunity #piano #ocean #blackandwhitefilm

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Five Different Stories About One Thing by @elizabethbaines.bsky.social, with images by Laura Scott – the 7th in our series of collaborations between writers & artists. Available from our online shop for the special price of £7 (+ p&p) till midnight: www.confingopublishing.uk

Congratulations to our 2026 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners! Their books will be included for subscribers starting with the fall issue. It was an honor to read all of this year's entries, and we can't wait to share these three with you.

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

The Spring 2026 Black River Chapbook Competition is officially open for submissions! ✨ The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers with an unpublished manuscript of poetry or prose between 16-36 pages in length. Submit your manuscript at buff.ly/Ic1JAxH

Wendy Cope, keeping it light

Theodore Roethke

Heading for the post office tomorrow to send out copies of Whatever You Do, Just Don't. Anyone up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?!

Derek Walcott passed away nine years ago today. Here's one of my favourites, from White Egrets (2010). #poetry #derekwalcott

Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

t was fun to be interviewed by Water~Stone Review about my poem "Li Po took a driving test." Check it out:

A little more time for the story you haven’t finished yet. The Hayden’s Ferry Review Fiction & Poetry Contest deadline has been extended to March 14. Winners receive publication and cash prizes from a $2,500 pool. Send us your fiction and poetry.