I'm so glad to have attended the reading tonight with @mgarrigan.bsky.social and @grantclauser.bsky.social, both PA poets I've known *online* and admired for a while now, but never met in person. The work they shared--mostly ecopoetry--is dense with imagery, beauty, and life.

Hey Lancaster PA folks, this Sunday @mgarrigan.bsky.social and I will be reading from our new books at Nooks Gallery & Bookstore.

Happy book release day!

I'll be going to AWP for the first time this year and will be signing books at the Terrain.org table on Saturday, March 7th at 1 p.m. Are there any readings happening Fri. or Sat. night that are looking for another poet? I'd love to participate! Reach out if you'll be there, I'd love to meet up!

Michael McGriff is an incredible poet and I’m honored to have his words on the back cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers. Please check out any of his collections. When I need to reimagine syntax and memory, I turn to his work for inspiration.  Preorder link in profile!

GHOST HUNTING GLACIERS by Michael Garrigan (Winner of the Grayson Books Poetry Prize, Selected by Alberto Ríos) @mgarrigan.bsky.social www.mgarrigan.com/store/p9/Gho...

West Virginia knows what’s up

Anne Haven McDonnell has been an inspiration to me for many years. Her chapbook, Living with Wolves, showed me how to create an ecology within a collection and Breath on Coal is a fantastic book that I return to often. I cannot wait to read her newest book Singing Under Snow! a.co/d/06i3nZRC

I’m so excited to announce that my latest book of poetry, Ghost Hunting Glaciers, was selected by the wonderful Alberto Ríos for the Grayson Books Poetry Prize & will be published on February 23! I can’t wait for you to meet Dead Elk, Stone Swimmer, & others that comprise the ecology of this book.

Coming soon…

A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!

“calculus assumes that at a certain point a curved line becomes straight but that just means anything orbiting anything is always trying to get somewhere new.” @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/12/09/r...

Poetry rejections on Thanksgiving? Oof. 😂

- Michael McGriff

I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social! www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

This. Let it drift on for 30 more minutes, please. stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/mornin...

hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️ best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌 youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...

My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is. Jim Harrison

Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler

It’s been years since my mother and father turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me in the bed where I was conceived. ___ From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,” by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem missourireview.com/davis/

Susquehanna River petroglyphs

Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail! #freelibrary

Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙 I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one: riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...

Does anyone else love this record?

Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” Wendell Berry #writer #poetry

Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?

Two new Dead Elk poems in the [email protected] ! quarternotesmag.com/garrigan/

Excited to have three new Dead elk poems in the latest issue of Cutleaf Journal! cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...

I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

New author photo?

Is it possible to write an erotic (intimate?) poem with a mountain? Because I think I just did?

Working on a quadtriptych, hoping to mirror a mountain range.

I’m writing a sonnet but breaking all the rules.

It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.

Paddling into a wilderness lake in the Adirondacks (pre-falling in while portaging a beaver dam and breaking a lovely glass fly rod.)

18 years ago, MadTV called it.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjL... iRack...iRan

Ride slow, die whenever

Poet Anne Michael writes aboout the new anthology for Pennsylvania Poetry. annemichael.blog/2025/05/27/b...

So very grateful to Camas Magazine for giving my poetry space. “Landscape Fugues” is a form I’ve been playing with inspired by Jeff Parker’s ETA IVTet and Forfolks records #poetry

So excited to have a poem in the latest issue!

Harry Humes.

Last night auroras.

Stood on my first glacier today. Thanks Iceland!

Iceland seams

Our home in Iceland for the next few days

Thinking about, reading, Harry Humes tonight. What a wonderful poet

While teaching how to build voice in writing, I had students compare an Al generated poem "similar to Michael Garrigan" and one of my actual poems. One student's comparison - "The Al one felt like 'river,river,person' while yours felt like "river,river,soul" Gonna use that for my next book blurb 😂

I was working on a poem about a black bear catching shad so l felt the need to go catch one, which thankfully happened, and now I get to finish the poem