My trio 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 of poems in Cutleaf Journal. All thanks to editors Jennifer Miller & Denton Loving. cutleafjournal.com/content/cros...

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social so VERY MUCH for the spotlight. Big shout out to @tahomareview.bsky.social for the publication.

Been rewriting this poem I wrote for #Prince, who died 10 years ago this month, April. Posting the latest here. A earlier version was published many moons ago in Midwest Review 5. 💜

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), 1949 Oil on canvas 81 ½ x 66 inches © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

You are who I love You who the borders crossed You whose fires You decent with rage, so in love with the earth You writing poems alongside children You cactus, water, sparrow, crow You, my elder You are who I love, summoning the courage —Aracelis Girmay

This is the famous painting Red Balloon (German: Roter Ballon), created in 1922 by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee.

some news: my third full-length book of poems, Quintessential Earthly Activities, will be out next spring with @boa-editions.bsky.social. more info soon! ❤︎

A joy to have my poem, "Naked Night In The Cold Room," appear in TLR's beautiful spring issue. Creativity = Hope. Heartfelt thanks to team TLR for including my work & for all they do always.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 No 15 (Two Greens and a Red stripe), 1964 © 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

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If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

ICE is shooting our poets in the streets. Renee Nicole Good. We remember you.

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@aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social has a beautiful poem in RHINO 2025. 🦏 ♡

Hot off the presses: RHINO 2025! 🦏 Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more! Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino

“night entered / our living room “ Love this dark 🖤 poem by @jessicacuello.bsky.social.

@majalukic.bsky.social 🖤

This is Sunday (3/16) if you're in Chicago. HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave. Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7. Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails 📖🍸

depends on what process works for you, ultimately, but generally it's better, i think, to have desires (dreams, questions, fiery directions) for your poems than designs (set plans, firm goals)

on the blue. / I wanted to save her—my mother / I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social

The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡

"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun going down." Oh, so beautiful 🖤

Books, books, books! A Year of Books by Pen America Members. Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list. @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/a-year-of-bo...

Happy to have two poems in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social (No. 6): one for my mom one for a favorite film 👼🪽Thrilled to share that “Your Mother Knew …” is the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for this issue. All my gratitude to the editors for their tireless work 🩵

Christian Wiman’s fine poem in @newyorker.com. 🩶

“Imagine loneliness is a drug curing you of loneliness! This is what I believe, on this late Friday morning before the dermatologist looks at me as if I were a carpet with stains.” —Catherine Barnett, “Studies in Loneliness, iii”

Thrilled to share the news that my poem, “During the war,” was chosen as a finalist for the Founder’s Prize by the editors at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social. I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎

“… I made it be there”

Something a little different on Substack today. Join me for a read-through of @toddedillard.bsky.social's brilliant poem "Arts and Crafts with the Addict's Son." Two prompts also if you dare. open.substack.com/pub/donnavor...

What it feels like writing this morning. From Robert Bly's book, Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978006... #poetry #poets #robertbly #books #writing

as a writer, it's amazing how deep and intimate my relationship with language is—and yet how difficult i find it to say things to, uh, people, anywhere

Alfred Jensen, Clockwork in the Sky, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134867

“How small it was, how brief. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be” Louise Glück

“You think of it like this. Like some version of the past, / but lasting a very long time.” Jenny George is unreal

Yet another day on which I need this poem. Luckily it hangs on my office wall for easy reference.

"By now, you know it was love / I walked toward" 🦌

If you are struggling, you might find this helpful, as I did. I think I'll read it daily, with my coffee. Two paragraphs from Vaclav Havel. havelcenter.org/2015/05/04/d...