Tonight!

This Friday! We welcome legendary poet Tracie Morris to campus for an original performance at the Broad Museum. Do not miss!

I'm collecting MFA personal statements for students—anyone, particularly fiction/non-fiction writers, willing to share with them??

This is gonna be a fun one: we commissioned Tracie Morris to create a new performance piece, in dialogue with the Broad's new show—a light installation which submerges the museum's central gallery in total darkness. Tracie will perform in, and in response to, that darkness. One night only!

Happy last night of AWP to all who celebrate! See you here:

Tonight!

Saturday!

I took a big swing and wrote a long essay for Annulet Magazine's new folio on American Poetry, 2007-2025, called "After the Poetry Wars," in which I try to describe the transformations in the aesthetics and logistics of US poetry in the past 15 or so years. annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Toby-Altman-...

We're doing an offsite! See you at AWP—

Big things coming this spring at The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU! Hope to see you there—

This year's Chicago Poetry Center silent auction is live! So much good stuff here, including a few items from yours truly: manuscript and individual poem consultations, a Chicago book bundle. CPC is the realest poetry org out there; help them thrive! www.accelevents.com/e/cpc2026ann...

In a truly deranged turn of events, I was on daytime TV in Lansing today, talking about my upcoming reading with Laura Apol and reading what must be, surely, the most oblique poem to ever appear on local news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nteq...

I wrote another poetry chapbook last year, called Belly Full Of Hell. Donate $15+ to Chicago Abortion Fund and I'll send it to you. It wouldn't exist without @browatch.bsky.social

We are thrilled to welcome the new Michigan Poet Laureate, Melba Joyce Boyd, to Lansing next week. She'll give a reading on Friday, November 14th at 7pm at the East Lansing Public Library, and a workshop the following morning at the Library of Michigan as part of the Poet's Roundtable conference.

This week at the RCAH Center for Poetry! Join us for readings from Esther Belin and Jo Troxell, and help us welcome Esther to town!

The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU is BACK! With old friends and new laureates, mathematicians and performance artists, we are here to demand, to insist, that poetry is a living thing! (See the following posts for a complete rundown of events)

Tonight!

Summer Series is back this week—w/readings from Suban Nur Cooley, Korey Deans, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Adam Mitt!

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Tari is unable to join us tonight, but fortunately the great Ruelaine Stokes is going to read in her stead! Don't miss this—

Tomorrow night!

excuse me...wat

INTRODUCING: Summer Series, a set of relaxed, off-campus readings from the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU, featuring local and national poetic luminaries. Summer Series I, featuring Sarah Carson and Tari Muñiz will be July 12th at 7pm at Hooked Lansing!

George Oppen, with news that stays news

Given that we seem to be in a moment of crisis for literary organizations and literary funding more broadly, which organizations do you see responding to the moment in radical / interesting ways? Brainstorming for a ~thing~

huge thanks to phil kostov for this elegant and thoughtful review of Discipline Park: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/toby...

"Music is simply trying things"—Alice Notley, from the first poem of her Iowa MFA Thesis, 1970. Thinking of her, and all of those who were lifted by her—

some ppl are really still living in the 20th century

I'll be in New York on Friday to read with Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby! hope to see you there— poetrysociety.org/events/make-...

the pope is from chicago

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

Today's Featured Poem: "One acquires an especially lush gender." by Toby Altman (@browatch.bsky.social), from Issue 1 of Rampage Party. Read here: poems.com/poem/one-acq...

I'm back in @poetrydaily.bsky.social with a poem I wrote wandering around in Target: poems.com/poem/one-acq...

One thing I admired about Joshua Clover: the absolute clarity of his thinking, irregardless of the object—even Spring Breakers. We need that clarity now, at a moment when we need to be mercilessly honest about what is—and isn't—a revolutionary poetics thenewinquiry.com/high-as-fina...

New York! I'm reading with Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby in a few weeks—

This Saturday! Our spring festival concludes with Summer Slam 5, curated by Masaki Takahashi. This lineup is STACKED

come out to the New Orleans Healing Arts Center tomorrow for a collaborative poetry event with Tyger Quarterly at the NOPF! Featuring @browatch.bsky.social, kathy wu, Alyssa Moore, Emily Pittinos, Shira Dentz, and Emily Barton Altman

Came here after a while to repost bc I saw this on insta! As a librarian especially I believe that the poetry world should function more equitably & be less enmeshed in capitalism--would be happy to support this organizing (which many are doing in different ways)

A small consideration, given the scale of the devastation we've seen in the early months of the new Trump administration, but—I have found myself thinking about how all this will affect the economy (such as it is) of the poetry world. An economy which depends heavily on universities and foundations.

This week at MSU! We are thrilled to welcome Kenzie Allen to campus for a reading and a workshop:

My poem "To Feel Things and Their Names," modeled on the entryway to Merchant's National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa is now available as a beautiful and enormous broadside, thanks to Margaret Yapp and Rampage Party Press! rampagepartypress.com/toby-altman-...

🚨 Airea D. Matthews is at MSU this week! 🚨

Jahan Ramazani on Rethinking Lyric Communities (ICI Berlin Press, 2024) #lyricpoetry #community #lyrictheory #poetry #poetics

This week at MSU! Carolyn Forché and Brad Johnson join us for a reading on Wednesday night and a workshop on Thursday. You don't want to miss this! See all the events from our spring festival here: poetry.rcah.msu.edu/index.html

ANNOUNCING! Witness Remember Resist: A Spring Poetry Festival at The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU! We have some truly extraordinary readings coming up in the next month with Carolyn Forché, Brad Johnson, Airea D. Matthews, and Kenzie Allen, topped off by a slam organized by Masaki Takahashi

Closes tonight! Last call~

For this year's Chicago Poetry Center silent auction, I am offering a full-service manuscript review for one lucky winner. I'll read your book and spend an hour (ok, probably more) on Zoom, helping you think through the project and prepare it for publication. www.accelevents.com/e/cpc2025ann...

For this year's Chicago Poetry Center silent auction, I am offering a full-service manuscript review for one lucky winner. I'll read your book and spend an hour (ok, probably more) on Zoom, helping you think through the project and prepare it for publication. www.accelevents.com/e/cpc2025ann...

"The image of the president is a slaveholder cutting down a tree." — Elizabeth Willis

here's some more faves, feat. jose-luis moctezuma, olivia cronk, sheree mack, and ranier diana hamilton