At a quiet writing retreat where I've managed to write five new poems, maybe six. They are rough as the mountain I'm staying on here but I think they will clean up OK. Also, there is a campus dog named Lady, and she has slept outside our building and has kept watch on us all weekend.

New releases from @bellepointpress.bsky.social!! Link to pre-order in comments.) bellepointpress.substack.com/p/our-next-p...

Teaching a new virtual class in August via Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning: "Inquiry & Imagination: The Poet as Documentarian." Take a look, and I hope you might think about joining me! carnegiecenterlex.org/class/inquir...

For Earth Day, this beauty by Camille Dungy from @poetrydaily.bsky.social. "America, there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid." poems.com/poem/thisll-...

EXCITED that my new poetry collection is available for pre-order from @bellepointpress.bsky.social! You may know how important pre-sales are, especially for independent presses, so I hope you’ll be interested in pre-buying a copy. Release date is June 23. bellepointpress.com/products/wat...

so grateful to the editors at DIHP!! Thank you!!

I'm so lucky to have two new poems up at DOES IT HAVE POCKETS to kick off National Poetry Month, with big thanks to the editors. If you want to read, find them here: www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/maria...

For 13 weeks, Marine recruits aren’t allowed to see their families. Not once. Graduation day is the first reunion. It’s supposed to be a celebration. At Parris Island in South Carolina this week, ICE agents will be stationed at the gate checking the immigration status of anyone who shows up to watch

The 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/

Come write poems with me! The Poetry Writing Group at Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning runs for 6 weeks starting on Tuesday, March 31 and meeting each subsequent Tuesday from 6-7:30 p.m.(online). I hope you’ll join me. Descriptions and details are here: carnegiecenterlex.org/class/poetry...

I wrote about Erik Reece's poetry collection KINGFISHER BLUES for Appalachian Journal's online component (AS THE CROW FLIES). Thanks to editor Jessica Cory! as-the-crow-flies.pubpub.org/pub/worthing...

Love these Hayden Saunier poems at @oneart.bsky.social ! "That’s the god we were taught we had. . . . A clear-eyed god, unmoved by megachurch money and gold filigree. God as shepherd.." oneartpoetry.com/2026/03/11/t...

Come write poems with me. I’m teaching a six-week class (virtually) via the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning. I hope you will join me! Deets and registration: carnegiecenterlex.org/class/poetry...

Really enjoying @oneart.bsky.social's anthology of very short poems! oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/22/i...

"I've decided to leave here forever . . . " www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hA...

@rebunting.bsky.social and I are excited to share this issue with all of you as we start year two! Seven pieces, one for each day of the week...give us a read!

I love a Saturday issue drop because we can stay in our pajamas, drink coffee, and READ all morning! I hope you LOVE this spectacular NEW ISSUE of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social as much as I do. Thank you to our contributors & staff for all the work & love that went into making this issue shine! 💫

Thrilled to offer this poetry workshop in support of the mission of Backwoods Literary Press. Come write with me on December 10! Register here and pay what you can shorturl.at/zWw2q

Cincinnati, see you next weekend at Books By The Banks

Perugia’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15 (2 MORE WEEKS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

Look at my mail! Congrats, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social !! I'm so happy to have your new collection. (Also, I have poems in this issue of Appalachian Review. You can read them online, but please think about supporting them with a subscription if you can: appalachianreview.net/2025/03/19/t...)

So thrilled that Kathleen Driskell is featured on The Slowdown Show this morning. Her poem is from her new collection, Goat-Footed Gods, first published in Still: The Journal last year. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

A new book club opportunity from Belle Point Press! @bellepointpress.bsky.social bellepointpress.substack.com/p/backlist-b...

Ooh! I'm so excited to be teaching this new class for The Makery at Hindman Settlement School in November. I hope you can think about joining me! hindman.org/events/poems...

The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues:

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I'm so excited to be reading with Belle Townsend at the next Hill Writers Collective on August 23. But it's not just a reading: it's a whole thing with writing prompts and audience sharing. I hope you'll come. Here's the link to register: marianneworthingtonbelletownsend.eventbrite.com

A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.

Today's Feature: Two poems from the Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration anthology published by @haymarketbooks.org: "Break from Madness" by Kennedy A. Gisege & "Sometimes I Wonder If God Really Fuck with Me Like That" by Sin à Tes Souhaits Read here: poems.com/poem/two-poe...

Wowwee @hubcitypress.bsky.social is OPEN this weekend for single-narrative nonfiction! This is my time, my favorite stuff! Can be personal, reportage, memoir, cultural criticism, history, or a blend of the above. Ends at midnight on Sunday. Drop any questions below. hubcity.submittable.com/submit

Kentucky State Poetry Society sponsors two poetry contests, and the deadline is coming at the end of July. Bernard Clay will judge the open contest (for any US poet), and Elaine Palencia will judge the contest for KSPS members. Details here: kystatepoetrysociety.org/poetry-conte...

The Kentucky State Poetry Society has two contests for poets. Both members and non-members of KSPS can enter, and when you do, you support the vital work KSPS offers the Commonwealth & beyond. Here's all the details: kystatepoetrysociety.org/poetry-conte... Send us your poems. Deadline is July 31.

So happy to see @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social’s poem up today at @poetrydaily.bsky.social !! @bellepointpress.bsky.social poems.com/poem/dry-run...

Do you have a favorite Brian Wilson composition? I love this one. It's got everything: a fugue at the end, unique melody, and that tamborine! RIP Brian Wilson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90b...

I'm so excited to be teaching another class sponsored by The Carnegie Center on August 7. It's a 2-hour online (Zoom) generative class on writing place in poetry. Cost is $35, (cheap!) and I would love to see you there. Here's the details: carnegiecenterlex.org/class/writin...

Last call for registration. We're writing this Thursday, May 8: carnegiecenterlex.org/class/prosin...

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social's poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social from yesterday (yeah, I'm behind a day) is such an excellent model of living with ambiguity and mystery. ❤️ poems.com/poem/invocat...

New issue of SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW is out and I’ve got a poem there thanks to editors Rose McLarney and @jdpaden.bsky.social. Please consider supporting with a purchase. I’m so grateful to be next to writers I love and admire in this issue! www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/581-hunters-...

I'm honored to be teaching in The Makery via Hindman Settlement School again! Join my 3-week course on writing in form. All are welcome--useful to those of us new to poetry as well as those of us who have more experience and want to sharpen craft skills. Details: hindman.org/themakery/

I'm so glad two of my centos (for people I dearly loved in this life) have found a beautiful home at Appalachian Review, with thanks to editor @jasonkylehoward.bsky.social !! appalachianreview.net/2025/03/19/t...

So happy to read @nicolecallihan.bsky.social's poem at poets.org this morning! poets.org/poem/summer-...

This Friday evening. I will read poems -- new and old -- at the Carnegie Center @carnegiecenterlex.bsky.social during Gallery Hop at 6:30 pm. I will feature a couple of poems @mworthington.bsky.social published in the final issue of Still:The Journal. www.stilljournal.net/leatha-kendr...

"Naming" by @djvorreyer.bsky.social at @swwim.bsky.social is a stinging beauty! swwimmiami.substack.com/p/naming

It's @sfreligh.bsky.social Sarah Freligh day over at The Academy of American Poets. Yay Sarah!!! Your poem is fabulous ❤🔥 poets.org/poem/poem-we...

I'm teaching a short, virtual poetry class in May open to all and very reasonably priced! The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning does so much for our writing communities in Kentucky. Join us if you want to play around with writing some prose poems: carnegiecenterlex.org/class/prosin...

Love this new poem by @dseuss.bsky.social today at The Academy of American Poets: poets.org/poem/life-im...

"Trump has no concept of a world outside himself. He is a broken man who cannot conceive of war in a real world. He only understands tv tropes." Jenny Hobson on "Bad Actors" in the WH. jennyhobson.substack.com/p/bad-actors

The poem of the day at Poetry Daily is by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon! ❤ poems.com/poem/work/

“Everything is the culture war — even the remake of a television show that held mutual respect as its watchwords.” -Jason Kyle Howard for Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Whacha reading lately during these dark days? I’ve had such good mail this week. A real bright spot.