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.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Friends, I'm teaching a new class in April via The Makery on writing in poetic forms. I hope you might be able to join me! Here are the details: hindman.org/events/patte...

Another Girl Singer gone. I ADORED her. nofencesreview.substack.com/p/melba-mont...

really honored to have work in this issue

"Be mediocre, blame woke culture for your lack of success, wash, rinse, repeat." I LOVE this! lyz.substack.com/p/unqualifie...

“As Appalachians, we saw the Little Debbie company as a source of pride. When you are from a culture that the rest of the world is telling you to be ashamed of, you tend to either reject your homeplace or feel that much prouder of it.” www.southernfoodways.org/oh-christmas...

Happy to see my book at Carmichael’s in Louisville this weekend. Such a glorious book shop!

"you can keep looking at Appalachia as a complicated place that deserves continued attention. Not just when it is underwater." Meredith McCarroll's moving essay on recent flooding in Kentucky, Vermont, and North Carolina in The Bitter Southerner. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...

One of my current reading stacks.

A review of Frank X Walker's newest collection from Chapter 16. (Have you read LOAD IN NINE TIMES yet? It's outstanding! I was lucky to hear Frank read some of these poems last year.) chapter16.org/americas-pro...

Are you in WNC and affected by the flooding? Maybe writing your way through the mess would be helpful to you. I can't recommend Nickole Brown's workshops highly enough. All are free. All are welcome. No previous writing experience necessary.

Love when the mailbox contents look like this!

@dseuss.bsky.social's "Ballad" from MODERN POETRY is featured today at Poetry Daily! "What’s wrong, I asked my mother. It is early spring. Bright sunlight. The usual birds. Air, teetering between bearable and unbearable. Cold, but not cold enough to shiver." ❤️❤️❤️ poems.com/poem/ballad/

One last push: I’m teaching this virtual class via The Carnegie Center on Tuesday, Nov. 12 from 6-8 p.m. We meet via Zoom, the class is very reasonably priced, and you’ll get a start on a couple of new poems. Check out SOUND & SENSE: SONIC PROPERTIES IN POETRY: carnegiecenterlex.org/classes/soni...

The late Bill Brown at Poetry Daily. I surely loved him and miss him. But loving something can save you: the way finches stack a feeder, meddle in each other's business until a woodpecker crashes in, littering surrounding shrubs with wings. poems.com/poem/with-th...

The poem “Cursing of the Party Responsible for Her Suffering” by Amy Gerstler from her collection SCATTERED AT SEA. It’s perfect for this moment.