Peonies

My mother is buried nowhere. There are no flowers left to water.

A perfect Sunday: Plath and peonies.

With gratitude to J. Adrian Betancourt for this feature.

I woke to ferocious rain.

ALWAYS a pleasure & a delight to get to feature new Todd Dillard! "Sorry but I will never tell my daughter about soundwaves wriggling like worms through walls and doors and down stairs to my living room couch where I hear her in the shower belting..." https://www.havehashad.com/oqhzi

Congratulations to JD Isip, whose collection What Wonder won the @triohousepress.org 2026 Louise Bogan Award, judged by January Gill O’Neil!

Eating seven snacks to cope with my seven-hour flight delay.

The devil.

“dwelling” is one of my favorite poems from Dressing the Bear (@triohousepress.org) & this is the first time I’m ever seeing it shared. While my brother was incarcerated, he called me everyday (like always). I miss him. Thank you so much to @sundresspub.bsky.social & t.r. san for this moment. 💙

My flight is delayed. Send poems or movie recommendations.

Super excited that DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.org) was selected by t.r. san to be featured this week for The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed with @sundresspub.bsky.social! Here’s “The Professor Asks Me to Write a Joyful Poem”! 💙 More at the link, friends: sundressblog.com/category/war...

Reality, baby.

Poets, what’s your sun sign, enneagram and Myers Briggs type?

Best poetry books for teens?

Had a great conversation with the host of The Miami Book Hub on my role as Poet Laureate!

“my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know” —W.S. Merwin

Nayyirah Waheed, "Lands"

Movies I watched on the plane yesterday.

For everyone today who wishes they could visit their mothers in person instead of in their dreams. 🩵

“The people who are always not you.” —Jack Gilbert, Rain

We could translate our bodies into a new language. Your mouth a little bit summer. My mouth a little bit rain. (Excerpted from Melissa Studdard's poem: "A Little Bit Rain.” published in Conduit)

Wish with all my heart that I could.

The assistant on the live chat for my flight is named Santa, and I’m praying for a Christmas miracle to get to Northern Michigan today.

This weekend, pick up a new book to read, grab one from your TBR pile, or revisit an old favorite ❤️📚

📣 I’m pleased to announce that A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour will now be a monthly series with 3 featured readers & an open mic! Join us for the Zoom launch on 6/4, 7-8 pm EST, featuring Achy Obejas, Dan Kraines & @clayrebenz.bsky.social, hosted by yours truly with @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🌈

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.

Happy publication day to @plathpoem.bsky.social! What a gift to poetry. ❤️❤️❤️

Poets, have you invented your own form? If so, please share! If not, share a recently invented form of another poet’s you admire.

And we’re live! With gratitude to Nadra Mabrouk and @poetsorg.bsky.social. 🩵

I love a restaurant in Miami with a fireplace.

I really enjoy these on the Metrorail. Brilliant project.

Officially introducing my second collaborative project as Miami’s Poet Laureate: Miami Moves Me! Co-conceptualized with The Department of Transportation and Public Works, this project brings more art, joy, and moments of quiet reflection to Miami’s public transit riders. ❤️

Reached that stage in round two edits with my book editor where I am rethinking every single line break, and wanting to ask a trusted reader to read poems aloud back to me to see if the breath is happening where I want it to.

Congratulations to Juliana Spahr whose book, Ars Poeticas, just won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry! Read more about the Prize at www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli... Order your copy today at weslpress.org #Pulitzer #PulitzerPrize #PulitzerPrizeWinner @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

Here are the 19 books that were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, memoir or autobiography, poetry, biography and history.

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

I dreamt that a woman at an ice cream shop was trying to talk me out of ordering scoops of rose and lavender in the same cup, and now I want ice cream at 7:47 a.m.

Sometimes a small dinner party with karaoke is the best way to love life again.

All Hail Queen Tori!

A random collection of carved stone panels lined up along a track at the botanic gardens. I think this is Circe

One of my favorite commissions so far has been writing postcard poems mailed to Miami City Ballet’s subscribers. There were seven poems total, but sharing just one here. 💚🤍

Okay, so May has managed to sneak up on us ... but guess what? We're open for manuscript submissions TOMORROW. Send us your full-length poetry collection. No required sub fee (tip jar optional, always). Model contract on our website. duotrope.com/publisher/ri...

Never did I ever dream that this girl from a town with one stoplight & no MFA would be taken seriously by The Academy. But I am here. I claim this space humbly, proudly & with gratitude to the poets who taught me through their example & their books.

Bicentennial baby

I’m excited to share my first official project as Miami’s Poet Laureate: Songs for America. These sonnets by 7 local poets are a form of music designed to bring people together at a time that often tries to divide. ❤️🤍💙

On this last day of Poetry Month, here is my shameless plug for my latest book. Get yours today! share.google/hdsMDCWKfWP4... 🖤💛

The "Woolf Wall," an entire wall of the Sitting Room in Penngrove, CA dedicated to Virginia Woolf.