For the writer, the exhausted pen is not an inconvenience but an artifact of labor, proof that thought has made it to the page.

The curse of being a poet is: every word is guilty until proven innocent 🤔 😅

Writing poems is just: uses word I’ve known forever → panics → googles definition.

Quite possibly my favorite philosophical question to date 😂

I picked strawberries last weekend, and halfway through the field—I had a moment. Here’s a poem about remembering what joy tastes like 🍓 “…I eat another, then another, again and again, each more ferociously than the last…”

Rebecca Solnits “No Straight Road Takes You There” is currently keeping me sane. Read for good perspective on solidarity, mutual aid, community, and pleasure/leisure’s ability to be a safety net.

I don’t remember where I got this copy of a talk Thich Nhat Hanh did at a correctional institution but it’s full of nice little meditations on poetry and life.

You know a poetry book is good when…

Retreating back to nature where the chaos of the world can’t get me. Send me poems that ground—either ones you’ve read or written. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #naturewriting

The novel “Playground” is my first exposure to Richard Powers and I must say, the out-of-the-blue burst of magical realism on page 173 is such a flex. #booksky

WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

Also I can’t stop referring to my baked goods as babies because my biological clock is like WHAT ELSE COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE DOING. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #breadmaking #queerwriter #queerpoet

Spent the day watching my sour baby grow up instead of whatever garbage is popping up in the news. 10/10 recommend if you want to maintain your sanity.

Modern day self-care 101 🍯 🥲 #writingcommunity #writinglife #poetrycommunity #queerartist #queerpoet #queerwriter

Working for a company that directly conflicts with your values is a special kind of fun. Someone send me a poem beautiful enough to drown out my disappointment in humanity. (I promise I’m not usually this dramatic, it’s just been a day) #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

You wouldn’t be a creative in the modern world if you didn’t have 12 million project ideas a day that you sadly had to lay to rest for the grind 🥲 🪦💔 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #lifewriting #naturewriting

POV: The cadence found in books written before 1900. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #lifewriting #poetry #naturewriting

As a #poet, I tend to go through obsessions with very particular things and often. Sometimes it’s a word that keeps showing up in my #writing—other times, a phenomenon or a theme. Right now, it’s sound. What keeps popping up in your #poetry? What’s your most prominent fascination at this time?

Fixed my typewriter 🫶

• Stagnant • #poetrycommunity #poetry #naturepoetry #naturewriting #ecopoetry #writingcomminity

“…a lot of positives come from being able to unclench that desire to steer the day in the way that feels right and, instead, listening to the whisperings of chance and serendipity.” Such a great interview 👌 #writingcommunity

Writing in all dialogue was a fun little exercise. Read the end result below ⤵️ Share if you give it a go! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #creativenonfiction #flash #lifewriting #writing #nonfiction

If you’re not surrounding yourself with people who make you feel like you’re marinating in a big ol’ bowl of your favorite soup, what are you even doing? #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writinglife #poet

The Woman On The Concrete / The Empath With No Choice #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writinglife

Last year I replaced resolutions with In/Out lists. I really enjoyed how it acted as more of a guide than a black and white “goal”. Looking back, it was cool to see that I followed through on many of last years! Sharing in case anyone wants to give it a go needs some inspo 🙃 #writingcommunity

S•o•l•i•t•u•d•e #poetrycommunity #naturewriting #naturepoetry #ecopoetry #writingcommunity #lifewriting #poem #poet #poemoftheday

What a happy thing it is, to grow old and keep on changing.

The time of year when…

Unpopular opinion: the bay leaf is a silly little spice whose sole purpose is to make it look like you know what you’re doing because it somehow got this superior reputation in the world of cooking despite the fact that it tastes like nothing.

Not sure how all you memoir writers out there remember enough from your childhood to write an entire book about it 🤔 Tell me, does a 100% factual memoir actually exist or do most people have to fill in holes with fiction to make it work? #writingcommunity

Finally broke the drought that was me submitting work to lit mags 🙋‍♀️

Me (working on poetry): “Ugh, tenses!” Partner: “Awe, are you feeling tense about tenses?!?!” Me: 😑

Editing poems feels a lot like rearranging the furniture.

When you’re frequenting holiday gatherings where everyone keeps asking what you do for a living and feel pressured into telling them about your shitty day job but all you really want to do is passion rant about writing. #writingcommunity #writers #poetrycommunity #poets #writersofbluesky

I love this poem.

Excited to dive into this one! Any other craft-focused book recommendations out there? #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

You can tell a lot about a person through their choice in shoes, passwords, vacation destinations, and email addresses.

*Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie* …one day I’ll return to my drawing series: spiffy birds drinking tea 🦉🫖

I’m a poet, of course I enjoy reading about death 💁‍♀️

I’m just trying to manifest winning a Goodreads giveaway for a book on my WTR list.

Just a little ‘nothing poem’ to start the day. Nothing poems being, the practice sketches of poetry. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Writer w/ADHD: Where the heck is the cup?!

“If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete…someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." Such good (fully formed😉) ideas in this essay. Worth a read👌

My dog is always so excited to see me when I get home and sometimes I catch myself walking past her without the slightest acknowledgement like what? Go back and do that again because this cute furry ball is perfection and all else can wait.

Why aren’t poetry vending machines a thing? I feel this is a niche that needs to be niched 😂

Remembering that I can’t have a negative and positive thought at the same time always motivates me to choose the positive one because yes #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #lifewriting

I’m curious to know how others start a new journal. Do you just begin writing? Put your name and address? Use the first page to set an intention? For me, it’s always a quote. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #naturewriting #lifewriting

Your library should contain no less than 50% poetry books (~25% of the library's total volume). The poetry book is the spiritual essence of any good personal library: capricious, mischievous, formidable, and also a little cutie pie. By centering poetry, you center the universe inside your home.

Anytime I see the word “God” in a poem I replace it with “therapist” and suddenly it’s much more palatable. POV: religious trauma (iykyk) 🙏😅 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #lifewriting #poetry

When a poem starts to lose its luster after one too many drafts, stamping the words on a page with a typewriter tends to bring it back to life. The poem version of "you clean up nice." 🤔