Yes it is—thank you!

Hello, at the University of Minnesota, we're hiring a visiting creative nonfiction writer for the next 2-3 years to teach a 1-1 (one grad class, one undergrad class) and potentially sit on some MFA thesis committees. This job will give you time to write you next book: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

Psst I still want to read your book even if it didn't make any lists. ❤️

The prize of $2000 will be awarded in 2026, with publication by The American Poetry Review in partnership with Copper Canyon Press in the following year. The author will receive a standard book contract, with royalties paid in subsequent years. For complete guidelines and to submit: loom.ly/JUkTfFM

The new issue of Shenandoah is amazing. Tran Tran was our Poetry Editorial Fellow and selected an amazing portfolio of multilingual poetry! www.shenandoahliterary.org

I need an alternative to the phrase “going down the rabbit hole” but “descending into the coils of the Great Pink Sea Snail” doesn’t have the right ring lesleywheeler.org/2025/12/18/t...

In conversation with Jane Satterfield about stone bothering, concept albums, maledictions, and trying to keep up the lyric heat while writing poems from research. Thank you @newversereview.bsky.social ! open.substack.com/pub/newverse...

Today I’m in pleasant struggle with a poem about snails. Tonight I sing for my supper!

Philip Pullman in The Rose Field: “A system isn’t complete until there’s a hole in it” #portals #fantasyfiction

My review of Rosa Castellano’s striking #poetry collection, All is the Telling, is now up. Thanks to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for welcoming it! www.whaleroadreview.com/rosa-castell... @diodeeditions.bsky.social

Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41

The stars are definitely aligning for me this month. Big inner stuff, too lesleywheeler.org/2025/12/04/s...

So excited! Thank you, @swwim.bsky.social and The Betsy Writer’s Room! #poetry #womenpoets #miamipoetry

I know these lists only show a fraction of the great new books out there—but how lovely for Mycocosmic to be on one! I just followed the article’s Bookshop.org link to order books in small press solidarity! lithub.com/100-notable-... @literaryhub.bsky.social

Thank you for shining a little light on Mycocosmic @angelacv.bsky.social —I just spotted the article & I’m so surprised & delighted! 🍄 ❤️🍾

“Why do you say / I’m dying when I am reading?” by @catemarvin.bsky.social —the November issue of Poetry was particularly kick-ass. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

@ktcndn.bsky.social Wow, Katie—this poem blows me away www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Thanks to the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for giving this piece about my friend Marty Silano, a wonderful poet who passed away a few months ago, a home. We miss you, Marty. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/172...

On the blog this week: A Week of Poetry Friends And Readings, Horror Poetry, Halloween/Samhain, and Some Real Life Scares: webbish6.com/a-week-of-po... #poets #readings #halloween #horrorpoetry

Thanks to Storyknife for their gift this week—a residency in April!—and @webbish6.bsky.social for photographing Mycocosmic among shrooms! Otherwise this week I’m thinking about rejections—being on both sides of the blade. lesleywheeler.org/2025/11/16/t...

Happy to have a new governor AND to be on my way to Santa Fe New Mexico for this 11/7 reading at Entropy Gallery. Reading Art’s poems on the plane I discovered his family name, Bontempi: aha! 🍄 #fungi #poetry #santafe

Santa Fe in a week! 7 pm, 11/7, Entropy Gallery, very 🍄 in theme. Excited to read in the new Floating Words series with Art—and about seeing lots of lower-case art and scenery over the November 7th weekend.

Shenandoah and intern Ellis Nicholson did a terrific job with this interview about Mycocosmic. Again, I get a little ecstatic about fungal connections, but that has become a professional liability! www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/an-i... @tupelopress.bsky.social

I read with these powerhouses in Bainbridge and am wowed by their books: What We Do by Michele Bombardier and If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. Recommended! #poetry @poetfish.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

Such timely and welcome news!

This handsome book arrived, full of essays by poetry scholars I admire wildly. Thank you @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and editor Mike Chasar! Here’s the song I chose, “Talkin’ New York,” in case you want to give it a listen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIJ...

lesleywheeler.org/2025/10/26/p... —on the good weirdness of this Washington State trip! 🍄

Looped around the outrageously gorgeous Olympic Peninsula today. Tomorrow, 10/22, BookTree in #Kirkland WA: free workshop 5:45, reading at 7, open mic after. #poetry @chrisbooktree.bsky.social

Tonight, 10/20, I read at 6:30 in Port Angeles Library with Nellie Bridge! Meanwhile we’ve wrapped up the haiku contest at the OlyPen Fungi Festival. The voters elected this little beauty.

The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems. But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause. Join us. Register here: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

On booking events, persisting through the fails, and other poet stuff. Also, please pray to the gods of air travel for me lesleywheeler.org/2025/10/10/w...

In case you live in the Seattle area and like poetry, the underworld, and/ or snacks…free workshop 10/22 at BookTree in Kirkland, followed by reading/ open mic! @chrisbooktree.bsky.social www.booktreekirkland.com/new-events/2...

Poets, Shenandoah reading periods are coming up fast! The one for Virginia poets will stay open till 10/31, but Samyak’s great call for formal experiment will hit the cap fast (I’d guess 3 days). www.shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/

Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...

Thanks to @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social for another great issue! Here are two new ones from me: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

The fall issue of About Place Journal, On Freedom is out today!! The poetry, prose, visual art speak to so many of the freedoms we see, feel and include in our hopes. ➡️ Issue Eds: DJ Lee & Michael McDermott with Assistant Eds: Rachel Sanchez & Jacob Klaung aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Headed to WA, NM, FL! 10/16, 7 pm: Bainbridge Island Public Library with Matthew Nienow 10/17-19: Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles WA 10/20, 6:30 pm: Port Angeles Library 10/22: BookTree in Kirkland, WA: 6 pm workshop “Writing From the Underworld,” 7 pm reading followed by open mic

So grateful to be part of this new anthology—The Nature of Our Times is hopeful but real, full of warnings but also inspiration. Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler: thank you for your generous, careful, timely work. @thepoetslizard.bsky.social #ecopoetry #poetry #nature

I can’t be all that coherent about this doozy of a month so here’s a mycelial tangle lesleywheeler.org/2025/09/28/v...

“My hoarse throat, my blue heart.” The book of Jenn’s near my desk today is My Tarantella, picked up at a June event when I realized it was missing from my little Martelli library. Her voice is so vivid and searching, anything but a “whisper”—so good to spend time with these poems on a sad day.

I love Jenn Martelli’s fierce and lovely poetry so much, and she was such a generous person. Miss you already, Jenn.

A pre-birthday Spanish almond portal cake made by a dear friend, with a powdered sugar nod to the novel I’m working on

SO delighted!

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m now repped by @arleysorg.bsky.social at KT Literary. It’s already clear how insightful & skilled he is at helping a novel ms become the best version of itself before it goes out on sub. Feeling lucky. Back to revision! @ktliterary.bsky.social #sff #fantasy #specfic

facts are only ever as good as the stories we tell about them. we need scholars across fields who work to mine these facts but, equally, we need scholars studying these stories & how they’re told & how to read them critically the English major is not dead. it just might save us.

Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social

Congratulations to Susan Rich on Blue Atlas, a stunning collection that troubles all the binaries around abortion. Couldn’t put it down. @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social #poetry #womenpoetry @redhenpress.bsky.social

Riveting! Breathtaking!! So grateful for this mycelially probing review by Laurel Kallen in the new Action, Spectacle. www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-... #poetry @tupelopress.bsky.social