I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

Tonight!

It's time for One Page Wednesday! Tomorrow night! Portland, 7pm, 4/1 at @literary-arts.org. Come read your work with me. Prose or poetry. We'll be bold and brave together! #pdxwriters literary-arts.org/event/one-pa...

2. Why not review a book that you love for @adroitjournal.bsky.social or @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social or @raintaxi.bsky.social or another journal that still covers books? We need sharp criticism and writing, which I believe can help us thwart these insidious AI algorithms designed to feed us slop.

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Read @kategaskin.bsky.social and @gendeguzman.bsky.social convo today up @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Genevieve's new book is KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (@jacklegpress.bsky.social) and Kate's is A RED KNOCK-KNOCKING LIKE A HEART (@lsupress.bsky.social). theadroitjournal.org/2026/03/30/a...

I chatted with the amazing @kategaskin.bsky.social (Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart, LSU Press) on the relational intricacies between mothers and daughters and the time-scape of grief and wonder. ❤️‍🔥 Read our poet-to-poet convo at @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/2026/03/30/a...

Come visit the multiverse with me again. lithub.com/crying-in-th...

The San Diego crowd is so massive that we can’t see the begging or end of the march! #NoKings #NoKings3 #NoKingsSD

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Today is the day!! T- 4 hours ‘till the No Kings 3 Rally at the Battleship Oregon Memorial. March will begin around 1pm after the Rally. Orgs and Performances will be there early, ready to go at 11, please arrive early if you need seating as were expecting this to be our biggest yet!! @Blcksmth

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

“Sperm whales live in matrilineal groups: grandmothers, mothers and daughters. Females stick together, while males set out on their own in their mid-teens… Roughly half of the whales present during the birth were not directly related to her.” We need to consider a return to matriarchy, tbh.

Don't forget to vote for best poem! A ton of writers worked hard to keep this category on the ballot, and with so many great magazines publishing spec poetry now, there's never been a better time to start reading some. Here's just one thread to get you started: bsky.app/profile/vane...

Damn, it's hard out here for a bombastic ballad in three acts inspired by a short story and giving Hamlet vibes to one high schooler who inhaled too much ambient hairspray. This essay played round 1 on Jay's birthday & today might be its last. (Please enjoy our photo.) marchxness.com/finalfour-di...

😱🙂‍↔️ 🥹❤️‍🔥 🙌🏼 is my emotional arc when an amazing writer you’ve been reading for years as a baby poet get a copy of your first book.

the 8th anniversary collab will be called THE DELICATE COLLIDE! back in ASOOPP3, @rhonagreene.bsky.social sent “delicate” & @willerickson.bsky.social sent “collide”⭐️ these collabs/donated words are precious to me, but also involve fun chaos behind the scenes! info/submit: tinyurl.com/dwform2026

I miss Alice Wong. I miss seeing her online. I’m sad I’ll never get another postcard from her. There was a beautiful celebration of her life today. Thank you to everyone who organized it and spoke.

The dream

Portland, if you're looking to support writers from the BIPOC community, stop by @literary-arts.org this Wed, 3/25. I'm lucky to feature this month and read poems from KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. An open mic follows. literary-arts.org/event/bipoc-...

A reminder to authors: yell about your books! And often! I follow several authors, who I adore, and had no idea they had books up for preorder!

All my burning hearts to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and fellow readers @mbrrray.bsky.social @shelleywong.bsky.social @tracibrimhall.bsky.social for yesterday's online gathering for KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. ❤️‍🔥

Join me & my friends at @jacklegpress.bsky.social tonight at 7 EST for a little Zoom “Karaoke” celebration, featuring @gendeguzman.bsky.social, @shelleywong.bsky.social, @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & @mbrrray.bsky.social ! 🧨❤️

Tonight! Online! Poems!

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

The hardest room to escape.

"I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't" by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social You can return my bowl when you’ve washed it. But I won’t let you say Pluto is not a planet—I miss the solar system’s symmetry. A classic. Listen again, via @slowdownshow.org: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Please send me poems. Weird. Heartbreaking. Beautiful. Have fun with language. Put something strange in it. I don't know. Send me cool shit to read and maybe publish as a postcard.

catᶜᵃᵗ #Cat #Caturday

"A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village" @shelleywong.bsky.social A different ocean moved through her—her blood in my blood with his blood. poets.org/poem/marriag...

If birds aren’t real, it’s because they are poems

My sweet husband who is not on Bluesky made this March Sadness promo image for me. Read, listen, and vote in the Sweet Sixteen! marchxness.com#/sweet16-gnr...

"Let's get dressed up and go to the bookshop" totally needs to be a thing.

From the OKD vault! I've always loved the irreverent reverence in this poem by Erinola E. Daranijo in @okaydonkeymag.com okaydonkeymag.com/2024/08/02/t...

"Stunt Double" by @mbrrray.bsky.social When it’s time to tap in and get my heart broken so my heart can remain intact, I remember why I’m here. I think of how I look so exactly like me, how I’m the only one for the job 😵❤️ theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

This short story collection is so lovely. Balm for that speculative itch. Strange and beautiful and unsettling in the best way. Reminds me of Kim Fu, Priya Sharma, Kristine Ong Muslim.

Happy Pub Day to 2025 StoryBoard Fellow @gendeguzman.bsky.social. Get your copy of "Karaoke at the End of the World" now!!! bookshop.org/p/books/kara...

Brenda Shaughnessy

"While facts only recount death and grief at face value, the multiverse offers more imaginative runway." Over on LitHub @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about channeling grief and loss into imagining other worlds.

Happy pub day to KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @gendeguzman.bsky.social! Find this brand-new poetry collection and more on our AWP Member Bookshelf.

✨❤️‍🔥 My heart on fire, it’s outttt! Thank you to everyone at @jacklegpress.bsky.social who helped make it happen. 🥰🙌🏼

Oh just a few books from the Ides of March bookfair pop-up you should check out. Thank you to Evan @pahoehoe.bsky.social for the invite. Read local. #pdxwriters ❤️‍🔥 #bookhaul

the day is HERE! finally sharing the secret project i've been working on since jan... BACKLIST LIT 📖 A blog dedicated to backlist independent literature. the first post (about Edith Wharton and ghost stories!) is up now, and I have a bonus post coming tomorrow! EEEEK! backlistlit.wordpress.com

Tomorrow! Stop by our pop-up bookfair, Portland.

Portland Peeps! Don't miss the release of @chrysbuckley.bsky.social's powerful debut, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays, 7p tonight @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social! Chrys will read excerpts and be in conversation with Domi Shoemaker of Corporeal Writing. Musical guest: Tracy McFarland

Portland, come to an Ides of March literary pop-up this Sunday, 3/15, 10am-2pm in SE Portland. There will be books and writers of those books chatting about bookish things. And, if you're lucky, readings! Inside the Eastmoreland Grocery, 3616 SE Knapp. Food & coffee offered by Holding Hearts Bloc.

Wish I could go! Litquake Festival on 4/22. What a line-up, what a venue. ✨🤩 www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-note...

“It isn’t that I’m more afraid of public speaking than death; it is that public speaking feels like it could cause my death. But I do it every month because I am a high school librarian in the state of Texas in times such as these.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @la-cac.org www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-...