Thanks to PSU & PCC for sponsoring this reading with my @cmwritershouse.bsky.social roomie @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social and my @babedylan.bsky.social agent sib @rossshowalter.com! Come see all of us at PSU on October 20 at 6 pm as the #StarryField tour continues. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Houseplant love. Soil refresh, leaf wipe and polish (!), gnat traps, snazzy new pots, and grow lights. ☺️

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

Readings are always such a balm for the soul. So lucky to have been a part of this all-Pinoy poetry gathering at Bishop & Wilde. 💕🥰 🙏🏼

7pm, TONIGHT at Bishop & Wilde celebrating Michelle Peñaloza and her latest collection ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS (Persea Books). Read the title poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #pdxpoetry

Save the date for 9/24!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR is out today from Cornerstone Press! Join me in celebrating mistakes and uncertainty. 🙈Thanks a million to Eunice Kim for the beautiful cover art, Rosanna Warren, and everyone who has supported this book making its sidewinding way into the world. ❤️

Solid info here. Keep vigilant, keep watch, Portland.

Neighbor of ours was abducted by ICE. You can give to the gofundme for his wife and 3-year old daughter if you'd like. Also I'm just trying to make a habit of saying out loud and with my real name, on platforms where I'm certainly being surveilled, that ICE can go fuck itself. gofund.me/e741f45a3

Lovers of poetry & poets: This Thursday! 9/18 @7pm. Head over to Bishop & Wilde inside Tin House for a reading by yours truly, Chris Rose, and the night's feature Michelle Peñaloza, author of ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS.

timeline cleanse

A friend writes (from a bus on the way to a Free DC protest):

We're down to the final 10 DAYS of the 2025 Literary Awards Program with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social as our judge! Submit today for a chance to make it to the winners' circle and have your manuscript considered for publication! buff.ly/AMZ2510 @susanschulman.bsky.social

han vanderhart #smallpoemsunday

“We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.”

Two weeks from now on Thursday 9/18 come hear poet Michelle Peñaloza read from her newest collection ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS. Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and the James Laughlin Award. We’ll be at Bishop & Wilde in NW Portland. ✨🙌🏼💜

Officially out! Congrats @adedayoagarau.bsky.social

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

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We're back from our summer hiatus! Register for the Zoom link to join us on September 18 for @taylorbyas.bsky.social, @nadiaalexis.bsky.social, @travisclau.bsky.social, Allison Blevins, & Kimberly Ann Priest. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This drops 9/2! From my fellow @pw.org GTWO cohort alum Adedayo. Dream-like, surreal. This collection will sear your soul. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

hey writers🔥need accountability, coaching, and literary hijinks? i'm building a writers community with ex-Guernica editor @autumnwatts.bsky.social & @okaydonkeymag.com Socials Manager @cms.bsky.social! it's called @litmatchcollective.com and we launch September 1... 👇

Back home and still feeling the high from workshop and all our writerly fellowship. I was thrilled to be a part of it. 🥰⚡ #StoryBoardFest25

The #StoryBoardFest25 Fellows Reading at the packed @roscoebooks.bsky.social earlier this month was such a lovely event. I had a blast sharing, as you can tell. To my fellow Fellows, I'm in awe to be in your company. (Thank you to @anandalima.bsky.social for the photos.) ✨🙏🏼❤️

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

"Universal acclaim" would be underselling how @meganstielstra.bsky.social's writing students feel about her teaching. And now YOU can study with Megan too. Essay Collection In A Year applications are due Sept. 9 -- this program is fully online. www.storystudiochicago.org/advanced-wri... #writers

✨ I'll be at the StoryBoard 2025 Fellows Reading next Thursday at Roscoe Books. If you're in Chicago, come hear us read. Tasters of excellent poetry, CNF, and fiction promised. ⚡

join me for poetry at sea 💜🧜🏼‍♀️✨ and also yoga ofc

What a gorgeous collection that gets you in all the feels. 💖🥹DEAD GIRL CAMEO by the lovely @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social is now out! Your poetry library needs this sweetness and nostalgia. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763794...

From WOUND:

Remembering Marcel Duchamp on his birthday 🎂 Descending a staircase in a marvellous Eliot Elisofon photo, 1952 "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes."

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NEW EVENT ALERT! On August 13, please join us at Sulzer Library at 6 pm CT for a free event: Authors In Conversation. Our five featured StoryBoard Conference instructors will take the stage for a conversation with our Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai. buff.ly/qIe3o4l #chicagowriters

Fellow GTWO alum @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social is launching her collection DEAD GIRL CAMEO on 8/5. Mark your calendar! DGC covers girlhood, Black femininity, femme friendship, queerness. ✨ ✨ Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Billie Holiday, Lisa “Left Eye” make their cameos. Get link here: bit.ly/DGCLaunch

From Franny Choi's book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: bookshop.org/a/862/9780063240087 #poem #books #writing

It’s been while so it’s montage #caturday

TOMORROW, lovers of poetry and poets!

Today was our last class in the Get the Word Out program with @pw.org. It was a standout and featured poet extraordinaire @victoriachang.bsky.social, who chatted with us about writing life and navigating that first collection. Shout out to Morgan LaRocca, our mentor! Forever changed. ❤️

My poetry cohort in the @pw.org Get the Word Out program finishes up and gets to reads for you! This THURSDAY, 6/26, 8pm ET. Come hear us read over Zoom: www.pw.org/content/2025...

There's a growing consensus on city council that Portland has more streets than it needs for driving on and that in the future, plazas and other creative uses of the right-of-way will flourish citywide. bikeportland.org/2025/06/24/c...

When cities have more walking and biking infrastructure over car-centric roads and parking lots, life just feels more....livable

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #womensart

It's graduation! Come watch for a taster of everyone's work and learn more about the program. This Thursday, 6/26, 8pm EST.

COOL TIPS for biking in extreme heat from our Slack + @bikeportland.org + @shift2bikes.bsky.social Bike slow Ride through fountains Get bags off your back Choose shady routes Bike in coolest times of day Freeze your drinks Soak your shirt, bandanna & hat Shorten route & add stops Bring extra water

There is truly nothing better than a summer festival in Chicago -- especially a writer's festival! Join us at the Newberry Library August 16-17 for our StoryBoard Festival -- a weekend of craft and publishing classes, panels, and social events. Tickets on sale now: buff.ly/wVY8fg8 #chicago

Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss

We’re thinking small! Today's collection spotlight showcases some of the tiniest books we have. Our criterion: They must fit in the palm of our hands! 🔍 According to the Library of Congress’s Miniature Books Ruler, our selection ranges from Micro-Miniature (1/4 in-1 in) to Miniature (1-3 in).

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