Almost 30 years later and I finally made it to prom 💃🏻🪩 🥹 At the Village Ballroom, a prom themed fundraiser to raise money for the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization (IRCO)

All the feels and smiles during our reading last night at The Studio Series. Thanks to Leah and Bill Stenson for being the loveliest of hosts (and for setting up an excellent sound system). High fives to @armintolentino.bsky.social. Future events and clips: www.facebook.com/groups/12813...

You can take your mom to an overpriced brunch, watch the Knicks sweep the sixers, put away laundry, and STILL make it in time to hear Genevieve!

Portland, if you’re free tonight, come by the Studio Series. I’m reading with the one and only @armintolentino.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 7pm, at the Ross Island Grocery & Cafe Deets: www.facebook.com/groups/12813... #pdxpoetry

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Tenderness and fire last night ❤️‍🔥✨ Thank you to @djvorreyer.bsky.social for gathering us and for your care and stewardship of poetry and poets.

The universe has conspired! Catch our reading TONIGHT

So you like SFF, eh? Bet you’ll like Story Hour this week! S.B. Divya and Premee Mohamed will read their own work. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @premeemohamed.com @sbdivya.bsky.social a.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Next week on Thursday I’ll be at this amazing reading series! Sign up and listen in ✨❤️‍🔥

Thanks @neonpajamas.bsky.social for sharing. This is a page from Walden. I used the faded endpapers from another book to block the text. I like how it looks slightly waterlogged. The flowers are cut from a wallpaper pattern.

obsessed with this spread 05.27.26 @pizamapress.bsky.social

Breakfast on the Bridges! Friday April 24, 7 to 9AM Blumenauer, Flanders, Steel, Tilikum Bridges @bonbpdx.bsky.social has been offering free coffee & goodies to people walking & rolling on last Friday of every month for 20+ years Thanks! @shift2bikes.bsky.social www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...

Looking for something to read during National Poetry Month? I’ve got you covered. Since we’ve got 26 days left, I’ll share one recommendation a day through the end of the month.

This was last week but I'm still feeling the ENERGY from this reading with Preeti Vangani and Paul Susi. Thank you to @joonae.bsky.social and @jessejohnson.bsky.social who run the amazing monthly Constellation reading series in Portland. ❤️‍🔥

Two more beautifully surreal and experimental collections coming to you in May. ✨🥰

All amazing writers to celebrate but faaaarrr from “emerging” lol

Authors: what's a press you've worked with that you love? I'm querying for my new collection and I have my own list but really only want to submit to places where I know someone who's had a good experience! Bonus points: if you're comfortable, please DM if you've had a terrible press experience

Seattle has been beating Portland on bike stuff for a while. This seals the deal. Let’s wake up, Portland!!! Mayor Keith Wilson should feel the need to outdo his name twin mayor in the north.

When I imagined fighting the robots I didn’t imagine poems as part of that but that’s on me. www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

TONIGHT! Over at Bishop &Wilde.

Coming May 7...our spring reading with four amazing poets. Join me in welcoming @chiaradilello.bsky.social, Dorsía Smith Silva, @gendeguzman.bsky.social and @narioli.bsky.social at 6:30 C/7:30 E! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Today’s most exciting discovery in the garden.

My own poetry starts from a speculative place. I love this roundtable.

Just in time for great weather and terrible gas prices, it's Portland's PCEF-funded E-bike Rebate Program: * Standard: up to $1,600 * Cargo: up to $2,350 * Adaptive: up to $8,500 Eligibility: Income at or below 60% AMI, age 18 or over, and live in Portland. Check it out: portlandebikerebate.com

mary ruefle was right when she said that people would rather read an essay about poetry than read a poem. it reminds me of when people in a museum read the explanatory caption before having their own experience of the art. you fear not "getting it" when you should fear not living

m o o n

We're starting ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a poetry lab 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social was named this year’s final judge and mentor for The Poetry Lab's 2026 Manley Award 😍 Get more info or apply here: buff.ly/mvJ8dej

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-...