Reading David Lynch's Room to Dream is really helpful when you stare out at a summer half gone and anxiety-wonder about all your poetry mornings

Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.

Monarch breakfasting

Monday morning Monarch

Turns out you can make an Italian liqueur with young, green black walnuts. Will these baby nuts I've been gathering with @davidww.bsky.social turn into Nocino?! Check back in about 3 months!

Minneapolis visit=1st visit to Milkweed Books & my new obsession with Tomaz Salamun

Thrilled to have a short strawberry poem in this issue with 9 other amazing pieces! www.identitytheory.com/if-things-do...

This @tomsnarsky.bsky.social poem made me stop and break today. #weirdpoemwednesday open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...

Weird water haibun from David Ward today- all new and already bedecked 🏞️

Remembering the poet Dale Going, who was a joy to work with, and whose poem "This Is My Secret Society My Private Tribe," we nominated for a Pushcart Prize last year. Read the whole poem here: www.publicschoolpoetry.com/dale-going

I love how poetry gives you room to take yourself way too seriously one day and then to play recklessly another.

Finished my annual report and then dug a hole to celebrate

it’s okay to feel bad about bad things happening. to feel grief over loss, rage over injustice. it’s okay to weep and scream. it seems like poems are the last place where it’s okay to sit with a difficult set of tangled emotions. and leave it at that. at being a living thing.

4-year-old pawpaw tree flower

You will never find what you're looking for here in the doom scroll. You must go deep inside to find a personal hell only you alone possess.

What a great speech that has no reason to be erased and apologized for by institutional spinelessness. Great Michigan Daily article for context: Faculty Senate chair praises student activists at commencement share.google/WiS7b6iYeaJa...

Pretty awesome that we created a weird imaginary space. And that great poets want to hang out with us and each other there

Sending love to language and vultures this afternoon: A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt. In flight, a kettle, and when feeding at a carcass, the group is referred to as a wake Interesting Facts - Vulture Culture - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum share.google/FpxXgrzu3llV...

This is Geoff. He's lucky to be in a household that values sleepiness over cleanliness. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: sarahmeyers14)

Me the day after teaching my last class this semester: 7am- I'll get through 40% of my student feedback today/ 9am- maybe start student feedback tomorrow and apply for a residency instead/ 11am- how about just blueberry pancakes?

Tonight! PSP Issue #6 reading launch with our amazing contributors. One of whom is Kristie Williams who may read her poem "All That I Know of Tree Sex and Panties Was Unearthed at Another Poet's Reading" www.facebook.com/events/16776...

UM Regent Acker wants to be re-elected so he can make crass jokes about students’ sex lives. He should be removed from the Board.

"the Curiosity Clinic was also a different way to organize our work in the university and—importantly—to teach differently in a particularly difficult time and in ways that restored joy and wonder for faculty and students alike, all done during the span of about six hours." bit.ly/4tSrk4E

UM student Tony Lui doing a Lemon performance in honor of his immigrant great great grandfather who came to America and then never got to see his family again. Lemon eating contest, lemon baseball, and homemade lemonade sweetened with pomegranate molasses.

"They tell me to exit you must go through" "Ikea Panic Attack" by Claire Denson www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/claire...

It's 5pm and Public School Poetry is officially open for submissions! If the thought of writing a 5-paragraph essay in response to another (anonymous) contributor's poems strikes that magic combo of excitement and nerves, send us some work! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

Snake in the spring garden surprise

dog shepherd

Issue #6 is live! Come for popping-out-of-a-hole-screaming vibes, luminescent creatures yanked into nightmare worlds that still use their muscled brilliance to sing, and for our ten gorgeous poets. @mehpoeting.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“Good Time Jesus” for Easter, “Those Winter Sundays” for Father’s Day, and “The Tiger” for every other day of the year

"Stop One Clock" and feel this sharp dagger of love poem from @jessicawalsh.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jessic...

Waiting at a blood draw and hearing so many people checking in to learn that after 10, 20 years of getting the same tests, they're now not covered by their insurance

6 days until Issue 6! Have you read the roundontini in Issue #5 from @kavetchnik.bsky.social yet?! Be brave. It's for Dallas, Who Bites www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jen-ka...

green, green casssshhhh

Shiny new person machine poem by PSP editor @davidww.bsky.social up on HAD today!

Posting Issue 5 poems every day until the launch of Issue 6! Here's Carrie Strand Tebeau's electrifying Wolf Day sequence. "You do not choose / the Wolf Day. You have no say." www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/carrie...

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

A strangely comforting fortune to get at the end of March when I've been working at full capacity. New beginning work doesn't start for 8 months

Congratulations to Shou Jie Eng, whose poem "Shoreline Sketch" (Issue #4) is a 2026 Best of the Net finalist! "they dug their feet into the sand towards the fire towards the fire the sand was/ warmer they noticed their feet noticed" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/shou-jie-eng

Finalizing our contributor's page for Issue #6! This page is always something special and this next issue's gonna melt some cold hearts. Our poets are invited to share a current photo or a photo from some other time gone by. Bios from our current issue ❤️ www.publicschoolpoetry.com/contributor-...

A poem resonating with me today from Don Bogen- one of my first and kindest poetry teachers: "Two lies of remembrance: it was always winter/ Things could speak" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55049/...

My local rec center asks excellent questions.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

The vibe's different when it's separated from cookies

I’m sorry, he’s quitting to study poetry? You can’t make this shit up

Dear muskrat I saw today. Remain in the light.

Another poem from Mary Ruefle's Dunce (2019)

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude