We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing. Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/

POW! It's NAWP time!

Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.

Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!

Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌 Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤! RSVP here or DM for link: www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...

#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine

Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday! brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...

Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this. If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.

Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows: www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com

This Thursday!

Wow, congrats Eben!! It's great to revisit this poem!

3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30! Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.

I am what you protected, the mechanism begin in utero, but I am also what I make myself... @mspicone.bsky.social, this tenuous atmosphere

Anyone have recording equipment I can borrow for my keynote next Wednesday?

My @awpwriter.bsky.social haul. @queerloveproject.bsky.social @redividermag.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @cmariefuhrman.bsky.social @mspicone.bsky.social

If they each had a bird in hand they would open their hands. Obsessed with this line from "How to Live" in "Ragnarok at the Father-Daughter Dance" by @toddedillard.bsky.social, thanks @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for bringing me Todd's book.

#handsoff Boston

But will not be using the tax system to get rich people to pay taxes.

My first "Best New Poets" nomination!? 👀🤯🤓

Love to see our grads and their books. Congratulations, Eben!

"Stop being one person" relays @nickolebrown.bsky.social

Swing by to grab a book from me and Jennifer Case at booth 323 with @terrainorg.bsky.social #awp2025

Come get some flaws at #awp2025 at 11am on Thursday at @terrainorg.bsky.social's booth (323).

As one does for the @chenchenwrites.bsky.social ...

Fuck. That's a poem.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

Thank you @fivesouth.bsky.social and @jessicawillingham.bsky.social !

When I was at HTSAP we wanted to do an episode on how anyone can write a bill basically, it fell apart because the person who we wanted to take us through kind of citizens writing bills was so good at it she became a govt official 💀 but I think about that a lot

Cape Codders, here we go!

Thanks @sonorareview.bsky.social for sharing this: sonorareview.com/2025/01/31/m... @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, This is us, Dickens, Plath and Joplin are all in there, along with my Chickadees and Sad Girls. Thanks for being my artistic community!

Come read poetry with me at the Robbins Library on Pawtucket Land (Arlington, MA) on Feb 18th at 7PM. Myself and another headliner will read for 30min, followed by a 30min open mic. Arrive by 6:45 if you want to sign up to read. Wanna read? Have requests? Reply in thread!

Thank you South Carolina Review for sharing my second "disintegration" poem titled "Mother's Day" in their Fall 2024 Issue. The writing in this issue is so powerful, y'all. Grateful to share pages with so many breathtaking writers and the beautiful painting of Mason Engler.

Just got my first ever @pushcartprize.bsky.social Pushcart Prize nomination! Thank you so much, Bear Review! Holy moley, what an honor.

Wheeee! So fun to see the Bluesky community growing! Hi frenz.

Thank you to the connective tissue of the writing world as it manifests in Melissa Anderson and Nikki Ummel. These tireless, behind-the-scenes movers celebrated my work @whaleroadreview and @lmnlarts. Also, my face and the Abenaki shoreline at Pemaquid Point for pleasure and algorithm purposes.

Miss you, Karla.

Celebrate "Character Flaws" with me & friends! Join VIRTUALLY, IN-PERSON at the Lilypad, or both! On gift economy. DM for links or to reserve seats. #poetry #relationships #love #funny #queer

An honor to go live with Bear Review: www.bearreview.com/10-2/eben-eb... Particular gratitude to Nikki Ummel, to Jenny George for an epigraph & title, WritingXWriters for the Fellowship to write this, & to Chickadee Collective's Abby Finklestein for sharp darting edits & affirmations.

Eeek I'm getting excited ... I now have not one but TWO anthology projects that are considering my poetry seriously. Hope it will work out 🤞

Grateful to offer my first keynote (+ panel discussion) for #EarthDay at Northfield Mount Hermon School. Thank you to my convo partners, @NMHEcoleaders, and the writers whose words I wove with mine: @parkerjpalmer @adriennemareebrown Layli Long Soldier & Mary Oliver #poetry #climatechange

🤢😢 okaydonkeymag.com/2024/03/08/l... Thank you, @okaydonkey.bsky.social for sharing this poem. Also, thanks to my #SadGirlsClub who did manuscript work with Eduardo Corral for loving on this #poem.

I’m seeing people talk about the protests at Columbia while suggesting a desire to end the war is “unpopular.” But that’s not actually the case! Just 36% of Americans approve of Israel’s actions! These kids are getting arrested and evicted for nonviolent protest while having a very popular opinion!

What we need to navigate death is a mystery ... a silly and sad poem about my grandma sleeping (and dying). #death #poetry #funny #sad

The breath inside me/pulls out like a magician's scarf! Fuck yeah! From "In a body" by @emilyhockaday.bsky.social

New Englander ➕ dry coastal grassland 🟰 Thanks WritingXWriters for my first-ever Fellowship in 2022 with time to look, feel, and write. This came out right after class with @cphillipspoet.bsky.social and right before an epic convo with Josh Bettinger.

Got to hear Nicole Sealey and Layli Long Soldier read tonight! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Aaahh and bumped into Tracy K. Smith there. I'm feeling 🤩🤩🤩🤩!