Just booked some Amtrak tickets because BAD ANIMAL is being taught in a college classroom this October. So excited to explore Providence and talk about poems. If you have any recommendations on what to do for three days there, let me know!

Compression wraps procured and thrown into the mix: 17,436 words, and this project is essentially novella-length!

The Nightmare Before Christmas is just Jack Skellington having a hypomanic episode send note

I don't think I've ever clocked 15,000 words on a novel built off pure and unadulterated spite, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!

So this happened. Many thanks to @rosswhite.com for the notification and to Best of the Net for acknowledging my poem pubbed by the lovely folks at @poetrycurrency.bsky.social as a finalist for this year.

Hello all! It's been a bit. Exciting things may or may not be afoot---if you're intrigued, you can subscribe to the email list on my website to get the news (that may or not be coming) when I get the all clear to announce. :) kcbrattpfotenhauer.wixsite.com/website

Valzhyna Mort

Little sick day short story acceptance---"WRAITH" coming your way soon-ish!

In @mcsweeneys.net with @madelinegoetz.bsky.social talking about the Disney canon www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.

The first of my hurricane stories is live today in The Lindenwood Review! It's beyond exciting to find my fiction in their pages. Eternal thanks to the incomparable Beth Mead and the editorial staff for their kindness and care. Link in the comments to read!

From Kevin Young's Book of Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poem #books #writing

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.

Save the date! 🗓️ Join author Sarah Aziza & guest readers for the launch of her memoir THE HOLLOW HALF on April 22nd at Storm Books in Brooklyn, NY!

She's ready for her closeup.

Probably going to finish this novel rewrite in the next week and my main character is going to give me the electric chair and it will be SO WELL DESERVED

Little sad saucy poem in the newest beautiful issue of Cherry Tree. I wrote this one when I began fleshing out the concept for my novel, a Hades and Persephone retelling. So happy to be back in Cherry Tree's pages, and all my thanks for the editors.

60,000 words on the novel rewrite and morale is high! Stay tuned to find out just how quickly that tune changes for the next and last section.

FERAL🐈‍⬛ Coming in 2027 from @jacklegpress.bsky.social ✨💖✨ I know how rare it is to return to the same press and I do not take it for granted. I was so excited I signed the contract at work🖊💖

My bank spending snapshot telling me I spend way too much on office supplies: The 13 floppy binders in my shopping cart:

OFFICIALLY AT 55,000 WORDS ON THE NOVEL! Officially past the previous draft's total wordcount!

Novel rewrite is over 50K now!!! Still a ways to go before it's over, but AHHHH.

Get ready for your feeds to become annoying again, for I finally have the energy to make crocheted things for people again. Retrospective: December 2024 projects.

author copies of We Contain Landscapes arrived!! WCL is out with @tinhouse.bsky.social on March 18th 🌀

seeding the dark, Deborah Digges

Novel rewrite is at 49,500 words and I'm only 3/5 of the way done. This time last draft, I was wrapping up the action entirely. Here's to new growth!

All morning the / Morning has been blackening, / —Sylvia Plath

Two rejections for writing things I *really* wanted. At least space them out, guys, come on...

Really pleased to have two poems from GRIEF SUITE in the new issue of Modern Language Studies, and even more pleased to be presenting on Ilya Kaminsky's DEAF REPUBLIC and women-led utopian resistance narratives at NeMLA (which sponsors MLS!) in two weeks.

40,000 words of the novel rewrite logged and not anywhere close to being done. It's a relief and a pain---last draft clocked in at 55,000 words total, so I'm glad to be blowing past it, but also I wish I could skip to the part where the draft can stand on its own.

You know, I'm usually a cynic when it comes to love, but I got to spend the weekend with someone I adore and we went to the NYPL and walked the Brooklyn promenade and watched movies in bed with a bottle of Georgian wine and if there is such a thing as happiness, I finally found it, I finally did.

Nothing stronger than the bond between a NYC student and their preferred bagel shop.

Still, There are good things in this world. James Wright

My poem "Feral" is up on @versedaily.bsky.social today. Thank you to @jpdancingbear.bsky.social who also loves animals. As I typed this post I found myself longing for a photo of the cat who was my childhood companion.

Section 2 (of the novel) Electric Boogaloo done, we are now rocking a cool 34,161 words.

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Hit 30K of the novel rewrite and I am so ready to be done with this section it's actually making my teeth itch.

Little unpublished love poems for your Valentine's Day perusing.

Got ya something

What is that, dear ones? You need to hear some good news? We are bringing you Jennifer A Sutherland’s @jasutherland.bsky.social’s House of Myth and Necessity in Spring 2026! 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky 💙📚 Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.

EPA Warns Of Dangerous Levels Of Romance In Air theonion.com/epa-war...

Ordered my Dad's doctoral dissertation to use it in a Secret Poetry Project and I'm having a lot of feelings about the whole following in his footsteps thing.

It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.

Not feeling the greatest today and dragged myself out to put some books in the free library, and this older man about my Dad's age saw me putting books into the cubby and started very excitedly telling me about discovering Louise Penny's books there and it was the most wholesome thing. I love books.

kendrick inspiring me to hate bigger

There is genuinely almost nothing better than getting feedback from someone who *gets* the story I'm working on, like you GET it, you get my weird anxious little characters who are weird and anxious with each other! In other words, my throuple anxiety story found its reader.

So excited to see brilliant friend and poet Hayley Bowen on this list!!!!