As I move into the final week of the summer semester where both my students and I feel like we've been penned up and unloved for 7 weeks straight, I'm finding a lot of joy in this video. I'm going to have to ask my human to put a bunch of toys in the middle of the yard for me next Tuesday.

Today is the last day of presales for my 1st book. Presales help new authors establish marketability for publishers (@finishinglinepress.bsky.social). You can help me by buying. Wouldn't that feel nice? #poetry #masculinity #domestic #neurodivergence #family finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

2 days left in my presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social . You can be an early adopter! An excerpt "Armwrestle, Again" You will beat me someday, long past now you will suddenly be more and I will be less Find the rest here: finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Today is the last day of presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social. Imagine the profit if you had bought presale copy of Action Comics #1 for 7 cents. You can save more than that on my first appearance. Buy my poetry. It's an investment. finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

I’m honored to have 5 featured poems in the newest issue of The Windward Review V25, 2025. Beautiful journal worth supporting (link in comments). If you’d like to see more of my work, my chapbook is available for preorder from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Authenticity for the win!

My first book is available for preorder. Check it out below. If you have any questions about quality, production, or usefulness of the work, I’m happy to talk. If not, go ahead and buy a copy!

Our website is up at DelicateEmissions.com! Within the next few months, our past issues should all be there too. Don't worry -- we're not deleting any accounts now (though we deleted our X account a couple years ago), so past contributors can still find your stuff where we left it! LinkTree, too!

I once wanted to be avant-garde, but in a world where meaning is fractured, maybe a poetry reaching for connection is transgressive. Or not. Why not read my perfectly pedestrian book about #fatherhood, #family, #nuerodivergence and the #everyday to decide? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

This weekend my Union, HFCC-FT Local 1650, celebrated our 60th year. We were thrilled to welcome our retirees, spouses, members, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammond, members of our school board, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @reprashida.govpeeps.us to a great party. We are #unionstrong!

4 months away from Christmas in July. How's the shopping going? Not well? Don't Panic. My 1st book is set for a July release and you can pre-order today. It's a chapbook, so it's perfect for your sunny x-mas stockings. @finishinglinepress.bsky.social www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Connie Hills’s debut poetry collection, “Wet Season” is a crop of juicy riff-driven poems ripe with sensuality, clarity and humor… #family #loss #sex #travel #Buddhism To Order: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/wet-...

Hey, I'm being featured. I've never been a feature before. I feel cool. You too can be cool if you pre-order my book. Ok, well, that a bit non-sequetorial, but when I get sales @finishinglinepress.bsky.social gets happy. Making people and publishers happy is cool. Be cool.

My first chapbook will be released in July, but you can preorder now. Preordering poetry is like putting money in a savings account; the return is always greater than the investment. C'mon, you know you'll want words later this summer--why not them now? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

I've been dormant here over the last few months due to health issues, but I just received notice that presales for my first book of poetry have started. I will be sending out opportunities/requests/begging for purchases over the next few weeks. Please forgive the intrusions. But, Hey! Look at this:

You might want to pick up the latest issue of Barstow and Grand. www.barstowandgrand.com/vb9dgwt1le72... It has some great work in it. And it also has a little poem by me.

I haven't submitted work to any journal since August due to teaching and some health issues, but I could not let this opportunity pass. Most of my work looks for the awkward spaces between love, faith, and sex, so I am honored to contribute to the conversation. Maybe you should too.

The Nobel Peace Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, so unless you're calling from Sweden that day, I won't be answering my phone. I mean, someone on the committee has to appreciate poems that explore an awkward, yet healthy, masculinity in narratives about the domestic front, right?

This is not the worst way to spend a beautiful fall afternoon. Purchase copies or access of the newest issue of @inkinthirds.bsky.social at www.magcloud.com/browse/issue... and then check out my poem “Water/Skin” on page 38. Such a beautiful journal, well worth your time.

I made it to the finalist stage in some recent single poem and chapbook contests. I mean, just a few, but a few is better than straight out rejection. I’m surprised how good not winning can feel.

Check out my poem "Water/Skin" in the new issue of *Ink in Thirds* (Fall 2025, 6.2) @inkinthirds.bsky.social, a journal full of wonderful writing and art. The print version costs a couple of well-spent dimes, but you can also purchase an online version for $3.33. inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/

ICE has fatally shot an Illinois resident close to a school. Schools must be safe zones; ICE should not be creating this fear for our kids and families and communities- I join the IFT in calling for a full accounting

Why am I getting followed by a whole lot of "women" who love my posts and are just looking for friends? Do I come off as that lonely and forlorn? Or are these new friends really turned on by political/poetic/pedagogical content? Ah well, at least I'm reaching the bots.

Mr. Rove, Dr. Arendt would like a word: “Thought..is still possible [when] men live under the conditions of political freedom. [N]o other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.” Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. (1958)

Violence begets violence begets violence. Peace is attainable by breaking that chain with critical thinking, discourse, and the promotion of mutual rights. If a group commits to violence, all the rest can do is practice peace, support others who seek peace, and work to persuade those who don’t.

My dog may be the only one in the house who is grateful I’ve been forced to lay flat all week due to the sadistic tendencies of my back.

There's probably a poem somewhere in being flattened by back pain. If I wasn't so drugged up, maybe I could find it.

Please check out my new poem (as well as the other fine work) in the new issue of MINYAN. (Special thanks to editor Liz Marlow.) It should be easy enough, just choose a psalm, any psalm, say #19 for starters… www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...

F25 office hours sign quote: “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.” --Hannah Arendt, 1954

The fall semester has started and my submissions, my writing, and my reshuffling of poems to try to make them make sense have all fallen dormant. This is the way of both poetic and economic work, but I need a slight moment to feel bad about it. Alas...

I'm late to the party on this tweet by @briantylercohen.bsky.social, but here goes: Given what's on our home TV when other people control it, I can't help but think this little vacation is the perfect setup for a cozy mystery in an episode of Agatha Raisin.

My wife, @shaunachill.bsky.social, is a #dietitian starting a new venture to support women as they pursue #WomensNutrition and #HealthyLiving. She is holding a free live webinar tomorrow at 5pm EST. To join, check out her site. While you're there, read a blog or 2: www.shaunahillnutrition.com @shau

As I sat down to create the agenda for a faculty meeting and syllabi for classes starting this week, I glanced over at my youthfully optimistic pile of books and journals I intended to read this summer. Alas, these forlorn books must now join past neglected piles, unread.

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Not all news makes us despair. Sometimes the news just reminds us that life is absurd. Four people were injured after a tractor-trailer crash left thousands of hot dogs scattered across the highway in York County, Pennsylvania. NBCNews, 8/1/25

I am thrilled that @inkinthirds.bsky.social will be publishing a poem of mine in their fall edition. Warning: there may be nudity in my poem. Look me up. Hook yourself up. Ink in Thirds is a lovely journal filled with prose, poetry and photography. inkinthirds.org

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Literature—the life of it, especially so close to the ground of it, the living and writing and reading with each other—is community work; we do this together. It’s participatory. It’s gift exchange.

The unyielding opinions of my 17 year old have taught me that perhaps we would all be better off if we stayed true to the purity of our most simple convictions while also being open to rational negotiation with those who oppose our ideals. Parenthood is a pretty good training ground for citizenship.

I am thankful for the trees in my yard and the birds that perch there because I'm probably not going to get away this summer and trees and birds are essential for my brain regeneration and poetry production.

I'm in the middle of responding to student emails, planning a class, scheduling medical appointments, reviewing a friend's legal letter, writing poetry, submitting poetry, working on manuscripts, and considering a refinance of the house. My language is all a-Crumbed right now.

Prose this evening by Michael Hill. Be sure to check out the fantastic video he so kindly recorded for us. @ccprof.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/07/16/m... youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE?...

I wrote this piece published by @librelit.bsky.social on the day before the innauguration of someone. It’s called “Winter Poetics,” but is as valid today when the cold steel of politics is pressing up against us. Check it out. While you’re there, read more. librelit.com/2025/07/16/m...

If I was younger and didn’t have a career (that has been protected and enhanced by AFT Michigan), I would love to work this job. AFT Michigan is an important and vibrant chapter and they do meaningful work across the state and country. unionjobs.com/listing.php?...

"If you're an instructor, smol press lit is an excellent weapon to wield against ChatGPT, since the chatbot can't make arguments about stories that aren't canonical." (Kathy Pratt).

Another reminder: The second issue of Jackdaw Review is out and it has two poems by an intrepid little poet named me. Here is one of them. Check out the whole shebang in the lovely online journal: online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/xinr/#...

I posted a link the other day; here’s another one: the new issue of Jackdaw Review is up and I’ve got poems! While all work in the issue is great, my daughter reviewed this one saying it needs a trigger warning. High praise, indeed! Check out the whole issue at online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/xinr/#...

I have two new poems in the 2nd issue of Jackdaw Review (Pgs 26 and 28). Just me, Ted Kooser, and a whole bunch of fine poets and artists hanging. (Yes, I just name-dropped, but how often does one get their work published alongside a poet laureate?) Check it out. online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/xinr/#...