Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)

Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁

Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖

Beasts of humidity

ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️‍🔥 sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...

Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️

Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!

learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

God would still love you if you were a worm

Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree

Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem

On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection. [MS 2087]

a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...

The sun is trying to come out in Oxford today, so to celebrate please enjoy this illustration from MS Bodl 614 (which you can explore on Digital Bodleian here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a43b...). It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays

Poet prom face brought to you by the $4 Shrek Puss in Boots eyeshadow palette from TJ Maxx

Gutters of Ann Arbor

A THIRD DISTANCE. check it out on Substack open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

Insisting on calling Christ's stigmata the "Glory Holes"

Received feedback on my poems again 😔

. Love Poem There is no question of choice, but it takes a long time. Love’s vacancies, the eye & cavity, track back to embraces where the spine bends & quietens like smoke in the earth. Your tongue, touching on song, darkens all songs. Your touch is almost a signature. .

First HAD call for 2025 incoming! Certified lover boy @jordanhamel.bsky.social is taking over the reins tomorrow (2/13, 1pm est) for a special Valentine's Day Eve submission call. He's looking for messages in a bottle, DM slides, sad songs for dirty lovers, and more. Details in image/alt text.

The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024 #extinct @the-revelator.bsky.social therevelator.org/extinct-2024/

Simply and eternally one of the greatest lyric poems ever created.

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Giddy to have a bitter little ditty in the latest issue of the New Delta Review 🕯️ 🔥 🌬️ ndrmag.org

So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all

“I think ‘desire’ is the wrong word and ‘love’ too plain, ‘devotion’ too sacred. My whole life, I think, I will use for describing you.” —Emily Jungmin Yoon “Find Me As The Creature I Am”

FLOATING CROWNS Ancient rata trees create a fascinating mosaic of gaps between their canopies. Found only on remote Enderby Island, this rare crown shyness helps trees avoid damage in winds. 📹 michaelgeorge

I’ll see your unamed lake, and raise you one with a name. Lake Matheson, New Zealand.

im AHAB, Assigned Hater at Birth, and I'm gonna make that whale pay

It's good to be drawing again! Missing my home-birds so here's a kōtare and a tūī 🕊️🔥🌀

Walking on water (Huron River frozen over)

Last Things

Sicknasty poetry from @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social for Chrimbo & what a killer closing line 🌟🌟🌟

Lovely to see this poem in Palette is still making its way in the world, especially through the @literaryhub.bsky.social annual list!!!!! Thanks Karyna for the kind words 🕊️ 💖🌱 lithub.com/49-contempor... www.palettepoetry.com/2024/09/18/p...

*Charlie xcx everything is romantic voice* eBay jacket with a broken zip

A literary rejection? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my Submittable?

Two poems in the 2024 issue of Turbine | Kapohau!! One of these arose from a barista mishearing my name as "Ruby", which happens a lot in America with my kiwi vowels, and was not as startling as the party where I introduced myself as Becca to someone who did a double take and said "BIGOT??"

Here are the gestures of my hands. Wear them in your hair. Jane Kenyon

Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa

This.

Woke up with these words by @ired0mi.bsky.social on my mind & on my tongue

Thanks so much to YesYes for seeing something in this work, and huge congrats to Caro and my princeling Matthew too!!! Fun fact this announcement is how I've learned that in America people do not say 'bush' as in 'forest' so my title belongs mostly on the mons... This pun is for the Antipodeans 🌳🌳🌳

"what cut shape is made / whole by opening? I mean besides the heart." @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky #poem