Ran into this beauty in the forest today. Gave my heart a little lift. #barredowl

The HVWC is proud to be part of the wonderful Bluesky community! As a ✨little holiday treat✨, here are the books featured in our reading series from Jan to Mar 2025! Note: Some readings are on Zoom, others in person. Learn more: writerscenter.org/calendar/ #readings #newbooks #amreading #writing

Super grateful for this heartfelt and thoughtful review of The New Life on Tweetspeak Poetry @tspoetry.bsky.social “In The New Life, Wisner reminds us to remember that death is part of life. It doesn’t cancel life in our minds, but it makes life more vivid and urgent.” — Glynn Young

beneath the old pine memories stir empty swings— hands hold a ghost’s ring #dailyhaikuprompt [pine] #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets

youtu.be/AJACF_j6DVM?... #fiction #graphicnovels #hplovecraft #cosmichorror #gothic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #poets #poetry #janehirshfield

My essay  « Cherry Season » iselemagazine.com/2021/06/04/c...

the wineberry thorns pierce the dance of withered leaves— autumn pirouette #dailyhaikuprompt [withered leaves] #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem #poets

I'll second that. @tspoetry.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #fiction

Should we have included you? Please let us know if you’ve been featured in Every Day Poems! go.bsky.app/PeD1pMq

on the back burner a miracle of onion peppers my hot stew #dailyhaikuprompt [stew] #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #food #foodpoem #cooking #poem #poets

The start of a new piece. '#35: Tao cannot be exhausted' #TaoTeChing #mixedmedia #straw #pastels #acrylics #TaoTeChing #art #chinesescript #paper

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #fairytales

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

“Ancient Athens made a mess — but the Antigone stands up. Renaissance Rome made a mess — but the ceiling of the Sistine got painted. Art… is the one orderly product which our muddling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels…” EM Forster www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...

Also great fun spotting my books “in the wild” at the fair.

Good morning, friends 🌺 #FlowersOnFriday #flowers #nature 🌿 #naturephotography #photography 📷 #thelittlethings Photo by Egor Litvinov unsplash.com/photos/a-bun...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge

“we don’t see things as they are. we see them as we are” —anaïs nin (or quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/09/a...) #quotes #anaïsnin #perspective #wisdom

dancing around our conversation winter sleet #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

rain drives across night turns itself to silver sleet— unlaced alchemy #dailyhaikuprompt (sleet) #haiku #poetry #writing #poets #rain #sleet

from the place where we are right flowers will never grow in the spring… —yehuda amichai everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-place-... #poem #poetry #everydaypoems #poets #flowers #relationships

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #Book #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

"Mute words and tags" — this functionality alone will keep me on Bluesky so much longer than any other network. The quality of my experience just skyrockets. (Wouldn't it be great to have starter packs for "mute words and tags"?)

daughter with the braid how it swings above dried leaves— midnight pendulum #dailyhaikuprompt (dried leaves) #haiku #poetry #writing #poets #nature #autumn

Solace

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #poetry #adriennerich

One word Wednesday … #wordplay #words #poets #onewordwednesday #writers #tea

Happy pub day to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry which looks at reciprocity and abundance in nature and the Indigenous beliefs of respect and gratitude. My thoughts on IG. @simonschusterca.bsky.social #booksky www.instagram.com/p/DB9JE7GR8B4/?igsh=MTRucnFnZXUxazRocw==

This is a picture of the moon

Poets at play… everydaypoems.substack.com/p/a-single-w... #wordplay #words #poets #onewordwednesday

words steep in a cup of hot tea I stir up a poem #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

chagall night raven and i drift deeper into blue #dailyhaikuprompt

DIORAMA, my 3rd full-length collection of poems, is coming out with Texas A&M in April. Would anyone like a digital ARC for possible review/interview? If you don't have a market in mind, know of several journals interested in a review of the book and can help you place it (some pay!). Message me!

across the valley raven calls mingle with the snow and the bitter east wind. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

So @lanaayers23.bsky.social told me a LONG time ago, when you put together a submission, include 3-4 poems you think they'd love and one poem you are SURE they will not accept--that is usually the poem they take. This has happened to me so many times!

Congrats! Amethyst Loscocco , Jennifer Evans , Amanda Rizkalla , @annelouisepepper.bsky.social , @ccrayne.bsky.social , @kplumhoff.bsky.social

#poetry from Basho captures what it feels like to create.

“Going was dying, and staying was dying. When we get to junctures like that, we had better choose the dying that enlarges rather than the one that keeps us stuck.” —James Hollis #wisdom #quotes #personalgrowth #change #reinvention

rivers of life a bark narrative carved by trees #haiku #micropoetry #Australian

. closing time a raven lends its shadow to the yew . #dailyhaikuprompt (raven) #haiku #poetry #writing 📸 - pin.it/2vZyTyHle

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #antoinedesaintexupery

belonging lives on the edge of kindness / a scroll unwound / —karla van vliet from “aquamarine” at every day poems everydaypoems.substack.com #dailypoem #poetry #poems #kindness #love

After all these years The raven still comes knocking— Seeking bread and coins #dailyhaikuprompt (raven) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #poetryprompt #raven #poem

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #booksky 💙📚 #books #20BookChallenge #poetry #poets #love

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge