From “To the Ukulele Player on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida Who Asks Passersby, What Are You Grateful For?” by Susan Michele Coronel #SWWIMEveryDay #Poem #WomenPoets #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #SusanMicheleCoronel #ThursdayPoem

I love this essay—and yes, there’s milkweed in Illinois, but not as much as when I was a child due to herbicides, alas.

A wonderful Zoom poetry reading today by @katierpoet.bsky.social, coming at us from Scotland with several remarkable, devastating poems from her new collection, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (May 2025, Cornerstone Press.) An unforgettable tribute to her late sister & the love they shared.

New Substack up that acknowledges the awfulness but also acknowledges the beauty. #poem #poetry #onlineworkshop open.substack.com/pub/creative...

So happy to announce the winners and finalists of Sweet's 2025 Poetry Contest! You'll be able to read them on June 17. As the final judge, I can tell you they are amazing poems. #poems #poetry sweetlit.org/2025-sweet-p...

two great new Natalie Warther shorts today! here's one. click through for the other!! https://www.havehashad.com/sfnhb

I'm thrilled that my lyric memoir about my sister and grief is up for preorder from Cornerstone Press! #siblinggrief #sistergrief #grief #memoir secure.payconex.net/paymentpage/...

Amazing poem from Academy of American Poets today. So many lines to love! "I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think Where did they go?, think, Oh yes, to the past, that place where everything goes and can I visit? No, but also Yes..." poets.org/poem/beautif... #poem #poetry #loss

New Substack up on moving to the UK. I know that platform is problematic, and I'm happy to hear about a different one that you've used and liked. But anyway, here it is: open.substack.com/pub/creative...

I have a couple of poems out in the lovely journal: Sweet: A Literary Confection. Many thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social and @chelsdingman.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their important work keeping the poetry fires burning. #poem #poetry sweetlit.org/anya-kirshba...

“Beginning again and again is the actual practice.” —Sharon Salzberg #buddhism #meditation

New Substack up—and yes, I know that platform is problematic. Still I hope you’ll take a look. It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/creative...

"Those days you wait like a dog at the door" Three striking poems -- absolute heart punchers -- from @katierpoet.bsky.social | #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

I am so grateful to Does It Have Pockets for publishing 3 of my poems! The 1st is the title poem of my new manuscript, the 2nd expresses my longing for the farm where I grew up, and the 3rd is about the dog park. #poem #poetry #poems www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

I'm so grateful to have 2 new poems up at Bear Paw Arts Journal. The links go to each one, so I'll post them separately. There's such beautiful work in this issue, writing that affirms the dignity and beauty of everyday life. #poem #poetry www.bearpawartsjournal.com/poetry2/reig...

Happy winter solstice!

Awesome to wake up to my poem, "Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness" from my new book, The Grief Committee Minutes, on Verse Daily today! bit.ly/41SE0hl

This is from a poem by Andrew Lang called “Ballade of the Midnight Forest” and I now recognize that my true childhood ambition was to be a 19th century Scottish poet and folklorist (and also a wood nymph of course).

Read this brilliant poem! Dog parks are good places to think. www.versedaily.org/2024/howefar... ...This year is closing down. What I lost I will never regain... #poem #poetry #dogs

I'm recommending my friends' books! Today it's a wonderful poet who was part of a workshop of grad students I led years ago. Buy his book--and discover others at the wonderful Meadowlark Press! www.meadowlarkbookstore.com/s/stories/tu... #poetry

My gorgeous boy welcomes everyone who’s new here with sugar-face contentment. May you have your favorite ball and a hooman to cuddle.

You know a poetry book's great when you just open it at random and the poem is really good. random pick from @susanlleary.bsky.social Dressing The Bear.

New poem on Poets Reading the News! It’s about perspective. www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/i-bu... #poem #poetry

Photographer Kristie Kohn says "While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."

I have a new poem up in the Rise Up Review, on how we’ve lost those moments of peace, the in-between moments. I hope you’ll check out this wonderful magazine. riseupreview.org/katherine-ri... #poem #poetry

Such a gorgeous, wry, thoughtful poem! A new fave. #poem #poetry

New #poem up in SWWIM yesterday. Dogs, birds, and horses! www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

New class—starts next Wednesday. More info at sweetlit.org/workshops #poetry #cnf #onlinewritingclass

open.substack.com/pub/creative... A short post with amazing words. #poetry

This gorgeous #poem by Sheila Black. Read it. Quietly heartbreaking. lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/lette...

Read my friend and former student's story, out in a visually exciting English-language spec fiction journal out of Bangladesh. Impressed the editors got the issue out in the midst of a coup. smallworldcity.com/Saturday-Nig... #speculativefiction #poemsasdrugs

Loving this book by Sarah Stockton—poetry about living with #mecfs.

I feel overwhelmed by the social media options so I forget to post here, but figured I’d share this pic of my sugar-faced boy about to catch his ball to keep my hand in this excellent platform. (He has big toofers but is the sweetest doggo.)

I would be glad if everyone who considers me a friend, IRL or pocket, to please read this and internalize what it means.

New substack up! Maybe you’ll take a look. open.substack.com/pub/creative...

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“AI, Basic Income, and the Buddhist Agenda”—up in One Art Poetry Journal! oneartpoetry.com/2024/07/05/a...

My short essay about 35+ years of friendship with my college bff is up! minervarising.com/country-mous...

My poem in Pithead Chapel today! Grateful 🙏 #poetry

New post on complicated fathers. open.substack.com/pub/creative...

New poem up on @passengers.bsky.social ! www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss... #poem #poetry

New post meditating on home, landscape, and belonging. open.substack.com/pub/creative...

New Zoom writing workshop! Poetry and/or short cnf (life writing). Supportive, understanding, fun. 3 spots left! nofeelingisfinal.ink/product/body... #poetryworkshop #zoomwritingworkshop #cnfworkshop

New poem up on JAKE, in which I try to be funny while complaining. jakethemag.com/reading-my-l... #poem #poetry

This poem. About animals, vulnerability, the choice of tenderness, the environment, us. Read it. poets.org/poem/parable...

New post on depression and grief. But don’t worry—it ends on hope! open.substack.com/pub/creative...

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New Substack (yeah, I missed Sunday while I was home in Illinois) on joy despite grief, transforming grief through creative writing, and grief support practitioners who aren’t therapists. #griefsupport #creativegriefsupport #grief open.substack.com/pub/creative...

I’m grateful to have a poem up in the amazing Elysium Review! It’s about dogs & heaven, and the whole magazine is poems of joy & celebration. Check it out! www.elysiumreview.com/katherine-ri... #poem #poetry