Thrilled to have two pieces in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!

Excited for this debut!

Excited to kick off 2026 with a reading at Broadside Bookshop! Join me in person on Tuesday, January 20th at 7pm. I'll be reading from my recently published chapbook Hospice and my full-length manuscript.

Sharing this elegy for Renee Nicole Good, from Minneapolis poet Danez Smith: “The role of us poets is to witness the world…With attention as our tool and duty, we turn to grief, to love, to the natural world around us, to our own lives, and to our countries.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

POETS: If you're not exactly a spring chicken (I consider myself a mid-to-late-summer bird) I highly recommend taking a gander (sorry, not trying to pun, it just happened) at The Stern Prize. What a lovely framework for a prize: 50 & over. I mean, it takes a half-century to unlearn some things, yes?

So excited to hear today that I'll have some work in the first issue!!

Don’t buy anything today. ✊ Read a book. Rest as much as you can. (Write a list of things to buy later.) #nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙

New journal accepting submissions

Thanks to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for picking up the first of a series of med side effect poems.

what a piece today, from Molly Akin!! "One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed." https://www.havehashad.com/mf5jn

Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...

My first Pushcart nomination! Thanks to @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for nominating "Tail" from my chapbook.

an extra hour this morning! what if I fill it with a 30-60 minute spontaneous submission call?? — @aaronburch.bsky.social open now: havehashad.submittable.com/submit/1cad7...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years. n.pr/3WYkn3o

Signed copies are off!

She's here! Holding my first book is both overwhelming and wonderful. Huge thanks to @janehuffman.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, and Tatiana Johnson-Boria for the generous blurbs and support. Forever grateful for Jane's guidance and editor's eye.

Started off 42 by sharing a stage w/ @janehuffman.bsky.social, @chloemartinez.bsky.social, Ellen Kombiyil, and Minal Hajratwala at Lit Youngstown. It was a soul filling birthday weekend!

Sharing my new (and first!) craft essay on the Brevity Blog. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/f...

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White. brevitymag.com

Today's the last day to preorder "Hospice" before 9/26 pub date. Preorders are 15% off the list price.

sometimes you really do write a whole poem just to give one beautiful phrase a home

Stopped all the adulting for thirty minutes to build a fairy house with the eight year old. We especially like the kitchen sink that holds water. By far the best part of today.

We are thrilled that ONE BOAT by @jcbuckley.bsky.social is longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

“In these poems, the reader sojourns across a defamiliarized world, acutely described with a Dickinsonian economy and cataloged, freshly, by Akin’s fine-toothed aesthetic.” Such generous words about "Hospice" from @janehuffman.bsky.social. Preorder: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...

A little ocean for today

My debut poetry collection is now available for preorder. Called "A strong, memorable debut collection!” by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social poems reckon with the intimate work of caregiving. Preorder by August 31st for a 15% discount from my publisher. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...

Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Beautiful review of @dcazdn.bsky.social latest book. I'm very much looking forward to being in conversation with David and @poetmercurio.bsky.social this evening. Sign up: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I had a lot of fun building my reading set for tonight's WTUI reading. I have an extra luxe twenty minutes to read. This micro published in @identitytheory.bsky.social will be in the mix. @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/executor-tan... Tonight at 7:30 EST: bit.ly/WTUIJul2025.

A generous gift of a close read from @poetmercurio.bsky.social. Join us tonight at 7:30pm EST.

Preparing for next Tuesday's What The Universe Is: @mollyakin.bsky.social and David Cazden by doing a close reading of Dave's poem "Vertigo" over on my Substack: damncurious.substack.com/p/a-close-re... Go check it out and then register for the reading! bit.ly/WTUIJul2025

Very much looking forward to this conversation moderated by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social. Free -- register to join: bit.ly/WTUIJul2025!

Thanks for sharing this, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Hospice by Molly Akin On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp... Winner of the New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, Hospice catalogs a decade in the poet’s life marked by becoming a #mother while supporting a #terminally #ill parent #caregiving.

Exciting news from @mollyakin.bsky.social . . . and a great excuse to order another book. 📚

A grief poem in The Inflectionist Review Issue 20. www.inflectionism.com/20-molly-aki...

thrilled to be able to share my vague publishing news 💛💛💛 my next chapbook “Naming a Dying Thing” is coming in 2025 from Yellow Arrow Publishing!

This micro is in my forthcoming chap "Hospice." Thanks to @identitytheory.bsky.social and @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for giving it a home first 💕 Preorder ➡️ www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...

If you've ever wanted to hear the brilliant poets Megan Pinto and Michael Dhyne read without leaving the comfort of your home, you'll be able to do exactly that on Thursday, June 12 at 7:30pm Eastern. Register at bit.ly/WTUIJun2025! @megg-bean.bsky.social

"Akin’s is not the language of life but the language of death, of near-death and after-death: that fragment, or moan that is whispered across the “gash // wound” between the living and the dying..." Forever grateful to @janehuffman.bsky.social for the blurb and her generous guidance 🙏

My first collection, "Hospice," is available for pre-order! "In a lean but hard-hitting, visceral verse, Akin ardently depicts what it is like dealing with the loss of a mother, void and haunting memory.” The kindest words from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social 🙏 @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Whoa, look at what FOUR lines of poetry can do. Powerful.