Got a message from someone on Substack asking if I wanted to beta test his creative writing AI with ONE OF MY POEMS? Hard pass, pal. This has scam written all over it. 🙅🏽‍♀️

New poem out today in The Clayjar Review! ⚱️ You can read my little mediation in the lovely issue release post from the editors on Substack: theclayjar.substack.com/p/silence-84b And, of course, on The Clayjar Review site! :)

My poem “And God Said to Greenville” is officially published at gvlpoetrytrail.com/p/stop4.html! Soon there will be a physical trail marker somewhere in Greenville linking to my work. 😊

Read in a reading with eleven other winners of the very first GVL Poetry Trail today at Greenville’s annual Artisphere festival. What a privilege. 💚 I love the vibrant poetry community in my hometown.

Another new poem! This time in the “Mums” issue of @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social. 🌸 Check out my little bitty poem here: wildwillowmagazine.com/archive/

I have a new poem out in issue 41 of @soflopojo.bsky.social! Very pleased to appear alongside so many talented others. 💛

I have two new poems out in Euphemism today! PLUS, I’ll be reading in the issue launch on Zoom at 7:30 PM this evening. Details below. 😊

This year is full of surprise after surprise. A poem of mine was selected for a city-wide poetry trail installation in my hometown! 🤯🥹

I wrote a micro essay on one of my favorite poems, and @poetrydaily.bsky.social featured it on “What Sparks Poetry” for National Poetry Month! Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

A non-reader friend texted me, “I want a poetry book to read in the evenings instead of doomscrolling.” 🥹 I gave her a few ideas, but if anyone has recs for beginning poetry readers, drop me a line!

Two ✌🏽 more poem acceptances this evening! Hoping & praying that this energy continues for the last two-thirds of 2026 . . . 🤞🏽

My friend Emma’s book just released YESTERDAY! Purchase on bookshop.org for a mini discount AND to support local bookstores! ✨

New poem out in the world, in Persephone Literary’s Medusa issue for National SA Awareness Month. 10% of proceeds go to RAINN to support survivors. Visit persephoneliterary.com for subscription options and to read an issue preview. 🐍🖤

Check out the sonnet by my friend @doucette515.bsky.social in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social’s latest issue!

My library emailed me to say it is in the process of purchasing the poetry craft book I requested through its Purchase Suggestion portal. Feels strangely akin to a poem acceptance?

Another acceptance, this time in a print journal I’ve been trying to get into for YEARS. I’ve been floating around my house all day hoping I’m not dreaming. 🩶

Two rejections and one acceptance within five 🖐🏽 hours! The whiplash is real.

Well, this is a first. Submitted a few poems yesterday and got a rejection email less than 20 hours later. 🥴 I guess I can be grateful for not having to wait for months just to hear the same thing . . .

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” —Melinda Gates HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

My friend Emma wrote a book! Available for pre-order & releases next month. 💚 If you love Appalachia, Southern Gothic, formed verse, or existential questions, NO BILLBOARD GOSPEL is for you! @emmagstephens.bsky.social

Just got TWO poem acceptances for a journal I’m super excited about and haven’t stopped cheesing since. 😁 Turns out there IS a light at the end of the long tunnel of rejections!

It’s been a week of rejections for yours truly, but I did write 1,950 words of creative nonfiction in one day. Sometimes the answer is to pivot?

Accepted for my fifth semester in Converse University’s MFA program, this time in nonfiction! 💜💛

Happy mail 💌 Lolita Stewart-White’s BLACK FRAG / MENTS arrived in my mailbox today!!

Snow poem by me! ❄️ Published in the wonderful anthology TO LAY SUN IN A FOREST by the equally wonderful @sidhepress.bsky.social sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay...

@south85journal.bsky.social wants YOUR poetry, fiction, CNF, and flash! 🌟 Theme: surprise us 🌟 We nominate for prizes + one published piece will receive the $100 Editor’s Choice Award. 👉🏽 Head to south85journal.com/submissions 👈🏽

Louise Glück 🤍❄️ From hellopoetry.com/poems/20568/snowdrops

Progress! Pictured: part of a lovely tiered rejection I received this snowy morning. We press onward! ☃️

The best thing to come out of this ice storm is a poem acceptance! ✨ The second best thing is that we kept power.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! We only publish from the queue ~ $100 award to 1 published piece ~ work is reviewed by 2 team members ~ we ❤️writers & nominate for prizes ~ our theme is so open you can <surprise us> by ignoring it! Plz share! south85journal.com/submissions/

It’s my birthday AND South 85 released its latest issue? Best day ever. Read at south85journal.com/fall-winter-2025 !

I am so excited for the upcoming issue of @south85journal.bsky.social - releasing SOON!

Leslie is simply the best editor from which to learn the ropes of a literary journal. This hour-ish interview is so worth a listen! ✨

It’s been a minute. My newest publication is out! A very old poem of mine found a home in the Incandescent Review. 💡 Read “Learning Contentment” on page 20: theincandescentreview.org/issue-19

Thanks to our social media manager @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social for getting @south85journal.bsky.social into the meme game. And be assured that our enthusiastic team would love to read your work!

One more little poem out in the world! 🌹 Thanks to The Dewdrop for publishing one of my spring haikus: thedewdrop.org/2025/05/06/d...

Never not reposting this poem. Especially now.

Release day (again)! My poem “And I Go On Saying” was published in Last Leaves Magazine’s tenth issue! 🍂 lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-...

RELEASE DAY! Check out my poem “Elegy on a Recurring Nightmare” in this anthology by @sidhepress.bsky.social Available in print or eBook form: sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay...

The new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social is HERE! Read at south85journal.com/borders-boun...

I love lit mag happy mail! 😍

My friend Brig published a story in @thetwinbill.bsky.social ! ⚾ You can read it here: thetwinbill.com/a-vigil-beyo...

Lucia Perillo. I feel like this portion of “Samara” speaks for itself. 🫶

Sometimes prompts in MFA workshop pay off. Just had a prompt-inspired poem accepted by Last Leaves Magazine! 🍂

Had one of my early nature poems accepted for publication. Thanks to The Incandescent Review for creating a space for young and emerging writers!

A victory in the formed verse department: Had my first contrapuntal poem accepted by Sídhe Press for a forthcoming anthology on grief. Thank you, @sidhepress.bsky.social !

Obsessed with this gorgeous print copy of Persephone Literary Magazine that arrived in the mail! persephoneliterary.com/january-2025

“When women speak, it is mostly poetry.” —Audre Lorde HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

My friend Kelsey had her poem “When I Find Out I Have Cancer” published in Anacapa Review: anacapareview.com/kelsey-stanc... “When I find out I have cancer / I . . . / remind myself that I am more than / a round mass without end.”

“All things we see are the shapes death makes. When we see straightly and hard we see with the eyes of death.” —Linda Gregg, “The Heart Flowing Out”