Really loving Krysnia Wazny McClain's recent review of In Parachutes Descending. It's always cool to see how someone might read one's book, especially on such a personal level. Check it out here: www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorize...

Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞

Happy discovery! Rama Duwaji's plates! tanajeanwelch.com/news/2025/11/10/winter-2025-featured-artist-rama-dujawi

Gabriele Münter, “Breakfast of the Birds” (1934) See it at the National Museum for Women in the Arts (or the Guggenheim Nov to April 2026)

Anyone read All Fours by Miranda July? What’d ya think?

Out now at @translunartl.bsky.social , "Vengeance As Sweet As My Love", my weirdo tale with the premise of: "What if two figures from Malaysian folk horror were thrust into a cyberpunk Sherlock-Moriarty situation"? translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/v... (you know I'm a Sherlock Holmes nerd)

Danielle Dutton talks to @pipadam.bsky.social on the possibilities of politically engaged speculative fiction.

A grain silo can be a metaphor for any feeling—one misstep and you are simply engulfed. poems.com/poem/day-10/...

HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature is currently seeking visual art submissions. HEAL welcomes a variety of genres and themes, and submissions are open to all. Please share with your artistic people! #art #submissions #callforart #healingthroughart

Revisiting: Audrey Kawasaki Tingling 12” x 15” graphite and oil paint on wood panel 2024 www.audkawa.com

I'm in love with Kati Thomson's vibrant art! An added bonus: she lives and paints in my hometown. #clovis This one is entitled "Flyers." See more at katithomson.com or tanajeanwelch.com/news

#LosAngeles "Susan, Aarti, Keerthana and Princess, Sunday in Brooklyn" (2018), by Mexican artist Aliza Nisenbaum. For more on Nisenbaum's work with immigrants, see bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Thanks Simeon!

Soft numb resilience, wing me a story. Scratch me a skin poem. Chase the sparrow’s tail, roll the boulder. Poem of the Week is “Cedar Waxwing, Pyracantha II" by Lehua M. Taitano. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: bit.ly/4jvygPJ #Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem #Poet

"Dog Years" by Michael Bazzett #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry

Brimming with praise ( @roxanegay.bsky.social! @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social! ) GRAPHIC RAGE exposes the absurdities + injustices that women know all too well, turns rage into razor-sharp wit, pushes back against the world’s worst takes, + channels frustration into fearless humor + incisive critique.

A hauntingly beautiful poem. Maybe one day they'll stop spitting.

Grateful for this review of In Parachutes Descending by Michael Trammell. He really got what I was trying to do with the book :) www.apalacheereview.org/in-parachute...

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

“boys in the cul-de-sac shooting / rubber bands and rocks from PVC pipe guns // this is how I remember my childhood” — @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social Highway 99: Jane Visits My Valley” @upittpress.bsky.social

Just want to give a shout-out to Jhon Gonzalez! His Latin dance classes on Apple Fitness make me so happy. Each time I do one, I feel like the day, the week (dare I say year) is actually going to be ok. Anyone else a fan of this fun, happy, loving dancing man?

“I would’ve told you // I should but don’t / regret trying to OD on my mother’s heart pills // at age 16. I slept five days straight and it was absolutely / fabulous.” — @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social, “Letter to Those Who Wanted Me”

Poems at the end of the year! Thank you to the multi-talented Rebecca Hazelton for including one of mine. lithub.com/49-contempor...

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

With election day upon us, I wanted to offer hope for a better future by sharing one of my favorite artists, Firelei Báez. Drawing from and destabilizing the past, Baez presents new possibilities for the future. tanajeanwelch.com/news/2024/11/4/firelei-bez-on-imagining-positive-possible-futures

Just finished the absolutely gorgeous Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. It’s one of those rare books I never want to end. She captured so well so many of my current feelings: on being a mother, apocalyptic thinking, time, and more.

I’m a long time fan of Jena Osman’s poetic investigations. This poem seemed especially apt in wake of all the texts Republicans keep sending me about dark money taking over Tallahassee. poems.com/poem/disclos...

Bellingham!!!!!

Hey Seattle area! Join me in Everett next Monday (9/30)!

I'm excited to read in my home state next week! If you're in the Davis/Sacramento area, please join me. @poetryindavis #californiapoetry #parachutes

California writers! Did you have a book come out this past year? Consider entering the Golden Poppy Awards! Deadline: September 15 caliballiance.org/page/GP2024

Grateful for this review of Advancing Medical Posthumanism that came out today! www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/08/tana...

Taking her out for a little west coast jaunt! Tell your Davis, Everett, and Bellingham amigos I'd love to see them.

Thank you @simeonberry.bsky.social

I had a jolly good time talking poetry with Jen Schomburg Kanke last week! youtu.be/YsMbyMpDhJc?...

Happy Summer Everyone! Gen’ichirō Inokuma, “Answer from the Constellations” (1983)

It means I start walking faster as I pass by. Sometimes you don’t need to KNOW in order to UNDERSTAND.

CA Conrad! Blowing me away poems.com/poem/yellow-...

I finally saw Asteroid City and loved it! So much of the good old Wes Anderson in this one.

Barbara Takenaga's paintings are gorgeous and transportational. Where do you want to go? More here: www.barbaratakenaga.com

Tampa! St. Pete! Clearwater! Come on out to the Dali

Heard this song for the very first time Friday night and it’s my new favorite. First song on their first album (1986). (So many firsts.) #flaminglips youtu.be/HbsaDtz56Jg?...

Victoria Lupascu interviewed me about my book, Advancing Medical Posthumanism, for NBN's "New Books in Literary Studies" podcast. Or, further evidence that I should stick to written communication :) newbooksnetwork.com/advancing-me...

Hey poets! I'm looking to put together an AWP panel on Poetic Futures. All poetic styles and topics welcome, including sci-fi or posthuman poetry. I'm keeping it broad and then I'll narrow down based on responses. DM me your ideas! (by May 19) Please share this! #AWP25

Call the mayor’s office to oppose library cuts, which are coming at his behest: (206) 684-4000

Just let this song caress you. So soothing I swear. ISLANDS | "Becoming the Gunship" Official Single youtu.be/xWVFrLvpvzg?... via @YouTube

This is a particularly good one: poets.org/poem/makedo?...

I think one of the cruelest things the publishing industry has done to writers over the last decade or so is insist they become public figures on social media.