Prepping a knock-off of Portland's plant-based Mississippi bowls. Rice, not-beef, coleslaw, green onions, ranch, bbq, @ranchogordo.bsky.social yellow eye beans, side of garden amaranth. I remember 2010 food trucks & miserable midnight shift at crisis call center. I ❤️ PDX #recoveringsocialworker

Previously loved book mail: The late husband & wife poetry powerhouse of Sandra McPherson and Walter Pavlich. “a little drug of paint won’t hurt.”

Elizabeth Bishop Letters “You tell me to watch out for unpleasant phrases like "meditate your own wet" —when I have watched out for them and put them in deliberately.”

My clear coat nail strengthening protein told me “not prettier, but stronger” can be my anthem today. Straining to hear the voices.

Favorite stick just broke. Too rough unclogging feathers from a spigot. Now what?

Morning notes and then I’ll get that craft article submitted for deadline I promise open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Looking for folks passionate about reading creative nonfiction and working with a volunteer team.

New Substack: absurdism, photo set, apple machine bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/make-me-pr...

Red Delicious. Like eating a Glade Plug-In dipped in nail polish. I’d rather chew on Washington’s dentures. Can’t wait to chop this down and replace it with free Palestine and impeach Frump.

Crispy Gravenstein rings. If it looks infinite that’s only because it feels that way and please send cortisone injection

We have a little free library & I add books from writers I follow. A busy little spot w/ eclectic readers. If youd like to send a copy of your book I’ll add to library. Promise this isn’t a scam to forego paying! I still buy from writers PO Box on my site, library in Northern CA bradley-david.com

Still going with this frequently updated calendar of manuscript submission opportunities for poetry and hybrid full-length and chapbooks open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Ordered. Lake of Urine is brilliant.

why does there have to be a blue car in front of everything

4 out of 10 times I say “thanks you” to strangers

where does the air come out of these Dysons and phase-two MTV veejays were a strange kind of strange

@antiphonyjournal.bsky.social ‘place’ summer folio. copies available. DM me 🩷 i like pink do you

We have a guest post from CNF Reader Olga Katsovskiy today for Wind & Root. Head over to Reckon for this take on content warnings in Creative Nonfiction.

New Substack archive of All My Reading & Storytelling Videos (and why I make them). A deep dive into the benefits and wild joy of self-recording. bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/all-my-rea...

Updated. There are 21 opportunities currently open in this list. open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

You never forget the first time you read Ultra Mega Prairie Land Elisabeth Workman @bloofbooks.bsky.social

Reposting and updating these full-length/chapbook poetry/hybrid opportunities through the end of the year. Do you have any to add? Carnegie Mellon is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts until September 15th.

Stage-frightened introverts & writerly nervous nellies, do I have the Substack for you. Meee!! I only leave the house for food, bird rescues, & when my husband drags me to a Zara return. Video readings, helpful writing bits, & very little pesky self-confidence… bradleydavidwaters.substack.com

Blue check on the strange orange blob

Special acceptance from Nine Mile. They published my penpal Sandra McPherson’s penultimate book. She’s why I attempted poetry & her “5150 Poems” is an exemplar of poetry as medical humanities. She died last year. I interviewed her in ‘22 for Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/desi...

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @democrats.senate.gov You’ve handed it to them every step of the way. When we voted for you as stopgaps, we voted for thin fragile panes thru which we saw a Republican/fascist regime. You shatter & hand everybody their weapons. Now who?

My new Substack is about secret gestures of respect as generative for the imagination and good for the soul. bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/the-time-t...

contumacious, adj., stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority

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Today’s (free) Substack is all current and upcoming reading periods for full-length and chapbook poetry or poetry/hybrid Please feel welcome to add more in comments & share bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

Deleted yesterday’s manuscript articulation in favor of today’s. It’s bad, don’t come over. I hope this photo doesn’t count as ‘previously published.’

Step two in apple vinegar is straining and letting the fermented juice sit 4 weeks. But one of these jars smells like I need a second opinion.

I’m putting Juice Newton in a poem. Don’t anybody go and get there before me.

Three brief, beautiful new poems with audio by Bradley David: "Goodbye, Amateur Photographer", "Oh. Snow.", and "Echoes". https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/bradley-david-waters/ #poems #poet #poetry #photography #snow #echoes #wind #naturepoetry

Substack # 2: -My very personal relationship with writing elegies/laments grounded in place (plus new poems). -What is “sense of place?” -And “everyday mindfulness” (informal, unaided, untrained) as opening one’s observational artistic practice. BRADLEYDAVIDWATERS.SUBSTACK.COM

Substack # 2: -My very personal relationship with writing elegies/laments grounded in place (plus new poems). -What is “sense of place?” -And “everyday mindfulness” (informal, unaided, untrained) as opening one’s observational artistic practice. BRADLEYDAVIDWATERS.SUBSTACK.COM

Grateful for the beautiful layout of my new poems & audio

Check out the all new Substack # 2, fresh off the fingertips bradleydavidwaters.substack.com

Tomorrow I post Substack 2. It’s a bit heartbreaking, a bit heart mending, & a bit practical/hopeful. They won’t all be this ambitious. Someday I’ll get lazy and post lemurs It would mean a bunch if you check it out. I’ll include a few new audio poetry readings too substack.com/@bradleydavi...

no weird poems no confessional poems no sentimental poems no after poems no experimental poems no poems with odd line breaks no sex poems no love poems we want your completely unique experience that has nothing to do with you and doesn’t remind us of other people or new things but is totally new

Maybe you already know this, but this morning I noticed shampoo starts with “sham” and conditioner starts with “con.” Are we being duped by the overlords of Big Clean? Yes.

Hello. Let’s just have a pretty good day. As in, escape fantasy. (Illustration by the inimitable Tove Jansson)

Can’t recommend this enough. They collaborate with heart & respect; illustrate each piece beautifully.

Let me rephrase…. A few months ago I submitted my queer short story manuscript to a queer press and suddenly they queerly started following me 😳 Obviously it’s all about to happen for me and there’s no other explanation. Especially because or in spite of the erotic gay bit and/or meteorite crash.

Feeling slow, but at least reading @salesses.bsky.social Craft in the Real World is brain juice. Drafted Substack & will link to 3 poems + audio coming out at @terrainorg.bsky.social this Friday. Thank you Simmons and Derek. Tonight finish making cherry strawberry jelly from the garden.

Perhaps the least likely thing to ever stop happening among humankind is an end to the word “baby” in pop songs.