Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶

#Essayists! Would love to see more cnf in the @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social submissions database! Flash and work under 3500 words most welcome. No fee submissions. We pay contributors. Additional details: westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu

Please behold this magnificent octopus I saw on a shore dive last week. 😍 (Photo credit Lukas Arias)

Frost flowers on the creek yesterday. These only form when it is very cold, and very still, and it has been both. It feels like magic. ❄️

Many, many thanks to @narrativemag.bsky.social for making a home for "Some Half-World." This poem means a lot to me. ❤️ (Link in comments.)

Let's endure winter together, by making our own little web of work. ❄️ Check out The Winter Writer: Six Weeks of Writing in Community. ✨ Tuesday evenings, online, starting February 11. ✨

We marked the new year with a small offering. May you get what you need this year. ✨

The ether is in the ice again. 💙

All bundled up. Time to test the lake ice. ❄️

The 10yo & I made peppermint marshmallows!

Reposting b/c AWP has a legit means of transferring registrations. You should go to LA! Let's talk!

Many thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & @lisaampleman.bsky.social for giving a home to two new poems, including the first in a short series of prose poems considering shame & girlhood.

Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀

What are your favorite winter poems? ❄️ Here's one of mine.

Are you a poet 40 and over who has published no more than one full-length collection of poetry?? Send ten pages of poems for me to read for this year's @poetrysociety.org Robert Winner Memorial Award!

Two sides of the same lake. ☀️❄️

Here's my new favorite joke: knock knock who's there? hike hike who? Unsuspecting friend. I await with bated breath. Sets the perfect trap.

Really happy to have a recent poem in the fall issue of Pleiades, which is packed with great work. Many thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social & @caitlincowan.bsky.social.

Back on it.

Booked AWP! Who else is going to be there? 🌴

Listen, a cold walk is a tonic. ❄️

Sixteen years ago tonight I kissed my husband for the first time. We were first-year law students & the party was wild & I thought I was defending his honor but I had the story wrong.

Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?

Aproned in the kitchen listening to 1970s jams, prepping syrups & scones & cornbread & stuffing, & wishing my grandma, who was hilarious & complicated & taught me to cook, was here, too. 💚

Just trust me; it’s worth it.

Looking for a writing ritual to push through the darkest days? ✨ Join us during the week of winter solstice (Dec 16-20) for an online, early-morning writing circle & write five new poems, fast. ✨ We'd love to have you! Link for info & registration in comments.

Thrilled to have a new poem in the (stellar) fall issue of Copper Nickel. Many thanks to the editors!

After a long time away, peeking back through the blinds into social media & so glad to see so many poets here. 💚

Only two seats left! Join us—it’s going to be wonderful!

Under this bridge is where the ether leaves us its messages.

Up to two partial scholarships remaining!

I’m excited to lead The Sustained Writer, an online guided writing circle beginning in January. ❄️✨❄️ We have a few seats left—join us! Link below for more info.

Me, to every email I send, "Go with God."

A forever favorite by Keetje Kuipers.

Love is on the other side of the lake. -Linda Gregg

Someone on the internet had hard-boiled eggs with feta & dill & as I’m quite suggestible, I did, too. And now I wish I could feed you all this immediately.

8yo: “Dad! Truth or dare?” Husband: “Truth!” 8yo: “Who would you have married if it wasn’t Mama who you already know?” 🙌🙌🙌

Twin Cities! I'd love to see you tomorrow eve!

Really looking forward to reading this Friday at 7:00pm at Eat My Words (in Northeast Minneapolis) with Joshua Gottlieb-Miller & Haley Lasché! We'd love to see you! It's gonna drop to freezing Friday night. Let's warm up with some fresh poems!

The first time I read this poem was aloud, in an MFA workshop, & I was in tears by the end. The pleading, the longing, the anger. It wrecks me.

So many times reading Glück‘s poems, I felt I’d been struck by lightning. 💔

I think I love it here!