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Shoutout to the Great Horned Owl that was just freestyling in the back yard around 3 a.m. A lot of owls make truly distressing sounds, but these big lads really do say "Who whoooo." Charming outside of the hour and the volume.

Stephen Sautner is one of the best st capturing the joys & rewards of the fishing life. This isn’t just a book about far-off destinations & big fish. It’s about the moments, big and small, that keep us returning to the water, relishing every cast.

I have two (very different) new things out! A poem about the joys of having your eyeballs mapped in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: jakethemag.com/ode-to-retin... And an article on winter brook trout in the latest issue of Dark Skies Fly Fishing: darkskiesflyfishing.com

Two miniatures in Boats Against the Current: boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe... #smallpoemsunday

Ron Padgett @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Poems accepted in upcoming print issues for: - Fairy Tale Review - Chicago Quarterly Review ! ! ! ! !

Victoria Chang ☁️ @victoriachang.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Editor thoughts when rejecting a submission: this piece is great, but the vibes just aren’t quite right for this mag Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed

My latest book review includes birding, fly fishing, bogs, gulls & a true Galapagos mystery. Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.

Long-toed salamander.

Found our wedding vows!

A few bangers I ran into this week: @amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.

yesterday's writing prompt (doing one every Sunday all year long)

Big fan of this one on @havehashad.com by Kyla Guimaraes. It has that Neruda-ish exuberance and rhythm, along with a darkness you don't expect from an ode. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...

Char Trek. Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa. Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska. Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.

There's a sucker (myth) born every minute. These are not trash fish. Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue. Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).

Local Fisherman, at the water fall. This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is! #blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography

✨🔮⚡️ bendinggenres.com/writing-grou... @bendinggenres.bsky.social

Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.

A small section of my outdoor book collection, a lifelong passion. Tales of the chase, the more obscure, the better.

@havehashad.com's piece from yesterday is kind of stuck in my head now. So quick and vivid and precise that it makes you slow down. "10/10" by @katherinechiemi.com: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/10-10

Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.

HI EVERYBODY! Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce... Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN! ⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form: tally.so/r/mKPJ4A and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry. But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings. —Jenny Zhang

Now that the gar puns are showing up in my feed, there is nothing left for Twitter to offer me.

HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today. And remember, all you have to do is self publish a bestseller that becomes a movie and write the newspaper about it

I have poems in two new issues of Lit Shark Magazine! "Elegy for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (in The Shark Week Edition) is one of my favorite poems of mine--a weird, dizzy piece about a weird, dizzy place and situation. "Driving Home Late" (in The Spooky Teeth Edition) will hopefully

Bugs? Bugs. Polyphemus Moth found on campus when I lived in Louisiana 🦋

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

It never fails to amaze me that putting a piece of writing - poem, screenplay, anything - away for a month makes you six times the writer.

Nine years ago on Twitter I started writing "Unknown Fairytales" and a some other folks, mostly in haiku & tanka community, played too. Some were published: The princess raised by fishermen spins salmon scales into glimmering armor for an orphan moon www.coloradoboulevard.net/poetrycorner...

This is the best kind of thread

Here’s one of mine, from Lean and Loafe:

Twitter's bad in many ways, but I will say--on there I had this magic lucky feed that only showed me political content if it was from my friends and I actually wanted to see it. Really hoping I can build that here, too. Politics are important and all, but that's not what I come here for.

#frog #fanart

As a person who spends many many many hours revising poems, I SHOULDN'T be writing stuff like "You're sofa", but... (The nasty comments in the bad place were not me though, to be clear.)

The number one advice any & every writing professional can & will give you is this: DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SUCK. You have spent years reading books, watching movies & TV, developing taste to know good from bad. NO ONE GETS TO READ YOUR WRITING UNTIL YOU LET THEM. Trust your taste & write fearlessly.

"It was a story about the night all along lol. / Everything the night is a metaphor for." "Phenomena" by Dawn Sueoka is a marvelously slippery interactive piece about UFOs that also isn't at all about UFOs. Check it out in @voidspacezine.bsky.social: voidspacezine.com/phenomena/