Please join me and Mark Burrows at The Poets Corner January 11 at 4:00 ESTm 1:00 PST for poetry and talk of peace! Click on the picture for a link to register!

With thanks to the @westtradereview.bsky.social

Our December regular reading features 6 writers on December 11 at 6:30c- don't miss @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @rebeccalehmann.bsky.social @erindorney.bsky.social @dsmpoet.bsky.social @kathrynkirkpatrick.bsky.social and @magpiedays! Registration link in bio!

Today is the first Father’s Day without my husband, who died suddenly 7 months ago. Thank you Michael Simms at @voxpopulisphere.bsky.social for giving this quirky elegy a home voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/15/d...

It's publication day! To Phrase a Prayer for Peace is officially out and in the world. The poems came from the heartbreak of watching the war in the middle east unfold. At AWP, I'll be signing at Yetzirah (T715) on 3/29 at 11:00 am & Whale Road Review (948) on 3/29 12-1:00. Please come say 'hey'

To Phrase a Prayer for Peace launches online on Sunday March 23, 4:00 pm PT with the amazing poets @jaredharel.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky and Yehoshua Josh November. Thank you @wildhousepubs.bsky.social and Mark S. Burrows! Register here usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi... I would love to see you there!

Donna Spruijt-Metz reading for us at AWP. We'll see you soon in LA, we'll be at T540, our 23rd year of attending AWP! @dsmpoet.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social #smartishpace #poet #AWP #AWP25 #poets #poems #poetry #SmartishPacePoets #creativewriting youtu.be/InrinuRZLbs

The fire is close. I’ve got go bags ready for the pups and me. I hope we don’t have to evacuate

Happy 7th light, Happy New Year, I wish you all peace and love and health and wild bursts of creativity and when you need it, a dog who knows you’re going to cry before you know it.

This has been a year of suffering in the world: hate. war, death, hunger—and for me, personally—with the sudden death of my husband. This book came fast, took me over, possessed me. I can’t wait to share it with you. Thank you, Melody Stanford Martin for this beautiful cover. What a gift.

What a joy and an honor to be included in the latest issue of Whale Road Review!!

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer describes grief as I feel it these days.

This heroic crown of sonnets emerged before Yom Kippur, when my husband Gershom Spruijt זיכרונו לברכה‎ chanted Torah beautifully for what would be the last time. Thank you Judith Magazine & Rachel Neve Midbar for giving it a home. This is a stealth tribute to him & his resonant voice-now so quiet.

An honor to be engaged in deep discussion with @philipmetres.bsky.social for @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

Eyes full of fall skies in Upstate New York, heading back to Los Angeles 🌞☀️🕶️ today.

Dogs!!!

I’m teaching a poetry workshop for Hudson Valley Writers Center on October 27! Write a poem, craft a prayer, ask for help or vent how pissed off you are at the universe! Please join me in writing poetry of praise, questioning, & occasional irreverence! Registration writerscenter.org/calendar/sac...

Thank you Poetry Daily for giving this poem some love today poems.com/poem/i-need-...

Please join me in my next generative workshop! We will be writing poetry of praise, questioning, and occasional irreverence! I would LOVE to see you! Link to register: writerscenter.org/calendar/sac...

Going to Arkansas to read at the amazing @kaicoggin.bsky.social ‘s Wednesday Night Poetry situation!!! Come through!

Psaltery & Lyre open for submissions for ONE MORE WEEK! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/ We are looking for essays, stories, poetry, and hybrid works that push the borders of sacred and secular. Bring us your tasty morsels! Submissions are free!

A master at work

www.pw.org/live/events/... BEYOND thrilled to be part of this celebration of 5 over 50 debut writers on December 7th! Register for free! Thank you Poets & Writers and Kevin Latimer! It is a fabulous line-up! Please join us!

Happy to recommend this book to you by @dsmpoet.bsky.social

Saskia Hamilton.

Brilliant poem from @poetalicewhite.bsky.social

Humbled and excited to have a poem chosen for today's Poem-a-Day! You can listen to me read it if you would like right here poets.org/poem/hoof

Over the moon (and in the Bluesky!) to be chosen as one of the 5 over 40 debut authors for the annual Poets & Writers feature with four stellar writers! Here’s a link of you would like to read our brief essays www.pw.org/content/5_ov...

Katie Farris reminds us that we need to train ourselves "in the midst of a burning world / to offer poems of love to a burning world.” So please come write with me on October 15th (via zoom)! Explore the wide universe of poetic constraints in this burning world and let your poetry flow!

@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social did a 2 minute review of my book ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’!!! Thank you so much for spending time with my work and sharing it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-g...

Come write poetry with me! I am teaching an online course for the Hudson Valley Writers Conference on 'The Good Constraint' on October 15th, 12:30-2:30 PM ET! There will be (virtual) swag, a wealth of new vessels for your writing! Registration: www.writerscenter.org/calendar/gen...

Shana Tova! May your New Year be sweet and go deep. In these holy days I am praying for this earth.

@mkdordiggsy.bsky.social hello!!!!

Poet at work

Dark Elderberry Branch, poems and musings of Marina Tzvetaeva as ‘translated’ by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine. With a fabulous afterword. Yes, I believe you have time for this beautiful slim volume!