Two poems in a day? New to Aquifer, we have "137: An Elegy" and "Ode to Missing Something You Never Had" from the wonderful Emily Schulten. #flreview

Thanks to Laura Myers and The Florida Keys & Key West for the opportunity to reflect on and discuss the island's literary heritage and community and my fortunate place within it.

Thanks for the good talk, @markhedden.bsky.social.

I’m grateful to Terence Winch for choosing “Nocturnal” to appear in Best American Poetry 2025, and to @pshares.bsky.social and Laila Lalami and John Skoyles for first giving a home to the poem. This third photo is an image from the poem. #bestamericanpoetry2025 #bestamericanpoetry #scribner #rats

I’m elated to be pursuing teaching and research at the University of Pécs in Hungary next year through a Fulbright fellowship. 🇭🇺

I hope to see some of you in Asbury Park at #AsburyBookCooperative in a couple weeks!

Such a fun afternoon at #ACapellaBookstore in Atlanta. Thanks in particular to @jamesdavismay.bsky.social & @chelsearathburn.bsky.social for making the drive and the time. And to the artistic bookstore attendant who made this amazing boat for #EasyVictimstotheCharitableDeceptionsofNostalgia.

Emily Schulten is the author of 3 books, most recently Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (White Pine). She is the Poet Laureate of the City of Key West & professor at The College of the Florida Keys. @emilyschulten.bsky.social #poetry #emilyschulten #smartishpace

I’ll be in Atlanta next Saturday and would love to see you!

Come see me compete with the rooftop view of sunset and read #poems at #booksandbooks at #TheStudiosofKeyWest next week, #keywest!

According to #OtisLove, Tweeter and the Monkey Man stay up all night selling “cookies and ash.”

A little more about EASY VICTIMS TO THE CHARITABLE DECEPTIONS OF NOSTALGIA from Erica Gross's Sticks and Stones. #whitepinepress #whitepinepoetryprize #poetry #poems #poetryreview #easyvictims #easyvictimstothecharitabledeceptionsofnostalgia #keywest

Sunday at Malaprops in Asheville! HYBRID | Poet Quartet: Emilie Menzel, Michael Dechane, Danita Dodson, Emily Schulten www.malaprops.com/event/poet-q... #poetry #poetryreading #malapropsbookstore #asheville

Catch me if you can. #poetryreadings #easyvictimstothecharitabledeceptionsofnostalgia #easyvictims #whitepinepress #springreadings

Today, Otis’s song request en route to school was “Go All the Way to Hell.” [see also Traveling Wilbury’s, “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”]

Thanks, @exactingclam.bsky.social ✨🛶🪸🌊⛈️

Otis draws a discrepancy between real and not-real clowns. The latter are all fakes because they have to put on make up and costume to be clowns. The former are clearly a nightmare, as they are born in clown face, hair, and feet. @dakinweekley.bsky.social #toddlerphilosopher

Thanks to @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social for giving EASY VICTIMS read and review. #easyvictimstothecharitabkedeceptionsofnostaglia #easyvictims #whitepinepress #poetryreview #newpoems

From the recent #WKUSPIRIT @wkuhilltoppers.bsky.social

“See this ball, Mama?” “Yeah, Otis! It’s so cool!” “Yeah, it’s not a candy.” “Nope.” “I know because I tasted it.”

End of the semester sunshine: Student popped in to say that my class prepared him to do better in his others this semester and complimented, "You have me fighting battles on paper, they have me digging foxholes." #metaphor

My kid asked to do his turkey disguise project as a vampire bat so I figured out how to do a vampire bat but then we went to the zoo the next weekend and I learned that vampire bat is an actual kind of bat so my 4 yo schooled me. #turkeydisguiseproject #vampirebat #googlyeyes #tomtheturkey #otislove

“…he wanted me to know / that he knew I was there.” —James Davis May, “Tumult and Peace” in UNUSUALLY GRAND IDEAS (LSU Press) 💙 @jamesdavismay.bsky.social

Oh hey, that’s a little about me in the recent #CollegeFLKeys Keys Currents magazine. #poetlaureate #keywest #whatsnew #CFK #faculty

Y’all. It’s wild out there.

Finding comfort in my fate as the parent of an only child.