Deep thanks to @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for featuring these two poems--which are proof I'm a) still writing about foxes and b) still writing, even though a doctor drilled a hole in my head. 😂🦊🤷‍♀️

Folklore friends, this summer reading is meant for you--Selkie Moon, by @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social , is a selkie story told freshly and tenderly from the daughter's p.o.v. Its lush island dreamscapes swept me away. And oh, the sentences! Such enchanting sentences!

Still have a few open seats in this May workshop. Poets and dreamers, come write with us!

Poetry Friends, I'll be teaching this new online async workshop in May! Hope you'll join us!

Everything is burning down, and also, I am thankful to New Ohio Review for including this small grief poem.

Kay Ryan, my goodness

“If a star, hydrangea me blue.” 💙 —C.T. Salazar in HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING (Acre Books) @ctsalazar.bsky.social

Damn Rita Dove is so stunning 🔥🔥

@sallypoet.bsky.social never ceases to amaze me. Check out this haunting piece published in the latest issue of Plume Poetry. plumepoetry.com/anatomy-of-l...

@jessicacuello.bsky.social, I cherish this pointed (porcupine joke, see what I did there?) poem for its surprise wings (oh, oops, spoiler)

Wow.

I'm pleased to offer manuscript coaching for literary journal publication – and ready to start today, since this is something I love to do. About me: Former editor/current nonfiction editor, Mid-American Review; prose poetry editor, Pithead Chapel, series editor, Moon City Press poetry prize.

A new report details both an epidemic of fatal violence and discriminatory legislation against trans Americans. While many fear a Trump administration will only further threaten trans lives, these orgs are fighting back. ⤵️

First: an email from AWP, telling me about how my online panel will work, when I'm not going to AWP next year. Then, as I begin to reply, an email from the NEA, rejecting my fellowship application (which I at least actually did submit). As Hamlet would say, "Indeed, Lord, it followed hard upon." 🙃

About to go visit a poetry class, which turns out to be in a building I haven't been in since 1991, when I went there twice a week, to teach my first-ever college writing course. 👀 When I walk in to the classroom, should I burst into The Circle of Life? (asking for my old-ass self)

This poem today and every day: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

RAÍCES Texas has a wishlist of supplies they provide to immigrant families. You can buy them dish soap, shaving cream, even car booster seats. click.everyaction.com/k/97052365/5...

Louise Glück.

“I tell you how it is that we live and what it is that we do. We get ourselves up off our much abused sofas to the old intolerable sound of hollow spoons and hollow bowls to ensure that our love has not left the world or else.” C.D. Wright

My poem about Disney and deer and the weird dark of movie theaters and oh, yeah, also grief is out in the new issue of storySouth. Thanks @terrylkennedy.bsky.social for including this one in Issue 57!

So thankful that this poem found such a great home at the wonderful @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social .

I just revisited the most recent issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and this poem is just incredible! www.whaleroadreview.com/kindred-3/

In the DC area? Come out on 2/20 to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read poetry with Sarah Kain Gutowski, @sallypoet.bsky.social and @larapayne.bsky.social

Thanks to Tahoma Literary Review for including this poem in their latest issue--

Did you know we are currently accepting book reviews? Send us an email if you're interested in getting set up with a book to review!

She pursued his ship like it was him like his capital was scraps of skin   like the cargo was silver love This poem from the $ archive is "Dear North 1795," by @jessicacuello.bsky.social. poetrycurrency.com/poem/jessica...

I'm thankful to have a poem, "Prayer with Dead Mother and Apparent Outward Force on a Rotating Mass," in this issue, filled with poets whose work I so admire. Thank you and happy 8th birthday, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.

Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 💜

Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social !

“To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.” ~ Louise Glück

🐺🌲Thank you, Sarah!

I would so appreciate your passing word of this 9/9 zoom session on to students and other poet pals. TY. www.writerscenter.org/calendar/art...

A labor poem for Labor Day.

I made it to Bluesky! And I even know where the share button is! Now...any poets around here? :)