Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

I listened this morning. It was wonderful 🤍

Massive thanks to @glasspoetry.bsky.social for the Best of the Net Nomination 🤍

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Hi NY friends. I’ll be reading poems for the Adverse Abstraction series at Otto’s Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street next Friday, September 19th, between 6pm and 8pm. There’s an open mic, too. Would love to see you. Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events... www.instagram.com/adverseabstr...

What joy to have a new poem in the latest, gorgeous Alaska Quarterly Review, a journal I’ve long admired. Grateful to Ronald Spatz and the editorial staff. 🤍

Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO. rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...

It's been a wild few weeks, including getting my oldest ready for college (gulp!). But coming up for air to share these sweet words about my book. So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.

Denise Levertov

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

My Fantastic Four

Gorgeous poem 🤍

Final summer workshop happening tomorrow! I’d take one or two more folks! ✍️📚💜 9-11amET

Read this stunning, tender essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Just, wow.

Summer reading — Jennifer Martelli’s PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE is one of the best books I’ve read on sobriety. Tender, and funny. Honest and fierce. Here’s my favorite poem — @jennmartelli.bsky.social

“What will I do with my days / now that my nights / are sublimely alone / and how will I make use of this wound / I carried like a map / so that I would never, never / lose you?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “In Praise of the Defective” thediagram.com/7_4/guest.html

“But I’ve found here, in shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz of a Swiss watch stymied.” —Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series! @djvorreyer.bsky.social

This workshop was incredible. Highly recommend <3

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Grateful to @rachelnm.bsky.social for sharing this folio for her incredible—and much needed—new venture, Calul Journal. "Hakol Calul" means "everything is included” in Hebrew. The journal is an inclusive space for Jewish voices (and others) to share their experiences and truths.

The poems keep coming! Today I have a new poem up at @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social. "The tree is topless, all trunk. Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh." www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...

Just read this stunning book in one sitting. It’s a beautiful, searing journey through grief. Thank you for sharing it with the world, @susanlleary.bsky.social

"I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth, which is clearly raging back at us all," Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️

Forgot to share this new poem of mine up at B O D Y. It's a difficult poem and I'm very grateful to the editors for publishing it. www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...

Wow. Stunning.

And a few weeks ago, she won the Creative Writing Award from the English Department at her school. She loves to write more than anything and I’m over the moon that her teachers recognized her talent and passion. It means so much to be seen. My heart ❤️

Thank you! 🤍

Sometimes, you can't fix your parents — and that's OK. In our latest episode, @karaswisher.bsky.social and @mollyjongfast.bsky.social get personal about their difficult relationships with their moms and Jong-Fast's new memoir, How to Lose Your Mother Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

3 new poems up at the incredible Lunch Ticket! Here’s “Mid-Trauma Sonnet.” It’s a beautiful issue, friends, edited by one of the kindest: Jessica Ballen. So very glad to be included! 💙 Check out the entire issue here: lunchticket.org/archive/issu... @jessicaballen.bsky.social

Thank you thank you, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for publishing this poem. As a huge fan of your work, I'm honored. Also feels right to see this out in the world today, during a heat wave the feels like the earth saying NOPE. XOXO.

I’m grateful to Eileen Cleary and the Lily Poetry Review for publishing my poem, “After We Found Her” from my new manuscript-in-progress. Look at how gorgeous that cover is. The issue is filled with poets I admire. Check it out if you get a chance. XO.

Thank you thank you thank you 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

One day we'll look back on this period of history & wonder why the world hated trans kids so much. You have to have a lot of hate in your heart to want to harm such a small population. The trans community is strong. Many kids will find a way to get the care they need. Others won't. Breaks my heart.

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind. ~ Langston Hughes

Send us your poems and essays!

I’m so incredibly happy to have a new poem (“Little Children”) in the latest issue of Moon City Review. It’s a swoon-worthy issue and I’m thrilled to share these pages with such wonderful poets.

Just read an ARC of HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER. It was honest, refreshing, and FUNNY. So many dementia caregiving books focus on how sad it is--and it really is--but not how enraging and triggering and all-consuming and dreadful it can be. I needed this. Thank you, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social <3

I loved Maggie Smith’s generous, intimate new book on writing, Dear Writer. This quote really spoke to me. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Thanks to @calyxpress.bsky.social for sharing and featuring me today! Super proud to be in this issue, along with other rich, meaningful, evocative work.

congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

Tonight, yes to the boatswain’s whistle, yes to the scold that won’t reach your eyes & yes to that eye contact while you pull off your gloves […] —Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Re-reading the new poems from the Marie Howe book that won the Pulitzer and OMG they are all so good. Here’s one. Marie Howe is one of my favorite living poets and I’m thrilled she won.

@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social's profile of @wendywisner.bsky.social's work and latest collection, The New Life: Poems, in our March/April issue:

So grateful for Sally Ashton and the DMQ Review for featuring me reading a few poems from THE NEW LIFE. It's just a few minutes, so have a listen if you get a moment ❤ Link here: www.dmqreview.com/salon

This is gorgeous.

Tonight! On Zoom. My last scheduled reading for the spring. 🌸📖❤️

So excited for this reading on Sunday! It will be my last reading this spring and I would love to see you. It's on Zoom, and you can register at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com.

Sunday Salon Chicago REMINDER! Join us for a Zoom reading event on 4/27 at 6 pm CT & experience a lovely evening of prose and poetry w/ Maggie Paul, Liz Rose Shulman, @sudhab.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, & Todd Cirillo 💖🔥🌎 To register for zoom, visit www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

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