i hate it when someone in my workshop submits a poem with a specific word or image i have in a draft i was planning to submit next week like bro i swear i'm not a copy cat we're just psychically intertwined

reading this copy of blessing the boats that i got at a used book store and just realized lucille clifton signed it?!! its moving to me

this is the best poem and it coincidentally is also the best poem of thanks 🦃 open.spotify.com/track/2XEFWS...

life is better when you have an exciting new book to come home to at night

WHEN YOURE HOLDING A HAMMER EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE NAIL

i have two new poems in this issue that are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to read them! great issue, check it out. (: www.theshorepoetry.org/carter-rekos... www.theshorepoetry.org/carter-rekos...

i shaved my head in the bathtub

obsessed with the images in this poem. i love feeling strange about being a human.

reading submissions tonight and this one poem had me full on belly laughing so i hope we publish it

visited the poetry foundation hq yesterday. lots of poems there!