On the blog this week; Happy Fall! Solarpunk Poetry Talk, Judging Poetry Contests. Pumpkin Patches, How Much to Adventure and Hummingbirds! webbish6.com/happy-fall-s... #solarpunk #poetry #pumpkinpatch #hummingbird #happyfall

Thanks to the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for giving this piece about my friend Marty Silano, a wonderful poet who passed away a few months ago, a home. We miss you, Marty. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/172...

I just did an algorithm experiment on Facebook. I just put up a mildly political post about free speech, and then posted a poem right after. Which will get more engagement? Sigh.

On the blog: A Tough Week with Bright Spots: Celebrating Poets, Fall Feels and Surprise Cherry Blossoms: webbish6.com/a-tough-week... #fallfeels #celebratingpoets #surpriseblossoms #pacificnorthwestpoets

From @webbish6.bsky.social s book Flare, Corona: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774920 #poem #books #writing

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

On the blog this week: Happy September and Last Days of Lavender and Hot Air Balloons, Judging Poetry Contests and Preparing for Fall: webbish6.com/happy-septem... #lavender #hotairballoons #poetrycontests #fall

#PoetryMoment “On Being Told You’re Dying, but Not Quite Believing It” by Jeannine Hall Gailey from Flare, Corona BOA Editions, 2023

On the blog this week: Parent's Visit (Part II) and Sibling Visit, Getting Sick Under Stress, and NEA Grants to Writers and Artists Cancelled: webbish6.com/parents-visi... #parentalvisits #siblingvisits #NEAcancelsgrantstoartistsandwriters #bobscornandpumpkinfarm

On the blog this week: Parental Visits, End of Summer Flower Farms, and August Birds: webbish6.com/parental-vis... #birds #flowerfarms #parents

This week on the blog: Full Moons, Insomnia, End of Summer Gardens in Bloom, Questioning Writing at Midlife; webbish6.com/full-moons-i...

On the blog this week: Welcome to August: Broken Molars, Garden Parties, Cats and Cutting Flowers: webbish6.com/to-august-br...

Some days are great. Some days, you wake up with a broken molar, spend the day at the dentist attending to the tooth, fall asleep at 4 PM and wake up wide awake and in pain at 2 AM.

On the blog this week: A Change in the Air, Lavender Festivals and Melancholy: webbish6.com/a-change-in-...

On the blog this week: New Nature Writing Conference in La Grande, Oregon, Wildfires, Ecology and Hope, Plus Being Grateful to Be Home: webbish6.com/new-nature-w...

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

FLARE is excited to announce our Best of the Net nominees! You can view the pieces on our website under the "Nominations" tab. Congrats, everyone! (1/2) aliciamswain.bsky.social sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social webbish6.bsky.social wordsbyalice.bsky.social

On the blog this week: It's Disability Awareness Month and I'm Writing Essays About It, The Big Bill Spells Disaster, Plus a New Poem in Cave Wall: webbish6.com/disability-a... #poems #bigbilldisaster #disabilityawareness

Author Spotlight #3: Jeannine Hall Gailey (webbish6.bsky.social) and her three poems. Read her pieces here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/3-poems-by-j... . . . #authorspotlight #litmags #disabilities #poetry

On the blog this week: New Poems in Flare, Upcoming Appearance at a Nature Writing Conference, Not Letting Fear Make My Decisions, More Lavender and Hummingbirds: webbish6.com/new-poems-in... #fear #naturewriting #poems

hanks to Flare for publishing three poems of my poems about disability and chronic illness (but hey, they're still fun!) here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/3-poems-by-j... #poems #flare

On the blog this week: Solstices, Memorials and Waxwings, a Poem in the New Shenandoah, and Lavender Farm Openings: webbish6.com/solstices-po... #lavender #shenandoah #solstice #memorials

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2

On the blog this week: The Full Strawberry Moon, First Swallowtail Butterfly, American Anxiety and More Goldfinches on the Wing: webbish6.com/full-strawbe...

In case you need this today, like I did. Rufous hummingbird, swallowtail butterfly:

On the blog this week: Record Heat, Goldfinches and Hummingbirds, Busy Bee Me, and Feeling LImitations: webbish6.com/record-heat-...

On the blog this week: A Week of Ups and Downs, Birds and Blooms, and Building Poetry Community: webbish6.com/a-week-of-up... #poetrycommunity #birdsandblooms

Hi friends! I'm hoping you can help. I've been having trouble with my web server for weeks (HostGator.) I'm wondering if any of you with web sites would tell me what host you're using this day - my site is based on WordPress. Thank you!

Poetry Readings in Woodinville, Suddenly Summer, Goslimgs and Goldfinches, and Searching: webbish6.com/poetry-readi... #poets #goslings #goldfinch #waterfalls

On the blog this week: Rebecca Solnit and Thoughts on Journalism, Ducklings, Wisteria, and Struggling with Grief: webbish6.com/rebecca-soln... #RebeccaSolnit #journalism #grief #ducklingsandwisteria

From @webbish6.bsky.social's book, Flare Corona: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774920 #poem #books #writing

On the blog this week: Remembering Poet and Friend Martha Silano, Spring Continues Springing, Cats and Hummingbirds and Rebecca Solnit: webbish6.com/remembering-... #marthasilano #cats #springflowers

I was thinking this morning about how strange it is to mourn our friends in public, on social media, how we can retrieve pictures and even videos of our lost friends, revive them.

On the blog this week: Birthday Dinosaurs and Birthday Poems on the Daily Kos, Plus Hummingbirds and More: webbish6.com/birthday-din... #birthdays #dinosaurs #poems #dailykos

We had a rainy day today and I planned to submit but every place that was supposed to be open was actually closed. So frustrating! I've been doing this for twenty years but the process has gotten much worse and more expensive. So any lit mags that are actually open to poetry submissions right now?

hanks to @dailykos for posting "Lessons Learned from Final Girls" for my birthday! www.dailykos.com/story/2025/4... #birthdaypoets #fieldguidetotheendoftheworld #lessonsfromfinalgirls #poems

On the blog this week: Springing into Summer, Open Books and Japanese Gardens, Spending $11,000 on Book PR, and Birthdays Coming Up: webbish6.com/springing-in...

So happy to have two poems up at The Normal School, a dream publication! www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/4/... #poems #thenormalschool

On the blog this week: Trying to Refill Your Soul: Spring with Cherry Blossoms and Art Shows, Tulip Fields, Pink Moons and Visits with Family: webbish6.com/spring-is-he... #art #tulips #art #pinkmoon

Yesterday, a much-needed trip to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Daffodils, tulips, cherry trees blooming - a little cloudy but gorgeous! And found some snow geese! #daffodils #tulips #tulipfestival #snowgeese

Publishers and Poets! Please tell me about your new and upcoming books by disabled/chronically ill women. Since Trump is trying to erase disability and women, I figured I'd try to review some books and put both in the spotlight as much as possible.

On the blog this week: AWP Part 2: Meeting with Editors and Fellow Writers, My Moon City Press Reading, and Down Days: webbish6.com/awp-part-2-m... #AWP #poetryreading #writers #AWPLA

I haven't been online much (I had a couple of down days after AWP) but yes, it IS cherry blossom season! Glenn took a couple of shots of me with a local tree. I took the others. Cherry blossoms have such a short season, but they are so enticing for pics! #sakura #poets #typewriters #cherryblossoms

On the blog this week: webbish6.com/awp-la-part-... #AWPLA #poets #AWP #travelwithdisability

Something that happens in LA that never happens in Seattle - wake up, walk on the beach, pick up fresh corn masa tortillas for breakfast with cheese, avocado and honey butter, eat at leisure on beach. #AWPLA #HermosaBeach Thanks Palmilla!

@roxanegay.bsky.social Thank you for buying the Rumpus! I started reviewing poetry books there many years ago and have always valued that space. I think your Keynote talk was amazing (and I learned you write about fairy tales! My jam!) Anyway, thanks.

AWP LA day 2: hugging friends, talking to editors, going to the beach at least once a day. Poets here: Kim Addonizio, Oliver de la Paz, Nancy Miller Gomez: #AWPLA #poetfriends #Hermosabeach

Made it to AWP LA. Pro tip: antihistimines (had asthma attack at bookfair) and water! Friends, readings, book haul so far, beach, flowers. #AWPLA #LAAWP #poetry #poets

On the blog this week: Hello official Spring, Plum Blossoms, and Almost There: AWP, Renovations and Health Challenges: webbish6.com/hello-spring... #AWP #hellospring #healthchallenges #plumblossoms