We're thrilled to announce our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net Nominations! Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!

Playing catch up! Reading new work with Noah Warren on October 6th at KGB

Join us at TheNeighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life for a poetry reading for Sukkot: www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events...

✨✨We're excited to welcome back @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social for our October writing workshop, held in partnership with our friends at Strathmore! Join us on Thursday, October 16th at 7 PM on Zoom for “PARDON MY HEART”: Celebrating Unapologetic Candor! 🚀Learn more & sign up: cbaw.org/event/pardon...

Thrilled to be back at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social for the fall & teaching my workshop on Poetry & Melodrama in Film. Online, Tuesdays 6:30 - 9:30 PM, October 14- November 18. Link in bio!

Explore poetic address; experimental form; writing what you need to; poetry, film & melodrama; and honing your poetic voice in these workshops w/ @lhiton.bsky.social, Anastacia-Renee, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Returning to Writing Workshops with my multi-genre online workshop for "Threads: Writing Dreamscape, Writing Disaster" How do we balance discovery with a larger responsibility to the future? Begins 9/10: writingworkshops.com/collections/...

Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & more! Through August 17, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

New Atomic Sonnet (Scandium) in The Malahat Review ⚛️

Honored to be the judge for the 2025 Gulf Coast Journal Barthelme Prize in Short Prose. A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast for a piece of short prose or prose poetry. See link for more details: gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit?utm_c...

Still have two spots open 🤗 :: & DM me if you are interested in getting critiqued and we can discuss rates!

Thrilled to announce my forthcoming collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU (Alice James Books, 2027) A sequel to If This Is the Age We End Discovery, this new work reveals the possibilities of tomorrow already here, as a mysterious, extraterrestrial presence slowly emerges…

Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social‬ back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌 Expansive poems on memory, theory & time. 🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc

3 new Atomic Sonnets over at Sunday Salon NYC ~ highly recommended their reading series too. Thanks to Nita Noveno & peeps there; two of the sonnets are dedicated to Holly Burd & Holly Zhou ✴️ sundaysalon.com/2025/06/18ar...

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

Thank you so much to Shenandoah Literary Magazine for including my Atomic Sonnet for lead in their 75th Anniversary Issue ✴️ www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/82-pb...

Back at @BrooklynPoets this summer & teaching my Humor & Poetry workshop: utilizing satire, absurdism, surrealism and wordplay; we’ll dedicate a week to the idea of “poetry improv” to free your spontaneous, comedic lyrical self: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/h...

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

Has such a great night reading with these fantastic poets, novelists, filmmakers, memoirists- we’ve covered all the genres & probably invented new ones 🔥

Had a wonderful time reading with brilliant peeps at Wine & Pine, hosted by the very funny & charming Rachel Gilman (who also shared from her novel-in-progress) 🔥

Have a few spots open for June🚀 ~ send me a DM if you are interested in getting critiqued~

Had the pleasure of speaking at & leading a workshop at the 12th Student Conference in LLAC Studies at HCC & was honored by the lovely students! Had no idea that was coming 🥲 Also read in my beloved Queens last week & got to hang with Menelle Sebastien 🙏🏼

Photos from SMASHING THE TABLETS Launch 💜 (I’m on the left in the white shawl) 📸 : @eviesaphire

Had a wonderful time with fellow contributors as we discussed our work in SMASHING THE TABLETS. Seth Rogoff & Sara Lippmann are amazing editors; I met Sarah back in 2011 and she has this incredible spirit. Truly a magical night. Met so many great people!

👇 TONIGHT!!! 👇 Join us to celebrate AGNI 101 with readings by Kazim Ali / Debra Nystrom / @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social / @xueyizhou.bsky.social & a musical performance by Matt Yurdana and George Estreich of Mule on Fire.

The virtual launch of AGNI 101 is just ONE WEEK AWAY! buff.ly/7J7Tn11 Join us on Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm EDT for readings by Kazim Ali / Debra Nystrom / @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social / @xueyizhou.bsky.social & a musical performance by Matt Yurdana and George Estreich of Mule on Fire.

Read today in celebration of this groundbreaking anthology & no surprise, its a poem for my niece 💜 then dropped into the FTH Grantee Party in which I had the honor to serve as a panelist for supporting the arts in Queens. What a beautiful night, my heart is full

Here are some of the places I'll be reading *new* work💥

ICYMI: The virtual launch of AGNI 101 is just two weeks from today! Join us on Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm EDT for readings by Kazim Ali / Debra Nystrom / @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social / @xueyizhou.bsky.social & a musical performance by Matt Yurdana and George Estreich of Mule on Fire. buff.ly/9VpyyKA

This is the boat I'll be writing poems on this spring omg

Here’s the first pages of my work in SMASHING THE TABLETS. It’s an excerpt from my novel in progress. A literary sci-fi retelling of post-Eden that explores my Theory of Efes, which I first proposed in my last book.Thanks to @saralippmann.bsky.social & Seth Rogoff for reaching out & including me 💜

Going to write on a boat~ thanks to Brad Vogel for this opportunity to spend time in New York Harbor 2 public readings will follow: Harborwide Reading - May 18, 2-4 pm aboard Wavertree at @seaportmuseum Brooklyn Reading - June 5, 6:30-8 pm aboard Lehigh Valley No. 79 @thewaterfrontmuseumbarge

Revisited the writing/revising for mainstream tv for the first time with Maya Marshall for her wonderful project UNDERBELLY. It was an incredible (& surreal) experience writing & shooting my very lyrical & experimental work with Paramount🙏🏼 www.underbellymag.com/rosebud-benomi

“No rules ever.” The luminous @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social talks personal style today at NANOGRAM!! charlesjensen.substack.com

Happy 4th birthday to If This Is the Age We End Discovery! Grateful to all the love my work has been shown over the years. 💜 throwback to the first review the book received, a Starred Review from Booklist 🙏🏼

How can we reframe our hopes for the future through a poetics with new, necessary and sometimes painful, candor? In this six-week, generative online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll explore the complexities of joy. One week left to register! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Explore these workshops on breaking form, getting unstuck, dreaming, joy, humor, love, hip-hop, long poems & more with @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, Alexis Aceves Garcia, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, Sam Cha & more starting in March! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

I can't believe I'm already looking at March & April but here we are! Shoot me a DM if you are looking for a manuscript consultation~

Teaching two new workshops for Writing Workshops :: see links for more info & to register~ writingworkshops.com/products/omg... writingworkshops.com/products/wri...

In this six-week, generative online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we will explore the complexities of joy using lenses such as our often fragile ties to family and to the natural world, turbulent love affairs and even forms such as the elegy. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

This week we’re sharing upcoming workshops with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, @sethwleeper.bsky.social, Angel Nafis, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, Alexis Aceves Garcia & @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social. Save $15 during early registration through February 9th. Learn more: mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

4 new Atomic Sonnets in @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social :: so much gratitude for the editors & staff ✨ Neon is dedicated to Darrel Alejandro Holnes & Nitrogen to Diego Baez :: also a new ‼️Electracon‼️ sonnet ☄️

there are poets, then there's out of this world poets like @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social. what a brilliant, imaginative talent...

Two new ⚛️Atomic Sonnets⚛️ in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social :: one is for my godson who had requested “ more alien chemistry” (Zirconium fit the bull) & that one wonderful time that we discovered I was very allergic to contrast when getting an MRI (thanks Gadolinium!)

I have a new short essay “I Think I Jumped a Timeline to Wake You Up” on dealing with a biopsy last year & “gossamer” in AGNI. Thanks to the editors for their support 🙏🏼 agnionline.bu.edu/blog/i-think...

New Atomic Sonnet in Poet Lore :: grateful to the PL editors for their support & to guest editor jason b crawford 💜 If you know me, you know how the film Threads impacted me in my youth. I could not write about uranium without remembering that impact.

Thanks to Association of Writers & Writing Programs AWP & especially EIC J.T. Hill ⚛️💜⚛️ I’ve received a lot of wonderful responses to “You Cannot Invent Me” in The Writer’s Chronicle. More on this new :: wild unplace :: I created very soon~ writerschronicle.org/TWC/TWC/2024...

I’m teaching a 6 week online wkshp at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social: "Writing Poetry of Peculiar Joys" In these trying times of unrest & anxiety how do we connect & keep ourselves open to the very idea of letting others in? For more info & to register, see the link~ brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

I'm Metphrastics Featured Poet 💙 Answered some questions why I chose to write about Giorgio de Chirico's "The Jewish Angel" featured at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Scuola Metafisica and Christopher Guest www.metphrastics.com/featured-poe...

Update: January is full but still taking poetry consults for February! No new year’s resolutions. Just more poetry. Come work with me in the new year 💥 Send me a DM!