Tonight in Edgewater!!!

Take a class with me! I’m teaching my now ✨iconic✨ Enthusiasm of Influence workshop online with the Republic of Letters! Understand and interrogate your writing influences, revise your work with an ear to influence, and get work published! More info & sign up in thread!

Take a class with me! I’m teaching my now ✨iconic✨ Enthusiasm of Influence workshop online with the Republic of Letters! Understand and interrogate your writing influences, revise your work with an ear to influence, and get work published! More info & sign up in thread!

Thrilled this off season to have two baseball poems in The Songs of Summer, a new baseball poetry anthology from Water's Edge Press! Ordering info in thread. ⚾️❤️✨

This weekend I’m reading at Metropolis Coffee in Edgewater (Chicago!). Come on out and start your Saturday night right…with coffee & art!

The long hair is really starting to gel!

This is coming up! Last in-person event of the year for me. See you at one of the BEST coffee shops in Chicago, Metropolis Coffee Company in Edgewater, next weekend! More info in the comments. 💖

I’m teaching an online writing workshop in a few weeks at The Republic of Letters! I’d love to see you there so claim your spot now! It’s a bargain. More info and sign up in the thread! You’ll generate new work, discuss & interrogate influences, and more!

Sunday roast! Eye of round medium rare with garlic inserts, “rizzly” roasted potatoes, and lemon roasted broccoli.

WHY CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?!?!

Touch em all, Bo

My personal candy dish for night, filled with some of my faves.

Some advice: do not buy Halloween candy early if you are in the middle of an intensive grading week.

New poem about adventures in Door County in the latest issue of I-70 Review! I must thank Maryfrances Wagner and The Writers Place AGAIN! 💖

Prescient. #WorldSeries

Had a FANTASTIC time reading at The Writers Place, courtesy of KC literary godmother Maryfrances Wagner, weekend before last! Truly a great space and lots of talent on the bill. We also got some great recs for the rest of our KC trip too! 💖

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher to throw a pitch in the eighth inning of a World Series game he started since Stephen Strasburg in 2019.

11 👀👀👀

Dodgers bullpen is back to regular-season form

9 runs in a World Series game? You’ve got my attention

Oh this LAD bullpen. Looking like July again out here

Oh also this poem has a figure skating reference too…layback spin (level 4 I hope?).

In honor of tonight…#WorldSeries

BRAND NEW ROSE POEM🌹 ✨ in Kestrel! Happy to appear with so many wonderful poets! This one is perfect for fall as the last blooms of our yellow rose are just opening. 💛

Had a wonderful time reading from DIORAMA at Replay Lounge in Lawrence, KS last week! Thanks to Melissa Fite Johnson and Chance Dibben for making this happen! 💖✨

A Nine-Year Old Girl Watches the 1993 World Series That square of unimaginable green, his leap over a cloud. Out of a red cap, curls tumbled with sweat beads. Color patches beamed from the box in our toyroom; I craned my neck to see joy— #

Tonight in KCMO! Come on down!

TONIGHT in Lawrence, KS! See you there. 💖

Scenes from the road trip: saw a sign for “Camp Butler: National Cemetery” and thought it said, “Camp Butter: National Creamery.” Was interested there for a sec.

Friday in KCMO! See you there.

Baseball sucks.

Wednesday in Lawrence, Kansas! I’d love to see you! Link for more info in comments. 💖

Well, it was a fun season. Only one team wins it all and we got to see the cubs do that 9 years ago. There’s a whole lot of teams that have had to wait a lot longer between championships. Horton being out really hurt the cubs. He likely would have started game one or at worst game two.

That’s a fumble of an inning. Running out of time.

Ok Seiya. Let’s get it

Need to do something here

He thought it was the 1st!

Mr. October! Yes!

ミスター・オクトーバー

Just win baby

In honor of Mariners/Tigers’ epic Game 5, I thought I’d drop this one again. Seemed prescient. ❤️✨⚾️ If you see it in the morning give it a like.

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

had an incredible evening with brilliant writers ✨ check out Words // Friends Autumn 2025 Edition on YouTube ✨ featuring readings from Ellis Eden, Ola Faleti, Sandra Marchetti, Skye Jackson, Lemmy Ya’akova, Bob Sykora ✨ it was such a joy!! youtu.be/IedrB9OGLiw

My lyric essay/Olympic primer on figure skating’s elements & stars, geared to 4-year fans, is LIVE at Fansided! Link in thread. Click, read, & share to get more skating writing out there! 💖

Real talk: this is a tale of two series. Brewers offense has looked totally different at home. Brewers had the Cubs signs at home. Cubs have to tighten up for Saturday.

Hoping that 2015 Jake Arrieta will be announced as Saturday night’s starter.

Just win baby