Dove landing in a hazel thicket, calling on the day to open

Exceptionally beautiful, heartbreaking & tender piece 🤍

A shortish poem today. When I wrote this I was remembering the woods as a child, wondering at the natural world and its complexities. I hope it brings you some joy 🤍

Today’s read! Finished this anthology in one sitting and I am now full of hope and brimming with science facts

Excerpts from a few of my poems forthcoming in Bones

Finally snagged my copy of Samuel Hurley’s “Anthem for the Dreaming Lost!” I’ve followed his words for a while & couldn’t be more excited to read this 🤍

“I had a body built to eat the miles” Absolutely in love with this poem by Margaret Wack featured in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social rhinopoetry.org/poems/laelap...

“Forget me nots pressed purple-blue pledges into the whites of my dress. I want that to be enough dying for today.” Click to read a synopsis of my poem “the taxidermist,” which explores the value of cleansing anger, anger which prompts solutions, not more problems. substack.com/@kmhanslik/n...

Always nice to hear some encouragement despite a rejection! 😊 Thanks @neologismpoetry.bsky.social

Reading @ezhang77.bsky.social ‘s chapbook “The Moon, My Heart” & it is so lovely, would highly recommend 💜

Just snagged my copies of @susanlleary.bsky.social ‘s books “Dressing the Bear” and “More Flowers.” So looking forward to reading these with a nice hot cup of tea 🫖 ☺️

An old one, but you can read my nonfiction essay “On the Joys of Creativity, Community and Connection” in the spring 2025 issue of The Turning Leaflets. In this essay I discuss the importance of authenticity & humanization in a time of automation and anonymity. turningleafjournal.com/spring2025/

This lovely review by Allison Mei-Li, author of A History of Holding: Poems on Motherhood, about my upcoming book “Bones” warms my heart 🥹

OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL for Bones!!!! Could not be more excited to share this with y’all in the coming weeks!!! Stay tuned #booksky #author #writing #books #poems

A smallish poem for y’all today 🩵💙 #poem #poet #writer #writingcommunity

Thank you thank you to the lovely @dishsoapquart.bsky.social for homing “blue body.” This is a special poem for me and needed to find a special place 🫶

A poem I think about daily, “How To Watch A Stranger Die” by Lindsay Lark. Shocking and beautiful from start to finish. #poem #poet #author #writer #writingcommunity www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/how-to-...

Excited to announce that test copies are on the way and you’ll be seeing my book online very, very soon, so if you enjoy the vibe of magazines like Bleating Thing Magazine or Half Mystic Press (dark, ethereal and full of angst and weird little quirks), you may enjoy my debut poetry chapbook ‘Bones’

If you’re obsessed with birds and unlikely hope, you might like my poem “songbirds” published by wildscape lit, available here :) wildscapelit.com/k-m-hanslik-... #poem #poetry #writer

“Preservation” explores the loss of a loved one and his many teachings. Gone, but never forgotten — forever a part of those who loved him. Read “Preservation” in Gone Lawn here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Some critters and plants from my Monday hike 🌱 🐍

May is a busy month for me! Thanks to wildscape lit for featuring my poem “songbirds” in issue 6! Birds have always seemed to me like messengers from a world beyond, a world I cannot quite touch but perhaps I can glimpse it through their eyes. #poem #poet #booksky #writer #writingcommunity

I wrote this piece about my mother’s rapid disability progression and it made me think of me and my sister’s births, and all the things my mom went through to bring us here. Happy Mother’s Day and enjoy the trilliums while they last! #mothersday #poem #poet #writer #naturephotography #naturephotos

This poem is about a very special moment in my journey when many things began coming together for me. I’m so pleased that @rustandmoth.bsky.social published it for their Summer 2026 issue. Read “endemic” here

I’m in the new Rust & Moth! rustandmoth.com/work/endemic/

“My mother remembers” is very dear to me (and my mother). Happy early Mother’s Day! Read it in @gonelawn.bsky.social here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Two prose pieces in this issue! 🫶 🌖

I finally have Instagram! @kmhanslik as always 🫶

And a magnolia, too! #flower #nature #photography #sunset #naturephoto #naturephotography

Perfect sunlight the other day ☀️ #flower #nature #photography #sunset #naturephoto #naturephotography

Views from my home yesterday! #nature #photography #naturephotography

If not for the vulture of grief circling his head like a halo, he might never have discovered the body

“A wound the size of my first love opened my chest one day and sprung flowers” When I wrote this poem, I was thinking a lot about things that are lost, but never forgotten; things that shape us & bring us peace. Read “fossils” here: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-25-25

A quick glimpse into what we look for in CNF subs over at @turningleafjournal.bsky.social 👀

Giveaway announcement 🗣️🗣️ Enter to win a free copy of Allison and Millie’s wonderful poetry books, plus help out a lovely little journal pining for your submissions 🤓 ✍🏻

"SELFISH GIRL" by @suzchef.bsky.social was selected for the Best of Net 2026 Anthology! We're so excited for Suze. This is a huge accomplishment! We're grateful to have played a role in this--it's the outcome we hope for every time we nominate contributors for prizes. 🤍🌿

Other hobbies include taking photos of flowers & birds

Excited to say I have two prose poetry pieces forthcoming in @gonelawn.bsky.social for Issue 65: blue moon! 🌕 Stay tuned for updates— I couldn’t be happier :)

I forget that waist, / that nerve, that skin. And I aspen. I mountain. / I river. I stone. I leaf. I path. I flower.

If you have ever lost something or someone you cherished dearly, you may enjoy my poem “sanctimonious,” republished in the new Monarch Awards anthology— read the full issue here: #writing #writer #poem #poetry #author #literaryawards #litmag monarch.gay/monarch-2026/

@monarch.gay inaugural issue is now live! Read my piece “sanctimonious,” originally published by @bleatingthing.bsky.social , in this issue! So honored & elated to be a part of this! 🦋 monarch.gay/sanctimonious/

Only one more week! 😊🥳

Under the full moon something so strange and haunting I can’t look away #prompt #poem #shortpoem #haiku #writing #writingchallenge #author

It’s here!!! So excited to read :)

Shout out to @staniforthmick.bsky.social for the thoughtful review of my poem! It is lovely to hear others’ impressions of my work. Find more of his reviews on his site (linked in the original post)!

It does not occur to the mallard to plummet some shots do not miss #writer #haiku #writingchallenge #poem #tinypoem #author #poetry

Bright sparrow resting in the cradle of an oak song inside the prayer #haiku #haikupoems #poem #haikuchallenge #bird #sparrow #writing #poetry #writer

A silence, denser than the mist surrounding it— the shape of longing #haiku #haikuchallenge #writing #writer #author #poem #poetry

Just ordered my first print copy of @rustandmoth.bsky.social after all these years of reading them online—super excited to be holding the physical version soon!! 😇

A HUGE shoutout to Kate Efimochkina (@k081670 on Instagram) for doing the absolutely gorgeous and stunning art for my upcoming chapbook “Bones!” I couldn’t have asked for a more lovely and skilled person to be working with, and I am so excited to share how it turned out 💕 🦴 #writing #writer #book