I can’t tell you how to live your life, but I can definitely suggest in the strongest possible terms that you clear your calendar for next Thursday night, 9/18, and register at the 🔗 below to listen in on this reading! I’m so excited to hear these excellent poets read :)

18 readers. 84 minutes. In case you missed it (or want to relive it), the full Surreal-Absurd reading marathon is now up on YouTube! 📚🌀🔮 youtu.be/SrXQLfeUsbg

i'm reading poems in santa fe, friday night, no shoes allowed, byo feelings

new from above/ground press: Just a Minute, Moon’s too Loud, by Michael Sikkema / @michael-sikkema.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Tomorrow! From 3:30 to 5:00 pm at the Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest at Farwell and Farwell in the Outrageous Open Arts tent! Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7920387...

We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue! Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.

there's a comfort in anger, there's a comfort in knowing you're not angry alone with gasoline by nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is due out next week

I had the good fortune to publish Nicole Steinberg's first full-length poetry collection. Today is her birthday and maybe you wanna read it (it's pretty great). spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.com/post/1891088...

#Archaeology Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social Stolen gods and ancestors? Looting and repatriation in Mexico A conversation with Dr Hilary Leathem @morganvl.bsky.social‬. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcp0...

Tomorrow (August 5) at 1pm EST / 6pm UK time: I’m looking forward to livestreaming with @flintdibble.bsky.social ! We’ll chat about looting, repatriation, and the politics of heritage in Mexico, so please do check it out! youtube.com/live/pcp0lMx...

wrote a poem called feelings come & go but teeth are forever. now it lives online, maybe forever, at @okaydonkeymag.com

ARDENTLY by Sara Matson (@saramatson.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to poetryfoundation dot org.

Walter Sobchak: See what happens? See what happens when you kick poets out of The Republic, Plato?!

my latest poetry title, the book of sentences, a follow-up to the book of smaller (2022), both from University of Calgary Press; copies have just landed at my door; launch information (October, as the release date for the book) to follow, (once I have it, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Hey! Have you signed up for PBS Passport yet? $5 per month, you donate to PBS with it, and you get all of their shows. I registered for annual at $60/year. Cancel Paramount, get PBS passport instead.

BRB (Bly reading Bly)

today is the thirty-second anniversary of above/ground press, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/toda...

gotta poem up in @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social thank god, it's got people protecting each other in it, it's got philadelphia, a girl dad, murmuration, the possibility of mutually assured survival. it's a good issue and i'm grateful to part of it www.birdcoatquarterly.com/blog/categor...

SMH (sonnets might help)

I have two new prose poems in the new issue of @folklorereview.bsky.social !!! One about a wolf & one about monsters www.folklorereview.com/benjamin-nie...

Tonight's the night! Book launch, press launch, great readers, come join us! RSVP for free: bit.ly/disintegrationlaunch

About a year ago I was talking to an editor at the NYT Mag about doing a feature on a small press: Deep Vellum or Dorothy or Transit. But he thought his bosses would find these too small change, that maybe we could swing Graywolf. Then I stopped hearing back.

psssssst, yesterday i dropped a 'Daria' microchap with Maverick Duck Press! payhip.com/b/eiUr1

The next Neon Night Mic is July 2 & we can't wait! Hope to see you there 🎤 @heatherchristle.bsky.social 🎤 @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social 🎤 @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social 🎤 @evansquilliams.bsky.social 🎤 Sara Wainscott 🎤 @msblair.bsky.social 🎪 @whistlerchicago.bsky.social

new new in @y2kq.com 😎 it's about rugrats www.y2kq.com/works/the-ba...

I wasn't a linguistics major, but think it's interesting that we've all kind of agreed to attach the word "slop" to A.I. Like how "spam" used to have "email" attached to it, will "slop" become a shorthand for anything A.I.? Interesting, too, that these are both food words! /endtangent

"dear [animal i love], // i am afraid i have become [a terrorsome thing]."

Please join us for the virtual launch of @pizamapress.bsky.social !!! Celebrating Kiik's incredible debut poetry collection with some of our favorite writers bit.ly/disintegrationlaunch @brandonshimoda.bsky.social / @carolannguess.bsky.social / @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social

hey! i have a new poem up at the renewed NewPoetry! thanks much! newpoetry.ca/2025/05/24/f...

Apollinaire in Alice Notley’s translation 💔

I launched a press & the first book is out next Tuesday & the amount of excitement / anxiety / nervousness I have is through the roof It'd mean a lot if you grabbed a copy and/or helped spread the word for this new indie press 📚❤️ www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press... @pizamapress.bsky.social

DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi out on May 27, 2025 pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

as we keep doing everything we can to oust the mindless, heartless, soulless, artless psychos running our govt., who have come for everyone & everyone we love, please donate to the amazing @deepvellum.bsky.social, whose NEA funding has been "terminated" secure.givelively.org/donate/deep-...

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is now open for submissions for volume five! Please check our website (link in bio) for all the particulars, including how to submit art! I look forward to reading your work! #litmag #poetrycommunity

nat raum's salt box traces longing and desire over the course of three long, grey Baltimore winters. @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

Vive le Canada!

National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social day twenty-eight! with a new poem by Benjamin Niesdpodziany, / @neonpajamas.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...

Piżama Press is an indie press unafraid of sharing books from other presses. As long as you’re reading, we all win. Here we have 4 authors & their (nearly complete) bibliographies, books we feel line up nicely with our upcoming debut poetry collection, out next month!

the last of 4 segments from ABLATION ( @1111press.bsky.social ) aired on The Poets Weave yesterday: indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/s... thanks again to producer Luann Johnson + everyone at TPW for a wonderful experience + for including my poems on your rad program.

two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray www.havehashad.com/94wk0

hey! i have a poem up at @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social ! thanks much! www.oatleafpoetry.com/2025/04/auto...

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo opens for submissions in one month! Will the Twins be better then? Will you send artwork and/or poetry for consideration? Let's hope so!

I've been sharing weird book recommendations on the @pizamapress.bsky.social IG if you're into that kind of thing

hey! i have a new poem online at Sumac Literary Magazine! neat! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; sumacliterarymagazine.com/a-comfortabl...

Just reliving past sad over here. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Happiest of birthdays to Canada's sweetheart, @robmclennan.bsky.social! Check out his work in volume one of Buffalo x 8! buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/6708224...

2 epistles from THE BOOK OF MATTHEW are in the newest issue of Tyger Quarterly: tygerquarterly.com/Danika-Stege... read the whole issue it's a stellar line up as usual. if you want a link to the video I reference w/David Lynch's immaculate handwriting go to my website i link to it in the pub. post.