This week on The Wardrobe, t.r. san has chosen selections from Susan L. Leary's poetry collection, Dressing the Bear, from Trio House Press! https://sundressblog.com/2026/05/12/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-dressing-the-bear-by-susan-l-leary-2/

“dwelling” is one of my favorite poems from Dressing the Bear (@triohousepress.org) & this is the first time I’m ever seeing it shared. While my brother was incarcerated, he called me everyday (like always). I miss him. Thank you so much to @sundresspub.bsky.social & t.r. san for this moment. 💙

You have the chance to make a new beginning. Don’t throw it away. Franz Kafka, 1917.

Reginald Dwayne Betts

✨A new teaser/trailer has arrived!✨ Although the pirate can steal time and give it away, there is one thing she cannot do… Episode 8: A Hurricane Brews from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ - COMING SOON!! New episodes are released on the 15th of every month. 🕰️ youtube.com/shorts/KVzPD...

The Incarcerated Writers Project has started a blog! Read using the link below ⬇️ phoebejournal.com/blog/

Preorders of Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are shipping this week!

From Emma Aylor’s CLOSE RED WATER (Barrow Street Press) 💙

Super excited that DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.org) was selected by t.r. san to be featured this week for The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed with @sundresspub.bsky.social! Here’s “The Professor Asks Me to Write a Joyful Poem”! 💙 More at the link, friends: sundressblog.com/category/war...

This week on The Wardrobe, t.r. san has chosen selections from Susan L. Leary's poetry collection, Dressing the Bear, from Trio House Press! https://sundressblog.com/2026/05/11/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-dressing-the-bear-by-susan-l-leary/

Super excited that DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.org) was selected by t.r. san to be featured this week for The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed with @sundresspub.bsky.social! Here’s “The Professor Asks Me to Write a Joyful Poem”! 💙 More at the link, friends: sundressblog.com/category/war...

This week on The Wardrobe, t.r. san has chosen selections from Susan L. Leary's poetry collection, Dressing the Bear, from Trio House Press! https://sundressblog.com/2026/05/15/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-dressing-the-bear-by-susan-l-leary-5/

And so we have a cover. Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social for sharing your oil pastel for the cover and thank you Silverbacked Punk for publishing Song from the Blimp Ruins, which will be available on June 8. ❤️

Kim Addonizio

I love you. And in case you have ever tried to reach me And I could not hear you. These words are in place of the dead air Still Between us. ~ Audre Lorde

What delightful poem that both plays with and, through the title, is ABOUT playing with language. From Matt Rasmussen's book, Black Aperture: bookshop.org/a/862/9780807150863 #poem #booksky #writing

Will be getting Frances Cannon’s BITTEN BY THE LANTERN FLY out in the next couple of weeks! Order yours here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/bitten-... Cover art by Claire Sage Jorgensen @francescannon.bsky.social

Some news! UNCLE TIME, my new chapbook of prose poems, is out this fall with @gasherpress.bsky.social pre-order: www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

"Etherised means to become ether. What then? Angels tend your ex-valley where nothing thrives, thus nothing injures. It’s safe this side of the bed" A piece inspired by 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' – plus other surreal experiences. 'Love poem for a patient in waiting' 🖤 #poetrycommunity

Happy #smallpoemsunday and happy Mother’s Day! A poem from MORE FLOWERS 💐 @triohousepress.org @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Happy #smallpoemsunday and happy Mother’s Day! A poem from MORE FLOWERS 💐 @triohousepress.org @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Another #smallpoemsunday pick with Ars Poetics by Camonghne Felix! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry, #poetrycommunity

One of my favorite prose poems! “Bambi” from Dylan Weir’s PUBLIC HOUSE forthcoming with @triohousepress.org 💙

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805 #poem #booksky #writing

If y'all missed it yesterday... Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & HAD for putting this one out there!

short poem in @havehashad.com yesterday --

One of my favorite prose poems! “Bambi” from Dylan Weir’s PUBLIC HOUSE forthcoming with @triohousepress.org 💙

Stock up on Trio House Press titles and pre-orders! Free basic shipping until May 31st! triohousepress.myshopify.com

“I will tell you a story while we are waiting,” said Frog. “Oh good,” said Toad.

Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever

What’s that?! Oh yes, we are open to submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts ALL OF MAY. 📚❤️ Fee optional, no questions asked. Submit here: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

A garden of the flowers that appear in Swann's Way for #WorldCollageDay.

The lilac I planted three years ago has bloomed

"When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive." A perfect poem for this month. From Mary Oliver's Devotions: bit.ly/devotionsLB #poem #booksky #writing

Charles Simic, born on this day in 1938

Alright, #weirdpoemwednesday, I'll bite. Here's one I was gonna post the other day, but then I was like, this poem is kinda weird...I love it tho... Michael Bazzett from The Echo Chamber @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social

"Not even the wind creates love songs equally" Thank you Sweet Literary for revisiting my poem "The Other Affair" on IG - published in Volume 17. You can read & listen to my reading here: sweetlit.org/vikki-c-volume… Gratitude to Poetry editor @chelsdingman.bsky.social for selecting this piece 💜

Beautiful start to the weekend - *2nd edition of In the Blueprint of Her Iris arrived! Ty @rfredekenter.bsky.social for bringing this expanded volume into the world🔥 Poems by Vikki C. & stunning art by Robert Frede Kenter. Order yours at @icefloepress.bsky.social 🩵 icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GIRLDOM by Megan Peak. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Peak’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @meganpeak.bsky.social

“I do not always have the right thing to say / my foot sometimes moves without me” — Anis Mojgani . . . This poem appeared in Rattle, Issue 39 - Spring, 2013. Shared here with deep gratitude.

We at @triohousepress.org are so thrilled to reveal this gorgeous cover for @davigray.com ’s This Body, This Fruit! Pre-order your copy today — it releases in early 2027! triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Art exists that may recover the sensation of life: to make one feel things, to make the stone stoney. -- Victor Shklovsky

Five hours ago I was not what I am now. That’s ancient history to me. I dimly remember eating an orange and the world changing. That’s all I want to say now. - John Ashbery, “The Quitter”

Today's Feature: "Passing" by Othuke Umukoro from Fenestration published by Texas Review Press Read here: poems.com/poem/passing/

Philip Larkin, for a rainy Sunday

Megan Peak has a beautiful essay in the latest MER, Issue 24, the Mothers & Family Issue! Here is an excerpt of “Big Bang Baby,” and you can order the issue, dedicated to Jennifer Martelli, at merliterary.com. ✨♥️✨ @merliterary.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social

Odilon Redon and van Gogh the other day in Rome at the Ara Pacis Museum ("Impressionismo e oltre. Capolavori dal Detroit Institute of Arts.")

One of my favorites from DRESSING THE BEAR! ⬇️ @triohousepress.org

One of my favorites from DRESSING THE BEAR! ⬇️ @triohousepress.org