Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)

Forget-Me-Nots, Marie Nyl-Frosch, late C19th.

grateful to be in @literaryhub.bsky.social today, responding to another essay while also thinking more broadly about reviews, art, honesty, and motherhood. 💛

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Leila Farjami and her book Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026).🌟 @triohousepress.org

“When is a poem finished? The answer is, I think, when all the tensions it has posited are perfectly equilibriated, when the change of a single syllable would so affect the structure that the poem would fall like a house of cards under the shift.” —May Sarton

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ After loss, there is always aftermath. And perhaps a few visitors from the past. Watch Episode 7: Plot Markers from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’. 🕰️ Watch it here: youtu.be/92sd6VUdUBQ #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

DM me your email if you’re interested in doing a flash nonfiction workshop series with me! The time has come and I’m starting my own damn business! Shares and support welcome 💕

Kathryn Cowles’ THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR is truly one of the most beautiful literary forms I’ve read this year. Its subtitle is “A Catalog.” @fencebooks.bsky.social

ACM is once again open for #poetry submissions! We look forward to reading your work. #callforsubmissions #opensubmissions #submitpoetry #poetrysubmission #callingallpoets anotherchicagomagazine.net/submissions/

“Her wants are small.” A poem by Rowyda Amin.

"If you carve the words in sadness, know them like the ink you bury, like the veins that rise to the occasion." Undoing: The Book of Being Here by @jenlrouse.bsky.social in The Constant Hum of Elsewhere, published by Harbor Editions @smallharborpub.bsky.social (congrats, Jen! ♥️)

Day—14 National Poetry Month ~ Marie Howe - Annunciation —Even if I don't see it again — nor ever feel it I know it is —and that if once it hailed me it ever does- —I thought I'd die from being loved like that.

My new poem "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is now published at the gorgeous Spring issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social sixthfinch.com

Congrats and good luck to our 2026 Best New Poets nominees! Hannah Han "Ars Non Poetica" www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025... Kirstin Lueke "one billion flowers" www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...

So happy to be a part of @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social’s wonderful poetry series as part of #NationalPoetryMonth! Check out my new poem “Revising the Blueprint of Normal” which Karen turned into a gorgeous little video! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. -- Marina Abramovic

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Stock up on @triohousepress.org titles during poetry month! Buy one get one free, including pre-orders!! triohousepress.myshopify.com

These are mediocre photos taken with my crappy cell phone (for future art references), but isn't garlic amazing? I mean, they have relationships.... And their skins are palimpsests of their lives/stories... #garlic, #stilllife, #bulbs, #badphotos, #crappycellphone, #photo, #garliclovers

From Ha Jin's book, Facing Shadows. #poem #booksky #writing

some news: my third full-length book of poems, Quintessential Earthly Activities, will be out next spring with @boa-editions.bsky.social. more info soon! ❤︎

This month we’re celebrating the work of Leila Farjami in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @triohousepress.org

Terrestrial will be out next month from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! Grateful to Joey Hedger, Emily Costa, and Drew Buxton for the generous blurbs, and to early reviewers and readers 🛸🌵 malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

'We don’t see things as they are, we see them as they were' A cosmos themed poem inspired by Einstein's theory of special relativity; our perception of objects being rooted in the past due to the speed of light being finite. Plus a dose of humanness closer to home. #speculative #poetry #conceit

There is no nature in eternity, no wind shift, no winds. - Charles Wright, "Hawksbane"

The Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms is looking for a Writer in Residence to run from August 16, 2026 to January 2, 2027 and consist of approximately 10-20 hours of work per week. To learn more and apply by April 20, visit our website. https://www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#wir

W.S. Merwin

“Its color begins in your hand. // Its shape is your touch.” — Richard Brautigan

Congratulations to @triohousepress.org author @martheaus.bsky.social, artist Broadie, and cover designer Baonhia Xiong on winning the final round of Book Jacket Bracket and earning a place on the Shelf of Immortality! 💛💜💛💜 bookjacketbracket.com/shelf/

"no doubt / the heart is a story / maybe a roar" What a wonderfully mysterious duet these poems & their translation make in WHILE PERCIVAL FELL by Tania Langlais, tranl. Jessica Cuello (Tiger Bark Press, 2025)! 😍 #poetryInTranslation #smallPoemSunday #nationalPoetryMonth 📚💙 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I’m honored to have been on the “Poet Talk” podcast to read from & talk about Singing from the Deep End. Thanks to creator & host Ellen Miller-Mack & student co-host Kevin Carberry for our enjoyable poetry convo! Hear the whole on Apple or Spotify (link in bio). @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

If you're in the DC area, this is happening on Wednesday (4/8) @ 6:30p @ the cool venue of Dupont Underground. There's also a photo exhibit shown in the same space & later that evening, a play: dupontunderground.org/ladybird-st-... Come say hi if you're around 😊 #DCLitEvents #NationalPoetryMonth

happy #twopageplustuesday all! today’s for longer poems you’ve written or loved, that would run to 2+ printed pages—share ’em if you’ve got ’em :) today’s also my mom’s birthday, so here’s one from my book Reclaimed Water that owes a great debt to her music, which I’ll 🔗 below—

Day —6 National Poetry Month Poem in Which I Keyword Search 'My Brother' Susan L. Leary -Dressing The Bear —Give me a map of the world & I can find my brother anywhere. ❤️

Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙

It's a rainy cow Saturday. Here's a tiny quickie... #sketch, #quicksketch, #drawing

Charles Simic

Small increments of writing Time may matter more than we could guess. One thing leads to many — swerving off, linking up, opening of voices and images and memories. Nearby notebooks — or iPads or tablets or laptops — are surely helpful. – Naomi Shihab Nye

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem

"April is the cruellest month" Still, I return uninvited. Write beside fragile reminders of the dead. From here, the city and its people do no harm. Working on a new body of work including an ms, still untitled. #nationalpoetrymonth #writinggeteaway #wasteland #bwphoto @photohour.bsky.social

I’m pleased that my flash “Small Towns” is included in Best Small Fictions 2025. A shout out to editors Robert Shapard, Michelle Elvy, and Nathan Leslie for selecting it. Special thanks to Robert Vaughan & editors for publishing the piece in Bending Genres and nominating the work.

Today's Feature: "In Geologic Time, It Happened Just Seconds Ago" by Maggie Smith from A Suit or a Suitcase published by Washington Square Press Read here: poems.com/poem/in-geol...

Spending a blessed morning with this new book from @millietullis.bsky.social The language is beautiful and lean on every page.

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s playlist for #WomensHistoryMonth features audio recordings and contextual notes from fourteen poets published in Shō Poetry Journal, including Whitney Koo, Alison Pelegrin, Meg Reynolds, and Jessica Q. Stark! shopoetryjournal.com/womens-histo...

Honoured to have a new poem out in Pinhole Poetry's @pinholepoetry.bsky.social 5th Anniversary issue, 5.1! Grateful to EIC Erin Bedford for including 'Portrait Of The Heart In Love, At World’s End' alongside many beautiful poems🔥 Explore the wonderful issue here: pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

Very honored to have artwork in Fence Magazine's @fencebooks.bsky.social Steaming online feature today. Thank you Fence and Amy Beth Sisson! fenceportal.org/unrequited-objects/

This is brilliant. From Mikko Harvey's book, Let the World Have You: bookshop.org/a/862/9781487010690 #poem #booksky #writing