5 concerts I've been to: Patti Smith Tori Amos Buddy Guy Vic Chesnutt Odetta

as usual not celebrating anything except not having to go to work & it's wonderful

this could be a 3Elements Literary Review prompt...

Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.

Will be doing a newspaper article on books I'm looking forward to that are coming out in 2026. Anything you want to recommend to me, bookish friends?

revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.

toddler handed this to me and I inhaled it like I was at bed bath and beyond buying candles

love Ed Harcourt's new album, Orphic. Especially the songs "O' Gentle Death" & "Mercurial." Hints of Elliot Smith & The Church.

read this beautiful poem!

these random firepit evenings w/ friends & family are my new favorite thing to do. we're trying to do it as often as we can before winter sets in.

shout it from the rooftops!

not quite done but finished for the night and feel like sharing

friend: I just baked macaroons me: I just wrote a poem from the perspective of a serial killer's wife

What if someone had told me, thirty / years ago: if you give up now… “The Easel,” Sharon Olds

Kestrels are such handsome birds. Lots out and about today, their plumage even more striking than usual. This shot captures the colors and patterns well.

Death by Lightning is one of those shows that feels like someone made it just for me. Obscure history, dark humor, Michael Shannon, Michael MacFadyen, & Nick Offerman. Love it.

I used to think Bon Jovi sang "swap spit w/ the sky for you"

firepit & wine evenings w/ family & friends is soothing to my weary soul

An herb for January! This issue will be themed "Wintergreen," so send us your poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations inspired by themes of hope, persistence, and endurance. Human resilience this winter! Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...

NEW ISSUE KLAXON!! Strange Play: The Voidspace TTRPG Special is now live! Trains, ghosts, an ant's eye view: there's a whole bunch of weird and wonderful games for you to try. Now play on 🖤 voidspacezine.com/ttrpg-special/

Well I have a new favorite poem. I sure felt this one, @martin65.bsky.social!

Look at this political cartoon my student made based on Hamlet!

Parsley, sage, rosemary, *and* thyme? In this economy? At Scarborough Fair prices?

Do I have a new collection in preorder from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social coming out in the spring? Why yes I do!

What if all our doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog?

See, I told you to watch All Her Fault! Go now go!

New poem in Redivider out of Emerson College. It’s in an issue of their Blurred Genre series so check it out if that appeals to you. redivider.emerson.edu/visual-purple/

This is tomorrow night! Register here to see @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

We’re thrilled to share that the newest issue of Redivider is out today! Check out 23.1 and all of our wonderful contributors here: redivider.emerson.edu

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

if you ever want to know what it looks like when I pack for a trip ...

Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.

this poem!

some friends & I were asked to leave the Bad Ass Cafe in Dublin, Ireland, because we were laughing too loud. We weren't even drunk, but the Bad Ass couldn't handle us.

The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬. Guidelines are on the site. Link in bio. ❤️

8-hour drive home from a writing retreat = 8 more hours of creative work. The mountains, the silence, the movement—sometimes the best writing happens when you're not actually writing. Find those in-between moments. They matter. #WritingLife #CreativeProcess

work was so stressful today I'm drinkin' scotch & eating extra hot peppers (fresh from my sister's garden) raw. My tongue's on fire, but it's worth it for the endorphin rush.

First pushcart nomination 🙏💕 Thank you, Salt Hill Journal! 🎉🎉🎉 “To not save anything. To rush headlong, fall, collapse.”

my version of this would be an editor saying reindeers are "too regional"

What fictional villain traumatized you as a kid?

first snow of the season way too early no thank you

this is why poor poets on small presses don't win those big book awards. they all require crazy big fees plus multiple review copies that neither the poet nor the press can afford. When a poet wins one of the big prizes, all it says to me is they had enough money to submit.

Many presses are making their reading periods accessible by doing away with mandatory fees. Prizes likewise need to consider their financial accessibility. Presses are not the same weights—Graywolf and River River shouldn’t pay the same entry fee for a title. It makes no sense.

Moss (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Last Saturday, I was named the winner of The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature.

Appalachian spec fiction authors out there have 1 last day to submit stories to Appalachia Book Co.'s upcoming anthology. Free submissions, paid acceptances: www.appalachiabook.co/submit

finally found the difference between truth and beauty

raccoons are having a great fall. There was one take a twirling shower/bath in a ditch while it rained near my house. It looked so happy, made me day.

November swim: