too many blessings to count this year 🙏 much gratitude to Sean Lynch of @serotoninpress.bsky.social for making this dream a reality, to Larissa Greer for the cover art, & to Sommer Browning, @theoriginalison.bsky.social & I.S. Jones for the kind words serotoninpress.bigcartel.com/product/if-i...

one week left to submit! send us a poem 🩵

hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social tn at fergie's pub 🎉 come hear from vasiliki argyris + william lessard 🤩 open mic to follow ✨ hope to see you!

two more months, somehow 🤯

asked my cousin's 5-year-old what our baby's middle name should be and he immediately replied, "TACO FISH"

next month at The Perch Music & Arts Workshop, come celebrate the release of my new poetry collection, IF I CANNOT FLY, from @serotoninpress.bsky.social 🎉 Sunday, July 19th at 7pm ✨ cannot wait to see you there 🩵

from flower girl to bride 🥹 my childhood would not have been the same without the love and care of this wonderful woman, my dearest nanny who was recently by my side for my own wedding and baby shower, and kindly forgave my american pronunciation of “to-mah-to”

i do not recommend planning a wedding while pregnant, but it had to be done, and by god, we did it

how it started // how it's going it feels like shy & i have lived many lives together over the past decade i don't know what i did to deserve her friendship, but it must've been something good! love you, @formermissnj.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

two weeks left to submit! send us a poem 🩵

coming next month from @serotoninpress.bsky.social 🙌 cover art by the wonderful Larissa Erin Greer, whose support of my work over the last decade has been incredible 🙏 serotoninpress.bigcartel.com/product/if-i...

the happiest day

My next poetry collection, IF I CANNOT FLY, is available for pre-order from @serotoninpress.bsky.social, and some brilliant poets wrote some kind words about it 🥰 Stay tuned for cover reveal, release party details, & more! serotoninpress.bigcartel.com/product/if-i...

had such a great time reading at Fergie’s Pub for @moonstonearts.bsky.social last night 🙌

tonight! 🎉 come thru

first birthday as an old married lady 👵 🥰

three weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!

today i am thirty-nine years old, coming up on two years sober, twenty-nine weeks pregnant, and thankful AF

"make sure he listens to the music so he's not a poser!"

next week at Fergie's Pub, i have the honor of reading with @dankraines.bsky.social & my dear friend Rocky Wilson! TY @moonstonearts.bsky.social & Sean Lynch for the opportunity 🙏 come wish me a belated happy bday & hear some poems from my new book (out next month w/ @serotoninpress.bsky.social!)

we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨ 🩵 voicemailpoems.org/submit 🩵 deadline july 1st

spring has sprung / the sap has ris' / i wonder where / my belly button is

“Saying I love you in my mother tongue  is impossible. My mother never loved me  in words. She gave up a continent  for me, its contents traded for a feathered hope of better.” - @ella-b-winters.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...

“I drive and I listen to the notes dancing through the dark on the way to my ears –   the chimes and the melody and the perfect fifths – as the night opens up ahead of me and the rest of my life beckons from right down the road.” - @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/t...

“your weary body tightens under the blaze of light yet your soul remains untouched by its ray” - Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić) voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/r...

over the moon that my 4th poetry collection, IF I CANNOT FLY, is forthcoming from @serotoninpress.bsky.social in July 🙌 grateful to @theoriginalison.bsky.social, Sommer Browning & I.S. Jones for their kind words abt the book & to Sean Lynch for giving it a home 🙏 serotoninpress.com/if-i-cannot-...

“do you believe to feel safe / is the same as happiness / do you believe / everything you’re told / did you believe you’d lose nothing / when you asked / the machine to think for you” - @birchwiley.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/p...

“Our passionate energy rises and simmers She whispers to me at the end of the song A paradise blossoms from the words that I hear-   ‘If music be the food of love, play on’” - Lena Hadley voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/o...

same as i ever was (but married!)

“I am not / exactly / my body today.” - @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/m...

“Sing your songs loud to your silence & to the silence around you to halt all silences” - Uchechukwu Onyedikam voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/l...

"I was always making something beautiful and useless, always pressing that rock to your side of the wall, wasn’t I?" - Marissa M. Zhu voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/i...

“All things, almost, you can never have cupped long enough to hold, So love becomes a marriage, and lightening a sound, so late, so late, In one baroque spring, could have been this year or sixty-five million before, Dirt’s veins strike it rich” Vasiliki Argyris voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

my fiancé asked what i'm gonna do with my night and i said, "i don't know! the world is my oyster, i guess"

"become your one unbearable wound cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry then fall and fall until they smooth mountains" - Sophia Rosenberg voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

“Wherever we go the marshes may dry and the slick-calm ponds may grow scales of ice— they have, for centuries but so have we persisted. Soon, more than this, we will know abundance our beaks writhing with fish.” - Laura Casteel voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

"I want to scream so I write I want to riot so I write I want to break so I write I want to burrow so I write I want to grieve so I write I want to stop so I write I want to build so I write I want to          so I write I want to               I write I want              so I write" Emma Sheinbaum

“Next month, I’m attending a wedding in a cemetery, and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.   Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave and then go dancing?” - Mary Geschwindt voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...

“I used to ride my bike to you, we lived close enough to each other it was possible for my little body to pedal itself there and back without exerting what it can’t spend what it doesn’t have, maybe still lacks" - Nicholas Bonarski (@nickb999.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...

“I’ve had enough of new names, new ways of trying to stop time” - Eléna Rivera voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/c...

“Thus it stands that Ken is a transmasculine icon / Loved and adored as a god because that’s what Barbie and Ken are, / The deities that underscore what it means to be a person, that who we are is limitless.” - L. Amariti (@lamaritiwrites.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/c...

“I love you. Please don’t read this.” - Angel Monet LoMax voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/a...

“there was always someone     day-dreaming hurtling towards the other world falling for somebody’s son grass-stained knees weaving in and out of love condemning their mother  tongue” - Gabriela González voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/a...

🪻 spring issue's up! 🪻 ft. @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, @nickb999.bsky.social, @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social, @lamaritiwrites.bsky.social, @ella-b-winters.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/s...

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last day to submit your work for our spring issue! 🪻 send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered 💙

hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social tn at fergie's pub 🎉 come hear from @kirsutherland123.bsky.social + alexa smith 🤩 open mic to follow ✨ hope to see you!

one more week to submit a poem for our spring issue 🪻 hope to hear from you 💙

two more weeks to submit! ⏳ give us a call 🩵

back to flannels + a wintry mix today but yesterday sure felt like spring