Border Patrol left Charlotte. The damage stayed behind www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...

Today is double feature day on the One Poem Only podcast. I’m thrilled to have two poems read by the magical Maggie Devers. Maybe give a listen as you’re cooking for Thanksgiving? These poems were also featured as Poetry in Plain Sight broadsides. #booksky player.captivate.fm/episode/aaa5...

Check out the latest Slush Pile podcast from Painted Bride Quarterly! pbqmag.org/latest-podca...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.” “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to @susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit

Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

I’m thrilled my poem “High Sierra Incantation” is featured over at Glass Poetry today. Huge thanks to Tony for his generosity. #booksky #poetrysky

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

"as we walk past neat green lawns. Bless you, I say, clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures who do not respond is an echo of something earned, of time spent teaching." "I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)

New pod available! pbqmag.org/podcast/epis... #booksky

Huge thanks to @susurrus editors CJ, Maddie, & Michelle for launching this poem into the world alongside such fine company. And check out that gorgeous cover!

What a delight to return to Kelly Hoffer’s debut “Undershore.” It’s unlike any collection I’ve read—a unique and creative elegy that hits hard. If you’re looking for your next Sealey Challenge read, reach out to Lightscatter Press and add this one to your stack. #poetrysky #booksky

A new episode of Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile is out now, featuring three ekphrastic poems by Janée Baugher. Listen now wherever you find podcasts! pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...

Let's show 'em how it's done, poets 😎

We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery. Details below: buff.ly/DAqhZOi #writingcommunity

Today’s used book store find. Definitely worth four dollars. Thank you, gods of poetry!🤩 (Bonus vintage Prairie Lights book mark) #booksky

Painted Bride Quarterly is open for poetry submissions. Visit PBQ.org for details.

Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

Need honest, constructive criticism? Consider working with one of our professional editors that can offer detailed feedback. The @‌ironoakeditions.bsky.social team is here to help you refine a short piece or a full manuscript. Meet the team and get details here: buff.ly/AxPccv2 #writingcommunity

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

Mother’s Day is a tough day for those of us who have/had complicated relationships with our mothers. I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world #writersky #poetsky

Poets— helpful and encouraging submissions advice here. Plus a reminder that sometimes publishing takes time (Tracy K Smith’s first book came out 8 years after her MFA).

Big Table Press put out a call to write about one day in your life. Their idea is, by year’s end, to gather a snapshot of how people spend their time. Link below to see how I spent my time with St. Vincent and on the AT. Thank you, Mo & Big Table! bigtablepress.com @this_year_project #writerssky

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My favorite novel of the year so far—sweeping in scope, charming, funny, and heartbreaking. A testament to what the novel can do. Well done, Daniel Mason.

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

Farmer’s market eggs. No dye needed!🙂

New Slush Pile pod out now featuring gorgeous poems by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

This deserves more attention. The yahoos on the right are trying to steal the election from this justice in NC. After two vote counts, it was clear she won. But that's not enough. Her opponent is fighting to disenfranchise voters by tossing out their votes so he can have the seat.

In the 90s, Toni Morrison found out that one of her books had been banned in a men’s prison because they were afraid it would incite a riot. And she was absolutely delighted. In an interview she smiled and said “how powerful is that?” I want to write books that incite riots and tear down prisons.

Delighted and honored to be featured in the 10th anniversary issue of Rogue Agent alongside such talented artists and writers. Thank you, Jill, Jen, and Kate!

In these strange days, spending time with 10,000 writers does a soul good. I brought some of their books back home to keep me company. Not pictured--Brian Teare’s “Poem Bitten by a Man” (too big for my suitcase). Thanks, LA! See you next year, Baltimore!

Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state Legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Congress works for you. Demand a town hall from your senators and representative: indivisible.org/muskorus

Definitely do not email them lyrics to greenday songs, a cake recipe, your grocery list....Definitely do not waste their time. #PeoplesMovement #50501Movement #NoKings

If you’re in need of levity, as I am, please check out the inaugural issue of Croak, a literary magazine devoted to all things frog (toads grudgingly accepted, according to their guidelines). I’m delighted to have a poem in this issue and I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks to the editors 🐸

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

Our fourth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (at no extra charge). Details: https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM #writingcommunity

Many people are asking me if Elon Musk is stealing tax-payer money or using our private information to enrich himself? I’m a Member of Congress on the committee for Government Oversight and I can’t tell you that he’s not. That’s a problem.

A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds. “I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said. Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc

hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks. www.propublica.org/tips/#signal

The West Trade Review Prize for Poetry is now open. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/2, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (at no extra charge). Details: https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM #writingcommunity

Our fourth annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry is now open. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in the spring 2026 print edition. Submit by end of day on 1/26, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks. See details: https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM #writingcommunity

Our fiction contest opens January 15th. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in the spring 2026 print edition. Submit by end of day on 1/19, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge). See the link below for further details: https://buff.ly/49L54AL #writingcommunity

Our fourth annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry, opens January 15th. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review. Don't miss this. Get prepared and send us your best work. See details at the link below: https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM #writingcommunity