John Paul Martinez’s lush, aching debut is a book for the heart that breaks open and still blooms. preorder ALTERNATIVES FOR SUCCULENTS here: buff.ly/BBmuI7J

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...

Just finished reading this wonderful collection by @trix6911.bsky.social. As an admirer of her work for 25 years and someone who grew up in Cumberland, MD, I couldn't get enough of these stories, set in Whistle Pig, MD.

Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for recommending this collection. Finished it yesterday, and it’s amazing. Love reading about Aaron’s daily story-reading practice!

Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social. Good luck!

“This collection is filled with love, caution, correction, and ferocity.” @duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...

So pleased to be able to highlight Ashley M. Jones's wonderful new collection for @southrevbooks.bsky.social: southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...

Just saw that Cubs' great Ryne Sandberg has passed away. He's been my favorite player since 1984 and will be missed by many, I'm sure. RIP, Ryno.

You won't regret adding ANY Bull City titles to your collection, not matter the occasion.

Excited to share that I'm the new Fiction Editor for Orison Books (co-editor coming soon?). Already getting started on the wonderful submissions from the annual fiction book contest.

Psst—BOTH of our fall poetry 2025 titles are available for preorder! And you can use our summer sale code, SUMMER2025 for an additional 20% discount! 💙📚 riverriverbooks.org/store/

What a beautiful, timely piece from Devin Kelly this morning: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I admire this book so much. Anyone interested in reviewing nonfiction should jump on this offer.

Excited to share my enthusiasm for Rosa Castellano's new book of poems, ALL IS THE TELLING, in @southrevbooks.bsky.social: southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/05/a...

perhaps you would like to read a long essay on the simile: carcanet.substack.com/p/pattern-bo... (perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)

For Miles Davis’ 99th birthday, here’s a searching attempt to harmonize his life with his art.

Poetry Daily is trying to add 1000 subscribers to their poem-a-day newsletter this month—it’s free, it’s a diverse reading experience, it’s an email you’ll actually be happy to see. 💫 @poetrydaily.bsky.social Sign up here:

Man, have I been in a reading slump lately. Might be time to fall back on the Break Glass In Case of Emergency case filled with my remaining unread Henry James novels.

Thanks to @mooncityreview.bsky.social for publishing my latest story in the 2025 issue. Hoping it will one day be part of the collection I'm trying to finish. Big shout out to @bettysueblue.bsky.social for her edits before submission!

To come up with a good AI policy for a university, one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain. And it’s here that we have discovered that consensus is most importantly lacking.

I’ve been getting so many fundraising emails (understandably, of course!) from orgs that have lost NEA grants. Idk how many I can donate to, but I’m trying!

So excited to see @rosswhite.com 's name in the ToC of the latest Poetry Magazine. I can't wait to read the poem!

If you’ve never created anything yourself—only bought or stolen other people’s work and pretended you made it—then AI makes perfect sense to you. The rest of us, not so much.

Today is one of those days when I wish I lived in a big city with a vinyl shop. #RecordStoreDay

From Broadsides to Full-Lengths and most things in between--our National Poetry Month sale is running NOW! bullcitypress.com/product-cate...

Been sitting with the Meta AI news. My novel is in the database. I spent 4 years writing it. The press is defunct, so the book is out-of-print and homeless. But thankfully a massive company was able to benefit from it, even if I only have memories of the optimism I had for it as I was writing it.

When we use "the future of work" to solely drive decisions in education, we prepare students solely for a future as "workers" rather than a future as citizens, community members, & unique individuals. We prepare them to be exploited by those with money & power rather than to shape their own future.

Happy to start out 2025 with a flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social. I wrote this ages ago in a @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop (highly recommended!) and have tinkered with it ever since. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Any writers out there have experience with Nisus Writer Pro? I'm considering transitioning but am not sure how effective it is.

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

I don't want to despair, but sometimes it's hard. I fear we're rocketing toward a future where we've truly forgotten what it's like to do the work, rather than allow work-like simulations to pass for the real thin. My book is my attempt to arrest that slide. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

Today is our co-editor Amorak Huey’s (@amorak.bsky.social) birthday 🎉 🎉🎉 Share a poem to celebrate?! River River is two people and a trenchcoat of poetry…we could not work without his generous, kind, brilliant attention 📚💙🌊🌊 HBD, Amorak! 🎈

Cool cool now do it for teachers

I really admired and learned a great deal from this book. Highly recommended!

Perhaps my favorite famous photograph: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excited to receive my contributor’s copy of the latest Brilliant Corners, with my essay about back when I was young and used to go to jazz shows with my mother.

I wasn’t prepared for the fact that having a teen daughter means watching Titanic more times than I ever thought necessary.

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

Do you love chapbooks of poetry and prose? Do you want to support a small press in a year where small presses really need your support? Then check out our Black Friday sale: all books and ebooks are on sale, some over 60% off. www.bullcitypress.com

Another great book that is worth your reading time at any price!

I love all four of these books! Take advantage of this sale if you haven't read them.

Poets, what's a good edited collection of essays on writing poetry? My go-to was always Donald Hall's CLAIMS FOR POETRY but I'm looking for something more recent. xoxo

One of my very favorite poems to share. I hope that some of you are reading this for the first time. #poetry

Beth is an excellent editor. She'll take care of your work and help you see it from a fresh perspective. Jump on this opportunity!

I’m a proud contributing writer to RainTaxiReview, so before the end of Give to the Max Day on Nov 21, please join me in showing them some love by making a donation here: www.givemn.org/organization...

As a writing studies person & academic (😬), I’ve honestly felt embarrassed & disappointed at how some teacher-scholars seem inclined to make peace w/ AI, trying to teach it rather than calling it out as fundamentally unethical. But here’s an article arguing for resistance & not giving an inch.

Look what just came in the mail, #jazzsky! Can't wait to listen to it. What a great combination of players.

For all you sentence lovers: I’m learning so much that I’ve merely intuited over the years from this book.

Not new, but I am absolutely loving C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey. So far, it's easily as good as How Much of These Hills Is Gold, which was one of my absolute favorites of that year.