SPOTLIGHT on award-winning poet @brandelfrance.bsky.social and her poem in AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow (THAT WE NEED NOW) #dc #federalworkers #washingtondc #poetry #writing ✍️💙 Purchase your copy direct at www.washingtonwriters.org or anywhere books are sold! #indiebooks

It's (almost) a new month which means we have a new In Conversation event to look forward to! In June we're welcoming poets @brandelfrance.bsky.social and Marcela Sulak. Free and virtual and everyone's welcome. thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

So excited to see Marcela Sulak reviewed by The Los Angeles Review! Check out the full review here: losangelesreview.org/the-fault-by...

Thanks DMQ Review for inviting me to read in your June 2025 Virtual Salon! If you'd like to hear/watch me read 3 short poems from my new book, Locomotive Cathedral, here's the link: www.dmqreview.com/salon Also, my book is half off right now @univnebpress.bsky.social using code 6SUMM25

Thanks Tupelo Quarterly @tupelopress.bsky.social for this probing interview about LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL! www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorize...

THIS THURSDAY, June 5 at 7 pm in Palo Alto at Books, Inc. in Town and Country (855 El Camino Real, #74).

Tuesday, May 27, at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD at 7 pm. I'll be reading and in-conversation with two highly acclaimed poets: @jennmartelli.bsky.social from MA and @subhaga.bsky.social who lives in the "other Washington." Join us! writer.org/event/bacon-...

Thank you Action, Spectacle and Adam Day for giving this piece a home! It’s one in a series of “redactions and annotations” based on Stephanie McCarter’s Ovid translation. www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...

Thanks @politicsprose.bsky.social and @univnebpress.bsky.social (Backwaters Press) and fellow prize winner Julie Choffel for a wonderful evening!! As a DC native, born and bred, my book isn’t “out” until I’ve read at DC’s (maybe even the country’s?) best bookstore! And thanks @wwph.bsky.social

Great reading tonight by @brandelfrance.bsky.social of her new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral #poetry @politicsprose.bsky.social Good to see @sandrabeasley.bsky.social Jona Colson, Natasha Saje, @peabody.bsky.social Katherine Smith, Caroline Bock, Mary Kay Zuravleff and other writers there!

📚make every day Indie Bookstore Day, and especially TODAY!! show your love at your favorite bookshops!

Tomorrow, join Julie Choffel (DEAR WALLACE) and @brandelfrance.bsky.social (LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL) in conversation with Maria Fernanda at @politicsprose.bsky.social The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:

Washington DC peeps (DMV friends), join us Saturday, April 26at the Connecticut Avenue Politics and Prose for my DC book launch. The train is pulling into the station!!Get on board at 5 pm. An hour of poetry and conversation in honor of National Poetry Month.

But did you get inspired by @brandelfrance.bsky.social and write a poem featuring your laundry? :) Thanks for your beautiful reading tonight!

Excerpt: LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”

7:30 ET. Register to get your Zoom link (see below). You don’t want to miss this Hundred Pitchers of Honey reading I’m excited to be reading with this stellar crew: Stevie Edwards, Ben Kline, CD Eskilson, Todd Dillard, and Ruben Quesada.

This Sunday in Charm City! It’ll be HOT!

Register for this reading! It’s a fun line-up and I’ll be reading from new book LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Now that AWP is done, get your poetry reading fix on April 17 by registering for this incredible lineup of readers!

Thank you @univnebpress.bsky.social for a terrific AWP! I love my poster and loved signing books at the booth.

Come say hi Thursday at booth 359 (University of Nebraska Press). I’ll be signing books from 2-2:30, and would love to meet you. Ask me about review copies!

Stop by! I’ll be signing from 2-2:30 on Thursday at AWP. Booth 359/361. Ask me about review copies.

Will you be at AWP in Los Angeles?? Come find me at my book signing @univnebpress.bsky.social or the offsite reading hosted by @merliterary.bsky.social and @wtawpress.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social Happy to arrange for a review copy--just ask!

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the pandemic, this poem from my new book, Locomotive Cathedral. Over 1.2 million deaths. No shuttering of agencies or censoring of data can undo that.

Get ready for our poetry month celebration reading on April 17 with six fantastic readers: @toddedillard.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social, @brandelfrance.bsky.social, @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social, @cdeskilson.bsky.social & @rubenq.bsky.social! Register at link! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Big congrats to brilliant poet and all-round good guy @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social

Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.

RIP Millicent Dillon. Thank you for your work on Jane and Paul Bowles.

Locomotive Cathedral has pulled into the station!!! I put on matching clothes to receive it. Thanks @univnebpress.bsky.social You’ve been a dream to work with.