If we don't use our small poetry presses, we'll lose them. This is why I refuse to flinch or shy from asking you to purchase a copy of Whatever You Do, Just Don't, my second full collection. Here's a sample poem from the book. Just drop me a DM and I'll sort out a signed copy for you...

Booked my first AWP offsite today 🥹

Need a slice of humble pie as a writer? Open some documents you wrote in middle or high school.

I miss the @barrelhouse.bsky.social write-ins!

So I just realized that I have been sitting on a just about complete full-length draft that matches my current writing project for 2 YEARS??

Share if you can! Let's get this project funded by tonight!

If anyone needs some books for the Sealey challenge, I have 5 you can add, and one of them is now free!

Met two of my literary icons, Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, tonight after driving from Baltimore to Bethesda, and my word, for also being a writer, I could not get words to formulate when talking to them. Grateful to be in their presence. What a great night.

#OtD 17 Jul 2014 Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was choked to death by white NYPD officers while arresting him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The event sparked protests across the US as part of the #BlackLivesMatter movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896...

Maybe THIS is what my next book should be about

The research I'm doing for my WIP is intense and eye-opening and scary

Finally watching all of Hamilton, and I can understand the hype.

I think yesterday was one of the first times anyone has called my writing career "prolific" and Lord, I needed to hear that. 🥹🥹

For my writers, who are your dream presses and why? I have 3 that come to mind!

Keep an eye out for AFM: I2 to drop on JUNE 7TH. Kay Mi, @matoro.bsky.social, @whoastanderson.bsky.social, Hayley Igarashi Thomas, Breasia "Bree" Boyd, Judith Skillman, @aetheblkpoet.bsky.social, Kelci Tillman, @eldritchjellyfish.bsky.social, Davin Faris ... and subs open 6/8 for monthly features

It's my balloon day! If you want to give me a gift, buy one of my books and support small presses! Talk about my work with others.

The poetry is coming back yall.

Anyone have any prompts floating about?

This is the year of creation.

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

Why am I up??? It's break!

Woke up early to lesson plan for the week (Due by 9 am today) and put grades in. Of course my computer has decided it has never heard of the internet despite all my best efforts. 🙃

I knew it was going to be a double shantay

OG Sailor Moon is on Tubi. I'm not crying. You are.

Tomorrow afternoon! Join @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social as we host Mel Sherrer for our final writing workshop of the season! A masterful poet, writer, and friend. Sliding scale admission. ko-fi.com/s/7ce99953e0

If you haven't read a book by a Black writer this month, what are you even doing?

I'm sick. Again. Which will happen first: the school year to end or for parents to stop sending students to school sick?

See & hear the poets from Issue 36 of @soflopojo.bsky.social on 2/7/25 @ 7:30pm (EST). Registration info at www.soflopojo.com. @djvorreyer.bsky.social & I will be there!

Workshop in just over 24 hours led by @sgpoet.bsky.social Excited for this generative workshop in a safe space to write around and through grief.

Bluesky Gift Card Giveaway! Get a chance to win a $25 Gift Card to Amazon! Rules: Repost + Like this Post & comment what you're going to buy if you win! Ends on 1/24 at 5 pm PT!

One day I will learn

It happened again y'all. I came up with a dope beginning to a poem before I fell asleep but swore "I would remember it in the morning." Reader: It is morning, and I do not remember the line. Who woulda thunk it?

Tomorrow!

Join @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social and I as we welcome Mel Sherrer for her workshop, Tension First, THIS THURSDAY. My notebook will be ready. Sliding scale starting at $10 ko-fi.com/s/7ce99953e0...

WONDER X CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE Bijou wants more than the Draft Planet and is willing to sacrifice all she knows for it. The world ended to birth an oppressive dystopia. Can love, liberation, and an ancestral majestic artifact make way for her escape to a Utopia? 📖 #bluepit #SFF #A #RO #po #OS

Don't you hate when you have the perfect piece for a press/journal and they are closed?

The real question is... what ISN'T happening in the world?

Of all the places to throw snow, why in the street?

I have an upstairs snuggie and downstairs snuggie. I don't hate it.

Just putting it out there: If anyone is looking for readers for National Poetry Month (or anytime, really), hit ya girl up! Sharing my craft is always my favorite thing to do.

First day back after break and I already am on the verge of tears. I know teaching is a thankless job, but is a bit of respect too much to ask for?

BREAKING: Jimmy Carter has died at 100. The 39th president of the United States, who served from 1977 to 1981, was perhaps more famous for the life he led after leaving office — as an advocate for peace and human rights. Read about his lasting legacy.

Tell an artist/writer/podcaster/maker that what they’re doing matters to you. They want to hear it. Making shit is lonely work most of the time and it helps to know that the circuit is being completed somewhere.

Yes, I'm a poet. I'm also a stoner on school breaks. I've earned it.

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

God bless the edibles hiding in my fridge

First time crying on a reading. There's a first time for everything I guess. Thank you, Athu.

I need a third option. "Finishing my novel" is yet another enraged girlfriend. For me, the girl in red is "literally anything else that serves no purpose whatsoever."