As National Poetry Month comes to a close, I'm excited to share this poem of mine, which won an Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize!: poets.org/2025-voertma...

Got 2 poems in the newest issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social!! Many thanks to the editors for giving these a home 💛 www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-29

Come visit me at AWP!: Book Fair - Table 227, American Literary Review & UNT Table Reading - Saturday March 7, 10 AM-12 PM @ Vinyl & Pages

New poem up in Sweet: A Literary Confection: sweetlit.org/brian-czyzyk...

So grateful to have my poem, "Chewing the Green," included in this gorgeous issue of @creamcityreview.bsky.social! 🌱

The New Yorker called YouTube "JSTOR for people who watch too much TV" and... no lies detected 🤣

This is so incredibly urgent to address right now, and will probably be the most ignored until it’s too late.

Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh. —Martha Silano @acrebooks.bsky.social

Got a poem in this gorgeous issue of South Carolina Review! Sorry to any Hoosiers for this Michigander's depiction of Indiana. I do miss it sometimes.

Poetry lost the wonderful Martha Silano this week. From her book “The One We Call Ours”

Loved the insight here

Unfortunately, BOA is among those nonprofits whose NEA grant was rescinded over the weekend. We will still press on to publish new books, but now is the time to purchase a book or make a donation to support our mission. The NEA was our single largest funder.  We are so grateful for your support.

This note was too long for BlueSky but anyone up for a panel or need an extra hand for your panel at #awp26 let me know

Absolutely thrilled that this ridiculous, weird, goofy poem of mine found a home in this gorgeous issue of Fairy Tale Review and that I get to share space with absolutely amazing writers like Aimee Bender and Sabrina Orah Mark!!

Today's Feature: In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us. Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Got to share my thoughts on Emily Van Kley's haunting poem, "Vital Signs," for @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's "What Sparks Poetry" feature: poems.com/.../our-read... This poem has stuck with me ever since I first encountered it 7 years ago. Check out "Vital Signs" here: poems.com/poem/vital-signs

Working as Managing Editor for American Literary Review has been one of the most exciting things for me. I'm so thrilled to share our Spring Issue and all the fantastic work inside! You can read ALR's Spring 2025 issue here: americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/15/s...

As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

I'll be at AWP with American Literary Review next week! Table T1048 if you want to say hi!

It's World Poetry Day, and we're revisiting 'It's About Time', a poem by Michael Bazzett from our February / March 2024 issue.

If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this. REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.” www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

Things are dismal right now, but one glimmer of joy I've had is a poem of mine that was rejected 55 times just got accepted!!

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

“I have so much debt. / I am forever in the wettest red.” “BBHMM” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood #poetry #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetsofBlueSky

Just learned it's Song's 30th anniversary this year. Was lucky enough to have been gifted this magical book and have been revisiting it over and over. Brigit Pegeen Kelly was a marvel. "Our endless lust for spectacle to rouse / The stupored sight."

Today’s Featured Poem: “Good Riddance” by @deesoulpoetry.com, from Issue 100 of @agnimagazine.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/good-ri...

Love that my students now have AI built right into Word for them 🙃 Thanks, Copilot.

Kind of a silly generalization, but who would you describe as "a poet of the Image?" Or, who are poets/poems with images you can't get out of your head?

No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling. —Henri Cole

Sending this around again tonight

Not a great start to winter break. Cut my hand grating cheese and broke my glasses.

My poem "Atmospheric Conditions" is up at @theoffingmag.bsky.social!! Thanks to Nabila Lovelace and the editorial team for giving this anxiety spiral a home 💙 link: theoffingmag.com/poetry/atmos...

"I too want / to be wrapped / in gravity pulse / licking the table’s edge / where wishes / coalesce into spilt sugar / sweet milk pouring / over the kitchen floor I’ve stained" Read "Atmospheric Conditions" by @bczyzykwrites.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/poetry/atmos...

Found out I'm teaching Beginning Poetry next semester!! Now I just need to figure out which collection(s) to assign. Any suggestions?

If you're interested in reading my work, here are some poems published in the February 2022 issue of Poetry Magazine! link: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/brian-...