Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...

Traci Brimhall is our 'Stay Brave' feature for January. Enjoy. Read. Share. Subscribe #staybrave staybrave.substack.com/p/stay-brave...

Today on Glass! "Numbering the Days" by Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

A new ars poetica is live today at @sixthfinch.bsky.social inspired by my favorite @toriamos.bsky.social . Thank you for saying YES, Rob. Sixth Finch is a journal I've long admired and have been submitting to for 14 yrs! #grateful. Don't give up on yourself, friends. sixthfinch.com/umansky1.html

Here's the link: kellyfordon.substack.com/p/my-persona... Thank you to @onbeing.bsky.social Poetry Unbound for the original inspiration. This poem lives in my manuscript Ordinary Splendor and was originally published in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social

Forgot the link when I posted this comment this morning! I'm a dingbat but here it is at last @leahumansky.bsky.social kellyfordon.substack.com/p/my-persona...

So happy for my friend Cornelius Eady 💛

Happy Holidays from the IHLR Staff! We're closing up the Iron Horse office for Winter Break, but we'll still check in on our social media accounts. Our latest issues, IHLR 27.2 and our Chapbook, just shipped. In January, we'll be posting info about our Open Issue submissions!

@coupletseries.bsky.social returns on Feb 6, 2026 at 7pm EST with a wonderful line-up of six great poets! More below. Register for in-person ticketing. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-c...

Good things coming in 2026!

the fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him; he had no voice

Everything blue is made of distance

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From “Ars Poetica: Contact Beauty” by Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Poem #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #ArsPoetica:ContactBeauty #LeahUmansky #FridayPoem

Very excited to have the poem of the day over at @swwim.bsky.social . It's a new ars poetica from my manuscript in progress of ars poeticas. I hope you enjoy it. It is a winter poem. It owes a debt to @mariapopova.bsky.social and her beautiful book: Universe in Verse www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

Looking forward to reading for @rubenq.bsky.social's Mercy Street series next Wednesday, the 10th at 6 Central w/ @leahumansky.bsky.social @adelanajarro.bsky.social Alejandro Lucero, Cynthia Atkins & Lynn Fitzgerald. Register here! bit.ly/Mercyzoom.

Ditmas Lit is Wed! Read an interview with @leahumansky.bsky.social about her poetry collection On Tyrant in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2024/06/17/a...

This Wednesday in Brooklyn

This thursday!

A new #staybrave is live with Victoria Redel. Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe. @zandoprojects.bsky.social

Albert York

See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event: Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events

So excited to be teaching a course this winter, online, on hybrid storytelling at Poetry School London. The course is part memoir, part fable, and part poetry. See below.

Later this month!

HERE IT IS!!!!!

Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.

This is going to be great ! @poetshouse.bsky.social

I'm judging the midway journal poetry contest. More below. midwayjournal.submittable.com/submit

November 13 at @poetshouse.bsky.social In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology poetshouse.org/event/the-na...

Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this ars poetica of mine from my new mms of ars poeticas. This one owes a debt to @slowdownshow.org and Major Jackson.

A new #staybrave is live with the one and only Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark). Read it. Enjoy it. Share it. Subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...

A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.

@coupletseries.bsky.social returns for 'Year 14' on Friday 10/10 at 7pm. Register for the event below. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-c...

An old poem from West Trestle Review about the Equinox.

New poem in this beautiful anthology.

I'm going to be leading a 'Dream Walk' event at The Guggenheim on Sunday, October 12th. More info below. Get your ticket! www.guggenheim.org/event/museum... Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum

One month ! 10/10 at 7pm @coupletseries.bsky.social

I'm reading on Zoom for Uncloistered Poetry, this Sunday at 6pm EST. More info below. There is also an open mic us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@sketchbookskool.bsky.social LOVE your 'Draw With Me: Poets!' and yes, high school teachers still teach Sylvia Plath.

#sketch #inspiration #art #artists

congrats @erikkennedy.com blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

I started The Studio and my god I love Seth Rogan

Tell me your favorite movies or documentaries that have to do with creativity and artistry. This is for high school seniors.

Thank you @pw.org for sharing the news about @coupletseries.bsky.social 14th anniversary on 10/10/25 at 7pm www.pw.org/literary_eve... #coupletnyc #14yearsofcouplet

Come celebrate the 14th anniversary of @coupletseries.bsky.social at our new home at Books Are Magic - Montague St location with these wonderful readers. #coupletnyc #14yearsofcouplet

If you're interested in having me visit your classroom to talk about poetry, my new book OF TYRANT, curating a reading series, teaching, writing, submitting to journals or any of the above, please send me a message through my website. Link in bio. Available for virtual visits and possibly in person

My sixteenth book for the Sealey challenge is @leahumansky.bsky.social’s Of Tyrant.

Excited to announce that @coupletseries.bsky.social will return on Fri 10/10 at 7pm for its '14th' Anniversary Event, at our new home in Brooklyn Heights at Books Are Magic! Stay tuned for line up! #coupletnyc

Surprise! We're thrilled to be publishing Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS: ON SYLVIA PLATH AND TAYLOR SWIFT on 11/25. Originally published by Dopamine Books last year (and continuously selling out their limited edition), we're excited to get THE SLICKS back on the shelves 💜