A new #staybrave is live with Melissa Kirsch, the creative behind 'The Good List' newsletter at @nytimes.com Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...

Today is Day One. No matter where you are in the world, you have a front-row seat to history. Tune in for unforgettable words to ignite your purpose and the legendary anthems to lift your spirits. Livestream the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony at 11 a.m. CT right here.

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Keep an eye on this space... Submissions open in ONE WEEK! (Bonus points if you now have that song stuck in your head.) Check out the guidelines at forget.cool/submissions and share with your writer friends!

A few spots left in my course at @poetshouse.bsky.social on creativity - it is an online workshop on Tuesday night's starting next week. poetshouse.org/event/worksh...

New work and some other poems of mine over at Fotospecchio - with thanks to Grace Cavalieri and Dan Murano fotospecchio.com/poets/leah-u...

This is now only two weeks away! Register for the link to hear from these four talented writers! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A new poem of mine is live at Lumina, an ars poetica! www.lumina-journal.com/ars-poetica-...

I'm teaching this online course this summer at @poetryschool.bsky.social . Join me! poetryschool.com/courses/poem...

Our new Young Poets Network anthology, The earth that whispers at my feet, out in the wild! The anthology contains winning poems from a series of eco-poetry challenges we've run with People Need Nature. All the poems were written by young people aged <25. Online version at bit.ly/EarthThatWhispers

I'm teaching a course on 'creativity' this June at @poetshouse.bsky.social online! Won't you join me? Anyone can be creative; it's also an antidote for these dark times! poetshouse.org/event/worksh...

Very excited to be part of a pop culture panel with Gary Jackson, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @leahumansky.bsky.social, and Maria Zoccola. And as always, honored to be signing books and reading with my beloved @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social!

Calm down, PHONE, we know about the snow

I am over the moon with excitement to announce that I have signed with Dzanc Books for the publication of my memoir, Delicate Machine. I am so grateful to Annie DeWitt (Enliven) who has been such a champion of it since day one. #DelicateMachine #grateful

Here's my latest blog post w/news about Singing from the Deep End, incl. 3 Feb. readings (local launch this Thurs!), links to past readings & more. I'd love it if you followed my site by adding your email there - I only send a few posts a year. Thanks, folks! ❤ rebeccahartolander.com/februarys-fi...

I'm teaching this wonderful course on 'living a creative life' online at @poetshouse.bsky.social this summer. More info below. poetshouse.org/event/worksh...

I wrote a poem inspired by Star Trek's 'Strange New Worlds' on @paramountplus.com at Plume. @ansonmount.bsky.social, I'd love for you to share it with Ethan and Jess. It's inspired by that amazing 'wedding' episode. plumepoetry.com/ars-poetica-...

A new #staybrave is live with Tine Cane. Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...

i love it when people care. about words, about meaning, about each other, about what we mean to one another, about the world we’re making—or could make

My poem "Ars Poetica: Moonlight" has been reprinted at @thepvdeye.bsky.social with thanks to Tina Cane . It was originally published at @northamerreview.bsky.social pvdeye.org/ars-poetica-...

Read Sophie Newman’s interview with “Tacoma” author Aaron Burch. They talk about the last 20 years of the literary scene, writerly obsession, autofiction, and more. buff.ly/wOBxFyz

This is me! Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.

This link will be live next hour, from 10–11am ET, for the full hour. havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34844...

@kattywompuswriter.bsky.social will be at AWP launching new anthology kattywompuspress.com/sammy/celebr...

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Grateful to Kristen for sharing this with the world, though I wish she didn't have to write it.

We hopped on the B68 to the Nitehawk Prospect Park for a matinee; the bus was full of families, each with a sled or two, on their way to play in the snow. Children bundled up, excited. It made my heavy heart heavier, but heavy with lightness.

Thank you to everyone who is reading and subscribing to my #staybrave substack. I love getting the notifications. Thank you for reading and subscribing. NOW is the time to be brave. Thank you.

I already have a good list, and several anthologies, but thought I'd ask here: What are your favorite poems about nature -- for high schoolers?

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

Do you want to draw, paint and sip? This great class starts on Friday in person in Downtown Manhattan www.churchstreetschool.org/drawpaintsip

Did you know I have a newsletter at mailchimp? Here's the new January one? Subscribe! mailchi.mp/367db4c902ea...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "To everyone listening: Stand with Minneapolis. Stand up for America."

@hjm.bsky.social I loved the new movie so much. I cried through the whole film. Claire Foy is amazing, but oh Brendan Gleeson!! Congratulations! So beautiful. I'd still love to interview you for my Stay Brave Substack. Message me or email me through my site. I hope you come to NYC someday soon!

Go see H is for Hawk the film! @hjm.bsky.social changed my life with that book. It changed me, inspired a chapbook/pamphlet of mine, I became a bird lover, birds entered my poems, I started paying attention to nature, & became hooked on nonfiction. I love Helen's work; it's my favorite memoir.

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...