Union Square greenmarket in bloom

Went to an amazing performance of Stravinsky’s The Firebird last night at the NYC Ballet. Costumes and sets by Marc Chagall. Here are some of his monster heads 👺👹👿

“And he loves staying up until dawn, swinging in a hammock made of spiderwebs, listening to the whiskey fairy unwind tales of lost love and forgotten empires” from “The Martini Fairy” I love this story within a story that tells so much

Sutton Place stroll

🎧 Hello! Spring cleaning, anyone? I’ll be presenting a low-residue Livestream tomorrow - Wednesday, April 15 at 4:30PM NYC time. Be there & clean those gutters out too! m.mixcloud.com/live/johntru...

Cats engaging with astronaut content is an a+ genre

Here’s my first April 30/30 prompt: “Deconstructed Fable” Write a poem in which every day you receive some fragment of a fable. A red cloak, the huntsman’s ax, a grandmother’s spectacles, etc. Write the poem in such a way that “solving” this fable directs you to return to your childhood home.

These stories are strong on their own but I really like the way they fit together. Both magic, but opposite magics; a magic of holding on and a magic of letting go

sweet fancy moses these fairy tales ... what a delight!

These are just wonderful: "She opens the door and sees a small white cat with a black spot on its head resembling parted hair and black markings on its feet resembling boots. It walks in and fixes itself a martini."

I’m excited to have a pair of v. short fairy tales out today! Thank you, @hexliterary.bsky.social, for giving them such a marvelous home! And big thanks to @rpmirabella.bsky.social’s brilliant workshop at @writingco-lab.bsky.social, where the first tale got its start

In researching various birds for the novel, I found this quote about young kingfishers that I am quite fond of.

"It’s the flapper dress, skirt hiked, strappy shoe flexed on the Roadster’s running board. You think you might look a little like her?" Brilliant shift from microscopic to wider view in this micro from @noramaynard.bsky.social

I’m excited to have a new micro in the Spring issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social Thanks to eds @marylynnreed.bsky.social & Lesley C Weston for including me moonparkreview.com/issue-35-spr...

Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @mizuki-yama.bsky.social for including “Not What the Living Think’ 😘

Cool stickers from our local izakaya, Lucky Cat

My great-grandparents w/ 2 of my granddad’s older sibs, Co. Limerick, around 1909. My great-grandma’s name was Sinaid O’Connor ☘️🇮🇪

Cat and mouse. Just found this old pic of 16-year-old me fresh from Disneyland with my grandmother’s elegant guy.

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Contributor copy of Moon City Review 2026! @mooncityreview.bsky.social Thank you to editor @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social for including my work. Looking forward to reading all the amazing writers in this issue!

Good gracious / cat is bodacious

AWP Book Inspector, Joey Ramone, says all volumes appear to be in good order! @sejalshah.bsky.social @marchxness.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @alternatingcu.bsky.social @mooncityreview.bsky.social

Take a postcard and send it to us! If you’re at AWP, stop by @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social (table T603) We’ll post our favorites here! (All work will be considered for publication too!)

Badge. Check. Tote bag. Check. Maryland crab button. Check.

Memory unspools in Adam McOmber’s “Things That Are Ghosts” READ it in our Winter issue and LISTEN to it read by special guest Ed Herbstman in our companion podcast, pod-ette, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Adam about his writing process www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m...

This looks amazing! Just signed up! @shipmanagency.bsky.social www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/work...

Time stops, slips, and speeds on a snowy highway in “Speak of the Woman” by Marc Kaufman READ it in -ette Issue 7 & LISTEN in pod-ette Episode 7, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Marc about the decades-long journey he took with the work www.ettereview.com/winter2026/k...

When haves and have-nots collide…. We love all the leaps and pivots in this sharp, tiny gem, “Rubbing Elbows,” by Theodore Heil Theodore’s debut chapbook, Movements, is now available from Bottlecap Press! www.ettereview.com/winter2026/h...

Can’t, I’m smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo

Two prose poems by @laurencamp.bsky.social pulsing with quiet electricity: “The Bowl” & “A Spell Addressed to a Friend” Lauren served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate and is a past Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. www.ettereview.com/winter2026/c...

Brand new episode! Music by Chester Jankowski ❤️

New issue!

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Join us for our very first in-person reading! Featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Laura Cronk Theodore Heil @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social Devan Murphy @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social

“It started with what everyone once thought I should hide: my scar.” This beauty by @noramaynard.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social.💙

"I could hide behind being a monster: I never had to speak." @noramaynard.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Leonard Cohen Iggy Pop JACK Quartet Barry Harris PJ Harvey

I’m excited to have a micro-excerpt from my novel-in-progress in this issue. Thrilled to be in such great company! Finding an under 200-word, freestanding section to extract and submit was a difficult —but rewarding—challenge. Big thank you to eds. @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social !

The moon and New York City

Annual Xmas viewing of Bell, Book and Candle 🐈‍⬛🌲🎥🗿

This is how it begins.

Belated Caturday Advent Calendar bsky.app/profile/drka...

Excited to have an acceptance from @moonparkreview.bsky.social !

It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57. "The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees! Jessica Barlevi @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Devan Murphy Emma Raimondo Mathieu Cailler Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner

Excited!!!