Friends, "These Saints are Stones," my first full-length, comes out in two months, and you can now preorder! AND, please let me know if you're willing to write a book review, interview, podcast chat, or anything else to help get the word out! 🧡

Friends, "These Saints are Stones," my first full-length, comes out in two months, and you can now preorder! AND, please let me know if you're willing to write a book review, interview, podcast chat, or anything else to help get the word out! 🧡

Today's Featured Poem: "This Animal" by Aracelis Girmay from Green of All Heads published by Boa Editions, Ltd. Read here: poems.com/poem/this-an...

"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles." "The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...

"I guess I'll never be a farmer now" "Essay" by Bernadette Mayer up today on @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/essay/

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Could anyone please help with either or these? I’m really hoping to make this goal today. Grateful for any help. #MutualAid #HelpSky

Act so there is no use in a center. -- Gertrude Stein

if you’re in the mood to read my short story about the mystification of love and seaweed, here’s "Call Us Not Weeds," published at Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...

Millie Tullis can't tell you a thing about her band director's class or the lessons they learned there, today at Villain Era!

The link in your post isn't working for me, but this link does work for me: www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/07...

I am so moved to have my poem, "housesitting for a stranger in spring," featured in DELICATE MACHINERY, alongside so so many poets I admire. You can download and read the entire anthology for free! Here: www.sundresspublications.com/.../delicate...

Really need help, having a rotten day, and really would like not to have to worry about this. If you can help, please do.

You heard it here first…🌊🌊📚 riverriverbooks.org

Gratitude to editors @millietullis.bsky.social and @[email protected] a @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.

"They say the mind of a saint is like a room / where flies wander in" "The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/03/31/t...

Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST www.eventbrite.com/e/nawps-thir...

Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd. Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get! Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you. www.porcupineliterary.com

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @ellereeve.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @millietullis.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social and MORE! shipwreckedsailor.substack.com/p/friday-lin...

Everything you guys do — @megmcdermott92.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social and @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social — is so beautiful, it lifts me right out of my sadness. Need you more than ever 💙📚

Southern poets! Apply and share the call: www.southarts.org/grants-oppor...

"My mind works like a ‘what-if’ generating machine, so often I find myself bubbling over, like Strega Nona’s pasta pot, with recalled details and odd scraps of language....” Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine" psalteryandlyre.org?p=6137

(If you like that poem, I talk a lot about it in a podcast episode I recorded with @millietullis.bsky.social & the lovely folks at Poetry: Medicine for the Soul!) poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...

Louise Glück ♥️

Regence Blue Cross of Utah is denying chemotherapy to my friend, Raven Haymond. She is scheduled to receive Perjecta, which is the standard of care for HER2+ targeted cancers next week You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577 email: [email protected] We are also seeking media contacts

"I cradled it on the gentian blue lip / of the mug, resting my eyes on brightness." Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word." psalteryandlyre.org/2024/12/16/c...

“I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.” Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”

"It could be looser: only one / earth smell and the next." "Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp psalteryandlyre.org/2024/12/09/r...

It was a joy to talk about poems, patriarchy, polygamy, and The Book of Ruth with @megmcdermott92.bsky.social! Check out the podcast: poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...

Got to be part of a really cool podcast where 2 poets read a poem each and lead conversation about the other's work. Thrilled that @millietullis.bsky.social was up for doing it with me! Please give it a listen for poems about biblical (maybe queer) women who de-center men and polygamist ancestors!!

Psaltery & Lyre opens soon! All genres Always Free Jan 1-Feb 15

New poem up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/25/t...

"It was us that ran over the birds in midair." @eleanorball.bsky.social's "Gods from Machine" psalteryandlyre.org/2024/12/02/g...

Good morning, Everyone—I’m short $150 on living costs and bills for this last week of the month. I’d be grateful for any help. Thanks so much for reading. www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mat...

"From drought to drowning, across memory and mirage, moving through distances both beyond and within us, the stories of Amber Caron’s striking debut collection... are composed in forces that at once repel and depend on each other." Read Elaine Edwards' review! psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/22/b...

More old Mitch stuff: I write fiction too. Here's my short story "How Many Times We Pray," & I'm super grateful for the BotN nom from @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social last year! psalteryandlyre.org/2023/12/04/h...

A great interview with @mgarrigan.bsky.social over at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social about our two newest books!

I had so much fun writing this poem. It is dedicated to @titaniayellow.bsky.social and her heady poetic language.

"Dear wannabe most-precious-small-gem on a lone / long shore..." Margo Berdeshevsky's "Epistle To..." psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/18/e...

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

I have a poem out today at the wonderful Psaltery & Lyre!

Reading of my poem “Tornado Warning of My Heart on a Clear Day” at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this week! #poetry

"I am (above as below) / not sure what kind // of tree I am, or where / I stand" - Kathryn Knight Sonntag's "Psalm" psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/04/p...

“She’s not just a philosopher. She’s a force.” - @danadelibovi.bsky.social discusses her new book, "Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Avila," with Michael Kevin McMahon psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/08/t...

"the bridge / is said to be full of joy" "The Popular Song" by James Miller (@jandrewm.bsky.social) psalteryandlyre.org/2024/11/11/t...

“Still, dream, I shiver. You know, my mother said. Her long garbage coat flying.” A favorite @dseuss.bsky.social poem up on poetry daily today! poems.com/poem/ballad/

New episode with Dana Delibovi and Molly Peacock for you today, in case you need the lift 🎙️💙 ofpoetrypodcast.com/2024/11/11/e...

#submissioncall Over at brawllit.com 3 poems (also can be convinced on flash fiction/nonfiction if it’s poetic!!!) Choose Your Reader 👀

"If I could write just one poem, or even a single line, that my descendants (in flesh or in spirit) would want to say, then it would be worth it." @philipmetres.bsky.social interviewed by @dsmpoet.bsky.social on his new book, "Fugitive / Refuge" psalteryandlyre.org/2024/10/25/f...