another great afternoon yesterday of VERSeFest 2026! a Kado reading by Sébastien Rock, lectures by Nada Gordon and Lydia Unsworth, and our Hall of Honour event, celebrating Susan McMaster and Monty Reid! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

“I ask myself: Am I exposing information given to me in confidence? Am I writing to hurt, or to understand?” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, author @marianazos.bsky.social offers insight on how to approach writing sensitively about one’s most intimate relationships. at.pw.org/NazosCC3

In my new Craft Capsule for @pw.org, I write about heat, tenderness, abuse, and how to put people in their place. Featuring Danez Smith’s “dear white america,” my poem “Asshole,” & the question I keep returning to: Am I writing to hurt, or understand? Read here: www.pw.org/content/how_...

At Muse’s Mic, I talked about reading poems autobiographically and why I do not think readers should be afraid (always) to do so. It also touches on ideas about ethical lying from my @pw.org essay. Watch the full interview here: www.facebook.com/reel/2365419... #Poetry

At Muse’s Mic, I talked about reading poems autobiographically and why I do not think readers should be afraid (always) to do so. It also touches on ideas about ethical lying from my @pw.org essay. Watch the full interview here: www.facebook.com/reel/2365419... #Poetry

Our Spring 2026 issue is going live from a different coast! Today I’m in Rockland, Maine, at the birth home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of my favorite poets, for a few days of writing retreat with Carly DeMento (another one of my favorite poets!). www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-42-spr...

I’ve always had too much anger for the polite $poem. An editor once told me my work was “brash.” It hurt. It was also true. Ever since, I've been obsessed with poets who execute rage beautifully. My new @pw.org essay explores anger — and what it can become. Read: www.pw.org/content/ethi....

Second capsule essay in this short series out Monday. This one reflects back on themes from the first craft capsule — poetic ethics, factual adjustment, and the afterlife of craft decisions in Cape Cod Pantoum. Still thinking about where invention deepens truth and where it complicates it.

A throwback I’m grateful for — Kaveh Akbar selected my #poem “The Hollywood Glacier” for the 2021 Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize. “Granular to cosmic… the poem feels subtly but densely peopled. It’s its own ecosystem.” I’ll share a short reading of this poem later this week. #poetry

Second capsule essay in this short @pw.org series out Monday. Reflecting back on themes from the first craft one - #poetry ethics, factual adjustment, and the afterlife of craft decisions in Cape Cod Pantoum. Adding screenshots here since the link was slightly elusive for some folks last time.

I wrote a new craft essay for @pw.org that grew out of a poem rooted in a real accident and the difficult afterlife of memory. Thinking about what responsibility poets carry when reshaping what actually happened. www.pw.org/content/lie_... #poetry

Essay out today via @pw.org on ethical lying in poetry — and the tension between narrative usefulness and factual accountability when writing from lived experience.

Still riding the post-#AWP wave. There are so many good people and poems out there. Gives me hope for this world.

BIG post-AWP news: PULSE has a new font…AND an official release date. Stay tuned. @omnidawn.bsky.social, I'm looking forward. 🫀

At the @northamerreview.bsky.social booth. Few other journals forge such supportive bonds with their writers. Check out their latest issues, and grab a bookmark with PULSE’S pre-order QR code. We had a great #awp alongside @rhinopoetry.bsky.social + @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social ,

You're FIRED. 🔥

I got to read with my boy Edgar Poe and @perugiapress.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. A true gift. 🎁 #AWP

Can't wait to meet the great @mawsheinwin.bsky.social at #AWP.🔥

#awp packing essential - Ted Lasso socks. See you there! 😘

Oh yay! I had no idea it had gone live! THANK YOU to my @omnidawn.bsky.social pressmate @mawsheinwin.bsky.social - see you at #awp!!!

Best birthday gift ever. It's @northamerreview.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue! I'm grateful to the editors for publishing my poem, "On Epiphany." See us at #AWP - I'll do meet & greets at their booth & will read at their off-site event w/ @rhinopoetry.bsky.social & @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social.

Morning hair is my reality, and I'm not afraid to show it. I enjoy sharing the creative journey, which is why my bio is uniquely me. 😉 PS - I’ve just approved the final galley—stay tuned for the release from @omnidawn.bsky.social. Publication date coming soon. See you at #AWP!

If when your party is out of power, spending on fighting elsewhere is evidence of not being America First. But when you’re in power, doing even more of this (w/ off-the-charts belligerence) now equals America First, the code’s cracked: “America First” is a bunch of vowels & consonants w/ no meaning

Congratulations to the Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize and Translation Prize winners! 🎉 🎉 Rani Ruado 🎉 Mickie Kennedy 🎉 Margaret Wack 🎉 Clara Burghelea, translating Ioana Vintilă All of these poems are in the 50th Anniversary issue of RHINO, and they're available to read early on our website!

Join me at #AWP for twice the PULSE! I'm doing pre-order meet-ups at my favorite booths. Catch me w/@bham-poetry-review.bsky.social + NELLE (Table T1158) March 4, 12 pm & at w/@northamerreview.bsky.social (Table 315) March 5, 12 pm. Get a QR bookmark & chat about what makes your heart race.

*Trigger warning for suicide.* This poem's the hardest I've written, dealing w/the loss of people by their own hands. Thanks @northamerreview.bsky.social & @northamerreview.bsky.social for publishing my #poem, "After Hearing David Rothenberg Sang with Birds:" northamericanreview.org/open-space/2....

PULSE is beating louder as we near publication day. 🤎 I'm thrilled w/the blurbs from @joy-castro.bsky.social & @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social. Thank you @ellistolsma.bsky.social & @omnidawn.bsky.social for the design. See you at #AWP. 🔥 Preorder PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....

Thrilled to announce a third #AWP2026 event where we can share a big, awkward hug! Join me with @swwim.bsky.social, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky.social, NELLE, & @perugiapress.bsky.social for Off-Site. On Purpose. Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 7 PM, Westminster Hall, Baltimore.

Honored to have my poem appear in this issue of Blue Earth Review.🌎

Join @omnidawn.bsky.social & me at another #AWP offsite reading. BYOB. Deets below. Featuring: Maria Nazos, David Koehn, @mawsheinwin.bsky.social, @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social, Laynie Browne, Liza Flum, Elizabeth Robinson, @alohajha.bsky.social, Molly Bendall, & Ewa Chrusciel. #AWP2026

The crash met last weekend to plan for 2026 being RHINO’s 50th ANNIVERSARY! 👏🥳🦏 We have a lot of exciting ideas and big plans. We can’t do it without you, so get your party clothes ready!

It's my first #AWP in 10 years & first collection of poems in 16! Can't WAIT to see you in Baltimore, buy your books, & show you PULSE, forthcoming from @omnidawn.bsky.social. Join me at #AWP2026 with @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, hypertextmagazine.bsky.social, & @northamerreview.bsky.social.

Oh, believe me. I'm not.

. . . Ageless.......Priceless........Timeless

Oh, I noticed. 🖕

Enlightenment.

I read from and talked about PULSE...again at @nebpublicmedia.bsky.social's Friday LIVE show. This time, I read a moving tribute to myself. It’s titled “Self-Portrait as Clogged Toilet.” 😆 Stream the rest here, starting at 28:23: nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/series-me... #marianazos #poetry

Poetry exercise: take a poem you’ve written, change every word, change the line lengths, add at least one stanza, repeat.

Virtual and free to all! Tuesday, February 3, 6:30 pm CT via Zoom. Hear me read and discuss my journey of breathing life into PULSE, my first book of poems in 16 years, forthcoming from Omnidawn in Spring 2026! Register online: www.nepoetrysociety.org/readings. #marianazos

Had a blast reading from PULSE at Friday LIVE on @nebpublicmedia.bsky.social. Look how cute my gentle host, Penelope Morrow, and I are. And no, we did not plan the matching hair and stripes. Tune in to me at 16:28: nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/series-me....

"Omnidawn made it easy for me to understand what I needed, answered SO MANY questions I had as a first time author, and prioritized my creative freedom throughout the publishing process! I can’t wait to read manuscripts & select the next Omnidawn author!" -Brody Parrish Craig, judge of contest

I can't wait to read #poetry from PULSE at Friday LIVE on @nebpublicmedia.bsky.social. Now more than ever, we need to support the arts and honest news. -Friday, January 30 - 10 am CT. Tune in to PULSE: nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/series-me....

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

I got a series of #poetry Craft Capsule essays accepted by @pw.org! WOOT. I'll talk about how to ethically write about people you hate, lie well, & when it's OK to be mean. Let's rock 'n' roll to whatever music we make right now. We need it. Thank you @cassmannes.bsky.social & Serena Alagappan.

Lahaina has done the impossible & rebuilt itself after it burned to the ground. I hope our world, which is currently on fire, can do the same. Read my new #poem: compass.icwa.org/p/lahaina. Thank you @icwa.org & @cassmannes.bsky.social for making it happen. #marianazos

Miss this handsome devil yet? 😈 You better not, because the fun is JUST getting started. 🤩 Hear me read and talk about how I found my PULSE. After sixteen freaking years. Yes, you read that right. Sign up today: bit.ly/nepoetrymari.... #poetry #poets

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.