one thing about me is I love receiving emails !

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! You can find Piżama titles at these stores: -Alienated Majesty -Arundel -The Astoria Bookshop -The Daily Planet -Evening House -Kinokuniya -Leviathan -Medicine for Nightmares -Open Books -Perelandra -Powell's Books -Restoried -Topos -Unnameable Books -Village Books

It’s a great day to visit your local bookstore & grab a book (or ten). If you don’t live near any of these shops & still want to support Piżama Press today, the best thing you can do is request copies at your favorite bookstore and/or order directly 📚❤️ asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Introducing two new Piżama titles for 2026! We’re thrilled to be releasing these wonderful poetry collections this year. Both books are available now to pre-order & will be out on May 27, 2026. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Today's poem + prompt is a first: erasure collage! Thanks to @sjane.bsky.social for creating this piece of art & sending it my way Visit below to see the accompanying writing prompt neonpajamas.substack.com/p/069-poem-p...

Last chance to submit to our May issue. Submissions close at midnight. Thank you to all who have shared their hearts with us so far. The issue is shaping up to be a thing of wild hope, of hard pastures yielding to a fickering light. heroinchic.weebly.com

i am always so energized by my freelance editing work tbh. (this is basically just to say that i just finished a manuscript consult and am booking more!) www.natraum.com/shop/p/manus...

last day to sign up for Session 10 of my poetry workshop by mail :) forms.gle/NMdzwtosHVqB...

paralell play (I'm blasting 2009 girls generation deep cuts and DC is talking over it about an Arthur computer game from his childhood)

these are both going to be in a gallery show :) my 3rd time being in a gallery!

happy poetry month !!! it's been a quiet first week for registration, there are lots of spots open in my poetry by mail workshop :)

starting to submit my 3rd chapbook 😀

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail. Registration for the 10th session is open 4/12 thru 4/26! Optional donation of $5-15 :) link: forms.gle/NMdzwtosHVqB... 🕯️

In 1993, the Japanese Famitsu magazine inquired Nintendo about Mario's favorite foods. Nintendo replied that Mario's favorite foods are mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and surprisingly, edible chrysanthemums.

lies! she's a liar

submitted two collages to an open call :)

it's happening. today I'm going to start the ordering process for my 3rd manuscript !!!!!

Poem I have up on our local buses right now.

Since everyone is (sigh) debating if writers benefit from reading books, I dissected a passage shared as “evidence” that non-readers can write great prose: countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

I made 15 color pencil landscapes on black linen archival paper. Here are 4 of them.

“2026” from The Book of Joshua @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social 2014

After Margaret Atwood

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what should I do for my 30th birthday???

A detail from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats (Library of America, 2025).

cannot overstate how valuable & important nat's work is, I'm eating up this series especially lately <3

nat deserves all the support !!!!!!! throw them some cash

hi. i got hit with news that was absolutely blindsiding today and am unsure how i am going to pay my bills this month. i started a gofundme. this is really fucking hard for me to do; please share. gofund.me/740396f7e

one more week to register :-)

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail. Registration for the ninth session is open 1/11 thru 1/25! Optional donation of $5-15 :) forms.gle/ZspBGnuefrvJ... 🕯️

Oh and btw 2026 is for art, for craft, for direction, for growth, and for creation. With these, we nourish ourselves

happy christmas eve eve time to pre-order a collection by a Palestinian christian w poems abt friendship & obsession threaded thru w faith 🥰 hostpublications.com/products/the...

did a bunch of admin today and it was mostly depressing 👍 time to watch my husband play god of war

lost season 3 finale LETS GOOOOO

husband spent half an hour trawling the poetry stacks to handpick books for me ☺️

(words/word donors 2 of 3) MIRACLE - @karenmsteiger.bsky.social PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - @stonespiral.bsky.social SIMULTANEOUS - @norbaikin.bsky.social SIPHON - @gendeguzman.bsky.social SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - @krislindbeck.bsky.social

it's movie november. the month where we go to the movies a lot

an artist i really admire floated the idea of collaborating to me and i basically panicked and said "that sounds cool!"

secured tickets for Frankenstein!!!

sneak peek at “cobble” — a new micro publication launching at @smallpublishers.bsky.social next weekend. very much a rock paper scissors situation. thank you @essencepress.bsky.social for cutting these paper stone poèmes. 2nd image is a cobble of coral fossil from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire

still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️

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spoke with leila chatti about her new collection for @adimagazine.bsky.social 💙

OH MY GOD—best gift to myself!!! I totally forgot I had preordered Donika Kelly’s new book from @prairielights.com ❤️❤️❤️ Amazing surprise. Hurrah, hurrah for me!!!

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail. registration (in thread) for the eighth session is open 10/12 thru 10/26! Optional donation of $5-10 🕯️

previously, on jay's bluesky: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLP...

'to light a candle' is a poetry workshop by mail 💌 the EIGHTH session is opening tomorrow! registration closes October 26 (maybe earlier if it fills up quickly.) this session includes one of my favorite poets ever (can you guess who?) plz share <3