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

Simply Having A wonderful

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

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

Hey hey hey! We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October. Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

"Ya know what? FUCK YOU." *unMuds your Kip*

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set a boundary with a coworker please clap

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles. Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/can...

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!! The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure." https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool neocities.org/browse

ok i finished the first draft of the session 8 workshop :) time for proofreading!

called out for talking too much about Leila Chatti today..

"But it’s hard. I am not a spokesperson. Every trauma is different, but we must realize, also, there are commonalities. You are never in [total] solitude." The incomprable Neige Sinno breaks down her process today in the @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

If you dream about work they should have to pay you

i got a poem accepted for something really cool :)

To all my poets and Legend of Zelda lovers, if you want a book of poetry that breathes LoZ, consider "I could die today and live again" by @summ.bsky.social www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/i-co...

Step aside, Moby Dick, a new best first line of literature just dropped

11 years with husband in a few days :)

every day i go without reading Leila Chatti's new book i take 3D6 damage

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK