Thanks to Pirene's Fountain (and @meganmerchant.bsky.social ) for including two of my poems in their latest Issue glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/...

tfw someone shares your work 🥹 this poem is about how the unbearable heaviness of empathy you can hear me read it aloud here: theindianapolisreview.com/the-monk/

My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US. They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe. This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

The electric blue of this Swallowtail matches the color I painted my doors!

I had ambitions, but I only sent ONE group of poems out this summer to exactly ONE place, and I'm pleased to report that my little suite of poems for the theme of 'autistic protest poetry' will be published by ANMLY for a special forthcoming issue! Thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social

Wrote an IKEA poem today (...and about how I like to go there when I'm feeling really depressed)

One of the most important things I've ever written and 'performed' was the eulogy for my dad. I spent several late nights working it, and I'm happy to report that it was very well received! 🧡

Here's a poem of mine that the @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and the other folks at The Indianapolis Review were kind enough to publish earlier this week. There's also an audio of me reading it! Happy August, friends. theindianapolisreview.com/a-new-year-g...

Any other poets have a spouse who doesn't really "get" poetry? Here's my latest published poem from The Indianapolis Review, entitled "I Take My Husband to Readings by Award-Winning Poets." Thank you, editor @nataliesolmer.bsky.social theindianapolisreview.com/i-take-my-hu...

Thanks to editor @nataliesolmer.bsky.social of The Indianapolis Review for featuring "Resisting the Rewind" in the new summer issue. Time and memory are popping up in my writing a lot these days, but not usually Lady Gaga songs... theindianapolisreview.com/resisting-th...

Hottt off the press--the Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue! Featuring an interview with @gnatalielouise ! Check it out-- theindianapolisreview.com?fbclid=PAQ0x... #poetry #visualart ##poetryjournal #poetrysubmissions

Thanks @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for featuring some ekphrasis I fashioned for The Indianapolis Review! A poem inspired by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social and the insect-flecked Schiaparelli piece below. And "Cipher": inspired by the late Alber Elbaz's own glittering swarm: theindianapolisreview.com

Amanda Auchter @alauchter reviews Sarah Ruden's book on Sylvia Plath in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/amanda-aucht... #sylviaplath #bookreview #poem #poetrybooks❤️❤️ #poetryjournal

Make sure to read David Cope's Review of Katie Kalisz's latest book, Flu Season in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/a-review-of-... #poetryjournal #poetryreview #poetrybooks❤️❤️ #bookreview

If you missed Becca Downs @beccad___ Review of Kristine Esser Slentz's latest book, be sure to check it out in The IndianapolisReviewSpringIssue theindianapolisreview.com/a-review-of-... #bookreview #poetry #manifesto #trauma #poetrybooks❤️❤️

They're here!! Stepped outside to get my mail and saw this Monarch! Also an Eastern Swallowtail 🦋🦋🦋

Sebastian Subir @sebastiansubir in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/news-watchin... #poem #poetryjournal #poetry #news

Featured Artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art... #teabagartist #artistsubmissions #art #visualart

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sarahfawnmontgomery with a poem about chronic pain in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain... #poetry #chronicpain #poem #poetryjournal

Read the full comic by Shruti Singh in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art... #visualart #poetrycomic #comic

Don Hogle with a fascinating poem about finally winning "the prize" in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/the-prize/?f...

Don Hogle with a fascinating poem about finally winning "the prize" in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/the-prize/?f...

Steven Fromm with a baseball/father poem in The Indianapolis Review Spring Issue! theindianapolisreview.com/rally/?fbcli... #baseball #poem #poetryjournal #poetry

Artist Michael Moreth in The Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art... #artistsubmissions #artist #art #visualart

Cal Freeman @johnfreeman5984 in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue! theindianapolisreview.com/yelping-wald... #Whitman #poetryjournal #poem #poetry #Detroit

Featured Artist Carolyn Guinzio in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue! theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art... #artistsubmissions #art #visualart #visualpoetry

This river/labor peom by @nbot56 Nancy Botkin in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue! theindianapolisreview.com/below-the-ri... #poetry #poetryjournal #poem #rivers

This poem by Mary Ardery in The Indianapolis Review Spring Issue! Read the poem in full here theindianapolisreview.com/bring-on-the... #poetry #poetryjournal #parenting #adolescence

If you missed our interview with Derek Mong in our Spring Issue, be sure to check it out! Here he discusses the long poem...read the interview in full theindianapolisreview.com/featured-poe... @derekmong.bsky.social

This book has been a very good travel companion 😊 (especially because it is about travel!) ❤️ this 🇵🇱 author

The best bfast- homemade ackee & breadfruit 🇯🇲

Swam in a waterfall during a thunderstorm wearing a weird outfit because my suitcase was stuck in Chicago @YS Falls 🇯🇲

Indianapolis area writers & artists of all types & disciplines! We need more applications!!! Reach out to me with questions---

So upset about everything that is happening in this country but very lucky to have this garden-

What the actual hell?! A close Trump advisor and MAGA figure just posted, “Alligator lives matter. The good news is alligators are guaranteed 65 million meals if we get started now.” This is disgusting, it’s genocidal language. Dehumanizing, dangerous, and unacceptable. How is this even real life?

This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today

“I will be nothing today” Daniel Borzutzky

Sooo grateful to Vagabond City Lit for giving a home to my first published essay! was not easy to write---about my father and how I wish I could ask him questions I have, like us bicycling to his childhood home (and place where his father unalived himself) vagabondcitylit.com/2025/06/15/d...

We only have a few weeks left until July, and I would love to see more subs to Indianapolis Review for our special call in response to Rump administration's censorship of "DEI" focusing on the words which were banned. Subs are free! theindianapolisreview.com/submit/

My favorite souvenir from Gatlinburg 🍩🍩🍩😃

Iceland is certainly a surprise. Lol But as usual, I'm like 75% Polish. ❤️ 🇵🇱 I have seen Danish on another report and wonder if that's why it's showing up (similar DNA?). I also think the Solmers originally came from Denmark because you find that name there if you search

Triple bloom today! 🪷🪷🪷

“Vote GOP, we’re all going to DIE anyway”

New sonnet about reality TV, celebrity culture, body image, plastic surgery, aging, etc. Etc. Many thanks to The Pinch Journal!! #bravotv #vanderpumprules #sonnet www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/d... BTW, I have been working on a wreath of these sonnets and have more! 😃🙃

An excerpt from my latest Indianapolis Review editorial on the NEA, Martha Silano, Political Poetry, Derek Mong, humor as survival, and not waiting for the academy to recognize you! Also, we are so close to our goal of $300 from our t-shirt campaign theindianapolisreview.com/welcome-to-s...

My washbelly grown up--

Musk lashes out at an interviewer for pressing him on DOGE, then attacks Bill Gates. He’s definitely losing it. He also claims Tesla sales are “rebounding,” but the numbers say otherwise. The boycott of Tesla is working.