I was asked to write about Kelly R. Samuels poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social and they wrote about my poem. You can check out our dialogue, and our poems here: www.ballastjournal.com/dialogue-sam....

What a great day to have a new poem in the world. Thank you to @ballastjournal.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Sometimes a hotel room" from the new book I am currently working on. You can read it here! www.ballastjournal.com/jory-mickels...

Super excited to be in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social !

2/2 and Jason Labbe, Andrew Maxwell, Jory Mickelson (@poetryphone.bsky.social), Pete Miller, Matthew Murrey (@mytwords.bsky.social), Tom Phillips translating Tzatcho Boyajiev, Caroline Picker, @megpokrass.bsky.social, RL Powell, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @hannahazar.bsky.social, Misha Tentser 2/…

Thank you to @tupelopress.bsky.social for publishing a conversation with me about my new book PICTURING in Tupelo Quarterly! Check it out at the link: www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...

Happy to see my poem in print over at broadkill review in their summer issue, just in time for Warhol's birthday. Warhol's first Pop Art paintings appeared in 1961 in the department store windows of Bonwit Teller. Warhol's paintings served as a backdrop to mannequins dressed in the latest fashions.

I've been pretty quiet here as the world has been so loud lately. How are you caring for yourself right now?

I have two poems in the new Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology. Thank you to Arianne True the former WA State Poet Laureate for putting this project together. Here is one of my poems! waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/8

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

"Collecting Little Found Things": A Conversation Between Jory Mickelson & Stacy Boe Miller psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...

Shout out to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and Stacy Boe Miller for our coversation about poetry and life. Read it here! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...

Hi folks, this Sunday June 15th at 1pm Pacific, I will be giving a reading and offering some writing prompts from my new book Picturing with the folks over at Lordship House on zoom. I hope you can come! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Something from an ongoing dream of mine...

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died at 85.

It’s always sad when an old friend passes, back in the day we used to write to each other weekly. I loved getting his free-flowing & reminiscing dispatches from Paris. Good night Edmund ❤️ Edmund White (1940-2025) Gift article from NYT

Novelist Edmund White, RIP. #edmundwhite

RIP

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

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Thank you to @newwordspress.bsky.social for publishing a poem of mine in their new issue!

Happy Birthday to Siouxsie Sioux, you beautiful creature, you. Oh, do I adore you. Here's me pretending there's any chance whatsoever that she's lurking on Bluesky. Who else would sell their soul for Siouxsie and the Banshees to announce a world tour?

blackberries wild currants desiccate on the vine O Lady Miriam Lady Mary mare mer Mère remember Your aspect as sea-mother not only of tears, not only salt-bitter but basin bringer --Jennifer Bullis

I like big rhodies and I cannot lie...

Enjoying part of my day with a chapbook by @mahreensohail.bsky.social published by @sundresspub.bsky.social

I have a new poem up over at @pacificalit.bsky.social called, "I've always loved to dance" At last & who doesn’t want to rehearse the body until it becomes an easy glamour. Check it out ! www.pacificareview.com/ive-always-l...

New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com

Issue 21.2 will drop in next couple days, feat. the full unmitigated power of: Jory Mickelson Eben Bein Megan Snyder-Camp JP Kemmick Miriam Akervall Daniel Brennan Dayna Bateman Karan Kapoor Virginia Watts Sarp Sozdinler Visual representation of everything in issue below

My friend @jenniferbullis.bsky.social has an amazing poem up over at Bracken Magazine. Check it out! "Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret." www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/se...

I like this one a lot @erikkennedy.com Strong Dobby Gibson vibes. sweetmammalian.squarespace.com/issue-eleven...

How is everyone doing? Are you hanging in there?

Proud to be part of a press that "always and will always work to expand the definition of what literature is, what it can do, and to whom it belongs"🌠 Yes, support @coffeehousepress.bsky.social by donating now, or by pre-ordering your favorite books, including my next novel, TERRY DACTYL💜💕

Went to @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social today in Dallas and they said if I bought 10 books I would get 1 book free. I already had 7 in hand so...

Church be like #RecoveryPosse

I am never going to master my mute list to avoid most political content on Bluesky. 😑

A Letter is a joy of Earth— It is denied the Gods— —Emily Dickinson

Write like a ghoul, revise like a banshee.

Today's the *official* pub day for Human/Animal: a bestiary in essays @wlupress.bsky.social I will lean into the joy—Celebrate with me! The brilliant @carolinehagood.bsky.social interviewed me: open.substack.com/pub/caroline... AND It was excerpted in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/w...

Well, I finally said goodbye to Twitter today. I put it off for far too long.

"I was listening to The Cure a lot when I wrote this" —Adam Sandler in "The Wedding Singer" and me, writing an article about The Cure

Need a good weekend read? Get a copy of Picturing!

Friends, you can now get a copy of my new book PICTURING directly from me! I will even sign it for you. jorymickelson.com

Tonight at 4pm Pacific

Join me online via Zoom Tuesday, March 4, 2025 4 PM PST to hear about my time at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Enjoy brief presentations from practitioners working and living in residence at Sitka Center. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hi Friends, I could use a recommendation from you. I am looking to update my WordPress author website. Who would you suggest I reach out to?

Marched for trans rights today in Bellingham. Good turnout despite the atmospheric river and 40mph gusts of wind.

I had a great time discussing a poem from my new book Picturing where I talk about @kelliagodon.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, the Desert Rat Writers Residency, and the 2020 movie Ammonite among other things. Check it out here: christalcooper.com/435-backstor...

New poem out in LBRNTH Issue 4.