Looking forward to this!

New summer issue Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

Grateful to New Verse News for curating this pocket sized poem

Great time reading & signing Big Man at Barnes & Noble, Carmel Mountain.

Check out Katie Kemple’s @katiekemple.bsky.social chapbook, “Big Man”. Big Man speaks about Kemple’s father’s experience as a public school teacher and a veteran. It is also available as an audiobook on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Big-Man-Ches...

Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Thrilled to have one of my BIG MAN poems on All of It (WNYC) today, “Heart failure as River Styx” alongside many other wonderful poems in the segment. Big thank you to the producers ❤️❤️❤️

Free on Sunday? Stop by my launch event for Big Man w/ @chestnutreview at 1pm PT This is a reading + generative workshop. I'll read work from the collection, and we'll take breaks to write (...or if you don't want to write, snack break!) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ihl...

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Submissions for The Commuter and Personal Narrative open in one week! Get ready to send us your best. buff.ly/5jrE0YZ

A truly great read & looking forward to the launch!

Big Chapbook weekend. Sign up to attend! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to have an interview & two poems from Big Man in this issue 💗🥰

“Fear” by Charles Simic #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #poetrymonth2025 #charlessimic

“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth2025 #poetry #randalljarrell

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. Never get tired of this one 💙 #poetrymonth2025 #nationalpoetrymonth #elizabethbishop

“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks #poetrymonth2025 #gwendolynbrooks #nationalpoetrymonth

A little Walt Whitman seems right for today. #waltwhi

“A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poem 14) #poetrymonth2025 #poetry #lawrenceferlinghetti

To celebrate National Poetry Month at @georgiatech Poetry@Tech put up our Pause for Poetry yard signs all over campus @gt_lmc thanks to @expeditionpress for helping to curate our lines @ivanallencollege.bsky.social

“I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickinson #poetrymonth2025 #emilydickinson

“Hair Poem” by Bill Knott from the newly re-released classic The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans (Black Ocean, 2024) #nationalpoetrymonth2025 #poetrymonth2025 #BillKnottPoetry

Happy Poetry Month! “First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay 🔥🔥 #ednastvincentmillay #firstfig #nationalpoetrymonth

Loved seeing @slowdownshow.org at the @laist.com last week. Poems, games, trivia. The best possible intersection of my two passions: poetry + public radio 📚📻💕

Met the amazing Denise Duhamel last week - I’ve been reading her books for 25+ yrs and thrilled to read her latest releases. 💜🤩

Are you going to #AWP25 in Los Angeles next week? Make room in your schedule to visit incredible booths at the bookfair! Get your scavenger cards stamped along the way. Your completed card gets you a chance to win a 💲prize! We are at booth 1035. 🌰 #awp25 #bookfair #scavengerhunt #chestnutreview

The Pinch printed one of my favorite poems on special bookmarks for #AWP25 Here is it modeled by someone else’s gorgeous hand 😍 @pinchjournal.bsky.social

Trump and Republicans in Congress are coming after Medicaid. We won’t let them. TOMORROW: We’re rallying in D.C. to send the GOP a message: NO tax breaks for billionaires on the backs of working families. Join us: bit.ly/3FH9PQM #WelcomeBackCongress

Trump wants to make the Kennedy Center 80-90s Broadway again. Phantom. Cats. “The president, in an Evita-like photo-op on Monday, stood in the Kennedy Center’s Opera House presidential box, arms outstretched as if there were 100s of fans below him instead of a handful of handpicked board members.”

Early voting has started in Wisconsin, where Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. Winning on April 1 would secure the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court through 2028. Help us get out the vote for workers’ rights champion Susan Crawford: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

“Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business… The more detainees, the more money they make.”

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New poem on Frontier. Dedicating this to the federal workers dismissed by DOGE in the most disgraceful purge of talent our country’s ever seen. And to anyone struggling w reduced work, lower pay, job loss. You’re not alone. www.frontierpoetry.com/2025/03/21/k...

"Hoffman's imagination is dynamic, vital, and constantly processing the ways in which events of the past mingle and cast their shadows over the present." Janice Weizman on Marcela Sulak's "The Fault" and Carlie Hoffman's "One More World Like This World." lareviewofbooks.org/article/faul...

I ❤️ Libraries. Thrilled to be reading at LA Central Library Thu Mar 27 @ 6pm w/ the crew from @chestnutreview.bsky.social #AWP25

Stop by next week! Excited to sign copies of Big Man & hang w/ the awesome Chestnut Review crew #AWP25

A truly annoying trend

Make no mistake: The endgame of Trump and Musk's attacks on public lands is to sell them off so they can be mined, logged, drilled, and exploited by the ultra-rich. These lands belong to us — the American people — not them. We're not going to let them destroy our natural spaces. #HandsOffOurLands

I want to celebrate the brave, inspiring organizations that are standing up to the administration, rather than capitulating (often in advance). Who else should be on this list? Media: @apnews.com @wired.com Retail: Costco

Loved this book! A must for anyone looking to forge an authentic, creative path .. @amandahirsch.bsky.social www.amandahirsch.com/improvising-...

Excited to meet everyone!

“All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury” drew me in w/ its dead doll cover. Loved these 👻 rich stories of grief via Nirvana, Price is Right, & Frogger by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dead-Have-Ch...

The Naomi Shihab Nye Prize was established in 2024 for writers in the Arab community to create book length stories for and about young Arab readers. First prize: $1,000; second: $500. Learn more about the prize here: www.albustanseeds.org/naomi-shihab...

New spring issue just dropped!

Dad loved St. Patrick’s Day in the way a guy named Patrick w/ Irish heritage in the U.S. must🍀💚 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-man-ka...

Closing these federal offices will affect services San Diegans rely on, just to allegedly save “.01% of yearly government spending.” DOGE isn’t increasing efficiency and cutting waste; they’re wreaking havoc on our government.

Baby’s first ⭐️s on Goodreads (wherever you are reader - thank you 🙏) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School or University that allows illegal protests.” This has nothing to do w/antisemitism.It’s done by genuine antisemites to stifle dissent. Trump Pulled $400 Million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

Big Man up on Barnes & Noble …yippie! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-man-ka...