I’m feeling hopeful thanks to the election results. & by Dolly, I need this moment of hope so damn much.

It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions

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Love Monica’s cover!

Submit! Submit! Contest closes today!!

Read these poems by Peggy Robles-Alvarado in @merliterary.bsky.social. Peggy joins the WPLS tomorrow at 7:30pm (EST)! #poem #poetry #poets #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews merliterary.com/2023/12/12/p...

Read these poems by @rajivmohabir.bsky.social in @honeyliterary.bsky.social. Rajiv joins the WPLS tomorrow at 7:30pm (EST)! #poem #poetry #poets #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews www.honeyliterary.com/issue4/poetr...

Read these poems by Megan Pinto in Plume. Megan joins the WPLS tomorrow at 7:30pm (EST)! #poem #poetry #poets #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews plumepoetry.com/author/pinto...

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Looking forward to 3pm at @lityoungstown.bsky.social! Join Samantha Imperi for “Prosody and the Pleasure of Poetic Soundscapes,” & I’m presenting “Villanelle Exploration.” #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry

Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle in the latest issue of Painted Pebble Lit Mag. & we met PPLM staff member Nikki “db” Fragala Barnes today at @lityoungstown.bsky.social. Read the issue here: paintedpebblelit.com/issue-5-fall.... #poetry #poem #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

I’ve used travel time today to revisit Dolly’s second solo album, “Love Is Like A Butterfly,” and I’m certain I have a new prompt to add my Dolly generative workshop register. 🦋 #poetrysky #poetrynews #Dolly #Poets #poetry #writers

AVL -> ATL -> PIT -> Youngstown bound!

I’m talking about the villanelle on Saturday at @lityoungstown.bsky.social! #poets #poetry #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews

Gary Jackson chats with @paulsemel.bsky.social about his new collection of superhero-themed poetry. #poetrysky #booksky #superheroes #Afrofuturism

In breaking news, I will be hosting A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour in Baltimore on 3/6 of AWP from 5-7 pm. More details coming soon.

it’s getting close to third Thursday, and you know what that means…a Night Light event with some amazing poets!! sign up below to hear these inimitable readers do their thing in just a couple days’ time :) 💡

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

The adminsitration is pushing for a celebration of Christopher Columbus. While I share “Revisionist Villanelle” each year on this day, I offer the poem today as my response to this administration’s efforts to whitewash history. #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry #poems #writers

Submit to The Gylys Villanelle Prize by 10/26! See the poetrybythesea.bsky.social website for details: poetrybytheseaconference.org/the-gylys-vi.... #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry #writers

Can’t wait to read at @lityoungstown.bsky.social with my friends Nin Andrews, @benkline.bsky.social, & @ljsysko.bsky.social! Join us for a pop culture infused reading on Friday (10/17) at 3pm!! #poetrynews #poetrysky #poetry #poets #writers #popculture

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

Have you signed up yet? It's this Tuesday!

Don’t ban books. Ban one ply toilet paper. No one deserves it on their precious bits.

Happening now at the Louisville Book Fair: “Love Is Like A Butterfly: A Dolly Parton Generative Poetry Workshop!”

Y’all, you don’t know how much joy it brings this Dolly Queen to lead a generative poetry workshop that allows me share Dolly facts, share a couple poems from Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, & use Dolly’s music to generate new work.

Join the WPLS in celebrating @fourwaybooks.bsky.social authors @rajivmohabir.bsky.social, Megan Pinto, & Peggy Robles-Alvarado on 10/22! #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers #poetry

“The future is full of possibility. Some of life’s surprises are heartbreaking, yes—but some are heart-repairing," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read "At Last the New Arriving" by @gabbat.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4mShV9s 📖: Persea Books

I’d like to chat it up with the lady who as she boarded asked the flight attendant, “Do you have bar service now? I mean, I know it is only a 20 min flight.”

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Saturday, I’ll be at the Louisville Book Festival. I’m on the panel “Writing While Queer” at 3pm. I’m also leading “Love is Like A Butterfly: A Dolly Parton Generative Poetry Workshop” at 4pm. Both events are in room L0005. Hope to see you! #poetrysky #poetrynews #writers #poets

Come through KB Brookins with a Lammy win for PRETTY!!!!!

Today is #Lammys2025 Day! I said a little prayer to Living Saint Dolly Parton for WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT: A TRIBUTE TO MAUREEN SEATON. 🤞 #Poetrysky #Poetrynews #queerpoetry #poets #poetry

Thank you, @phillychapbook.bsky.social & @aidenhunt.bsky.social!!

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖 Nomination details at link below.

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

From flood insurance to environmental grants, programs that support climate resilience are expected to be curtailed by the US government shutdown.

Please read @niina.bsky.social’s article!

Save the date for 10/22/25 & join the WPLS in celebrating @fourwaybooks.bsky.social authors @rajivmohabir.bsky.social, Megan Pinto, & Peggy Robles-Alvarado! #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers

The 2025 @lambdaliterary.org Awards are one week from today. In fact, next Saturday is the virtual Lammy Day. Buy your ticket & enjoy events starting at 10am. I’m reading a couple of poems at 3pm as part of the Queer Poetry Panel. #poetrysky #poetrynews #queerpoets #lgbtqia #writers

Jenn Martelli 💔 newohioreview.org/2024/03/29/t...

The memo is a thinly veiled attempt to create a nonexistent conspiracy out of activists, nonprofits, and others pursuing equality and fairness for all — but we’re not afraid. We won't allow the government to scare us out of exercising our right to speak out.

BREAKING: President Trump issued a memo calling for government-wide "terrorism investigations" into political opponents. His administration is trying to use political violence as an excuse to investigate and intimidate the president's perceived enemies.

*squeals in gay* I’m listed on the @ironoakeditions.bsky.social forthcoming titles section. (IOE is the book publishing arm of the @westtradereview.bsky.social.) 🌈 🌈 🌈 #poetrynews #poetrysky #poetry #poets #writers #booknews

From the rapid reading launch at the The Grey Eagle to the bookfair, panels, readings, and workshops at the Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel, the second Punch Bucket Literary Festival is one for the books.

My friend. My collaborator. The one & only @poemsandcake.bsky.social!

Delicate Machinery serves as a powerful testament to survivors’ ability to face their trauma and to keep choosing life, their lives, each day. www.sundresspublications.com/e-anthologie...