It is really reassuring when the CAPTCHA lets me know I am, in fact, human.

I had a dream I was trying to kill a cockroach and it kept repairing itself somehow and then it became a tall blonde man and started fighting back by launching rubber bands at my face with surprisingly great accuracy. Interpretations?

Life really is just applying to things, isn’t it. You just apply to things and then you apply to more things and to other things and then sometimes you get the courtesy of a copy and paste response.

I’m having so much fun teaching comp this semester (our topic is ways of knowing). This week we talked about fear and they came up with fears they think are inherently human. One group decided on the fear of being forgotten, and that we counteract that by caring for the people around us :)

Happy Spring!! Check out the new issue, so much weird and delightful poetry in this one:

Very happy with my AWP book haul :) can’t wait to dive into these!!

Tonight! 6:30 @ Old Major!

Come say hello at AWP’26! The Shore will be sharing a table at the book fair with our friends from @HarpurPalate at booth 419 ! 🌊🦀 #AWP26 #BaltimoreMD #AWP

A great fog has enveloped Baltimore. The poets are coming.

Gonna be findable at AWP this year! You can catch me at The Shore table (419) and reading with these lovely people Saturday night:

A little collection of the blooms I found in my yard today:

Check out this new review series pairing albums and poetry collections! This one is on Courtney Kampa’s A Bright and Borrowed Light and The Weakerthan’s Left and Leaving:

The task I put off for three months took approximately an hour and a half to complete! I will not learn from this :)

New issue is up!!! Can’t believe The Shore is 7 years old now. There are so many brilliant poems in this one, check it out:

The Greensboro Review was the first print literary magazine I ever owned, so this feels really really special :) I’m so excited to read everyone’s work!

Just finished reading Courtney Kampa’s brilliant poetry collection. I really can’t recommend it enough, I think everyone should read it. It brought me to tears multiple times, it feels like something very precious and important.

If you use AI to generate poems you should receive the natural consequence of that action (never being able to weep human tears again)

I can’t cook many meals, but I am very proud of my mushroom sage risotto

Don’t buy anything today. ✊ Read a book. Rest as much as you can. (Write a list of things to buy later.) #nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙

It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

🏝️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🐠Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Anastasios Mihalopoulos, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-mi...

Daydreaming about how I’m gonna deep clean my house over Thanksgiving break. I am itching to scrub some baseboards.

So grateful to have poems in this beautiful issue of Louisiana Literature, and to get to hold this poem in print on the same porch I wrote it on :)

I have a lil writer website now, I feel so cool and professional :)

Eating gluten-free versions of food tastes like what I imagine eating replicator food on the Enterprise must taste like

Checking my horoscope to see if I’ll get a poetry acceptance today

My computer updated while I was sleeping and it feels like a raccoon rummaged through all my open tabs and documents

When I write on my porch my neighbor’s cats always come and say hi and it is my favorite thing

Happy October! 🍁 WE ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR SUBS! 🦑 Submission guidelines on our website: www.theshorepoetry.org

Very intelligent and classy post written by the wonderful @rustandmoth.bsky.social regarding the subject of #plagiarism. rustandmoth.com/2025/a-lette... #writers #writinglife

I have an ungodly number of tabs open on my computer and I’m not sorry

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Few things bring me more joy than wearing whatever I want like a toddler allowed to pick out their own clothes for the first time

Grateful to have two poems in issue 27 of The Shore, a journal I love--in the company of so many lovely poets & the photographer Melissa Marsh. So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."

Happy Fall! Check out the new issue of The Shore for some gorgeous poems:

Watching two assassin bugs (I think) hunt right outside my window. One almost caught a little fly but missed! They are quite patient bugs. I’m scared they’ll catch one of the honey bees

My students this semester are so wonderful and smart (they are every semester, but rare that they talk so much and so brilliantly on day one). I am so very excited!!

I have definitely not kept up with the sealey challenge but I did read way more poetry books this month than I would have otherwise and that was the real goal :)

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

☀️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT☀️Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Yishak Yohannes Yebio, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-ye...

🦀Join us in congratulating our 2025 Best of the Net Nominations! 🐙 www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...

Promised myself I’d work on my syllabi today. The windows are cleaned inside and out, the car deep cleaned, the whole house swept… the syllabi? Untouched somehow!

Sometimes I worry I do have the cilantro soap gene, and I just like cilantro anyway

My biggest travel flaw is always being sure the airport is out to get me and is going to do everything possible to make sure I miss my flight unless I double check my boarding pass and the screen every two minutes.

Going to make an honest attempt at completing the #sealeychallenge this August! I’ve assembled a little stack (in no particular order) of books, some old favorites and some new to me :) so curious to hear what others are planning to read!

🌊NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🌊Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Richard Siken, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-si...

Love this poem!

Honestly nothing feels like as big of an accomplishment as successfully transferring a sleeping baby to the crib on the first try

Just printed out all the poems for my thesis manuscript so I can start to arrange them in some kind of order. Everything feels so tentative and also so exciting!

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