GHOSTWRITING's poems define animals without using any of the letters in their names. A hummingbird can't be described as a bird, an avian, a flier, a pollinator, or a visitor, but becomes “a jolt of joy, jewel-sweet, as spotless as a lollypop, atop a leaf-petal skyway” lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting

Sister Corita Kent's "10 Rules for Students and Teachers (for John Cage)" was a massive inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink how you teach and how you learn: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social

LEMMING a hardy, wayward dwarf who charts a path across a hazardous coast, past vast, hazy bays, toward faraway harbors by harsh outcrops of rock lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

POLAR BEAR cunning, whitish king swimming in icy dusk lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

WALRUS tiny-eyed, thick-finned, beefy-necked pinniped, comedic yet dignified, odd demigod to the foggy fiefdom on the point lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

BELUGA WHALE cryptic, pisciform ivory mirror; spindrift spirit, moonfrost monk lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

SYMMETRY LAB is seventeen this year — launched in 2009, redesigned from the ground up in 2026, with an all-new UI, gallery view, pinch to zoom, time lapse video export, and more. A few strokes under a strict rule of symmetry become something intricate. symmetrylab.app

AMOEBA tiny, living liquid circuit in its dish unthinking druid hunting in dull fluid futuristic tiddlywink indistinct kin churning, cryptic glyph lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

Teachers! Profs! Mentors! Let's talk about GRADING! The middle section of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... from @pressassembly.bsky.social ) is about classroom dynamics, funding, grades, & communitarian classrooms ... here's a brief excerpt.

LIFE a ghost’s artwork; a haphazard, sunstruck orchard, ours to burn lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

GHOSTWRITING has a mirror: GLOSSOLOGY (2018). Both books define terms from nature. Each limits the available alphabet — GLOSSOLOGY uses only the letters in the term itself, and GHOSTWRITING uses the letters left over. Both are free as PDFs: lukebradford.xyz/glossology lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting

MEGALITH is out — a free iOS app that turns a few words into a block-justified poster, every line forced to the same width, like a vintage justified poster. Text as visual material. apps.apple.com/us/app/megalith-block-text-posters/id6772761741

One week left to submit! petrichormag.com/submit/

Two of my poems, “Pollen” and “Orchid,” appear in issue 14 of aswirl — my second time in this lovely handmade quarterly of very short poems. Each is a lipogram which avoids every letter in its title.

I'm very proud to announce the release of GHOSTWRITING. Each poem is a lipogram defining a term from nature — written without using any of the letters in the term itself. You can buy the paperback or download it for free as a PDF: lukebradford.xyz/ghostwriting #lipogram

THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome) Demand a hill, at solid nadir…. Damn it! One morn, I saw I was in Rome, not in Madrid, and I lost all I had named....

Explore the Library of Babel: library-of-babel-zeta.vercel.app Created with love by me and Claude

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social and @periodicities.bsky.social for featuring my two poems, "College Boyfriends" and "Driving Home the Morning After We Both Said Things"... I hope you enjoy these!

“Sea Caverns Were Our Cosmos” by Stacy Messier. Her work is here: www.staceymessier.com/work This piece is inspired by my poem “sea caverns,” from ABACUS, in which no letter has an ascender or descender: “muse: use me...” lukebradford.xyz/Abacus.pdf

Still yelling with Johanna Calle's "abecé" from her stunning alphabet book (2012).

hey! i have new poems up at jagged edge! www.jaggededge.org/read/five-po...

DERIVATIONS is here: lukebradford.xyz/derivations It's a set of centos, with lines from: “Another Day” by @cteicher.bsky.social “History” by @camillerankine.bsky.social “White Box (notes)” by @afteriwasdead.bsky.social “Winter: Helmcken Falls” by @deirdmault.bsky.social and 107 more poems.

Constrained writing goes mainstream in the New Yorker, with a piece (largely) using only five-letter words: newyorker.com/magazine/202... My poem only allowing five-letter words, originally published in 2020 by the Aesthetic Directory, is here: lukebradford.xyz/Fifth%20Drea...

MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE (Palindrome-Haiku) Slam ice, dynamic. A bad loch: Cold abaci — Many decimals.

DERIVATIONS is here: lukebradford.xyz/derivations It quotes “Moon. Eleanor Eleanor. Oil on canvas. 2018” by @kathryncowles.bsky.social “Interstellar Wild” by @anthonyetherin.bsky.social “False Dilemma” by @deirdmault.bsky.social “Le Séducteur” by @afteriwasdead.bsky.social and 107 more poems.

UNIVERSE a total zoo; a black catacomb of foamy topology; galaxy jambalaya #lipogram

a reminder of when i designed the helmet for Canadian Olympic Luge Athlete (Sochi, 2014) Arianne Jones -- an incredible honour. #gocanada #olympics #teamcanada #milano2026 #teamcanada

I'm very proud to announce the release of DERIVATIONS. Each poem is a cento, made up of lines quoted from other poems, and a reverse lipogram, in which every word must contain a particular letter. You can buy the chapbook here or download it for free as a PDF! lukebradford.xyz/derivations #cento

SNOWFALL (Anagrammed Lines) Winter wails lavish frost: Snowfall arrives, with its faint silver. Slow wraiths flow in salt rivers. What is final swirls over its thaw.

BLIZZARD the soft economy of ghosts; on the couch, we note the sensuousness of the phenomenon, whose cosmos of cotton ensconces coffeehouses, townhouses, towns: the gusty monotony of the tempest, then the monotone hush of footsteps on snow #lipogram

“Zoolalia” and “Scaling the Mountain of Winter” are available from Penteract Press, and are 40% off with the code PENULTIMATE. Sadly, they won't be available for long! penteractpress.com/store/zoolal... penteractpress.com/store/scalin...

AUTUMN (Palindrome) Late plan. Mutual. La fête d'été. Fall, autumnal petal.

“Bees”

“A Labyrinth Is a Narrow Hell”

“Antagony”

HERMIT CRAB a maritime chimaera; a barterer, beach bather, armchair architect, each chamber a rebirth

If we do go on, we go on as if it is OK.

My poem “Scaling the Mountain of Winter” is available from Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/scalin... The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell. If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website: lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...

Today is the official launch day of my visual poetry book "Atomic Masquerade". I am so proud of how it turned out - you need to see it for yourself! penteractpress.com/store/atomic...

ALPHABET: that palpable, palatable palette; that telltale ‘blah blah blah’…

TIDE POOL (LOOP EDIT) But as tides are erased, it's a tub. #palindrome

“A Snow Mouse” #ambigram

My poem “Past Midnight,” read by Phillip Ernest: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

My most recent collection, “Zoolalia,” is available to order from Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/zoolal... You can find a free PDF of this collection (and of all the rest of my published work!) at lukebradford.xyz: lukebradford.xyz/Zoolalia.pdf

“One Path,” originally published as a leaflet by Paper View Books

“Past Midnight”

“The Barn”