Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST: A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions). Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

Five of my favorite queer poets read on Sept. 9 at 6:30 pm at the Arts Club of Washington. The original reading had to be rescheduled due to (ahem) a certain military parade. AGG, Natalie E. Illum, Dwayne Lawson-Brown, Saundra Rose Maley, and Chris Nealon. Free. acw.wildapricot.org/event-6206383

A variation on the Little Free Library theme: this one's a chalk-and-eraser library. #littlefreelibrary

Leading a pantoum workshop for the Washington Writers Publishing House Summer Salon, last night at @rhizomedc.bsky.social. Great turnout!

"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Nice to see! 730DC featured tonight's panel discussion at MLK Library, "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS."Come join us! I cohost with @regie.bsky.social, with speakers @danvera.com, @bernardwelt.bsky.social , and Christopher Prince. Free! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...

Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

Don't miss this one! "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS," Thursday, June 26 at 7pm, MLK Library, DC. Free. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...

DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"My feet beg to be squeezed/As if they were size 10 Meyer lemons..." @regie.bsky.social is DC Pride Poem-a-Day's feature with "Ode to My Sandals." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Malik Thompson is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day feature today, reading his poem, "Nocturne: Roses." "A slow bend/in the supple branches,/the outspread hand I extend/to this autumn night's black teeth." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

Ishanee Chanda reads "hanahaki" in DC Pride Poem-a-Day: "i pull flower petals from my mouth/two at a time/and i stuff them into the cracks/of her bedroom as i leave..." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

DC Pride Poem-a-Day features Jasmine Haskins, with "For You I'd Create a New Language": "The tips of my fingers a tinge/Violet, next to the violas,/And I hear violins out of tune/Violently harmonious..." #pridepoems #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com

Tribes Magazine has published a special pride issue. I am honored to be included, along with 13 other writers I greatly admire. www.tribes.org/tribes-magaz...

"Everyone looks at me like a lying stranger, a voyeur in the dorm's collective shower." Danielle Evennou is poet of the day with "Promulgate: Triple Haibun" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry #dcpride www.pridepoems.com

"...a Democrat, a gender extremist, and a cultural Marxist/Walk into a bar..." From the featured poem of the day in DC Pride Poems, "My Struggle," by Jessica Austin. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com

"...I said it plainly,/we have more emboldened haters now. We will need your reminders/of solidarity across borders, across/identities..." from Sunu Chandy's poem, "Of the 80,000 words in the English Dictionary, 80% are loanwords from other languages," in DC Pride Poem-a-Day! www.pridepoems.com

"Things got serious. More and more/He talked about us being together/Same time next week..." From "TV and Me" by @bernardwelt.bsky.social, the featured poem today on DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoertry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

"In the kingdom of her body are the redwoods,/thighs that rise & rise..." DC Pride Poems proudly presents Xochi Quetzali Cartland reading "Ode to the Old Growth Forest"! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

"The first time/you will meet my daughter You will be wearing an/inappropriate t-shirt. the first time/I meet your mom I will be wearing my robe." DC Pride Poem-a-Day starts off with a BANG with "Time Traveling" by Angelique Palmer! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

Thrilled to be part of this Queer Poetry Marathon at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, Saturday, May 31 from 10am to Noon. Followed by an afternoon regional small book fair and open mic. Free! Info and registration: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13581949

Official squeeze toy of 2025 World Pride in Washington, DC.

Lovely review of "Q&A for the End of the World" by @dctex.bsky.social in Washington Unbound. He says: we grapple with "promises and threats of science and technology...the rise of the surveillance state, will outer space aliens come to destroy or save us.” www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...

Join us on Saturday, May 31 from 10am to 4pm at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in DC for "A Gathering of Our Pride" Marathon Poetry Reading and regional literary book fair. Free! Not to be missed! Great featured authors plus open mic. dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13581949

Two young bucks with horns in felt showed up for Memorial Day at the Old Soldier's Home cemetery in DC.

Michael Gushue and I are interviewed in the latest issue of WWPH Writes! We talk about collaborating on a book of poems, "Q&A for the End of the World," & how sci-fi movies inspired us. Many thanks to @jcolson.bsky.social and @cabockwrites.bsky.social! www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/05/25/w...

Matcha-flavored beer. Who knew this was a thing? And look at the color of that foam!

Little Free Library in my neighborhood comes complete with miniature living room where you can read the books you pick out, relaxing on the teeny-weeny couch.

Some blue sky for BlueSky. In Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.

LitBox is installed in DC! Note the second row, farthest to the left--that's my "Literary Guide to Washington DC"! www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/16/a...

"Swing" by Nari Ward (2010, car tire with shoe tips, shoe tongues, and rope) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. From the amazing exhibit, "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture." Highly recommended.

The espresso martini at Zaytinya Restaurant in DC is flavored with anise. A very fine variation!

After the rains, catalpa blossoms littering the grass...

Michael Gushue and I reading from our brand spanking new book! Poems about sci-fi movies from the 1950s & 60s.