What’s that? More poetry? Can’t stop won’t stop with “There’s No Lowly Worm” by Candice M. Kelsey @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social exploring the fitction vs. reality of childhood. It’s in 83rd edition of the press is out 3/30. Don’t miss it. It’s magic.

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You do not do, you do not do ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHj...

Hey Waltz and JD, add me to the group chat too! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Excited for #AWP25 — the sessions, readings, signings, and just all around attention to the only world I love, the worldof words. @rfpress.bsky.social @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @troublemakerfire.bsky.social

On today's Weekly Features: Lyndon Carrier follows a river along her country, and Ankush Saikia transcends geographies and generations. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

Who are the five writers that made you? Kimiko Hahn Billy Collins Kay Ryan Linda Pastan Sharon Olds

REPOST: In an essay, Ann Nguyen writes about how she found healing in her decades-long relationship with her Vietnamese mom and food. www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...

Happy to share my conversation on Loblolly Press’ podcast open.substack.com/pub/loblolly...

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

"I'm not playing cards."

I wrote this two years ago trying to process the horror; today I cannot process America. 🇺🇦

"Seeing queer people build their own happiness brick by brick no matter what the world thinks of them nourishes something in me." For anyone in need, a gift link to @oliviawaite.com's list of queer historical romances:

Okay so this one always makes me cry. Thank you @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Absolutely.

Exploring art, time, memory and consciousness in a poem/essay by UK poet William Atkins w/a #visualpoem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social for February New Works Project! icefloepress.net/2025/02/18/a...

& when the devil nears his end, will he also rise like a fish? —Seth Peterson

Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is the Toddfather himself, Todd Robinson. Join us live at 8pm ET—and BYOPoems about a memory you've never shared that includes dialogue! www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry

Something I ponder each time I board the poetic train 🤍 From ALL SOULS by Saskia Hamilton. @graywolfpress.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Anyone else find Trump eerily similar to Qin Shi Huang?

Just a lil Jan. 6 poem of mine for today—from issue 1 @thecovemag.bsky.social

A reminder to go read Issue I: Great Myths and Tragedies of the Human Existence through the linktree. Featuring over 50 writers, poets, and artists from around the world!

Thinking of families arranging funerals after the recent air disasters and offering my poem— www.heimatreview.com/no-sharp-edg... @heimatreview.bsky.social

In our newest issue, an interview with the singular Joan Kwon Glass. Read about her inspirations, her style, and how her memories link intrinsically to her work. Link in profile.

"The trick is not to die while dreaming of death." Stunning poem "Reading Emily Dickinson in Amherst Massachusetts" by David Keplinger in @poetrysociety.org ❤️ #poetrycommunity #poetry

We need poems that ask the right questions right now. This was shared by the wonderful @clareshawpoet.bsky.social yesterday. Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

Go read this poem by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social because it's just really just hits.

In celebration of #BigBear bald eagles Jackie & Shadow’s first egg laid last night, my Pantoum— aboutplacejournal.org/article/ludi... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

So extremely grateful to @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social for including my poem "This Ars Poetica Is Not About “Hey Jupiter” (But Then Again, Knowing Me, It Probably Is)" in Poet Lore's Ekphrastic Poems Folio, with so many other wonderful poets! Including friend @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social!

I know what I saw. And you know what you saw. Join me in the NO GASLIGHT ZONE!

One (of many) of my favorite Ruth Stone poems.

All this, all day, every day.

And reality slammed in with a Nazi salute and hateful gender declarations…

@genestone.bsky.social will you be publishing a revised and updated edition?

Happy to share my recent ode to weekend nights in L.A. @gyroscopereview.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Gyroscope-Re...

"Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood." —Ocean Vuong, ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS

“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.” —Nobel winner, Han Kang, GREEK LESSONS

“He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.” —Anton Chekhov, 1892

My interview by the fabulous @samszanto.bsky.social about my eco-focused chapbook www.samszanto.com/post/candice...

“I quite like ‘Routards’ - about goofing around France in my 20s because it’s a bit sultry, maybe even sexy.” Great interview!

so marvelous and dangerous

Wonderful work for a wonderful cause:

As I watch my beloved #losangeles burn — roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/... @rfpress.bsky.social