Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems! www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...

It was a pleasure to talk with the delightful Gregory Dowling for the Italian journal Oltreoceano on themes of exile in my new book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye. (English version here, and you can click for the Italian PDF if you wish.) riviste.lineaedizioni.it/index.php/ol...

University presses! We love them! It was a pleasure to talk to LitHub about some of the reasons why university presses are crucial for poetry... lithub.com/art-liberty-...

A smorgasboard of poets to kick off the the cruelest month ... ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/poems-...

Tonight! There's also a livestream option for those who can't join in person in DC... www.folger.edu/whats-on/202...

Tomorrow night! DC area poetry fans! Come on down! I'm kvelling for Julia Thacker's fantastic TO WILDNESS, hot off the press from The Waywiser Press! www.folger.edu/whats-on/202...

For International Women's Day, a poem from a while back. I keep hoping this one will become a historical curiosity, but alas. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

In the midst of madness, how good to have the happier bafflement of poems to translate! I'm working on Yari Bernasconi's La Casa Vuota these days, and here's a flashback to a few from his terrific Nuovi Giorni di Polvere. #yaribernasconi www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/new-d...

Ah! How nice to log on -- amid the burning of Rome aka in Washington, D.C.-- and find this new heartening venture afoot. Save my soul once again, poems!

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Translators! A grant for early career folks from Words Without Borders: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

I was asked to pass this on to POETS...please share. covidmemorialmonument.org/poem-sub/

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Insect appreciation post! 1) Past: With Daniel Kobamelo and termite mound in Botswana c 2013 on an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. 2) Present: CT nature friends, a house bill on pesticides that needs written testimony by 2/19--easy to do w/ this link. ctpesticidereform.org/so/3aPJtrkur...

Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:

One thing I love about teaching environmental writing (alongside getting to take students on the campus tree walk🌲) is sharing all sorts of new writing with them, like this latest from @poetjs.bsky.social at the always exciting @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social ...

Sanity!

Weenie bit of bright news. CT pharmacists can now prescribe birth control; Plan B in vending machine at UConn www.courant.com/2025/02/04/c...

Hello, hello... hello? This is not good. Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

I wish this were just a creative writing exercise. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Just a little gender-complex family from the 17th century. My beloved José de Ribera's portrait of Magdalena Ventura, spouse, and bambino, from 1631. (Ribera was Spanish but spent his working life in Naples, a city that opens your eyes.)🥰

Woke up this a.m. thinking I would start a punk band called "Rogue Bureaucrats," then got distracted by the latest post by @victoriamoul.bsky.social, on Russian poetry anthologies. (Do follow her link to listen to Nina Iskrenko for an intense soundscape.)

Arg! Go to rally at White House at 5 pm? Donate more funds to ACLU? Both? (But in the cognitive chaos, I also can't stop thinking of Woolf writing a poem about her nephew's gastric noises.) www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

Paul Muldoon! Julia Thacker! Yes, it is soon time for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library~ www.folger.edu/whats-on/202...

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A lovely surprise! I just learned that my recent book is one of ten titles longlisted for this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, among a bevy of gorgeous works by so many authors I admire. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

I'm so looking forward to trees and conversations and smart humans and thinking through the questions of what a poem can do at Bread Loaf this summer. As Robert Frost might put it, You come too? www.middlebury.edu/writers-conf...

Looking forward to reading with Debbie Gilbert this Saturday 12/14 in West Hartford at the WordHouse Reading Series, 2 pm wordhousereadings.blogspot.com

Are you a literature-loving administrative whizz eager to help bring some of the most exciting new poetry collections into the world? Come work with us at Waywiser Books! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Poets, do you have a first or second book manuscript? The deadline approaches for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize: $3,000 + publication by Waywiser + a reading with judge Shane McCrae at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.// Submit by Dec 1, 2024// details: hechtprize.waywiser-press.com

Poets! THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL ANTHONY HECHT POETRY PRIZE//JUDGE: PAUL MULDOON// The winner will receive $3,000 or £2,000, and the book will be published by Waywiser in 2025. Full deets: hechtprize.waywiser-press.com

This essay is old, but I'm writing about photography and lyric poetry yet again, and went back to see what I had already said... and I still think this is relevant. If you spend any time thinking about how memory and time work in poetry and photographs, maybe this is useful.