About to start sending requests for blurbs, and oh lordy is this the part of poet-ing I hate most. I would rather eat a hippopotamus ass-first than impose on other writers whose time I know is already wildly overcommitted. #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝

Lol we made a discovery layer that lies to you, it's a learning experience "the team has worked hard to minimize such results, but they can and will surface. Importantly, these moments are opportunities to learn more about both the technology and user expectations."

I deleted a post about the UC lists of names because, while I obtained this info from an administrator, I just read a report with some conflicting details (attached). The conflicting info is whether campuses handed over *documents* or *lists*. In either case, lists appear to exist for every UC.

So excited - the fine press First Bite Press has announced my forthcoming #poetry collection Babylon Songs, to be illustrated with linocuts by French artist Sandie Levent! www.firstbitepress.com/news/fall-pr... #booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

How much vomit can one person’s innards hold when they haven’t ingested anything in days? I seem to be breaking laws of physics.

To have a doctor with a 12-step skincare routine tell me - who was raised to believe my face wasnt clean unless I scrubbed it daily w/shattered walnut shells & to do my own ingrown toenail surgery without painkiller or numbing - question me when I say I'm in pain? Ma'am. #spoonie #Chronicillness

Just dropped a bottle of discontinued dark purple magnetic nail polish and it shattered all over my kitchen floor and cabinets. How's your day going?

Breaking: A CDC advisory panel filled with RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine skeptics just unanimously recommended limiting the COVID shot to people 65 and older or those with underlying health conditions, based on a decision individually or with their doctor.

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Proud to have my #poem "I Dreamt I Was Unblemished" in the new Abraxas Review. For all of us with bodies that bear the proof we have lived. www.abraxasreview.org/poetry-andre... #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #CripLib #CripLit #Spoonie @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #SkyPoets

Holy yikes. See this thread for how to get in w/o clicking through the agreement so you can delete your account.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Happy to learn that 5 of my short #poems ("Cinquain for Soldiers," "A Tanka for Tragedy's Aftermath," "Migration," "Long Island Winter," and "Camarillo, California") were picked up for a 2026 issue of The Short of It! #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📝 #writing 📖 #SkyPoets @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Thrilled to have my new #poem, "The Friendship of Older Women" (written for bff @parisnoire.bsky.social) up in the newest issue of Sheila Na Gig! Read it at sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi... #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing #SkyPoets

Excited to have a new #chronicillness #poem I love, "Nosophobia," in the latest MacQueen's Quinterly (#30)! I hope you'll take a minute to read it here: www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Harri... #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #blueskypoets 📝 #writing #CripLib #CripLit #spoonie @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Feeling poorly but I just took time off to care for a parent recovering from surgery, so hell or high water, work calls. I just want someone to buy me nail polish and tell me I'm pretty while I lie on the couch and cradle my nausea 😂 #spoonie #chronicillness

Good news! My #poem ‘The Trick is to Ignore Your Hands’ will be published in Plumwood Mountain Journal, v. 12 no. 1. #poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

AAAHZOMG!! My #poetry ms The Discipline of Drowning won a small press's poetry award & will be released in 2026, & my poetry book FLARE (chronic illness theme) got a signed contract from another small press & will come out in 2027!! 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #poems 📝 #blueskypoetry 📚☁️ #skypoets #writing

Today I learned that the French term for hacker is "pirate informatique," which is just fantastic news

I am very, very proud to have my prose #poem "Anaphora of Regrets" appear in the latest issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social ! It's a personal favorite of mine, and I hope you'll take the chance to read it! gonelawn.net/journal/issu... 💙📚 #Blueskypoetry 📖 #booksky 📝 #poetry #writing #BlueskyPoets

Proud to see this generous review of my #poetry chapbook Toothache in the Bone up in Sunday Mornings At The River! PM or @ me for a review copy, happy to share. www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/blog/review-... 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #blueskypoetry 📝 #Skypoets 📚☁️ @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #medicalhumanities

Plaintiffs in one of the two lawsuits against the Trump administration's dismantling of the IMLS seek permanent injunction. A *lot* more details about what went down just emerged–and how another SCOTUS case may impact this one. This is a big IMLS right now update. bookriot.com/more-details...

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

GET EXCITED, Y'ALL I HAVE #POETRY NEWS STAY TUNED #booksky 💙📚 📖 📝 #poetrysky #writing #publishing

My #poem “My Mother Asks Why I Never Relax” appears in the newest issue of San Pedro River Review! #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 📚☁️

Proud to have my #poem "What You Don't Learn as a New York Catholic" appear in the latest issue of The Orange Rose literary magazine! theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w... 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝 #poetry #readmorepetry

I have two new #poems in Arcturus! You can read "Animalia" and "To Be Read While Listening to Tanaka’s “Korobeiniki”" here: arcturusmag.com/2025/07/29/t... #poetry 📖 #ReadMorePoetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #SkyPoets

Today I received my 140th poetry acceptance in 291 days. And my 1043rd rejection. Keep at whatever you're keeping at, folks. #writing #poetry 📝 #publishing 📖 #booksky 💙📚

Thrilled that @screendoorreview.bsky.social has accepted my #poems "When I Say I Love You This Much, I Mean" and "Aubade with Hound"! #poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝 #ReadMorePoetry

This really is an exceptionally great piece about how public health should tackle the current moment of existential crisis. Read it, and be hopeful. Then act. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news Please get off Substack 😭 www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

Posts like this are why I host my blog on Ghost (widely-read.ghost.io) and reading through this article its so clear you shouldn't use Substack. The video in the link shared in the repost is all you really need to be convinced to migrate. Original post has even more options of where to go!

Just nabbed an A+, all possible points acquired, in my graduate Poetics course! #poetry 💙📚 #alwayslearning 📖 #booksky 📝

What gif pops up for your name?

Honored to have my #poem "What We Call Each Other" in issue 9 of @tinywrenlit.bsky.social! The issue theme was inventory/list poems, and the rules were 15 or fewer lines and no more than 25 characters and spaces: www.tinywrenlit.com/9/what-we-ca... #booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #poetry 📝

In yet more #poetry news, I have 2 #poems in the newest issue of Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine! You can read "Ghazal for a Short Marriage" and "Sestina for Undoing a Marriage" (and a bunch of other fantastic art) at soulpoetry7.com/soul-poetry-... #booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 📝

For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile by Colleen S. Harris in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/15/f...

I've had an old college friend on my mind lately. Proud that @oneart.bsky.social enjoyed my #poem "For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile" enough to share with their readers! oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/15/f... #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝

Important for writers whose books have been used without permission for AI training--this is the class action lawsuit against Anthropic. Find your books in the LibGen database, and fill out the form on the law firm's website.

Over the moon that @dodgingtherain.bsky.social has accepted my poem "Trickster Gods Play Games with a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl"! #poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝

Enormously proud to have my #prose #poems "Flare" and "The Myth is Wrong" in the latest issue of @gravityofthething.bsky.social !! thegravityofthething.com/selected-poe... #poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝 #publishing #CripLit 📚☁️

Tickled to have my new #poetry chapbook out of Bottlecap, The Girl and the Gifts, mentioned by @phillychapbook.bsky.social ! Their site is the reason my mailbox is full of chaps and my wallet is empty of monies lately 😂 phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb... #booksky #writing #publishing 💙📚 📝 📖

Very excited to announce the publication of my chapbook, Ordinary Time, from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/ord...

Hey folks - I'm one of the #poetry editors at IOE, and we're actively seeking full-length poetry manuscripts from women and BIPOC authors. It's a team I'm really proud to work with -- do consider us if you have a book the world needs to see!

When you query a newer press you're sort of in love with and they like your excerpt enough to request the full ms #fainting #actualsyncope #booksky #poetry #writing 📚💙 📝 📖

Proud to have 2 #poems, "I Know Why She Writes" and "Gift Shop, Museum of Natural History" in the Summer 2025 issue of Main Street Rag along w/other fantastic writers! They also published my most recent book, The Light Becomes Us: mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/the-... DM for review copies!

Received a crazy flattering compliment from my poetics professor that has me looking at my life and wondering... 🤣

Kittens and cats, thees and theys, #spoonie friends... I’m working on a hex that the next doc that casually says ‘wait & see what happens over the next 6 weeks’ has to suffer the exact same for those 6 weeks. same pain level, same twinges, same nerve issues, same nonresponse to meds. #chronic

I am so excited. @doesithavepockets.bsky.social will publish 3 of my #poems in Dec '25, & in March '26 will publish my long poem "It Begins This Way." Over the moon that their editorial team liked my work & shared kind comments 🫶 #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝

Jackdaw Press just accepted 3 #poems ("Considering a Diagnosis at Martin’s Fort Lake," "Ocean Aubade," & "Tragedy Should Be More Dramatic") for the fall issue! Their last 2 amazing issues they published poems by Kooser, Fisk, Hass, & Laux. Imma die. *keels over* 💙📚 #booksky 📝 #writing 📖 #poetry 📚☁️