Mary Ruefle serving us our own🫀 on a 🍽️.

YES!!!! A wonderful young poet and coaching client of several years just got 2 MFA acceptances!!!

Day—15 National Poetry Month ~ Tara Skurtu Morning Love Poem (oof) —It's hard to say I need you enough. Today I did. Walked into your morning shower fully clothed. All the moments we stop ourselves just because we might feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet.

Today's Feature: "Sunrise" written & translated by Manuel Iris from The Whole Earth is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra es un Jardín de Monstruos published by University of Arizona Press Read here: poems.com/poem/sunrise/

If you're writing and you feel stuck in a draft that isn't yet working, remember: There are no dead ends, only reroutes! What seems like a dead end may simply be asking you to discover into it to find the details/questions/realizations/associations connecting the path you need.

Poem by Andrea Cohen.

It's almost National Poetry Month, which means it's almost time for our Prompt-A-Day! Challenge yourself to write this April with a new prompt every day from poets in our community. All registrations help support our programs & operations. brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

Today is your last chance to save $15 on all spring workshops! Through Sunday, March 29th — use code EARLYBIRD at checkout to save on any of our spring offerings. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

"The F.B.I. notified the activist, Nerdeen Kiswani, and her legal team late Thursday that one or more arrests had been made in connection with an imminent attempt on her life, but did not identify the suspects or inform her of the motive, the lawyer said."

I LOVE this poem by Gail Mazur. plumepoetry.com/world-on-a-s...

I couldn't be a part of this. Staying would just affirm what I think of as a deeply corrupt practice that is also an invasion of my privacy.

Explore dimension jumping, plot, ars poetica, revision and family with Ashunda Norris, Shira Erlichman, @starrdavispoet.bsky.social, I.S. Jones and Gbenga Adesina in the first workshops of our spring season! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a new prompt every day, written by poets in our community! All registrations will support Brooklyn Poets fellowships, financial aid offerings and free programming. brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

Poem for your Tuesday ~Tara Skurtu Morning Love Poem 🤍 —It's hard to say I need you enough. Today I did. Walked into your morning shower fully clothed. All the moments we stop ourselves just because we might feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet —

—Tara Skurtu writes beautifully. It's definitely an oof poem.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Do you also have work (paid or unpaid) where you fix things and make them even stronger? What do you repair?

A perfect poem to read in a blizzard. “Snow” by Mary Ruefle: www.versedaily.org/2008/snow.sh...

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Can you help Neveen and her family today? gofund.me/5be7d9cb0

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Ramzi is raising money to feed his family in Gaa, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...

My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!

Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

This is a direct way to get food diapers/essentials to families in Minneapolis. Neighborhood volunteers do pickups & deliveries. Someone I know does deliveries & shared the link with me. Share & donate if you can. And national strike Friday! www.dhhmn.com/operations

God bless the people who are going out there and directly confronting these fucking cowardly Democratic politicians. Thank you.

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Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

Image credited to Garrett Peterson, CRNA colleague of Alex Pretti, of his colleagues at the VA hospital where he worked.

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨ Reserve yours: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Poetry, art, witness, care—@cftchange.bsky.social's new zine explores how we practice hope as a discipline, offering a collection of visions for what political hope looks like now. Thank you, @linasrivastava.bsky.social and Keefe Murren! www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

NYC 📢

It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow. My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨ Reserve yours: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

"until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream." Martin Luther King Jr. Washington, D.C., 1963

TAIWAN FRIENDS: This is tomorrow night! Tues, Jan. 20 at 7:30pm I’ll be in conversation w/ @michellekuo.bsky.social at Bookman Books in Taipei, and I will have copies of The Translator’s Daughter available for sale! Please RSVP via the QR code, bring a friend, and I look forward to seeing you 💚