Was delighted to blurb this wonderful book!

It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!

Chicago! Tonight at 7! So excited to read with @nberlat.bsky.social, @saramatson.bsky.social, @ejoylevinson.bsky.social, and my wonderful co-author Elena Rielinger Ferguson!

this i really want to go to, because @saramatson.bsky.social & @daftrockwell.bsky.social in one beloved place together 😻 hell yeah

1st 2025 pub, ft. Creature from the Black Lagoon references, gender feelings, and shadow selves! Thanks @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for picking it up 💙 Find the anthology here: www.defunktmag.com/product-page...

Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders! Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text. Done! Easy accessibility.

Starting Perry Janes’ book “Find Me When You’re Ready” and having to pause in the prelude. Wow.

Apparently today is the day they hit the Breach. In honor of that, have a snippet from my abecedarian Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim—or check out the whole thing here: www.freezeraypoetry.com/gretchen-roc...

New poem in-the-world, rare rare for me this year. Beyond grateful to this circle for its soft landing. Here's to long-ago friends, escape vehicles so ancient they only had a tape deck, every too-young-nuthoused kid— and to you, still playing the hidden track.

Hard to believe it, but my first semester at the Workshop is done. (Now that grades are in, it feels real!) Never could’ve imagined this is how and where I would end my year, but incredibly grateful to be here.

I'm the poem of the day at @swwim.bsky.social 🥺 www.swwim.org?fbclid=PAY2x...

BLACK FRIDAY BOOK SALES 🧵 There are so many! Please add any that I missed.

One short message from a reader is all it takes to turn a bad day around. Want to drop an author a line? Please do so. Trust me, it means the world to us.

Thank you to @puneetdutt.bsky.social for including this prose poem in the new issue of The Ex-Puritan -- ex-puritan.ca/adventure-ar...

“Nothing but the trees offered sympathy – their spindly arms reaching out as I tasted the new vocabulary of flight…”

This is a (belated birthday?) @tomsnarsky.bsky.social appreciation post!! Want to read lots of really lovely and varied poems you might never find otherwise? Want to experience the joy of bite-sized poems? Follow Tom and you will not be disappointed. ✨ Great if you’re joining this site for poetry!

Too many good quotes to pick one to pull. Read this!!!

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one of two new poems in @ex-puritan.bsky.social today among so many, many friends! "...she says a poem where nothing impossible happens in it, just the truth, and I say OK and put her in this poem and she sprouts forty two robin wings down her neck and back and legs..."

“as if my tongue / is not the stumble it is, as if my knees are not raw / from months trying to please this language…”

I've been writing professionally for almost two decades (???) including publishing 7 books (and another forthcoming) and helping run a lit mag for 7 years. I've learned some important lessons in that time. So I'm going to thread some of them here:

Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance. Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever. Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

For #smallpoemsunday on our downundermonday - a fav wee quiet beauty from Andrea Cohen, & one from me - for the light-crawled (with thx to Black Bough Poetry for the latter's silvery home)

it would be hard to overstate how much I think everyone should read Margaret Ross’s new book — I’ve reread it twice already and it’s fast becoming an all-time favorite: the-song-cave.com/products/sat...

Forgive the shadow, but I keep forgetting this beautiful issue came out & that I’m in it & I’m proud I wrote a poem about my cats that’s also about the universe.

Really love this poem, "Queer Desire," by @daftrockwell.bsky.social in @havehashad.com today: "I metaphor myself into becoming, being, suppressing any want—which, in its original etymology, meant lacking. Only later did it connote desire." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/que...

amazing new poem today from Griffin Rockwell! "The eternal queer question is whether you want to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 someone or 𝘣𝘦 them. I start becoming someone my younger self would love..." https://www.havehashad.com/47x1l