I am killing it at the open mic guys

When my first book came out, I—as one does—emailed every poetry person I knew an invitation to the online launch. 30 minutes before it started, I got a mean-spirited email saying “I don’t know who you are, don’t ever email me again.”

Let’s send all our dem senators home and draft our mayors instead

Lolly Willowes is one of my heart books

Fanny Howe

This was such a fun conversation!

Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙 We are thankful for our readers ❤️ riverriverbooks.org/store/

I'm starting an Old English course this winter and it sucks to wonder if everyone else in the class is a secret white supremacist.

It’s a poetry taster on a winter’s evening 📚💙❄️ Hope to see you there! @amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry

Pleased to announce the release of Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection (Ballerini Book Press). Preorders available. Thanks for the kind words, Suzanne Frischkorn & James Owens. Excited that future works will have a home at BBP. @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social ballerinibookpress.ch/fallen-leave...

And if you’d like to hear Catherine Rockwood READ from DOGWITCH…mark your calendars A Winter’s Night Chapbook reading on 12/7 @ 7pm ET! ❄️ RSVP details in alt text. @amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

For our Sunday morning readers: a new review of Catherine Rockwood’s DOGWITCH, by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza! ☕️☀️📚 #booksky #poetry #review @martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social

heyyyyy i've got four poems in the latest issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social about being a woman in this apocalyptic hellscape, including this one. you can visit the poems holding my rage here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/4-poems...

Nothing better than hearing that the AP Lit group chat has been blowing up over their story homework 😄

IMO, this accounts for about 80% of the behavioral problems in schools. Students act out bc they know they don't have the academic skills to succeed. Remediating those skills costs too much, so we pretend that we can social-emotional them out of it.

@fklein907.bsky.social 🤝 @havehashad.com = exquisite www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...

I continue researching How To Be A Female Artist even though the answer remains Be Rich Or Marry Well

Is it ethical to be a frog when the snow is on the ground?

This lady?

I've started doing pleasure reading for 10-15 minutes a class with my sophomores. When I say it's reading time, their books are out in >1 minute and the classroom is dead silent.

Every time I see the VSC residencies open I look at the applications and then I remember that they're $2700 and I could go to Paris for two weeks for that.

Jackass: The Movie goes to Washington

author copies have arrived; hardback on the left and paperback on the right... and im not any good for the rest of the day.

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Jenn Martelli. She was a wonderful poet, colleague, collaborator, and friend to all. Her light will be dearly missed.

Jenn was a gifted writer and she was so generous to other writers—to me, in specific and special ways. I'll miss her voice.

@notatawp.bsky.social should have a little sister called NOMFA, who wants to play with the big kids but gets brushed off all the time 😜

Just finished this book and. Wow. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social The way the poems shift their language in a parallel gesture to the ever changing photographs. So good!

Supposedly material goods don’t bring happiness but the little electric teapot I bought for my classroom says otherwise.

Can billionaires just not write books.

My first Best of the Net nomination, thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social

Tonight's the night! 🌟 Please join us in cheering on our very own NATALIE SHAPERO as she competes on Jeopardy! Visit jeopardy.com/watch to find your local channel or stream the full episode starting tomorrow on Hulu.

Poets! From A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE by Miriam Toews

My therapist says I should talk to my friends about how I'm feeling and I'm like, my friends all have parents with dementia or terminally ill husbands or kids who are suicidal or are about to lose their careers to meat grinder of the Trump administration I am not about to make this about my feels.

So grateful for this thoughtful review of MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES @merliterary.bsky.social, including an Anne Sexton reference. merliterary.com/2025/09/17/m...

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts! #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

“All the ways we have been and are wrong follow me this morning like a cloud of insects, like dust kicked up on the moon and suspended.” // New poem from my new chap Hawk & Moon, featuring a real tweet 🌕 bottlecap.press/products/hawk

I love a good pantoum, and "Pantoum for the Free Climber's Girlfriend" by @esylviapoet.bsky.social knocked my socks off (and also echoed my own feelings after watching that documentary): www.swwim.org

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Oh, hesitate, my long-haired dude, To strum around the fire. Better let them think you're good Than know that you're a liar.

THIS WEEKEND!!!!

Emily Dickinson getting a bit snippy

Thank you @swwim.bsky.social for reposting this poem from my new chapbook MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES I recently learned that they married after the documentary came out, but I stand by my advice.

I adore a little mail surprise like this thank you note from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Honestly so delightful. The tea even matches the stationery! Issue 40 out now www.whaleroadreview.com

My review of ODYSSEUS' DAUGHTER by Cammy Thomas has washed up in the perfect journal, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Thank you, @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social ! www.whaleroadreview.com/cammy-thomas/

Issue 40 also features work by @marybid.bsky.social @briansimoneau.bsky.social @maudmci.bsky.social @calliebdean.bsky.social @marjorietesser.bsky.social @emmabolden.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @clairemtaylor.bsky.social @brettwarren23.bsky.social and more!

This is motif in Carolyn Oliver's THE ALCESTIS MACHINE, which I just reviewed for ON THE SEAWALL www.ronslate.com/on-the-alces...

Have you ever started as a weird fan of someone's work and developed a true friendship? How did that play out?

Do I have a persecution complex or does the Trump administration start every meeting brainstorming the moves I would hate the most and then making them