This is just to say I have eaten the swans that were in the duck pond and which you were probably saving for the King Forgive me they were delicious so white and so necky

Write poems. Read poems.

Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.

At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA

this summit could have been a text

Adam Zagajewski

The boys wear creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they tear off when the bell rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle on the blacktop like earthworms drying up. This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/jennife...

Back to say that immediately after I posted this I got three rejections in a row. Lol

Sorry, I just need to pop in and say writing is keeping me alive again. Grateful for that. Hang in there, all of you.

Haven’t been here much because there was rarely much going on. Has that changed?

"Margaret kept a bowling pin in the vestibule, beside the door. She never had to use it but she reached for it once or twice. The dangers were all inside that house." “Margaret of Streeper Street" by @jasutherland.bsky.social

"A badger confronts the hawthorn to preserve his stores of honey. So I undertake the domestic necessary." “Saint Martha at Christmas" by @jasutherland.bsky.social

April was truly the cruelest shittiest month, and most of it didn’t even involve me practicing law.

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

Poem for a rainy day spent housecleaning, literally and figuratively. Thanks @susurrusmag.bsky.social for letting me share. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/saint-martha...

This is happening tomorrow night! I would love to see you!

Hope y’all come out and join us for poetry tomorrow in Durham, NC— free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫 #ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...

Hey folks I’m reading new poems ilater this month with Richard Tillinghast, Chet Weise, and Palavi Ahuja. You'll find these poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Birmingham Poetry Review and in my forthcoming book, House of Myth and Necessity.

@schumer.senate.gov you are of no use to the decent people of this country. Retire.

What is that, dear ones? You need to hear some good news? We are bringing you Jennifer A Sutherland’s @jasutherland.bsky.social’s House of Myth and Necessity in Spring 2026! 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky 💙📚 Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.

[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke] A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar. And I ate them like air.

Hey hi hello, I have just been on the phone and I have new book news coming soon 🪽

Six months ago I said they were gonna come for Marbury v Madison and damn if they aren’t coming for Marbury v Madison.

It is all so much worse than Lee Greenwood is probably going to get a Kennedy Center honor now, and yet the idea of Lee Greenwood being honored at the Kennedy Center sums up so well just how awful it all is.

I take back every time I’ve ever called a dystopian novel unrealistic because I thought there was no way the world could ever actually get THAT bad.

Boris Dralyuk

Sometimes we look at Joe and beam and are like OUR FIRST MAN AUTHOR 😅🙏📚💙

WBW: this 2020 Patricia Spears Jones poem dedicated to moi and Jeanne Larsen

Signing back into Bluesky to repost this but it so perfectly articulates my own suspicions about this stuff

Generous and thoughtful review by @j-tkelly.bsky.social of @hanvanderhart.bsky.social’s forthcoming book (which I can’t wait to hold in my hands, look at that cover) periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/j-t-...

Editor @amorak.bsky.social is reading TONIGHT! 📚💙🎙️ Come hear some fire poems in this new month. #poetry

Philip Levine

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

Imagine how much money people with songs named “Celtic Fairy Lullaby” and “World of Dreams” are making on Spotify right now.

A little bit of Jorie Graham (from Time Frame, in To 2040)

I remind myself several times a day that the people who are out to destroy me *want* me to be in perpetual reactive mode. As urgent as everything is, it is incumbent on me not to live reactively. I will not let them run me, even if they are currently in charge of my planet.

Congratulations to Dani, Abigail and SG, I can’t wait to read these books! And congrats to my Alcestis, a finalist. Like a good demigoddess she is awaiting the right time and place to make her entrance

how could any of this go wrong

Sums on a postcard found in a 1904 Baedeker

I have just read about someone moving into a “glass-roofed attic” in London somewhere and this is the most charming thing I have ever heard. I want a glass roof. Why do we all not have glass roofs?

Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display

I am watching the HBO Natalia Grace doc and it is astonishing to me that so many repulsive people were assembled around this child. Unfathomably awful people, the adoptive parents, the judge who “aged” this child with zero due process or fucks given. Not a single decent human being among them.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Didn’t choose the thug life

I just misread someone’s bio (NYU MFA) as NYU mafia and I guess I’m writing a story now

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” ~ Vincent van Gogh 📖 ❄️✨ Painting by Salome Herzog 🎨🖌