Excited & grateful for my poem “Every Poem About This Season Now Becomes a Lie” to appear in this outstanding new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

"There are so many ways to fail at this, day after day so many ways I fail to see coming. It's a statue, I say, he's not real, but what echoes up the shaft of history is hunger" -- Brian Simoneau, "Mercy," at @versedaily.bsky.social www.versedaily.org/2025/mercy.s...

Happy to see my poem “Mercy” featured on @versedaily.bsky.social over the weekend! Please click through if you’d like to read about my daughter’s moment of terror in a 16th-century castle: www.versedaily.org/2025/mercy.s...

Many, many thanks to @jpdancingbear.bsky.social for featuring my poem at Verse Daily over the weekend!

Anthony Robinson, “I Am the King of Infinite Space,” Failures of the Poets (Canarium Books, 2023) #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge

Erika Meitner, “Invitation to Tender” from Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022) #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge

Matthew Henriksen, “Requiem For Now” from The Absence of Knowing (Black Ocean, 2015) #thesealeychallenge

As we go off the cliff, I’m taking some books with me, including Maria Zoccola’s Helen of Troy 1993. Check it out, and her roundup in Electric Literature of poetry books that build immersive worlds, apocalyptic and otherwise, with a nice mention of Ceive. electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...

Keith Abbott

If you’re looking for a break from the heaviness of these weeks, please consider joining me, Christina Cook, Marcia LeBeau, & Taté Walker for the Pen Parentis Literary Salon tomorrow, Tuesday January 14, at 7pm ET. We’ll be reading a few poems and talking about our writing & parenting experiences.

Honored to have a poem featured on The Slowdown podcast today -- www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

there are tears which happen in a day that it would take a lifetime to explain. —Mary Ruefle, from “Trollope”

I remember the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s “Allowables” — being overcome by the extraordinary thing she taught me about my own fear, its murderousness. And she did this not by standing above me, but by turning quietly and saying: see what we did?

RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year

A piece that I wrote for teachers and it's 100% TRUE Thanks @sfreligh.bsky.social for the prompt. @porcupinelit.bsky.social is a journal for teachers. Thanks @writesloud.bsky.social & @readinstead.bsky.social Now is a good time to support teachers, particularly in the public schools

All of our books are on sale for $10!!! Snag them today, before our holiday sale ends! (Note, Another Life by Frances Klein will ship late January 2025!) riotinyourthroat.com/book-catalog/

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

Sara Eliza Johnson, “The Abyssal Zone” & “Lazarus” from Vapor (Milkweed Editions, 2022)

Yet another reason I love @blacklawrence.bsky.social: the editors are donating $1 to the ACLU for every book sold on the Black Lawrence Press website through the end of 2024 (including my poetry collection No Small Comfort)

My poem “Suburban Eclogue” from issue 42 of Post Road

Honored & grateful to learn the editors at Post Road have nominated my poem “Suburban Eclogue” for a Pushcart Prize: www.postroadmag.com/2024/04/22/4...

Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do. And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.

“I am no less grateful for / the berries than for the thorns that are // meant, I think, to help” —Carl Phillips, “All It Takes” from The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004)

“I lose count // In the chaos of the body / I barely knew him anyway” —Ibe Liebenberg, “Doing CPR on Some Dude Who Looks Just Like My Father” today at @poetrydaily.bsky.social

“…he wanted me to know / that he knew I was there.” —James Davis May, “Tumult and Peace” in UNUSUALLY GRAND IDEAS (LSU Press) 💙 @jamesdavismay.bsky.social

Here’s my story collection from the awesome Propeller Books who said they’d join Bsky bc I told them to but aren’t here yet. Real proud of this book, which is 20 yrs of my writing and my whole craggy, bleary, swoopy heart.

Katy Didden

Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls -Anne Carson [“Short Talks” From Plainwater] #everynightapoem #ofsorts

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Let's insist it's not disordered to care about what we care about Gracie Leavitt

look at my pantoum

June Jordan (& moving to bluesky) mood today.

Two of my poems up in the terrific new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social. The whole issue is full of bangers. Honored to have my words in such company. coupletpoetry.com/amorak-huey/

“But they can't know / that the most amazing part of waking up / is you are not dead. You are wearing / a totally splendid bathrobe that hugs / you like a dress.” Wendy Xu #poetry

Recent poem from Sixth Finch to introduce/reintroduce myself. I am chronically late, but glad to be here.

“I have tried to / imagine all the space that // is not the star” —Prentiss Moore, “Trace” from The Garden in Winter and Other Poems (University of Texas Press, 1981)

Prentiss Moore, “Poem” from The Garden in Winter and Other Poems (University of Texas Press, 1981)

Welcome to BlueSky fellow poets, and thank you for following. Here is a poem of mine published this fall in Orion. Looking forward to your words!

Kasey Jueds, “Stratus clouds form” from KEEPER (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) #thesealeychallenge

Taneum Bambrick, “Drinking in the Company Truck” from VANTAGE (American Poetry Review, 2019) #thesealeychallenge

Dana Levin, “Ars Poetica (the idea)” from Wedding Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) #thesealeychallenge

January Gill O’Neil, “Harvest” from Glitter Road (CavanKerry Press, 2024) “I need a moment without malice, // an hour without doubt or debt / or death” #thesealeychallenge

Linda Pastan

Martín Espada, “Death Rides the Elevator in Brooklyn” from FLOATERS (Norton, 2021)

“Do you consider yourself a part of or apart from? // Where you are apart from, what do you cast into the distance? // A poem is a line cast into the distance.” —Claire Schwartz, from “[The original gesture]” in CIVIL SERVICE (Graywolf Press, 2022)

To have wanted more, where has that carried me, if what so much matters now can be proven later to all along have been doomed not to? —Carl Phillips, “By Hard Stages” from Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

Jon Anderson, "The Secret of Poetry" from The Milky Way: Poems 1967-1982 (Ecco, 1983)