New interview featuring shout outs to Camonghne Felix, Ella Frances Sanders, Mary Oliver, Connor Storrie, and Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret and so much more! www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

"I don’t feel interrogated at night; I feel my most honest, my most vulnerable." Noticing is the Ultimate Act of Love: @nxo.bsky.social interviews @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social about Night Owl (@eccobooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/JUKwViB

Hard agree. Sometimes I see a book with, like, a dozen blurbs, and I’m like, Do they honestly think potential readers are picking through that noise?

🍽️ BITE BY BITE, a Rachel-recommended essay collection by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social 📚 STORYBOOK ENDING, a warm fiction by local author @moiraverse.bsky.social

New book Tuesday!! My preorders for @thebloggess.bsky.social and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social new releases are here! Okay, now everybody, shhhhh... 👓📖

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

"What if sand is another form of the verb sin?" A new poem by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social.

please for the love of all things holy i beg of you no book needs more than 4 blurbs tops. 1-2 is plenty!

Ada Limon and Aimee Nezhukumatathil immediately come to mind. But there are so many!

Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and @slowdownshow.org for featuring a new poem from my forthcoming book, NIGHT OWL- out at the end of the month!

for me? you wrote this for me @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social ?? "... mahal kita means I love you, and for 3 minutes and 38 seconds, the moon loved the sun. ... How do we capture the magic of strangers resting in a park full of blankets and chairs... ... How do we say mahal kita to strangers?"

"Today’s poem transported me back to [a] shared experience," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says in episode 1473 of The Slowdown. Read “Solar Eclipse” by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/3MY4jh0

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

In today's mail a galley of Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Her essay collection World of Wonders helped me make it through the first month of the pandemic. Night Owl lands on March 31.

NBCC member Natalie Bakopoulos wrote an essay about the choice to name, or not name, real places in fictional worlds for Poets & Writers:

See you soon, Winter Institute!

Preview the first lines—and listen to readings!—from our latest #PageOne books: Everything Lost Returns (Flatiron Books) by Sarah Domet, Night Owl (Ecco Press) by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, The Future (Four Way Books) by Monica Ferrell, Kin (Knopf) by Tayari Jones, and more: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

This year’s Winter Institute in Pittsburgh will feature a poets’ salon, a keynote conversation with poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and an appearance by U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze.

Tampa! See you soon!

❤️‍🔥 DEADLINE EXTENSION! ❤️‍🔥 Did you miss out on submitting your manuscript to Sarabande's Annual Prizes yesterday? Never fear! We have extended the deadline! All manuscript submissions for Sarabande's Annual Prizes are due by 11:59p ET on February 23. ✨ Link in bio for more info and to submit! ✨

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Cover Reveaaalll! My new book, coming to bookstores this summer. “Beautiful and urgent” says Aimee Nezhukumatathil in the first advance praise.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo

Join writers Ross Gay and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for an online conversation this Thursday, Feb 12 at 12 p.m. ET! Moderated by Mary Evelyn Tucker, they’ll be talking all about the love of nature—and the nature of love. Register for this free event right here: orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

This Thursday, February 12 at 12 p.m. ET, join Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil in a conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker all about love 💚 and other crucial themes for our times. Register for this free online event right here. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh... @religion-ecology.bsky.social

holy cats! such JOY! so beautiful!!! 🎶

Planting #trees 🌴 #India www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

What a terrific list of books, including @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social's forthcoming poetry collection, NIGHT OWL! Congrats to all the authors! electricliterature.com/67-books-by-...

Looking forward to this! Earthly Love: A Conversation with Ross Gay and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social on February 12, 12-1pm. Register here: yff.yale.edu/events/earth... with the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, @religion-ecology.bsky.social & @orionmagazine.bsky.social 💚

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Jupiter with 3 of its Gallilean Moons visible. L to R: Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. (Io is currently transiting) #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

"It’s say two weeks after the 1980s become the 1990s and holy shit. We don’t know it but we’ve already heard what will remain our favorite music forever." Love this prose poem by @amorak.bsky.social in @westchesterreview.bsky.social www.westchesterreview.com/amorak-huey

✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨

Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday. Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

On the latest episode of @outsideinradio.bsky.social, poet and author @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social dishes up three flavors that have connected her to others – one familiar, one sweet, and one strange. 🎧: https://bit.ly/4qivscQ

My sign today.

I attended a vigil for Renee Nicole Good in Eureka Springs,AR today, this was my favorite sign. We had over 150 people attend on a cold Sunday morning in a town of 2K, I’m proud of my community

We have an exciting year of reading ahead! @literaryhub.bsky.social's list of most anticipated books of 2026 has some exciting titles, including forthcoming poetry collection NIGHT OWL by "one of our great nature poets" @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

#Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry #AimeeNezhukumatathil Space Jellyfish: A Parable by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

the one and only Liz Phair

🚨 So this happened: my very first time in @newyorker.com (!!) A new poem from my forthcoming book of poems about the night— NIGHT OWL (Ecco, 3/26). 🛼✨