Thank you to @pinehillsreview.bsky.social for this interview opportunity! It was fun to think so deeply about my new poetry collection, What Haunts Me. #booksky

Really frustrating when salespeople give discounts on rush jobs. Of course it's not the salespeople who have to drop everything and work OT to actually do the rush jobs. And then certain salespeople ALWAYS seem to have rush jobs.

So much fun reading from my new book and listening to amazing writers in the @saloneurope.bsky.social Open Mic yesterday evening!

I'll be reading as part of this exciting event this evening! A few tickets remain!

Woke up with a horrible cold yesterday. Will spend the icy day in bed with tea, reading Bread of Angels, by Patti Smith.

So, you're told one year that you weren't positive enough and they missed that about you. So the next year, you try to stay positive and encouraging for the team. Then they punish you for being "not serious enough."

Don't blame others if you can't actually sink any of the shots you make.

Supporting cultural spaces this evening. Best kind of Friday.

Mine was the Monongahela.

No words. 💔 #Justice4Renee

Celebrating Cornelius Eady now and always. www.wbir.com/article/news...

instructions for how to hold a morning don't open the blinds all at once. light should arrive hesitant, like it isn't sure you're ready to be seen. check the air. some days it tastes like metal, some days like thawing fruit. either way, swallow it. pretend it was your choice. touch the counter.…

Dear litmags that say they open for submissions every year on January 1st but won't actually get around to it until mid-month: Please just change your guidelines. 😅

A magazine article challenged me to "write what scares and compels me, and I’ve ridden the literary whitewater many years since: I hold my breath through the troughs and breathe on the crests. I pull for shore and stand up proud." ~ Ellen Notbohm brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/w...

We didn't have a white Christmas, but it looks like the snow came thru for New Year's Eve!

If you groove on end-of-year reading lists, I've got a different take on the theme! #booksky bernadettegeyer.substack.com/p/rereading-...

Out and about celebrating the season!

Dear editors, If you are considering sending rejections over the next 2 days... just don't. It can wait.

So happy to read new work from Patricia!

Maybe Santa can send me a couple of litmag acceptances for Christmas? There's still a few days left!

POV: People who were not even born in the 80s can't really judge whether certain movies or TV shows present an appropriate portrayal of what it was like to be a teenager in the 80s. Yes? No? Feels like millennial-splaining a Gen Xer's experience to them?

I am having a terrible suspicion that not all of these poems are meant to be prose poems and that I have to completely rethink some of them.

My new poetry book got its first review!! Thank you @sagustocox.bsky.social for the very generous review of What Haunts Me! #booksky #bookreview #poetrybook www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...

Dang. Didn't get that residency I applied for.

Earlier this week, a guest editor emailed to accept 3 poems I submitted. BUT, after withdrawing them from the other journals the poems had been submitted to, I got an email from that guest editor today, saying his “time ran out” and he won’t be able to publish the poems after all.

Friday folly: trying to delete a comma that turns out to be a speck of dust on my laptop screen.

Following a lovely and successful reading to launch my new poetry collection in Berlin, my latest Substack post looks at a couple of the less successful readings I've done in the past. bernadettegeyer.substack.com/p/on-reading...

Here are a few photos from my Berlin book launch on Friday. Thanks to everyone who came to help me celebrate! In case you could not attend, Metis still has some copies available! #booksky

Thanks to Leslie Pietrzyk for interviewing me as part of the TBR (to-be-read) series on her blog! I loved these questions and am grateful for this opportunity. 💙 You can read the interview here: www.workinprogressinprogress.com/.../tbr-what... #authorinterview #booksky #newpoetry #newpoetrybook

The Berlin launch event for my book is this Friday at Metis Books & Cafe! I would love to see you there! 📖 What Haunts Me - reading & discussion by Bernadette Geyer 🗓️ Friday, 7th Nov. ⏰ 19:00-21:00 🌇 Gleimstr. 21, 10437 Berlin Register here: tiny.url/WHMLaunch (1st 10 purchasers get a gift!)

Knickers

Holding my book in my hands for the very first time!

Excited to be reading in April Gloaming's new Sunset Salon! The event features me, Christopher K. Doyle, and Ashley N. Roth, and it’s hosted by Christine Hall. Sunday, October 26th 6pm CDT / midnight CET YouTube Live link: youtube.com/live/yQP6i4r... See you there! #booksky #onlinereading

Proud to share my thoughts on how my writing is linked to nature! Thank you, @planthumanq.bsky.social !

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors. Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC. Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio. The government has been shut down for 22 days.

I've just published a new Substack post about the rollercoaster I'm riding this week! 🎢 bernadettegeyer.substack.com/p/feeling-al... #booksky #booklaunch

So happy to welcome What Haunts Me into the world! April Gloaming Publishing even created a cocktail just for it - check out the recipe in the video below 🍸 Get your copy of my second poetry collection here: aprilgloaming.com/shop/what-ha... #booklaunch #booksky www.youtube.com/shorts/2aOGO...

The official launch date for my new poetry collection is only 2 days away!!! Here, you can read an interview I did with Common Ground Review about the poems in the book and my writing process. www.cgreview.org/blog/intervi... #booksky #poetry #booklaunch

Berlin friends... You're invited! I would love to have you there with me to celebrate the Berlin launch of my new poetry collection. SAVE THE DATE! More details to come... #booksky #booklaunch #berlinliteraryevents

If you want a sneak peek at some of the poems from my forthcoming collection, I've posted a list here: bernadettegeyer.com/what-haunts-...

Excited to have my prose poem "I waited for the bee" included in the new issue of Plant-Human Quarterly!

Long Division

I think I found my Berlin book launch venue today...

I told client to send maximum 500 words. What did they send? 1,696 words. 😭 Please... if someone gives you a word limit, STICK TO IT!

Submitting packets to litmags, along with everyone else today.

“In the morning in the kitchen on the table I see the egg. I look at the egg with a single gaze. Immediately I perceive that one cannot be seeing an egg.”

A little overview of all the amazing things that have happened over the past six weeks for me and a look at my #SealeyChallenge reading list so far. bernadettegeyer.substack.com/p/reveals-an... #BookSky

My craft essay - "Circling the Drain: The Movement from Idea to Essay" - is up on the Brevity Blog! "...My brain is quite a big sink, it seems. Maybe more a bathtub when I start looking at all the dog-eared notebook pages that have accumulated..." Read more: brevity.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/f...

I am thrilled to reveal the cover of my forthcoming book, What Haunts Me, which is now available for pre-order at the link in my bio. 😜 Thanks to @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social, @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, and @seanthomasd.bsky.social for their very thoughtful blurbs! #booksky #poetry #newbooks

Very excited to have a craft essay accepted for publication. News to come!