“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode. Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

“right now, / someone is having sex and someone / is dying and someone is trying to find / a lid so they can, before bed, put away / the soup” — @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, “Everything All at Once” @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/oliv...

"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak." @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US. lithub.com/after-the-ro...

“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.

My essay “After the Rooster Crows” is out today at @literaryhub.bsky.social. It’s about exile, poetry, and what I’ve brought with me. Thank you for reading. lithub.com/after-the-ro...

My giant #poetry column is now live @msmagazine.com! Featuring @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social @theoceanisgay.bsky.social @jxzzhndz.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social @aditimachado.bsky.social @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social @catherineweiss.bsky.social & more! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/r...

Congratulations @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social !

Thrilled and grateful. Thank you, @bookcritics.bsky.social.

@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social So happy for you!

Consider the Rooster, poems by Oliver Baez Bendorf (also from Nighboat) "serves as an ode to a rooster's crow, a catalyst for awakening, both literally and figuratively." Here's a conversation with the poet: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

Giant congrats to all the fab NBCC poetry finalists! 🎉 @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social + @cphillipspoet.bsky.social + my mfa cohort-mate Jen Chang!

Felicidades @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! & in such amazing company! I had the honor and of blurbing this mighty book & have not stopped thinking about it since! Orgullo!

Oliver! So happy for you friend! @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social

Congrats @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being a finalist for the National Book Critics Award! 🏆

We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.

Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Everywhere All At Once,” from Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat Books) @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (3/10)

Impervious by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social from Consider the Rooster

Wow. I'm incredibly honored.

Revisiting June Jordan today: "we are the ones we have been waiting for."

From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Nov 19, 2024 Written By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera @roqueraquel.bsky.social www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

Dang, Consider the Rooster made Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2024! “Oliver Baez Bendorf troubles the boundaries: of countries, genders, time periods… cement[ing] Bendorf’s status as one of the most interesting poets working today.” Grateful 💖 electricliterature.com/electric-lit...

need to make a weird zine

Knowing where you come from is its own kind of strength. Here's my Grandpa Baez and my mom in his kitchen, filled with chickens, roosters, and family. My new book Consider the Rooster honors these roots—resilience and courage. 💜 PS: Link in bio to support my fight for justice and accountability.

Honored to have my poem “Michigan” from Consider the Rooster featured today at Poetry Daily. This book means so much to me, and I’m so grateful to everyone who’s supported it and made space for its words. 💖 If you haven’t yet, grab a copy of Consider the Rooster—available now from Nightboat Books.

Today’s Featured Poem: “Michigan” by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, from Consider the Rooster, published by Nightboat Books. Read here: poems.com/poem/michigan/

Toni Morrison: "How bleak, unlivable, insufferable existence becomes when we are deprived of artwork. That the life and work of writers facing peril must be protected is urgent [...] and their absence is of equal peril to us. The rescue we extend to them is a generosity to ourselves." 💜

New on Intervenxions—From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf “It takes care to write a book like Consider the Rooster and a great deal of vulnerability.” By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (@roqueraquel.bsky.social) www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

Please welcome—and support—the trans poet librarian @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social who is raising funds for his legal fight for accountability with his employer.

Brilliant conversation and brilliant book! Gracias @roqueraquel.bsky.social & @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! An honor to feature you!