This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you, @marthasilano.bsky.social and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do. on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...

Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.

Martha Silano in The Indianapolis Review Winter Issue 2025. Read the full poem here theindianapolisreview.com/my-nineteen-...

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them. Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

I'll be honest, 2024 was one of my roughest years in memory, so getting this call last month was a tremendous gift and honor ❤️ I hope programs like this--that celebrate art + science together, as both feel increasingly precarious--will continue into this future www.nationalbook.org/announcing-t...

Knockout all your holiday shopping (free gift wrap too!) with helping indie bookstores like squarebooks.com. Bonus— I’ll calligraph any name you want too— just be sure to include that info in the “notes” section when you order. Indie booksellers are the heartbeat of any town!

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker demonstrating some impressive camouflage. I heard it tapping away well before I saw it. #birds 🌿

Today's Featured Poem: "Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/stony-s...

“Once you learn to write, you are forever freeing someone else.” — Tayari Jones, Black Words Are Black Wealth #AWP25

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One from Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Poetry Prize. "I am not trying to say anything I fear except now it is the dog days of summer where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest is a church wall, somewhere to pray," www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...

Our #AWP25 coupon code is live for folks dreaming of book sales and wandering the bookfair aisles…simply enter AWP25 at checkout to receive 25% off our poetry titles, and have them shipped to you 🌊 🌊📚💙

Could it really be a mushroom, the false morel, causes ALS? Sheeeet, it's so likely I ate some of those over the years. Also, painters and mechanics have a higher risk ~ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @theatlantic.com

Authors sharing new publications: post links and alt text! 💙💙💙 We want to read your things, we really do. 📚

ANNOUNCING a new essay collection by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social , THE GRIEF ARTIST, coming fall 2026! Get excited!! 💫

I think if someone invented the sestina today they would be murdered

who are the five traumas that made you a confessional poet

Happy beginning of spring, I guess. Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.

Find your copy of Pastoral, 1994, which contains so many elegies for American life, here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Pastor...

Oh hey guess who decided to show up. 💌 www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

When your government cracks down on higher education, it should sound alarm bells. Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate. 54% are at or below sixth grade level. While China’s literacy rate is 97%

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Things It Is Possible To Do: 1. Love people/community & critique their choices. 2. Critique people/community without character assassinations. 3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow. 4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm. 5. Change your mind/stance

I meant to type “Cosmos and cats are my security blankets” and it changed to “Cosmos and cats are my sexier Oct.” Hope you all have sexier Octs!! (Is there any way to stop the madness?)

Issue 38 features work by @jpdancingbear.bsky.social @devminor.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social and many more wonderful writers! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38/

Wanted to introduce myself. I'm a poet and health journalist. My third book, The New Life, just came out with Cornerstone Press. As the mom of queer kid and a lover of humanity, I've been super depressed/terrified these past few days. Hoping to find some light in the literary community here.

I know I’ve been screaming about this forever but the Department of Education is why kids with disabilities go to school. Without federal funding, schools do not have the means nor requirements to tend to kids with disabilities. This also removes the ability for all kids to have equitable schooling.

Omg, can this be real or have I gone to heaven? After 50 years of being a published poet, my poems are up at poets.org! poets.org/poet/martha-...

@grinnellcollege.bsky.social did a story about this gal whose favorite poem is the one she hasn’t yet written! alumni.grinnell.edu/news/martha-...

Dreams do come true. The amazing team at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social chose my poem "in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do" for this month's issue. I am still pinching myself. Thank you so much to the brilliant editors & readers. splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0125/...

Crazy shit going on in our country. #understatement

"In Just Labor, Laura-Gray Street explores the often-overlooked role of women and femininity in the historical struggle for dignity in work." Forthcoming 3/27 @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP2025, booth 1118 ➡️ @elegystreet.bsky.social is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow. www.press53.com/poetry-colle...

Well, this sure is making my day! Thanks to @acrebooks.bsky.social (publisher of TERMINAL SURREAL, 09-02-2025), & @suzannematson.bsky.social for making this special feature happen! www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/s...

We’re so honored to be featuring six Martha Silano poems in a POST ROAD web exclusive! www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/s...

I'll be reading in Lambertville, NJ this Thursday, with Grant Clauser, Douglas Piccinnini, and Paul Ilechko.

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.

Happy to announce our 2025 Bear River Writers' Conference faculty! Hope to see some of you in Northern Michigan in late August . . .

Now through March 14, our pandemic releases are discounted! Details below. #booksky #sale #amreading

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Eternally grateful for this review of OF TYRANT over at Publishers Weekly. Link in bio #oftyrant

Reading to my donkeys Martha Silano's poem, On the Outside. @marthasilano.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/jbmOh... Forgive me for being off at the beginning, but the husb doesn't want to record me again, so I hope it's okay.

“… us: opposite of stilted, … tourmaline and topaz, main-squeezing quartz, or let’s math it: tight quarters equal high-frequency vibrations.” Swoon. #SealeyChallenge Day 4. Martha Silano, Reckless Lively.

"What can I say? I make a pretty bad cadaver? That it will take turning me into ash or compost to get me to stop obsessing about the next thing on my list?" Martha Silano is a gem, so much humor and heart.

Powerful poem "Self-Elegies" By Martha Silano #poetry #poem #poems #poets www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

If you've got 14 minutes, you *should* watch this video, "Poetry is Not a Luxury," with Martha Silano and her wonderful poems and bright spirit. vimeo.com/1033914328/f...

"but it was the single rose bud from the yard’s way back he placed in a small blue vase that won her over and over. Theirs was a language with a grammar and syntax I could not parse, key words omitted, place-holdered." - @marthasilano https://coupletpoetry.com/martha-silano/

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗜 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by Martha Silano a box of frogs arrived one day at our front door, special delivery? My dad had ordered them. Laboratory frogs, he called them. Said they were ours; we could let them loose in a kiddie pool in the basement;