When did residential ceiling fans start looking so weird? We need to replace one in our house and I'm like: WTF is this?

THANK YOU to Ariel Basom for hosting last night's Collections reading at Hugo House. And to the other great writers: James Keith Smith, @riverhallpoet.bsky.social, Rosa Singer, Isla McKetta, Sara Ramos-Amador, Jalyn Renae Fiske, and Hoard Explorer. I feel lucky to have been among such great writers!

I am not sure that I have ever felt so disappointed in so many people as I do right now. Those I seem to be the least disillusioned with are fellow poets and artists. Thank you for seeing the world so clearly, in all its fantastic and devastating realness. It's hard to hold it all, I know.

If you’re in the Seattle area, I’ll be reading at Third Place Books Seward Park tonight as part of the release of Campfire Stories: San Juan Islands, edited by Dave & Ilyssa Kyu and published by Mountaineers Books. 7-8p. Join us! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/ilyssa...

I usually hate September. But this is next level. Guys, I am not ok. Like. I don't know what I feel right now. It's a massive shift. Terror. I think it's terror. The kind that's slow and paralyzed and helpless. Abandoned on a beach, nowhere to run, and a tsunami pulling the water out to the ocean.

I am feeling really fucking burned out by humanity tonight, folks. I don't think I'm alone in that. Feeling pretty hopeless. That's it. That's the poem.

I want to discover some new lit mags! What lit mags have you all had positive experiences with this year? I'm gearing up to do loads of submissions, and I want to expand my list! #poetrysubmission #poetry #literarymagazines #submissions

#writingCommunity #poem #poetry #art

Today’s poem is selected by Molly Zhu as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Torn Map” appeared in Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye, published by Greenwillow Books, 2020. Shared here with deep gratitude.

I am trying to compile a list of Seattle area poets! Let's connect! Are you a Seattle area poet? Do you know a Seattle poet? Lmk if you want to be added: bsky.app/profile/did:...

This poem. Why does this season I love so much make me sad?

There comes a day when the trees refuse to let you pass until you name them. -Lisel Mueller, from "Your Tired, Your Poor" #everynightapoem #fragment

softly rolling to September

The Taliban today banned poetry.

Be ungovernable but it’s me unable to participate normally in a social event

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/howtocarrywater #poem #books #writing

love love love

❛ We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. Poet Seamus Heaney, who died #OTD in 2013.

Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London)

this is just how it feels sometimes

Today’s poem is selected by Caitlin Cowan (@caitlincowan.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Hurry” appeared in The Kingdom of the Ordinary by Marie Howe, published by W. W. Norton, 2009. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Today’s poem is selected by Noah Falck (@noahfalck.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Not Horses” appeared in Hard Child by Nathalie Shapero, published by Copper Canyon, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Hey, #BlueSky! I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to be part of the selection and editorial process for this next #poetry #chapbook. We would love to receive your #poems about #coping mechanisms - the good, the bad, and inbetween - during this time of #Trump #authoritarianism. See below! #fdt

Perhaps for most birders, the bird in flight too often means the end of an observation. A warbler flits off through the understory; a hawk glides over the tree line; the shorebirds or ducks lift and tear off across the marsh; and it’s on to the next bird.

love this Donna Brook poem

"Rainy City Cars" - my oil painting, 12"x16"

Link me to your latest published poem. I will repost it. I wanna read your poems. <3

"My body a wall with ample space" Whew! 🥰

"This is art, this headache" Felt that in my soul.

"Be joyful. Be brutal. Be your own muse" 🥰

"Keep Going" by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/12/k... From “Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age.” Read/Download the entire collection here for free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

Love this poem! The way it unsettled me was somehow comforting. <3

Link me to your latest published poem. I will repost it. I wanna read your poems. <3

pinballs on the table of heaven— Linda Pastan

#MinimalMonday Sentinel of the stairs. #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #blackandwhite #monochrome #ClassicMono #cats #minimalism #highkey

First artichoke harvest from the garden!

Yum! #booksky

So tired. Twas a good day.

Welp. I bailed off of Twitter back in '22. Man, I have missed the poetry community on SM. My favorite thing was celebrating people for their publications. I've lost touch with so many fantastic people. Can you guys help me find the poetry community again? Where is everyone?