I’m incredibly grateful and honored to have made The Granum Foundation Prize shortlist! www.granumfoundation.org/news/granum-...

You can never have enough poetry in your life! Collections from our Raised Voices series by @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @roqueraquel.bsky.social, and others are 15% off on @bookshop.org from October 14 to November 5! We got the hook up with promo code LOVEBOOKSELLERS.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Next Saturday at JustBook_ish in Dorchester, MA. We would love to see you.

Pleased as punch to have a new story in the latest issue of @funfunfunicular.bsky.social! Big thanks to everyone involved. The issue looks terrific.

One of Amorak Huey’s two poems in Shō No. 7! ⤵️

Free submission for BIPOC poets are now open!

Many thanks to @domkeykong.bsky.social and @johnnycordova.bsky.social for including my poems “From the Great Depression” and “Summer Evening” in the latest issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social! It’s a beautiful issue. #poetry #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders

Many thanks to @rhetttrull.bsky.social for including my poem “Concert Dress” (based on memories from my past life as a musician) in Cave Wall #18! #poetry #poets #poems #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders #cavewallpress

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the Shō Poetry Prize for our summer issue: Christian J. Collier for his poem “Nocturne.” Congratulations, Christian! “Nocturne” and two other poems by Christian J. Collier will be published in Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025). Get your copy at: tinyurl.com/shono7

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Two new poems out in Diode Poetry Journal (@diodeeditions.bsky.social)! diodepoetry.com/caycedo-kimu... #tulelake #heartmountain #minnienegoro #japaneseamericanincarceration #japaneseamericaninternment #dontrepeathistory #dueprocess #fairnessforall #socialjustice #wechoosewelcome

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Coming soon: Shō No. 7 | Summer 2025 ✨ Cover art: “Interim” by Tanya Rastogi (@tanyarastogiart). Our summer issue features 67 poems by 48 poets, whose names are listed below. Preorder Shō No. 7 at: tinyurl.com/shono7 Issues will ship in July.

As does @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social!! ❤️❤️❤️

⚡ Gordon Square Review is back! ⚡ Issue 15 is out today with 17 new writing about sacrificial sisters, fleas and conspiracies, epigenetics and Modern Standard Arabic, Jackie Chan and Chick-Dumpling’s Chief Accounting Officer. Check out the full issue now! www.gordonsquarereview.org

Many thanks to the editors of Gordon Square Review and all the folks at @literarycleveland.bsky.social for including my poem “Girl at a Sewing Machine” in the new GSR issue! www.gordonsquarereview.org/caycedo-kimu... #poetry #poems #poets #poetryreaders #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #edwardhopper

Many thanks to the amazing team at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for including my poem “Coyotes Came Out of the Desert, 1945” in RHINO 2025! #poetry #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders

JUNE 7: Help us to welcome a new RHINO into the world! Featuring readings by contributors and an open mic, this is a party you don't want to miss. 🦏 Save your spot: bit.ly/rhinoparty25

Mark your calendars: Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! We’ll be reading for our winter issue, Shō No. 8.

A Mother’s Day poem about my mom. ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/firstsession...

Shō No. 7 in progress!

An amazing evening of moving poetry by Robert Pinsky and wonderful friends.

“We stand up for our values, and we aren't prepared to sacrifice those values for federal funding." laist.com/news/arts-an...

The Manzanar Committee is grateful for the steadfast leadership of the @jamuseum.bsky.social The Japanese American National Museum made headlines after the institution’s board chairman Bill Fujioka told the Los Angeles Times that JANM would continue to embrace DEI hyperallergic.com/1002373/japa...

Author copies! (Yes, those are tears in my eyes.) So grateful to The Word Works, especially to Nancy White and @bradrichard.bsky.social . Thank you!

Many thanks to the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social editors for including one of my poems and an interview in this beautiful anthology.

Many thanks to the editors at #GoodRiverReview for giving my poem “Search & Rescue” a good River home! www.goodriverreview.com/post/aaron-c...

The opening of my latest story, which can be found in the new issue of @stanchion.bsky.social. The kernel of this piece came from one of @mcarphil.bsky.social's writing prompts. Always grateful for her ideas Buy the issue. Lots of good stuff inside.

Hot off the presses: RHINO 2025! 🦏 Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more! Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino

Metaphor redeems and metaphor makes new. This is what @agdietzman.bsky.social teaches her students in poetry workshop. #NationalPoetryMonth

“Poetry, both in the reading and writing of it, offers us the opportunity to slow down and deepen our experience of life and other people’s lives. It feeds our imagination, our curiosity, and hopefully, our empathy.” — @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth

For @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, making poetry, making art of all kinds, is an entirely human act. That’s what we need more of—humanity! #NationalPoetryMonth

Slapering Hol Press is delighted to announce that @jemmaleighroe.bsky.social’s Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 SHP Chapbook Competition is now available for preorder! www.writerscenter.org/product-page...

Unfortunately, I am not able to be at AWP, but my book is there! Just to clarify—these are pre-release copies of my book. Stop by The Word Works' table (booth 1001).

Running with the Hare by @jemmaleighroe.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition, is now available for preorder! www.writerscenter.org/product-page...

Thank you @beaconpress.bsky.social!

And so it begins again.

I am honored and excited to receive the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry! 🙏🎉❤️

I’m delighted to announce that All Were Limones is now available for preorder from The Word Works! wordworksbooks.org/product/all-...

Me at #AWP25! 3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2 3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St 3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604 3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd

Status Update: We've accepted 40 poems by 28 poets for our summer issue. We're looking for more strong work—there's plenty of room! Send us your best! • Send 3-5 unpublished poems • Simultaneous submissions are fine • Submissions close March 31 • We respond to all submissions in 30 days or less

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

Today would be a great day for an acceptance. 👍

Cover reveal! Some sunshine among the darkness. I am thrilled to share with you the beautiful cover of my debut full-length poetry collection, forthcoming from The Word Works.

Today is Day of Remembrance, commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066 by FDR, leading to the incarceration of about 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. This should never happen again, and sad to say it easily could. My poem “Dad Called It Camp.” shenandoahliterary.org/732/dad-call...

Deborah Rutter was fired this week after a decade as president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She says the center worked hard to expand its audience by broadening the programming, inviting "all manner of arts and artists to our stages. ... I pray that that can be sustained."