Yes yes yes just got an essay accepted that’s been rejected like a dozen times wheeeeeeee!

Hi poetry babes—hope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1. Submission guidelines here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm... Model contract here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/cont...

Cold but happy last night, on my way to hear Tiana Clark read from her new book SCORCHED EARTH

Transgressive joy last night at Tiana Clark ‘s reading at Smith College from her new book SCORCHED EARTH! Her conversation with Ocean Vuong afterwards was illuminating and cathartic—you can find the recording online with the Smith College Poetry Center ✨💜✨ It was a chilly night but magical!

I’ll be at the free Artists Book Day at the Clark Art Museum this Sunday for Nine Syllables Press- come say hi!

By Jenny George, from her new book AFTER IMAGE.

By Tishani Doshi

Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today! merliterary.com/2025/03/13/a...

Went to the bulb show with my eldest 💜

Helpers this morning

From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke

Mist over the orchard this morning

Loved hearing K. Iver read their poems at Smith College this week 💜

#OtD 3 Mar 1991 Rodney King was brutally beaten by police in Los Angeles. Despite it being caught on film (almost unheard of in those days), the officers were acquitted, and the city went up in flames in what were the biggest riots since 1968 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

Our 2025 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize for poetry is open! Judge: Ellen Bass. We welcome both emerging and established poets, so whether you're publishing for the first time or adding to a brilliant body of work, we want to hear your voice. We’re on Submittable! Full guidelines: calyxpress.org.

remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!

Free subs for Black poets open tomorrow morning 👇

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

shout out to all the parent writers. to all the projects started and then withered because a kid had a cold, or fell when you were jotting an idea down, or started a bath and jumped in still dressed. for the conferences and fellowships and sub windows missed. shout out to y’all who keep coming back.

Reposting with alt text: I did this just now and it worked.

New substack out today with brownie recipe 💜 open.substack.com/pub/adrie/p/...

This made my day

“He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs—it begins in the language. Look to the language.” -Joseph Brodsky, as recounted by Marie Howe themillions.com/2018/01/tk-t...

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This gorgeous painting arrived from a dear friend this morning to celebrate my MFA graduation 🥰

same. this thread has lots of good alternatives beyond just search engine. 🙏🏽

Such a beautiful review of my chapbook RUPTURE up today @merliterary.bsky.social !! 🌿🌿❄️❄️✨✨ Many thanks to Mindy Kronenberg and the whole MER team especially @marjorietesser.bsky.social merliterary.com/2025/02/11/r...

Evie Shockley reading at @smithcollegepoetrycenter “The point of poetry is not only truth but sustenance”

Starting to read this collection this morning, as a client I am doing a manuscript consult for mentioned it as a collection that has influenced them a lot.

Just started reading Poetry As Spellcasting (it’s been in my TBR for at least a year!) and it’s SO delightful and nourishing go get it right now. By @lisbethwhitney.bsky.social, Tamiko Beyer, and Destiny Hemphill #poetry #poets

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. — that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. “Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks #everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Urgent trans and nonbinary update: I called a passport office and got a sympathetic rep who told me officially any information about gender markers is posted online. Unofficially, they *literally whispered,* they have heard the same rumors about passports being confiscated.

In bed recovering from icky sickness reading The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan 💜🌙

Danez Smith

I’m so honored to have been a finalist for the Lexi Rutnisky prize from @perseabooks ! Took a one night trip to Providence and had a lovely time soaking in art at the RISD museum—pictured is a drawing by Mia Rosenthal, and embroidery by a group of Palestinian women who chose to remain anonymous.

Too often in workshops and classrooms there is a concentration on the poem's garments instead of its life's blood. —Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”

The world is crumbling but we must go on. Agents + writers: I may be looking for one more southern nonfiction project for fall 2026. Literary nonfiction, essays, and cultural criticism highly welcomed. Anthology projects need a short proposal + list of confirmed contribs. DMs are open for pitches.

Made it out on a snowy walk before the big storm. Loving this chapbook by Destiny Hemphill, from Honeysuckle Press.