Tagged Philadelphia Zoo mural. On my way to DC for my poetry reading. #beltwaypoetry

My poem “Born Ready” is the poem for August 12th: open.substack.com/pub/secondco...

I read #Zone3 for this month's newsletter. July is free to all subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

Brooklyn #nokingsday

The snowy pre-alps in the distance, as seen from the Casteli di Vezio ruin in Varenna, Italy almost two weeks ago. #lakecomo #beautifulviews

I’ve got flash fiction “Stuck” in this fine journal. Check it out. Also, I’m interviewed on Pod—ette. I’m speaking slightly too fast but I say where the story came from and how I’m writing into this political time.

I’m thrilled to be the feature poet for a week

I’m in Milan, about to start a group trip to Lake Como for a plein air watercolor class. This sky gives me hope for the week since every day all day rain is forecasted, and today the weather app indicates 100% rain. I may yet be able to use that half pan of cerulean. #pitturaadacquarello #bluesky

#bluesky #caturday

You could say I’m flying high to have my flash nonfiction “Evening Flight” published at Airplane Reading. It started its literary life as a pantoum, but grew out of that dress. #airplane #microessay #art airplanereading.org/story/5141/e...

“Miss Jessie Just Let Rhonda Sit There with Her Apple” by Della Wells, 2006, Collage, at the Outsider Art Fair

Some blue sky in contrast

I look at variety in Five Minutes and elsewhere open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

RIP Roberta Flack. Her most famous songs light up areas of my young childhood because my mom would play that record on repeat, singing along to parts of it.

This weekend, write your way into existing mythologies, driven by the ideas, interests, and characters you simply can’t shake. This craft intensive will include close readings, small group discussions, and...

I’m helping IFAW create a better future for animals everywhere. With your support, we can build a world where animals and people thrive together. Today, Feb 16th, is World Whale Day.

Whatever You Think Will Happen Next, It’s Even More Grotesque www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...

“He drove/and I rode, leaning with each turn and jerking above/each rutted groove” and We saw them in moments/that flew” “sitting in our own boxes/of wonder or ennui”. So many good lines in Anne’s superb poem.

I’m delighted to have a poem up at Poets for Science: poetsforscience.org/see-through/

Young Edward Gorey in a Butterfly Chair. Posted by The Edward Gorey Trust on IG

This month's What Where: Literary Journals is free to all subscribers. I read work from two literary journals in Hawai'i: Aloha open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

Here’s some leavening levity:

It’s with trepidation and certainty both that I embark on reading the memoir of @carolynforche.bsky.social I think Artemis likes it because she can smell the scent of my fingertips.

I’m sharing this again with the correct afternoon time. It’s a fun class where you learn how to quickly evaluate the journals that are the best match for your poems. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...

Full statement from our Senior Director of Climate Policy, Anna-Marie Laura: oceanconservancy.org/news/preside...

On the way to Manhattan this morning, I glanced at the book the man seated next to me was reading, and it was the same book that two and a half hours later, the man seated opposite me on the train to Brooklyn would be reading. Feels like a recommendation.

Quiet snowfall in what I hope is not the last night of democracy.

Writing prompt

I’m teaching a new poetry publishing class starting next month. Matching poems to the right journals and writing poems inspired by journals. Check it out:

The Winter issue of The Westchester Review is here for your reading and listening pleasure. @amgraue.bsky.social and I are responsible for selecting the poets. #litjournals

End of December’s newsletter is on The Hudson Review, and my resolution for 2025 is to get back to writing these by the 3rd week of the month. open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

The intimate subject, the tenderness and mutual need, the brushstrokes of shadow. Has the person gone or is the time approaching?

Frozen wetland, Christmas travel. #amtraknortheast

Blue sky in a window reflected in a mirror, Lake Oswego #blueskies

#saddleroadpress represented at the 29th Poets House Showcase.

open.substack.com/pub/whatwher... This month I look at writing in Canary and Terrain.

In other news: www.livescience.com/animals/orca...

I walked along the river from the Tarrytown train station to the one at Philipse Manor—the latter’s depot being the home of The Hudson Valley Writers Center. I think I should ride up here more frequently simply to walk by this #SleepyHollowLighthouse.

Looking for a great read? Take a look at current and back issues of @westchesterreview.bsky.social www.westchesterreview.com @amyholman.bsky.social and I, with our readers Jay Ward and Michael Quattrone, select and present the best poetry that comes our way. We hope you think so too.

I guess it’s time to bring this back out again.

Thanks, Artemis. #caturday

A poem by Jane Medved from her new collection Wayfarers chosen by Marianne Boruch for #gridbooks, a book that reels from the sudden disappearance of the poet’s nephew whose helicopter crashed in the ocean.

I enjoy reading and writing pantoums—I think I’ve succeeded once—and here is one by Paisley Rekdal that I particularly like: poets.org/poem-a-day

Inadvertent art: cloud in the ceiling sky above small house with blue and red roof, set inside a door, and a field of buttercups. #subwaystation

I discovered in the post election dread last week a poem I’d written quickly for an ekphrastic challenge that had landed as a finalist in July of ‘23. Excuse typo capital S in the last line. #theekphrasticreview #sewingmachine #umbrella