Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

This is gonna be fun! @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social @grantclauser.bsky.social @jdisip.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @claudiasavage.bsky.social @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online

@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 's chapbook How to Play. @amorak.bsky.social's Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade: www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...

Day 23 of the #sealeychallenge August 23rd- How to Play, Katie Manning This chapbook by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social from features poems inspired by games of childhood, a perfect nostalgia for the end of summer

So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @andotheritems.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more. Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

Please make a writer’s day and send a little something (or a lot) using the Tip the Author links below many of the bios. As ever, thank you for reading! @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-39-sum...

In pedagogy, Jen Hirt brings us a timely and much-needed example of modeling the writing process rather than integrating AI. www.whaleroadreview.com/hirt/

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :) imagejournal.org/2025-the-gle...

Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire": www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/poet...

Very funny podcast on the topic of bad poetry. 💙 I needed this humor today! #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poem @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed through an entire interview before, but @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social made it happen. Thanks to Aaron and Dave for the hilarious conversation about my old poems! www.mybadpoetry.com/a-prayer-cou...

Ending Mother’s Day with this perfect poem by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

Thanks to The Rabbit Room for featuring my poem "Where Death Is Not an Is" from The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman this week. rabbitroompoetry.substack.com/p/where-deat...

Hi. It's my birthday. I'm now the answer to life, the universe, and everything. 😁

Had a blast talking with @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social! Let us know what you think! www.mybadpoetry.com/a-prayer-cou...

I was sorry to miss the launch readings for the new issue of @merliterary.bsky.social, but I’m delighted to have a prose poem called “The Ghost in My Knees” included alongside some really incredible work. merliterary.com/latest-issue/

Happy Tim Curry's birthday to all who celebrate. ❤️

My #AWP25 book haul is glorious! ❤️📚🎉

The San Diego Writers Festival was so fun today! We had a great panel on the writing life moderated by @adamgreenfield.bsky.social, and the featured poets reading in the afternoon was delightful. What a gift to be part of this writing community. ❤️

7 events in 4 cities over 8 days=Lesley not even making a full circuit of the #awp25 Bookfair. But MYCOCOSMIC sold out & I have bright shards of other people’s poems in my head @elegystreet.bsky.social @annhudson.bsky.social @laurencraw.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

Hey! It's an interview with me on KPBS! 😊 music.youtube.com/watch?v=txo8...

You'll need to come find me at #awp25 thanks to my sprained ankle, but I'll be easy to find at the @whaleroadreview.bsky.social booth and at some fun events! *I missed the Taylor Swift anthology reading when I made my graphic, but it's on Saturday at 12:10 on the bookfair stage!

Find us at Booth 948 at #awp25! Our E-i-C @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social will be there most of the time, and we'll have book signings with many delightful contributors and staff!

Here's where to find me next week at #awp25! 😊

Congrats to my @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students on another amazing issue of @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social! ❤️🎉

I'm so happy to have a poem in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social! This is a special one, and I love the art they paired with it.

“The Day After I Turn Forty, a Friend at Church Tells My Son That He Needs a Little Sister” and “More Than It Hurts You” by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. Wow. 🔥 Villain Era for the win. villaineralit.com/2025/02/28/t...

"I quote her to whoever is with me. I plant myself more deeply when others slip away. I keep hoping it’s still possible to win." Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!

Happy Issue Release Day to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!! Founded by our professor @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 😊

New spring issue just dropped!

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @beckyltuch.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social 1/2 www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/poet...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

What ABBA never mentioned is that Dancing Queen is really a figurehead position. All the real power is in the hands of Dancing Parliament.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @kathrynanna.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/02/poet...

Our first FROM THE MAW was a blast. Headliners: @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social and Ari Honarvar Thanks to OB Beans for hosting, @poetrybyemma.bsky.social and @itmebugail.bsky.social for planning/running the event. Looking forward to this @plnuwritingma.bsky.social reading series continuing!

Related: bsky.app/profile/jona... @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

"Thrilled with yesterday's book mail: Katie Manning's Hereverent and Han VanderHart's Larks. Both are Stone Circle contributors, making these arrivals even more special. Can't wait to dive in! Links with more information below⬇️ @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

... so between resurgent fascism and the return of musicals, who's gonna be Sally Bowles in the inevitable Cabaret remake

Oh shit maybe I like poetry

This week in the poetry blogs with @cbeditions.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/02/poet...

If you give me 2 minutes, I'll read you a poem and tell you about this book by @joshrobbinswrites.bsky.social. 😊 youtube.com/shorts/1f9CS...

Being sick sucks, but resting at home has its perks. I'm hoping my sore throat will be healed enough for my friend's Wicked sing-along birthday party tomorrow, but if not, at least my nails are ready. 😊 #mooncat 💚 Serpents of Eden 🩷 Not Today Satan

In that familiar old incompetence I haven't missed, Trump's executive order defines sex as what a person is at CONCEPTION. Fetal sex doesn't begin to differentiate until about 7 weeks into gestation. Which means Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female.

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.