Have just learned the term “slut’s wool” for dust bunnies

Nothing spurs poem-writing like having a batch of student essays that need feedback urgently: a craft talk

Woman putting on deodorant on her bus commute…my queen

“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional” the poem:

Today’s Featured Poem: “Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/hungry-...

Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”

Today's Featured Poem: "Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/visitat...

Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing

"I am proliferating signals. My definitions of noise becoming noisy: shifting, untrackable. I push on." Introducing the inaugural essay in our Staging Style series, "Beyond Craft: Six Recent Experiences with Noise" by Kelly Hoffer (@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social). nereview.com/beyond-craft...

Past Kelly cleaned the kitchen before she left for the weekend and boy do I love her

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Robin Blaser has a book called Pell Mell and I think that’s a great title

I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Drinking three beverages of various temperatures to achieve homeostasis, or how I became Goldilocks in my office

Shout out to my partner who just dropped off the book I am teaching this afternoon at my office—it felt magical like having your mom drop off mcdonalds for lunch at elementary school

P.S. @daybreakjung.bsky.social says "Each page hums with questions of devotion and doubt" and @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social called the book "a portrait of my brain lit up as I am just about to sneeze," if you need any more encouragement to check it out ;)

There was an elderly chihuahua named Billie at the poetry reading last night, and now I have decided every literary event needs a familiar

Adding jalapeño flavored potato chips to my egg sandwich—get on my level

really enjoyed @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social 's 2024 poetry chapbook with Tilted House Press, _the photo I don't write about_, a really sweet book letting medium cutely but powerfully work out the themes

I can feel my poems getting angrier

Um lol “We don’t just review Paris” Did @tacobellquarterly.org write this?

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

A man just went “ah!” when encountering the cold as he was leaving my local market

Was feeling some shame about how often I hear my neighbor’s vacuum in comparison to my own slovenliness, but then discovered they have a cleaning service 😎

My first book of poetry coming soon from Black Square Editions.

I can feel my poems getting angrier

Lisa Robertson

I did a full day of work today, which is to say a full day of academic work, which is to say 4 hours of concentrated typing into my silly little computer

Bringing the energy into 2025

I do not understand people who line up before their zone is called at the airport

My 2yo nephew has been saying “Oh, brothers!” as his lament of choice

I know I’m on vacation because I spent hours reading a novel both today and yesterday

Playing roulette with shishito peppers

Sicknasty poetry from @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social for Chrimbo & what a killer closing line 🌟🌟🌟

you become the orange. / I call it again, a slice at a time. / my tongue lets me make of you a hymn.

@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social !!

Today’s Featured Poem: “An exercise in which I try to see blue in the red flame.” by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from Issue 4 of Works & Days. Read here: poems.com/poem/an-exer...

The joy when my undergrads turn in good poems. The absolute joy.

Eating popcorn from a bowl with a spoon like it’s cereal

Not my employer institution refusing to divest from genocide and THEN sending me a Giving Tuesday email. Thank you for the opportunity to refuse.

Graham Foust, "Conceptual Poem" from Time Down to Mind: www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Who do I have to follow on here to see memes about Biden pardoning his son at the last minute

It's our Year in Reading list for 2024! With recs from Aditi Machado, Temperance Aghamohammadi, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @syntacticon.bsky.social, Tessa Bolsover, Toby Altman, Elijah Guerra, Andrea Quaid, Jonathan Gharraie, & @aliciawright.bsky.social— annuletpoeticsjournal.com/2024-Year-in...

Eating the feast of many potatoes—first course mashed potatoes, second course jalapeño potato chips, who knows what’s next

Semicolons in casual emails are trying too hard—em-dash or bust

This is good @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @nightboat.bsky.social poems.com/poem/michigan/

Calling something “enviable” is rhetorically interesting because it allows you to recognize vice in others but stay virtuous (I don’t envy it but one could). A hypothetical compliment.

I was grading some student papers and was reminded how strange and beautiful this poem is. Jean Toomer’s “Beehive,” from Cane (1923).