“I had never seen poets before, one poet yes but not poets.” From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper): medium.com/@emilymenonb...

I like this poem a lot!

Correction! My zombie binge poem is in the Featured Creator section, not the issue itself. Anyway: I got published BOOYAH! www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/how-t...

I visited the British Library the other day. Of all the books and all the pages in the place, this one presented itself to me.

I'm super happy to be able to share this link to one of my poems, just published in the "Featured Creators" section of the @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social website. Go there! Read it! Or listen to me reading it to you, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/how-t...

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

Rules of nomenclature – Alexandra Citron atriumpoetry.com/2026/04/07/r...

the grief the grief the grief the grief

Now playing: Johnny Cash - Man in Black open.spotify.com/track/7wL9EV...

Having a great time getting stomped into a pulp by the monsters in DEVASTATION SONGS, the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social anthology of Kaiju writing. Too many good ones to highlight so here's an especially stomach-turning monstrosity by @poetbex.bsky.social

Now playing: Baltimora - Tarzan Boy, because oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! open.spotify.com/track/6FwMGM...

Great interview with the creator of Andor, Tony Gilroy.

Interested in poetry in games / games in poetry - including in historical games? Check out the call for papers for our annual conference (Multiplatform) below, which will take place in Manchester in mid-June. manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/...

Rewatching Maarva’s “Fight the Empire” speech. All of #Andor is great, but this bit is especially powerful. youtu.be/TaKrm5txGCQ?...

I have just been made aware of the Swan Car: louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/brook... It's got electric bulbs in the swan’s eyes that glow eerily in the dark! It has an eight-tone, keyboard-operated Gabriel horn! You can shoot steam out of the swan’s beak!

Last summer, on behalf of Granta, Sheila Heti underwent ketamine, DMT, and LSD/MDMA treatments. Her essay about these drug therapies is free to read online until Monday, along with the rest of Granta 174: Therapy.

In case you missed it earlier in the week — maybe other things are occupying your attention these days? — anyway, I had a sweet little poem published by the lovely people @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. It's about the terrible love and fear of being a dad. atriumpoetry.com/2026/02/03/b...

Now playing: Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes - Dadje Von O Von Non open.spotify.com/track/4bkIej...

I don’t get published much, so it’s extra exciting when I do. Thanks very much to Atrium!

I, too, recommend this awesome anthology featuring incredible work by some astonishingly talented poets, hem hem

Downsizing – Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/01/27/d...

I'm super stoked that the next issue will feature my poem, inspired by watching far too many episodes of Fear the Walking Dead after my daughter and her friend made me sign up for Amazon Prime so they could watch White Chicks, which they then gave up on half way through.

Celebrate Ivor Cutler’s birthday by watching one of the most divine pieces of television ever made. Dave Allen *and* Ivor Cutler, how could you possibly resist? youtu.be/6RX1fMWkims?...

Found poem in an English language transcript of a Dutch voicemail

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - My Sister Went to Live on the Moon by @suefinch.bsky.social

Is there a more perfect last line than this? #books #writing #gatsby #fitzgerald #lastline

Now playing: Alienbaby Collective - Breakage open.spotify.com/track/0eLwro...

No reason, just LOL. Prints of this @daveyjones.bsky.social banger are available from philiplarkin.com/product/lark... #poetry #philiplarkin #viz #space #doom

"A hedgehog in a thicket" 🦔 Really lovely poem, this. From Jo Matthews' debut chapbook, Sunlight Later: www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/product-page...

New side quest unlocked: keep the numbers in sync FOREVER

A masterpiece.

Radiophrenia 2026 Open Call – now open for submissions. We are pleased to announce that Radiophrenia will be returning to the airwaves in September 2026. You can find details of our new open call for radio works and how to submit in the link below. submissions.radiophrenia.scot

Happy birthday to me! I just heard I got a poem accepted by a cute poetry site. Gonna be published next year :) No it's not the one about frangipane (bsky.app/profile/benb...)

Now playing: The Velvet Underground - Beginning To See The Light open.spotify.com/track/7nDdOt...

I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...

All-time banger, this one

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Sharing this little beauty by Jo Matthews from her debut poetry collection "Sunlight Later" on Cathexis Northwest Press: www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/product-page... - ten years of love and loneliness, birth and motherhood, grief and grace, and the search for the sacred in the natural world

Now playing: Alienbaby Collective - Waves II open.spotify.com/track/26IQM9...

And YES! Another submission opportunity! We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest. Check out the website for submission details... roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

We have opened for our very first poetry prize! Check out our website for full submission details roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...

Now playing: Can x MF DOOM Incredible track from the Tom Caruana Inner Space remix album. tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com/track/mf-doo...

On #NationalPoetryDay I’m super happy to share that my poem “Wasting time on the internet again” has been included in the latest anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social :) Wanna read the poem? Go buy the book! It's called “100 poems for the 21st century”. and you can get it on Amazon.

EXCITING NEWS! Our newest print anthology - 100 poems for the 21st Century - will be available from Amazon within the next 72 hours! Thank you so much to our amazing poets who have really brought this book to life😍💎😍

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

Don't miss this, poets – the new wave, AND your chance to appear in a future one. I have two years' worth of spaces to fill. Help a publisher out? 🥹😉