Beautiful books from @lityoungstown.bsky.social bookfair— @wickpoetrycenter.bsky.social, @eulaliabooks.bsky.social, @poetcamp.bsky.social, @nightlightbooks.bsky.social, and more 📚💙 (Intermezzo picked up in the Orlando airport)

Thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for this photo of me reading my protest poem "What They Did" on the opening night of this weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival. Such a full and fulfilling several days!

@davidjbauman.bsky.social and i’s haul from @lityoungstown.bsky.social

Editor @amorak.bsky.social at the @riverriverbooks.bsky.social table today at @lityoungstown.bsky.social 🌊 🌊 📚 We had such a great day selling books!

With Lauren Camp at @lityoungstown.bsky.social, where we sold out of An Eye in Each Square! 💙📚

Spectacular NEOMFA poets El Bentivegna & Julia Cilano spotted at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 👀👀 Come say hi 👋 we’re here til 4pm 📚

Looking forward to 3pm at @lityoungstown.bsky.social! Join Samantha Imperi for “Prosody and the Pleasure of Poetic Soundscapes,” & I’m presenting “Villanelle Exploration.” #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry

Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle in the latest issue of Painted Pebble Lit Mag. & we met PPLM staff member Nikki “db” Fragala Barnes today at @lityoungstown.bsky.social. Read the issue here: paintedpebblelit.com/issue-5-fall.... #poetry #poem #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

Enjoying the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Lit Youngstown literary conference. #booksky

I had such a wonderful time reading with @crayfishmag.bsky.social at @lityoungstown.bsky.social last night! It's always a pleasure to share my work & listen to others share theirs, & to be reminded of just how much goodness and beauty still lingers in the world.

Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

I’m talking about the villanelle on Saturday at @lityoungstown.bsky.social! #poets #poetry #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews

I am delighted to announce I’m going to be one of the readers at next year’s @lityoungstown.bsky.social First Wednesday Series, in March.

So many NEOMFA students/alum/faculty involved in this year's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 📝📚 We're leading workshops & discussions on The Necropastoral, Poetic Soundscapes, Small Press Ecologies, & more 💜 Learn more: www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/b...

We just registered for Lit Youngstown this morning! Early bird registration through September 15 🐦📚💙 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author LAUREN CAMP is a featured speaker, and we can’t wait! 👇

Who’s goin?

WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT is the perfect size anthology for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. (Poems by 24 contributors!) Order your copy today & enjoy this #Lammys2025 nominated book! www.smallharborpublishing.com/anthologies/... #sealeychallenge #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! A close look at writer intent Writing for the Stage w/ Lilace Mellin Guignard, Judith Sornberger What the Writer Thinks They Wrote w/ Cherise Benton @ShantiArts @WilkesUWriting #WritingCommmunity #amwriting #writesky www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

#amwriting #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #writingcommunity #writesky inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Small Press Pitching & Publishing w/Jen McConnell Doron, Kim Jacobs-Beck Small presses are a wonderful way to get published. No agent, creative control, niche genres. Cons: author does most of the marketing #WritingCommunity @milkandcakepr @RoadSidePress www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Bookfair! After Happy Hour, Brainchild, CLE State U Poetry Ctr, Crisis Chronicles, Dodge, Driftwood, Elizabeth's Bookshop, Eulalia, Last-Picked, Milk & Cake, Neighborhood Bookstore Pdcst, Painted Pebble, POP! Art Bks Culture, Rescue, 7 Kitchens, Wick, Wilkes MFA www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading w/ Richard Klin, Daniel Lassell, CE Mackenzie, Christopher Sims @dlassell @cemackenzie @TxReviewPress @madhouse_press @PorchTN @lighthousewrite #poetry #creativenonfiction #poetrycommunity www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Writer-blogger Rebecca Moon Ruark in conversation with prose features David Huebert and Sean Prentiss #fiction #creativenonfiction #WritingCommunity @PrentissSean @NOBA_Books @norwichnews www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp How to Make Luck: Writing in Praise of the Ordinary We need to keep finding joy and celebrating gratitude. @GCConservancy @POETSorg @BlackEarthInst @TheSchooner #poetrycommunity www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Necropastoral: Poetry Workshop w/ El Bentivegna, Michelle Duke, Kristen Tetzmann Writing Poetry from Invisible Disabilities w/ Kate Caraballo #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting @NEOMFA www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

We highly recommend learning about poetry chapbooks from Mary! She's amazing!

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest! Sessions like writing workshop Metaphor at the Root: Generate, Inspire, Activate w/ Holly M. Wendt. Use real objects to create grounded, substantive metaphors and explore generative possibilities. #amwriting www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading w/ Joseph Hall, @marjoriemaddox @jamiemarich Cecilia Woloch @WPSU @NAtlanticBooks @NEAarts @FulbrightPrgrm @PushcartPrize #poetry #memoir #poetrycommunity #LiteraryArt #conference www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Registration's open for the Fall Lit Fest! Writing Minority Parenthood–Jewish Parents on Raising Minority Children w/ Allison Pitinii Davis, Carly Sachs, Philip Terman, @swerdlow_david Writing Jewish Summer Camp in Turbulent Times w/ @aaronkreuter www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Registration's open for Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest! Reading w/ Kristy Belton, Nancy McCabe, Dora Odarenko, Robert Wallace #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #literaryfiction @ViragoBooks @RegalHouse1 @outpost19 @CamCatBooks @umissouripress @MainStreetRag www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Researching & Writing the Past w/Christina Fisanick, Reframing Appalachian Stereotypes for Social Justice w/Susan Boser, Wide Branches, Deep Roots: How Appalachian Wisdom Can Help Us All in the Fight for a Sustainable Future w/Amanda Hayes, Jessica Jones​ www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

16 Great Books About Conservation #WorldConservationDay #conservation #nature #outdoors #readthis

Hey Poetry Writers! Let's talk chapbooks with the one and only @marybid! #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwritingpoetry #poetrychapbook #onlinepoetryworkshop @NEOMFA @uakronpress.bsky.social www.lityoungstown.org/post/next-st...

Hey writers who have read at any of our mics! We're putting together a 10 year anniversary anthology. Please send us your work! We're pretty excited about this. #FallLiteraryFestival #WinterWritingCamp #FirstWednesdayReaderSeries #YWCAWomensArtShow www.lityoungstown.org/lit-at-the-m...

Hey bird lovers, art lovers, lit lovers! Check out this raffle to win a stunning handsculpted birdbath. Your ticket purchase helps put some wind in our wings. Free shipping to lower 48 #tonyarmeni #sculpture #birds #birdbath #raffle www.lityoungstown.org/bird-bath-ra...

Hey literary writers, readers, educators, editors, students, program directors! Join us for the 9th annual Fall Literary Festival. Incredible featured writers, presenters from Canada and U.S. coast-to-coast, book fair, National Pasta Day, open mic. Yeah. www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

Crazy honored to be hosting these prose poetry luminaries! Join us for a livestream. Pour yourself a ginger beer and put on your best slippers. www.lityoungstown.org/post/in-cele...

I had the honor of teaching a course on author websites at the Lit Youngstown Winter Writing Camp. I had so much fun! Look at this beautiful location! 😍 @lityoungstown.bsky.social

Your mom called: she said to bring her back one of our AWP stickers 🍑 📚

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

Gregory Orr

Two poems just published in Orbis magazine #poetry

In six weeks, we open to full-length poetry manuscript submissions. May 1-June 30. No fee necessary. Come see what River River Books is all about! 🌊 🌊📚 riverriverbooks.org

I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

Good news Sunday! Two proposals accepted by @lityoungstown.bsky.social.

@lityoungstown.bsky.social here we come! Very excited to join @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & @benkline.bsky.social & Nin Andrews in October in Ohio!