"dear my potentate predecessors..." a typewriter poem by Sabrina Alsaffar from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8079918...

"Palm Trees Haiku" a typewriter poem by yours truly from Poems While You Wed! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8079012...

Vietnamese coffee brownies o’clock!

He is a very special fellow. A few thousand other U.S. elected officials could take lessons.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

A shout out and thank you to all of the contributors to our upcoming Great Lakes collection, out 3/10! @cerena.bsky.social @minnesotabrown.bsky.social @gabrielbump.bsky.social @lilacwaabigwan.bsky.social @callenh.bsky.social @lkress.bsky.social @aeheelee.bsky.social

"there are not..." a typewriter poem by Nidhi Singh from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8078106...

Drawing is my passion

It's so hard to get a collection of poetry accepted for publication! Which is why it's a dream to say my latest manuscript, O, WESTERN WIND, won the New Measure Poetry Prize from Parlor Press & Free Verse Editions, as selected by Rodney Jones!

"Welcoming" a typewriter poem by Alexis Foran from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8077200...

Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.

"El Trains Carry More Than People" a typewriter poem by Emma Hospelhorn from the Chicago History Museum! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8076256...

Oh hi

"wrapped like soup" a typewriter poem by Liz Bajjalieh from the Zhou B Art Center poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8075350...

Drawing is my passion

"lovebirds" a typewriter poem by Mars Palomar from Chicago Artisan Market: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8074461...

The cover of this book is, to me, almost unbelievably ugly, but the story itself was great. I love a benevolent alien encounter.

Come for the great @marchxness.bsky.social essay about Tim McGraw's "Everywhere," stay for this line in @suburbanprairie.bsky.social's bio: "A memoirist obsessed with home who just broke her own rule of never mentioning Hofer in an essay..." marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

"In a 2025 interview, Merritt said, “I’m a big believer in the frame. If you go beyond the frame, you’ve really damaged the artwork.'" This @marchxness.bsky.social essay about the Magnetic Fields by @erinvachon.bsky.social is fantastic: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

"Love Language" a typewriter poem by Shane Zimmer from Chicago Artisan Market: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8073576...

Poeming While People Wait at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Chicago! This Wednesday, 2/4 at 7:00 pm at Women & Children First! Come hear me in conversation with Sara Levine about her hilarious new novel THE HITCH! womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2026-0...

"Togetherness" a typewriter poem by Jonah Radeke from Poems While You Wed! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8072670...

Our flying squirrels have never been cuter.

Tomorrow night at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait at the Salonen, Trifonov & Beethoven program! cso.org/performances...

"cruises and bourbon haiku" a typewriter poem by Eric Plattner from Poems While You Wed! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8070840...

Drawing is my passion.

"The Power of Imagination" a typewriter poem by Heather McClelland from the Chicago History Museum! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8069932...

"The beach of our adventures" a typewriter poem by Sam Nassau from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8069046...

Drawing is my passion

Oh hi

"History" a typewriter poem by yours truly from the Chicago History Museum's MLK Day celebration: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8068102...

Drawing is my passion

"Love" a typewriter poem by Rachel Summerfield from Chicago Artisan Market poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8067234...

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

"stewardship..." a typewriter poem by Lisa Farver from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8066328...

"facing old age" a typewriter poem by Caro Macon Fleischer from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8065422...

"walking to process" a typewriter poem by Noel Perez-White from Chicago Artisan Market! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8064516...

"her hair..." a typewriter poem by Bri McLaughlin from Chicago Artisan Market: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8063571...

Drawing is my passion.

For Christmas @martinseay.bsky.social got me SALVAGE by Hedgie Choi & it’s funny & great.

It's the last day to contribute to the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social subscription drive. We are so close to our $16K goal thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. Help to put us over? rosemetalpress.com/support-rose...

"We All Go Down Together" a typewriter poem by Eric Plattner from MLK Day at the Chicago History Museum! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8062666...

Poeming while people wait at the Chicago History Museum!

I do not think the president of our country should be insane

"Tradition and Wednesdays" a typewriter poem by Jonah Radeke from Poems While You Wed! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8061801...

It's almost impossible to believe it's been almost a year since Larry Sawyer died. This piece by Mark Tardi at the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social is a lovely remembrance of who he was and why he was awesome as a poet and a person: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/175...

First novel completed in 2026 and it will be a tough act to follow; Thomson’s sentences are spectacular & the surreal plot gave me bizarre dreams. Recommend!

Tomorrow at the Chicago History Museum as part of their Martin Luther King Junior Day celebration! Get a poem while you wait from 12 noon to 2 pm! Peace. Justice. Love. Hope. www.chicagohistory.org/event/martin...

"overflow" a typewriter poem by Bri McLaughlin from Zhou B Art Center! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8060044...