Today is scary. My first poem has officially been published to Rust & Moth! It’s been such a weird and long road to get here but I’m a published writer (of sorts) now. I don’t know what to do now but be hopeful that you enjoy it. Thanks. Bless.

Had a good and productive Halloween! Wrote two poems and submitted three essays to it mags! Off to Hot Springs, Arkansas in the morning for the first annual poetry festival!

Another big rewrite this month but I have some ideas 🫣

Amen Thompson has grown a lot this off-season. #Rockets

I was given some flowers after a reading I did last night!

Check out the audio reading of the work too, it was a delight to read ;)

#dogyard is back with our last editor interview for a while. Over the next week, we'll be posting some fun stuff and hanging out! Even if you hate my lame interview, please take the time to thank our editors and those that helped get us here. It's been a blessing and so much love all of our mutts!

The semester starts tomorrow. I’ll update this thread with teachings and discussions about each book as we discuss them throughout the semester! I’m missing a few that are in transit or on pre-order but about 18 books this semester for two classes and then a workshop that only has one. #booksky

Today, #dogyard debuted our classical section. In my intro, I identified the importance of literary heritage. It truly means the world to me to know that I am apart of something larger than myself. With the arts being attacked, it is important to think of the past and the future we CAN build.

So blessed for the reception. This mag is only a month and a half old and was only an idea that started in April. A great and dedicated staff that truly cares about literature and the work that we do. Love love love the #writingcommunity.

Constant work this summer and I cannot exaggerate the amount of books I bought for class this week. I’ll post what a semester in an #MFA program looks like soon. Check out what we’re doing at @dogyardmag.com because we have a lot of posts up soon! #booksky #writingcommunity #writer #writing #dogyard

Entirely not the move. Let me know if you have any online book clubs for poetry that you participate in 😭

I’m heartbroken to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. I’m blessed for the door they opened and paved the way for Spoken Word and performance poets. Andrea’s work in Button Poetry was a god-send for my teenage years and really allowed me to see this light that we all work in. Thank you, Andrea.

Check out our first book review done by the brilliant @lillian-durr-art.bsky.social! Lillian covered the awe-inspiring debut from @cdeskilson.bsky.social! dogyard mag is accepting fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and more! #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poetry #review #bookreview

Listen, I know it’s an art form. BUT! Ordering poems is the most bureaucratic process of writing. I’m at this step and it makes me want to NEVER WRITE AGAIN haha. Bless all y’all who have multiple books, I’m drowning in # 1

I joined my first book club today! A bit nervous bc I don’t know the vibe but I’m excited! #writer #poet #writingcommunity

yet my poor country Shall have more vices than it had before, More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever

Started the rewrite of my manuscript today and I am truly a little bit lost. Happy with the project, frustrated with pieces. Alas, the work continues. How many rewrites have you done for a project? #writer #writers #writingcommunity #poetry #wip #create

You’ve probably seen a notification from us, but I (along with some great friends) started a literary mag. It’s a big undertaking but the notes and reception has been so, so beautiful thus far. I’m so grateful for this. Blessings always. Check out dogyardmag.com and bluesky @dogyardmag.bsky.social

Apparently using em dashes are a common indicator of AI?? I’m losing it. They’ve taken so much from me, but they can’t take her. #writing #writingcommunity

Moving into my new home for the next three years! I even have a garden now!!

The one day every 5 months where you submit EVERYTHING and then wait again <3

Had a job interview today and I will always love them. Yes, please ask me random questions where you are required to listen to me ramble about things that do NOT answer your question!

This week I started a CNF project and I cannot lie, I may be in love.

Just had a conversation about poetry so enlightening that I feel like I got beat up continuously for 45 years. But hey! I give my first live poetry reading in years next week!

Geffrey Davis ends every class with the quote “Get your breath back” which is very funny in context. I wonder if that quip inspired this poem.

Grateful to have had Joy Priest speak to my class- I’ll give you the advice she departed with. “There’s a child in you that loved reading, tap into that.”

Happy trans day of visibility to those wanting to live—quietly, loudly, mezzo piano/forte—at the pace of their own time and need, their lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

Constantly inspired by the timing poets can work in. I went two years creating 8 poems and have wrote 60 in the span of a few months. The body is so often a well, waiting.

I’m reading The Art of Syntax after a professor recommended it to me. WOW! I love being reminded how centrical music is to poetry, language, and communication. I love love love.

What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.

today i accomplished a lifelong goal

Submitted some poems for the first time ever and let me just say that I am mentally unprepared to handle this stress

Just talked Star Wars lore for 40 minutes, I’m healed from the drudge of grad school

Reading “Late Wife” by Claudia Emerson for class this week, my partners cat will be taking over my teaching for this week.

Spending Sunday walking to a bookstore and sitting on a bench memorial, delayed my TBR by another week.