perfectly captures the experience 💙

Still buzzing over the weekend with @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Old friends, new friends, genuinely blown away by the talent in the room. Here's Belgian poet and hip hopper Giovanni Baudonck's performance, inspired by Turner's painting "The Slave Ship." He brought the typhoon alright.

AWP for the rest of us, let's goooo!

spaghetti legs for the win

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

Again, it will drench them. Again, they’ll be surprised. —Samantha Strong Murphey

For those of you who follow Alt National Park Service. #NationalParks jjoycelynch.substack.com/p/the-alt-na...

"This writer was born in a quiet, lovely little city--Indianapolis, Indiana. That small city exists no more than Carthage existed after the Romans had driven plows over the ground where it stood." Booth Tarkington, born on this day in 1869

Malaga https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/malaga-1854

Poetry manuscript phase: writing notes to self like “remove and abandon.”

Speaking of Richard Scarry, here’s my poem “Things That Go” published in Tilted House in 2021:

richard scarry poems?? are everything I never knew I needed??

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

I’m from the Midwest, I only know units of time!

If you're struggling with developing a character, I think it's always a good idea to take something weird about yourself and give it to them. Like an irrational fear or some eccentricity. Even if you've since outgrown it. Give it to them.

Excited to share the blurb reveal for IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD💙💚 Available for preorder now!

ALSO an interesting thread!

fascinating thread.

discovered captain haiku today, and this excellent essay. recommend for anyone interested in travel poetry, the strength (or not) of novelty, and the essential "so what?" www.graceguts.com/essays/fuji-...

some great tips and tricks here 👀

ok I'm listening 👀👀

Venice https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/venice-1874

Book Your Next Trip! The Timeless Appeal of a Travel Romance, a guest post by Priyanka Taslim teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/06/09/b... @bhootbabe.bsky.social @tltkaren.bsky.social

It’s midnight, which means I’m officially the author of TWO WHOLE BOOKS! #WritingCommunity #booksky Welcome to the world, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI! You’ll look so pretty next to THE LOVE MATCH on my bookshelf! Find out more: linktr.ee/priyankataslim

she's here!! can't wait to read BIBI!!

Are you a fan of travel romances? Want to write one someday? Check out my guest post for the Teen Librarian Toolbox about the timeless appeal of travel romances and how to write your own fresh take! Looking for a new one to read? ALWAYS BE MY BIBI is my Clueless meets CRA romcom set in Bangladesh!

my first lotr set and it was so very wow

"We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans--because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings." Maya Angelou,, who died on this day in 2014

poeming on Poland, Ukraine, war, and carrying on

"You are examining these sentences and asking yourself, Is this—not only is this the best it can be —but is it strange, is it charged, is it somewhere we maybe haven’t been before?" this is basically what I'm looking for when reading submissions

“You cannot permanently ruin a piece of writing. You cannot damage it or break it, or harm it in any permanent way. It is not made of glass, or stone. On your worst day as a writer you can only render it as needing for you to go over it again.“ —Richard Bausch

Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.

Alisha Erin Hillam’s @aehillam.bsky.social poem speaks to war’s ability to linger for generations, to hover in architecture and music and culture, but also reminds us to look at all the resilience that emerges in the smallest, most wondrous ways. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/maopolska-...

"The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!" William E. Gladstone, who died on this day in 1898

Have you heard of Michał Piotr Boym? A Pole, born in Lwow (1612), died in Guanxi. Considered to be the first European Natural History Researcher in China. Responsible for creating the first map of China, coining the word "flora" and introducing Europe to fruit such as lychee 🧵

Fishermen on the coast of the sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/fishermen-on-the-coast-of-the-sea-1852

Venetian Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/venetian-night

sorry but I need this

Night in Amalfi https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/night-in-amalfi-1854

Sevastopol https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/sevastopol

Happy Mother’s Day! Although THE LOVE MATCH is a romance novel, one of the most defining and integral relationships in it is between Zahra and her mother. Next up, my fathers and daughters book, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI! #booksky

I’ve donated a signed ARC of my next book, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, to this auction! Please go check out all available items and see if you can help Soumi after the devastating loss of her life savings! www.32auctions.com/organization...

every week my husband asks if I've heard back yet from the tbq and I think he is even more excited for a rejection as he is an acceptance, which is great because it will surely be one or the other

ok this is nuts. we're now #8 on Audible among ALL BOOKS SOLD. can we beat the Yarros machine? LET'S FIND OUT!!! www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...

Sneak peek at the print you’ll get if you preorder ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, my tea estate romcom, from Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ before June 10th* *while suppIies last 👀🫖🌿 Go see the full piece on my Instagram and find out more/get your copy using the Iink in my bio! Art by Thar Chandran

Oh my gosh, that’s my book! If you need a bookish vacation, jet off to a romantic tea estate during a glamorous wedding with Bibi next month! 😍