"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..." "Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/17/e...

"when sweetened with a hint of brown sugar and the fourth chamber of my heart." Did not see that coming! Delightful.

Delighted to have a poem up this week in Psaltery & Lyre! Alt text for the photo appearing with the link: a close-up photo of a small wicker basket filled with a variety of wild mushrooms.

"He told me I needed wild mushrooms / dried myself in the oven overnight." "The Chef Told Me" by @magpiedays.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/10/t...

"He had no doubt the mountain range along the horizon held a message" "Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/r...

When you're writing, you come up with clever little devices and think, "I wonder if anyone will ever notice what I've done here?" Well, Sara Stoudt just reviewed my book in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, and she caught every. single. one. I'm thrilled and honored and kind of flabbergasted.

Very grateful to have a new poem from my Ruskin series up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this morning. Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/ruskin-and-the-struggle-of-revelation/

"Rachel Trousdale sees the possibilities in this often-dry form, and stretches beyond it, subverting expectations in her collection, 'Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem.'" Sara Stoudt reviews "Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem" by Rachel Trousdale

Thank you P&L! 🙏❤️

"(un)certainty" by Colette Love Hilliard live today on P&L! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/27/u...

"This is an ancient ritual, a tradition / that some part of me still understands." "Last Supper" by Isaac James Richards psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/20/l...

in case you missed it: my story "Call Us Not Weeds" @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...

Announcing our Best Spiritual Literature Nominees for 2025! We are so grateful for the amazing work Orison Books does with this anthology and so excited for our nominees! 👏 AND you can read all of these poems all on our website!

if you’re in the mood to read my short story about the mystification of love and seaweed, here’s "Call Us Not Weeds," published at Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...

"The waves breaking apart, becoming something more. A stillness then, the damp on her skin, the wind a slap." "Call Us Not Weeds" by Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...

"Waldman’s loyalty seems split between the ethereal realm of transcendence and the vivid quagmire of everyday life. Her poetry contains elements of both because the world contains elements of both—they bleed into each other."

Hoping to see you on Tuesday evening! (It's a good thing I looked this up to share it, because I had the time written down incorrectly...time zones, they are a thing...) Registration info below!

Really grateful to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving this poem a place in their journal today.

This Best of the Net nomination from the wonderful *Psaltery and Lyre* makes me so happy! My short essay, "Time Keeping," is here.

“... poetry is a form of service. Archivist Scissors, then, is an act of stewardship, of care. Both a delight for the ear and a cleansing of the spirit, this book reminds us what great poetry can do.” Michael McCarthy reviews "Archivist Scissors" by Anne Waldman psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/10/b...

Congrats to the nominees! Love seeing @janezwart.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social on this list (psst their poems are beautiful read them!) 🌻

Just finishing my coffee and reading this beautiful @janezwart.bsky.social poem that got nominated for Best of the Net. Love that it's "about" our commonplace phrases, but these neat lil' jigsawing stanzas cover a deep emotional core. So good! @sundresspub.bsky.social @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

I'd been knocking on @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social 's door for a long time, and I was so honored that they chose to publish "Sea Glass, Yellow Basket" -- my 2nd BotN nom is just the icing on the cake. Thanks to Millie and her team! You can read it here: psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/16/s...

“Halfway there, curtains / of sudden rain came down.” "Delivered" by Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/06/d...

We are so excited to share our BEST OF THE NET @sundresspub.bsky.social Nominees!

"Barred Rock hens sing, same measures, over / and over as they pass over the earth" "Favorite Passages" by Daye Phillippo psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/29/f...

She’s a girl, // not born but imagined. Imagination, I say-- / Another word for God." "Another Daughter Poem" by Lisa Dordal. psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/22/a...

Just in case tomorrow really is the day the other shoe finally drops, here is one of my Rapture-trauma poems. "Angel Triptych" appeared in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social almost exactly two years ago.

"and again, i’m digging / for the hand // around my neck" "fossil fuel" by Sunny Dizon psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/15/f...

"I get on my knees every Sunday not to repent but to get close to other beings, to feel connected to them, knees and hands in the dirt, the world bending all around me. " "Church Windows" by Brandi Handley @brandihandley24.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/08/c...

This poem really got to me…irises and all. @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social publishes something wonderful every Monday.

"Here in my fragile house— / a little rain, a little wind, / a little unearned blessing—" "Tivkah" by Anne Myles psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/01/t...

"The cathedrals of the iris don’t last– / in this they are like us, thin-skinned and tender." "An Untended Field" by Lisa Rhoades psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/25/a...

“Andrews’s faith here is not the sort that cuddles you and tucks you into bed, but rather the sort that keeps you awake at night, working out your salvation with fear and trembling.” Stephen A Allen reviews "The Hours" by Matthew J Andrews psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/22/b...

"‘whatever human hands take up with love is holy.’ I want to believe that. And in part I do." "Seferis wrote" by @martin65.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/18/s...

Day 4: “Temple of Hephaestus” by @poetbex.bsky.social in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social. This poem is so immersive and such a joy to read aloud. psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/21/t...

Independent lit journals, now is the time to—oh, what was that? you have been shining? This whole time? Carry on 📚💙 @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social, @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Poetry Northwest, @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, @periodicities.bsky.social, & more!

"Today she watches cloud cover ease off, / scuffs bits of blossom with the edge of her shoe." "Bonded" by Annette Sisson psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/11/b...

Read Rebekah Wolman’s review of @rachelsedelman.bsky.social’s Dear Memphis in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social here: psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/25/b... Find your copy here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Dear-M...

ICYMI: My poem 'Temple of Hephaestus' was published last month by the super @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social 🏛️

"Nothing could have prepared Galilee for the amount of bones in this room." "Fossils in the Garden" by Sophia Alapati @wisdomofthesea.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/04/f...

My poem "Please Hang Up & Try Again" in the the latest issue of @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

This winding almost but never deadend of a poem, this infinite loop.

So excited to read this new review of @rachelsedelman.bsky.social’s Dear Memphis—a must read for those interested in a poetics of the environment, history, and a Jewish family living in the South…📚💙

"All I’m saying is, I could not say, I could not see whose mouth it was carrying me." "Please Hang Up & Try Again" by @johnpauldavis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/28/p... Art: "New Song" by Sarah J. Sloat

Super excited to have a new poem in the wonderful @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social! ‘The Temple of Hephaestus’ was inspired by a trip to Athens a couple of years ago 🏛️

“Edelman treats weighty subjects and complex emotions with masterful nuance, using questions and the comments of others to fill in the dotted outlines and white spaces between the mostly short, often staggered lines of these spare, resonant, abstraction-free poems." Rebekah Wolman on "Dear Memphis"

"This is a shrine for the god of making things" "Temple of Hephaestus" by @poetbex.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/21/t...