Historically and still today, most great literature is self-published (“vanity”) or published by someone’s friend or a small press. You shouldn’t limit your reading to large presses b/c that’s not where stuff really “happens.”

not sure I have too many NH contacts here, but if you’re near the Lakes Region and want to be in poetry community, I hope you’ll join me 2nd Fridays in Laconia starting September 12!

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Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I needed this good news today.

ok but is there a better feeling than asking your public library to order a book and then getting to be the first person to borrow it?

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feeling more and more like it’s not that i’m done working on a poem, but the poem is done working on me. and then it can leave me, and live

Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

oh Alice 💔 the first poet to take me deep into words. rest easy & boundless thank you.

the new ANMLY is stellar

favorite poems/books/essays/etc about mothers/being mothered/mothering? especially the complex ones. (sunday is a rough day for me so i’m gonna do a big reading & writing day to just be in it, in case you wanna join me)

broke the 100 sonnet barrier w/ @airbudhockey.bsky.social during NaPo this year - this one’s up at Bloof for a bit!

back at my lil newsletter

hey NH, i’ll be here tomorrow w/ some poemzines and other little weirds

Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

stellar mail day thanks to @thedaybooks.bsky.social

Luna Moth Zine Fest is this Saturday at 11 in Salem NH! Tell your friends!! See you there!

lots of drafts up at the Bloof blog

already up to our nonsense

happy poetry month, fools

i’ll be drafting & flailing all month at the @bloofbooks.bsky.social blog, always in good company. poemjoy incoming!

Not going to AWP? Going to AWP, but feeling burned out? Avoiding an ex, shitty classmate, or rival??? We've got you with four virtual events, starting TONIGHT! All events start at 6:30pm EST. Email or DM me for the Zoom links!

Email us at [email protected] for the Zoom link!

one little way of keeping on / the lake is still frozen but the air isn’t

i just made a spreadsheet to track a new project i am lowkey obsessed with writing because of @thedaybooks.bsky.social & it is bringing me so much unexpected joy 🐐

i’ve kept a candle lit for Sam Nordquist today. trans people deserve peace and joy and life. believing this is not enough. if i thought begging would work i would beg you. if you’re not taking action to protect trans people at this point i just don’t know how to reach you.

just a guy with hormonal acne wearing two l.l. bean sweatshirts doing the plow-is-coming-car-thing

sometimes in trans writing group the prompt becomes watching a bowl of snow melt

if you’re somewhere that drips & freezes i cannot recommend enough, this week especially, studying your icicles often & with slow care

wolf moon bedtime read

sitting in that bubble of late sunday afternoon where the soup is just unchopped vegetables and the tears are just a void pre-headache feeling and hoping i can conjure both into being

my silly little newsletter is back at jayjayrowan.substack.com - it’s free & sometimes there’s dancing (not this time)

when you set out to split a lime you create the suggestion that all limes will split — @jayjayrowan.bsky.social #poem for day 10 of #NaPoWriMo bloofbooks.com/2024/04/10/d...

how often do you study your own lines: how much time do you take to do this: do you apply your lines to yourself and with what frequency: do you take yourself line by line: — @jayjayrowan.bsky.social day 2 bloofbooks.com/2024/04/02/d...

one of my gawdkids (age 2.5) is in love with the moon and took me outside many times tonight so we could lay on the porch to behold it

just some questions answering themselves during this morning’s huge outage

kicking off 🐐 season by going on a tirade about dunkin donuts to my platonaspouse as gawd intended

maybe we shouldn’t have built a world where the most exquisite morning sky can be seen over the Market Basket

oh to be out at dusk to witness the evening illumination of the Dunkin’

mental health care is starting to feel like that thing where we’re all just venmo-ing back and forth the same meager funds to get by & while i deeply appreciate showing up/being shown up for, i also want better for all of us so much it rips me open

in a pmdd hole, battling the beast (aka crying in the bath)

We’re open, please come hang with us and submit!

happy potatoes & molasses to all who celebrate

I'd have an easier time with radical acceptance if there were more ninja turtles involved