What an honor! My book Games for Children is on the short list of the Chicago Review of Books awards! Thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social !

"I want to know what I am capable of, or what language is capable of." Jackson Holbert's interview with @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social on his new book “Games for Children” (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/04/i...

We're grateful for the Black poets whose work enriches, shapes, and challenges our poetry landscape. This week, we feature stunning poets: NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (@nikkimwalls.bsky.social), PATRICIA SPEARS JONES (@pksj51.bsky.social), KEITH S. WILSON (@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social), and JUNE JORDAN.

In 6 yrs we will see movies about how being ICE agents made the ICE agents so sad.

This is a concentration camp. Don't let him or anyone call it a "migrant facility." apnews.com/live/trump-p...

In case it isn’t clear, this is a concentration camp. Please call your reps, tell them to demand complete stoppage of the use of Guantanamo Bay as a Trump’s concentration camp, and use that language so there’s no mistaking what we’re talking about here.

Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.

Rewatching interstellar and some of the dialogue in this movie is atrocious

capitalism is a plane that only has six people on it but still won't let any of those people move to the empty seats in first class

I am getting a lot of new follows from people recently adding bluesky. can I ask someone who followed me recently: how are you following people? Is bluesky recommending people you may know? I added this a while ago when it felt like there was only like 3 people on here so I'm not sure lol

Folks: A number of the most committed fascist trolls are coming over here and trying to create a presence, presumably bc Xitter will quickly lose its value as everyone migrates. One way to combat them is to use @numb.comfortab.ly 's list to mass block them.

Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone. Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.

[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole... [but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog

Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.

I hate ice breakers but I just thought of one: name a time when you were flabbergasted I just want to see a room full of people reckon with the word flabbergasted

i was born in the wrong decade: i was meant to be born in the future, at about 20 years after whatever year everything stops sucking

i got to work with Louise Glück and met with her several times about my poetry. the last time, she said: "why do you keep looking at your phone?" that's where my poems were. Louise Glück workshopped with me all those times thinking i was like texting people the whole time

more than once i have had a visual poem rejected for accessibility reasons—that when shrunk to the size of the page the text doesn't fit a size requirement what is interesting to me about this is thinking about what "legibility" is in a work of visual art

capricorn is a reverse Blade. like it has all of the weaknesses of both animals. nature can be so cruel

This is a meme. Paul Sérusier made a meme in 1893. A deeply relatable queen, this woman in the rain.

This is by far the weirdest Monet I’ve ever seen. It’s giving The Others. It’s giving passage to the underworld. Maybe he should have gone down this road and been a symbolist.

The wet floor by the bowls is such a lively detail. I love finding those gestures. Also, the way the light catches in the paint gives this Bazille such a strange luminescent quality.

i spend 15 minutes a day reading a book that was important to someone who is important to me and the percentage of them that i actually enjoy is low but it's still one of my favorite practices because you can talk to the person about the book or get to know them better

every time i write there is a moment where i am scared i have forgotten how to write. every time i teach i am even more scared that i have forgotten how to teach

i hate cross posting as a concept bc it always implies that the person posting the same thing twice thinks this post is a banger

one of the most ridiculous aspects of social media are polls posted in order to decide things. there's something hilarious to me about someone being like "should I be vegetarian?" ... "polls are in: i will continue to consume flesh"

It has been a *forever* dream of mine to publish a book-length collection of fiction, and now my first book of short stories, Reveal Codes, winner of the 2022 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, is available for preorder! www.uapress.com/product/reve...

today is a very sad but very important date to me and i am reminded of it each year bc it is also international talk like a pirate day and every year my aunt sends me a text message written in pirate

I was thinking of my worst couple of workshop experiences and how at least one was just terrible for everyone probably. but sometimes there is a kind of border between a terrible and amazing experience—what was my worst workshop experience was probably someone else's best

my brother brought up a bunch of boxes of books i left at my parents' house before i moved to chicago and going through them there are SO many books of poetry by people who don't write anymore. it reminds me of looking at decades-old prize lists and knowing nobody on them

I hate this headline, because it dishonestly portrays the subject as having changed, when what really happened was reporters & editors went along with a heroic self-mythology rather than performing scrutiny and now realize what a mistake that was, w/o owning up to it. See: Giuliani, Rudy.

Where was Beetlejuice on Jan. 6?

drew barrymore reveals the real struggle of being rich and too bored doing nothing at home to withstand supporting workers by doing literally anything in the entire world besides working

something so weird happened to my ereader and all the text looks like conceptual art now:

if all poetry published for the next year had to randomly have line breaks on a noun or verb approximately 5-10 words into a line something a little like this how many poets do you think this would mess with at all

poets are like chefs who make food and leave the shrimp tail on. they're like "i could have made this easier for you....but i'm an artiste!"

content warnings were not conceived of as methodologies for running classrooms but one result of that is something that happens like clockwork at institutions: making low powered representative of the institution the primary/only focal point for liberal "initiatives"

the most fragile man on the planet (who regularly blocks people who criticize him) doesn't understand the point of a blocking function

cannot believe that we taught rocks to whisper Secret Numbers so vast that their names have never before and will never be spoken again in the long span of human time, and we use them to key databases for e-commerce systems

i basically never post my visual work anywhere but on instagram (@keithing_it_real) but this is a piece i made a couple months ago. it's lasercut on cardstock and it's based on a geometric puzzle designed by 10th century Persian mathematician Abul Wafa (Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani)

My poems (including the red x)

in my notes: nitty gritty, nutty buddy -> cousins???

a monarchy is a system in which one person w/ unassailable power passes wealth to their descendants who inherit that power indefinitely, regardless of merit and whether or not they're benevolent w/ that power is at their whim. wait, sorry, that's capitalism. what's a monarchy?

nothing like going to the toaster oven to set it up for corndogs and seeing that it's already set up for corndogs bc that's the last thing you made to tell you where your life is at

as someone from kentucky (ky) it is very hard to type the url of this website and not read it as bullshit kentucky

my new collection drops in almost exactly a month and tho i dont think my reach to average readers is anywhere near what it was on twitter, i do think the support of poet peers has assembled fairly quickly on bluesky and i now feel a confidence here i was unsure about 2 weeks ago.

I was chosen as one of Newcity Lit's Lit 50! Look at me not knowing what to do with my hands! Honored to be selected (and represent Chicago—can't believe I had never been to this part of the Harold Washington Library!) https://lit.newcity.com/2023/08/01/lit-50-2023-poetry/

Very late to share this but last year my first flash fiction piece ever was picked up by the Fairy Tale Review! It's a weird story about Mormo, a boogie monster (of Greek myth) when he was still a child https://keithswilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Birth-of-Mormo-Fairy-Tale-Review.pdf

every so often after a reading someone will walk up and tell me to keep writing do i openly give off the vibe that i'm about to fall apart lol