Grateful to have a strange little poem in the latest edition of Buffalox8. The poem is a loose tautogram (most words begin with 'd') in which all of the 'd' words were sourced from a local newspaper. @buffalomag.bsky.social buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/8017048...

I'm happy to share this interview by Patty Paine of @diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode Editions! Please take a look, and I'd be really grateful if you might share this elsewhere on social media. Thank you. diode.substack.com/p/auto-towns...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

No platform is ever truly free. That applies whether we’re talking about TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook - or Substack. And if you think to yourself, this time, it'll be different, good luck to you. But sooner or later, you're going to get fucked.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! 7 Days left to enter. Poems from manuscripts considered for features along with a chance for the book prize! www.versedaily.org/bookprize.sh...

Felt powerless-needed to hear this: "The real value of the first step isn't in its specific direction. It's in breaking the paralysis of possibility." "Movement creates information. Standing still creates nothing." "There's value in a shitty First Step."—JA Westenberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8U...

According to DOGE... $65 for grandma: waste $8 million for the richest man in the world: not waste

#poem #poetry #wsmerwin #spring "To Paula in Late Spring" by W.S. Merwin, from The Shadow of Sirius (2009, Copper Canyon Press) and found in The Essential W.S. Merwin, edited by Michael Wiegers (2017, Copper Canyon Press)

Happy Lunar New Year! We are entering the year of the Dragon. I read that this is to be a year of luck, growth, and change/reinvention. May your year be auspicious, Friends.🎉🐉💖 #YearOfTheDragon #LunarNewYear

Rest in peace, Rosalynn Carter.

Nice to have a poem up today at Verse Daily, thanks to J P Dancing Bear, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, @lisaampleman.bsky.social. www.versedaily.org/2023/stay.sh...

@triohousepress.bsky.social is pleased to announce that submissions have opened for our Louise Bogan Award! Win $1000 and publication. This year’s judge is Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets. For more info, click here: triohousepress.org/contests

#Bloomington #IN #MorgensternBooks Poetry Open Mic, 11/12 , 2pm. Poet Patsy Rahn will be MC'ing.

Poets! The Trio Award is now open! Enter to win publication of your first or second book of poetry. This year’s judge is Jessica Q Stark, author of the collection Buffalo Girl. For more info, click here: triohousepress.org/contests

Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own 🥸 1/16

The new journal my grad students and I are creating has gotten a flood of poetry and fiction submissions (yay!), but the editors are especially hoping for more open genre (hybrid, multimedia) and nonfiction pieces too! Send them some good longform work!

"Snowdrops" by Louise Glück. RIP. 💔