What is morning and what if it doesn’t arrive? One morning mother dropped an egg and asked me if God was the same species as we are? Smear of light at five a.m. Sound of Weber’s sheep flock and sandhill cranes across the road, burble of irrigation ditch beneath my window. Jim Harrison

Beautiful

Yeah this is great.

Excited to have a poem published in ballast ~ check it out here! 💕

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else” @ktonbsky.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #KatherineSchmidt

Excited for this! 😎

This was great.

This piece 🔥

DMV area folks: Happening tonight at 7p @kramerbooks . Going to be reading and chatting with @andrewporter01.bsky.social ! Come out.

cannot wait for this tomorrow!! 🔗 in quoted 🧵 to register & listen in live :)💡

Excited to have a piece out with ballast! Check out the issue ☺️

Sally Fisher

I still love this poem by Kristin Robertson.

This 🔥

Excited to reveal the cover of & open up pre-sales for the final book of 2025, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's groundbreaking collaborative craft writing book, An Honour & A Privilege f/ a Handmaid's Tale screenwriter, Sunday Times bestseller & more amazing talents! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Started “Ethan Hawke & Me” while on a train 🙈 also… this is so beautiful wow @andrewbertaina.bsky.social

We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. #WritingCommunity #poetry 📝

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Oh my god this dropped WHILE I’M WEARING MY PIGEON DRESS!?! Very exciting. Happy HAD pigeon day to all who celebrate.

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what a joy to have this piece published, the pigeon thinks to itself, while on its work break, eating meatballs and pasta, content @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/do-...

As we get ready for Issue Five’s publication in a week we want to hype up the cover artist, Maria Taibo! Maria is a painter who lives in New Jersey. She is from the Canary Islands and enjoys painting still lifes, nature scenes, and working with oil paint and watercolor.

idk if it says more about last call's batch of subs or me as their reader, but a string of heartfelt, heartbreaking, heartwarming pieces lately a real beauty today from Julia Strayer "She only knows who I am because I always say, Hi Mom, when I call." https://www.havehashad.com/66dqs

Gay pride means more viscerally gay poems like this one

Just read “Full-On Badger” by Gill O’Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social and got chills. Give it a read! www.smokelong.com/stories/full...

Great Essex Hemphill exhibition at the Phillips Collection!

my poem "Mustard" from @berlinlit.bsky.social "It’s not enough that I’m alive I must also have a massive hamburger"

Stop using AI. We're all going to fucking die and if you want to leave anything behind you better start screaming in your own words

Excited to have my poem “Dust to Dust” published in Puerto del Sol’s “Freak” issue, 60.1! www.puertodelsol.org/print

This story gave me goosebumps 🔥

first skull!!, the pigeon thinks to itself, rejoicing, also a little bit hungry, waiting to deplane a flight. thanks @havehashad.com @aaronburch.bsky.social

Presenting OKD's Best New Poets nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

*OKD Best New Poets Nominee* "this because dog is god spelled backwards" by Erinola E. Daranijo:

Honored to be nominated! Thank you to OKD! 💕

Great @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference yesterday ~ thank you to all who made it happen ☺️ what a great community of people out here

Very excited 🎉 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Very excited to start to see Issue Five come into the world ~ yes yes yes to more collaborative poetry ~ 8 days left to submit! 🔥 #writingcommunity #poetry

You’re joining us for our 5 year anniversary reading, right? #poets #poetry #poetrysky #poetrynews

Oh yeah 🔥 @beansbaker5.bsky.social

Very much enjoying these poems in @stevenleyva.bsky.social’s book “The Opposite of Cruelty.”

Really excited to be back on @havehashad.com today! 🧠🧠

LOVE both pieces/halves today from Kate McIntyre, each on its own, and then the way they work together as a diptych really explodes them into something extra special. "It was a meeting of the minds." 💀 "It was a gathering of the brain trust." https://www.havehashad.com/p56y2

less than 24 hours until this reading with these absolutely marvelous poets! check out the quoted thread to register :) 💡

Really enjoying the poems in “The Deletions” by Sarah Green

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Release day is today! My new chapbook "Short Relief" is out now from @406press.bsky.social! Huge thanks go out to @fbereaud.bsky.social and @thetwinbill.bsky.social for their work in editing the final version together into a collection I'm especially proud of! 406press.com/product/shor...

Gentle reminder that our subs are open for Issue Five! We’d be honored to consider your work. We have a couple ways to submit~ check out our submit webpage! Happy to answer more questions as well. #writingcommunity

This Saturday, Green Bay's @theartgaragegb.bsky.social is hosting a grown up Scholastic book fair in the old Main Street district. Come down, meet your #writingcommunity on March 1 from 10 a - 3 pm. PS there's a hot new coffee shop ten feet from this place, so books and brews and fresh croissants!

in just a few short days, we are so excited to be hosting @sophiebebeau.bsky.social, @lisamariebasile.bsky.social, Madeline Blair, & @romyewing.bsky.social for our February reading! link below to register — hope to see you there :) 💡

um hello??? this poem “POEM TO BE READ IN A BACKLESS HALTERNECK DRESS WITH A LINGERING ODOR OF BURNT HAIR” by Rebecca Hawkes in New Delta Review slaps ndrmag.org/poem-to-be-r...