I like my solitude most of all, & this is why I’m a poet & not a journalist.

See picture (of my husband) for an accurate representation of my moon and mars in Aries season

Hi should I post here or no

Just me and my GERD against the world

Fuckkkkk how are poets so hot?

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Submit to Lunch Ticket! lunchticket.submittable.com/submit

Shout out to the writers for accepting my brand of weird

Nerds

Crying bc the writing muses blessed upon me an epiphany to restructure my entire poetry manuscript, and all I want is sweet surrender!

Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic: Poems

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

One of these days I’ll butter my bread and think “I’m good enough for this life”

Mary Ruefle:

Looking at my old community college transcripts and I got a B+ in The Holocaust.

haven’t worn jeans in years but i bought a pair yesterday. i feel like i’m wearing some kind of medieval torture device. i’m like if the man in the iron mask was a 21st-century woman. i feel like i’m living the premise of every Abramović endurance piece. this is me sitting in my jeans

“I saw the refrigerator glow” — the Jessica Ballen story

Dreamlight Valley’s a nightmare for someone with executive dysfunction 🙃

Love in the time of ozempic

Ahhh yes, the two genders:

From john compton’s “Melancholy Arcadia”

just learned of Michael's passing. he was my favorite teacher at Syracuse. i’m heartbroken. * I do not want to belabor invisibility, but if it isn’t there in the spaces among the people as a spiritual thread then I do not want to be there either. —Michael Burkard, from "The Summer After Last"

Fantastic!! Thank you for my book gifts @steventurrill.bsky.social

From Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s “Something about Living”

From Cathy Linh Che’s “Split”

Yellow teeth and compression socks—I’m that bitch

Got that pre-birthday mania wheeeee 🎈

From Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Right before my MFA graduating reading 🐑 @antiochmfa.bsky.social

Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.

RIP What We Do In The Shadows! You served us well 🧛🏻‍♀️

We've received a few requests to continue to submit to our Poetry Contest, so we've reopened it and set the deadline to match our Short Nonfiction Contest: December 31! Learn more & submit to either one or both at the link in our bio.

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

the cutest baby in all the land 😭😭😭

I’m hot

June Jordan from Haruko/Love Poems

Love graduating from poetry workshop dread to post workshop imposter syndrome

*moon face is always a serve*

Forgot this was here, oops!

kay ulanday barrett

Raymond Antrobus’ signs, music

It would be nice to have the heating pad for my debilitating cramps but Oona’s comfort takes priority, of course.

No shame in my game but also maybe a little shame bc I’m a poet and that’s our natural state

when someone says they like my poem

Kendrick performing in Toronto on fathers day is NASTY WORK lmao

@j_esus on storygraph, come find me

Yea, get him @steventurrill.bsky.social!

she’s perfect

I’m living off the two lezzes right now: music made by lesbians for lesbians, and the les miserables soundtrack (original broadway cast recording, obviously)