Poetry today by E. A. Midnight “how much of love is seeing someone else’s mental illness as a quirk / and not failure, not a dent, not something that must be fixed” librelit.com/2025/09/20/m...

Bertolt Brecht:

"[Ram] presents a revealing and heartbreaking collection that asks the reader to think about what they remember the most about those they have lost." Read @carriganak.bsky.social's full review. @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/verses-of-mo...

check out the blurb from @lowermelody.bsky.social and the excerpt of the poem "#11: SAVIOR COMPLEX", which was first seen in @feversof.bsky.social preorder the book through @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

Tonight! I will be reading poems about mental health to celebrate the release of @tommywyattblake.bsky.social's MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

I can’t tell you how to live your life, but I can definitely suggest in the strongest possible terms that you clear your calendar for next Thursday night, 9/18, and register at the 🔗 below to listen in on this reading! I’m so excited to hear these excellent poets read :)

from "Atonal Apocalypse: On MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan" (@querenciapress.bsky.social: 2025), in which I compare experimental prose to atonal music published in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow earlier this year

currently finishing my 11th long-form book review of 2025. It can be a lonely task. there is no substitute for the work... but also no substitute for the reward, both for the publicity of any given title & for my own intellect. I hope to continue at this brisk pace indefinitely

I was surprised by how much this one moved me. Roy Fisher

from my lyric essay, "Sense Tools" www.ballastjournal.com/dialogue-duf...

this maps perfectly onto my understanding of sound in language. My work as a reading interventionist & musician has led me to believe that sonic processing unlocks specific modes of cognitive integration. My lyric essay "Sense Tools" touches on this www.psypost.org/simple-rhyth...

coming to a virtual space soon!! i'm reading with @lowermelody.bsky.social on 9/12 and @mkzariel.bsky.social on 9/13 dm me to RSVP!

got a new badge reel clip for work

I'll be selling this on 9/7 at our Craft Fair for Gaza happening from noon to 6 pm at 629 Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn.

Today’s feature is an excerpt from Suze Kay’s poem, “SELFISH GIRL” Read this piece, the rest of V2.1 here: turningleafjournal.com/2025/06/01/s... :: We paired this piece with artwork submitted by @lowermelody.bsky.social titled “Matrilineal.”

Day 24: “fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social and @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social in @s2fjournal.bsky.social (pg. 7). I love how nat and D.W.’s styles merge in this raging, red-hot poem. www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

from my long sectional poem, "Anthropocene Clock Face," published in 2023 www.softstarmagazine.com/p/anthropoce...

I'm excited to be supporting the release of @tommywyattblake.bsky.social 's MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION at this reading in a few weeks! I'll be reading poems on mental health, institutionalization, and intra-self experience

hi! would anyone like to review or interview me about my upcoming poetry chapbook "Mutually Assured Destruction" @the-ethelzine.bsky.social i wrote it while manic at the psych ward in a 2-day span. it's about finding a way out of the body, to only be confined by it

Excited to have a collaborative poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, in @genrepunkmag.bsky.social today genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 8/19 from Black Square Editions, Cardboard House Press, Flood Editions, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, Etruscan Press & @redhenpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Currently reading / reviewing: OUR HUMAN SHORES by Josh Fomon from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, a fascinating hybrid book of prose, lineated verse, and in-between forms; my most sticky-noted book this year.

Sending out fewer poems and more reviews & essays lately. The latest round includes some exciting working titles indicating the ideas and poetics under consideration: "Recursion and the Headless Image," "Musical Order and New Babel," and "Soundscape, Landscape, Ghost."

today was my 2400th consecutive day (6.575 years) making an entry in my mood tracking app

having started the day with a few bites of rhyme discourse (over on X), here is a rhyming poem of mine, a sonnet, "The Old Man and the Road," first published in Skyway Journal

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2025 issue and beyond. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-fal...

As internet censorship strengthens, I would like to remind folks that I have a website, dwbakerpoetry.com, and also a mailing list. If you would like to receive direct, infrequent updates on my writing life, you can sign up here: forms.gle/dEaag2LRS4AZ...

I don't think posting is an effective political strategy, so I don't usually spend time opining on current events here. lately, though, the genocide in Palestine is all I can think about. life feels futile, because resistance feels futile, because nothing stopped it. now what?

One of my lexical poems, "Microsonnet of antiquated inventions," is included in this delightful selection of writing about inventories

It's the first summer in 10 years that i'm not experiencing rising anxiety as the school year approaches. I'm halfway through my food service shift. I spent the manual labor outlining and beginning to compose an essay in my mind. Life after teaching, so far, continues to impress

from my review essay, "Multilingualism and Metaphor: on Desire/Halves by Jaia Hamid Bashir" as my body of work accumulates, I find delightful common threads, gradually revealed these sentences align with more recent work on the idea of recursion, or the limits of 4D embodiment

throwback to "Ouroboros," a spark of free verse, first published in Hearth & Coffin's "Consume" issue www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/poetry-...

Two of my essays on poetics have found landing spots for late 2025/early 2026... stay tuned for "Meander, Erosion, and Deposition in the Contrapuntal Poem," on the flow of consciousness between columns, and "Sonic Pressure and the Lexical Poem," on the materiality of language

New summer issue Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

A book I reviewed, stevie redwood's A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S, is featured on this #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list. An excerpt from my review for @paraselenemag.bsky.social :

Joshua Martin's @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social ) punctuated avalanche drops 7/18, it's also available as a FREE PDF as are all of our titles. Shoot us an email, DM, request your copies! stonecorpse.com/store/

OUT NOW: ballast 3.3 (Summer 2025). www.ballastjournal.com/issue-33-tab...

tiny poem from Humberto Ak'abal for #smallpoemsunday thanks for the nudge from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"a time machine can reverse course, / but it can’t erase duration."

Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody.bsky.social (Flame) and @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social (Spark): “...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…” Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity 📝

What to the deported citizen is the fourth of July? What to the masked paramilitary force is the fourth of July? What to the fascist propagandist is the fourth of July? What to the world's largest prison population is the fourth of July?

VERSUS VERSUS: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent Poets published by Bloodaxe Books - my note on this excellent selection of poetry here: amandaearl.substack.com/p/versus-ver...

Are you a white male considering writing a thinkpiece that blames identity politics for your lack of success? Please attach an excerpt of your rejected work that you are prepared to defend! If you have assessed the situation correctly, sharing your genius will bolster your claim

A book I reviewed, stevie redwood's A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S, is featured on this #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list. An excerpt from my review for @paraselenemag.bsky.social :

Excited to be part of a virtual event on 7/10 with Writers & Books--register here! wab.org/event/cd-esk...

“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…” “fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns. Check it out, page 7: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity

The recording of last night’s Night Light reading is now available for viewing! It was such a joy to host @natallman.bsky.social, Ari Lisner, @lowermelody.bsky.social, & Zach Spruce—run it back at the 🔗 below! 💡

mail day! it's the new @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social from @kithbooks.bsky.social, GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/gospels

This will be my third public reading in as many years. I plan to share a mix of old and new favorites before returning to my regularly scheduled avoidance of the camera. Would love to see you there