"Meteorite," a short poem featured in my microchapbook LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social pride series 2026), was first published & nominated for Best of the Net by @identitytheory.bsky.social

as a short form enthusiast, here is one of my favorite takes on tiny poems, from Charles Simic's 2013 interview with Granta

i am coming to believe that the tyranny of requisite superlatives, the 11/10 blurb culture, is a cultural analogue of the spread of therapy-speak. both frames of language minimize the individual's accountability for imperfection, blunting growth & development in favor of comfort

**e(i Contributor Book Review!** @thmazing.bsky.social reviews "(e)lament" by @lowermelody.bsky.social & @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social Full review here: engineidling.net/reviews Find the book here: stonecorpse.com/nat-raum-d-w...

Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"

** e(i Contributor Book Review! ** Here, @lowermelody.bsky.social reviews @thmazing.bsky.social's "Thubrina" (Antemoff '25)! Full review: engineidling.net/reviews ** If yr one of our contributors & would like to sign up for a Book Review Exchange fill out this form: forms.gle/vnKrBHwdFDUw... 🩷

Read @bestofthenet.bsky.social winner @altmanill0.bsky.social & finalist K-Ming Chang + @jferhow.bsky.social, @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social, @dshigdon.bsky.social, @jonathankravetz.bsky.social, @natashiadeon.bsky.social & more in Vol. VI: HUNGER tinyurl.com/ExpoV6Hunger

@blacklilyzine.bsky.social is open for submissions. Details below.

Happy Solstice ☀️ a snippet from my "Solstice Hymn," published last year in Amethyst Review

Celebrating father's day early since I'm working overtime tomorrow. My son (6) drew this picture of us playing Pokemon cards together. My heart is full!

the solstice is almost upon us! You know what that means! a new @identitytheory.bsky.social micro issue is coming!!!

happy June everyone!! I am so excited for this reading coming up in less than a week’s time, featuring Kevin A. Risner @mrdecember.bsky.social, Zuleyha Ozturk, Nora Rawn, & Z.H. Gill @burialmagazine.bsky.social! sign up below for this unmissable event, I look forward to seeing you there~

Friends—here are about 55 literary journals opening for submissions in July—some are open now or will close soon in June or July. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative & all these should be no-fee submissions. There are more resources out there, including on here. Wish y’all well.

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in May 2026 by @whittlemicropress.bsky.social, Small Harbor Publishing, Bull City Press, @parlyareepress.bsky.social, Antiphony, Finishing Line Press & Bottlecap Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

not here to make enemies. not here to make friends. here to read the writing of others, to share my own, to follow the heartbeat of the work, to sharpen my opinions into durable and informed objects, to post for nobody in particular but eternity and the odd fellow traveler

working title of latest review: "The Uncanny Valley of Procedural Language," a short look at a dada-inspired text working in the tradition of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low.

from the second part of my essay-in-halves, "Sonic Pressure and the Lexical Poem," published last fall in @version9magazine.bsky.social

If you liked my three linked tanka poems in @apconmag.bsky.social last week, or my biblical golden shovel in @plaguecircus.bsky.social yesterday, or if you just like Sator Squares -- you'll love my latest, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios's Cup," in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social's miCRo series

"nightly departure into the dreaming water made of wave forms oscillating in to the body’s container..." In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.

"Proverbs 20:27," one of the golden shovels in my new chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social), was first published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social in 2024.

What do you need right now? Maybe you need my odd new poem about Jane Goodall’s Hologram in @variantlit.bsky.social's new Summer Issue... variantlit.com/jane-goodall/

Read a #chapbook #review of Marie Scarles' The Catastrophes by contributing editor, D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social). #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @finishinglinepress.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/the-lines-of...

Our Issue 8 Reader's Choice Award nomination break down... We've got 1 vote in for D.W. Baker's @lowermelody.bsky.social "To Hold" Read it: engineidling.net/current By an Anonymous Nominator... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here is the opening paragraph of my latest review, up today at @phillychapbook.bsky.social: "The Lines of Landscape: on THE CATASTROPHES by Marie Scarles" (2025: @finishinglinepress.bsky.social)

three apocalyptic poems and a new review, "The Lines of Landscape: on THE CATASTROPHES by Marie Scarles," out tomorrow 👀

My new (micro)chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY, part of the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social inaugural pride series, is titled after the last line of Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca." These poems are instruments of self-confidence that helped me begin to publish my work. Price starts at $0

the 2026 pride microchapbook series starts NOW! ko-fi.com/fifthwheelpr...

@janehuffman.bsky.social's contest-winning poem in Midway Journal. One of my favorite contemporary poets for her work with sound and repetition.

Hi dear poets—our summer open reading period closes on Sunday, 5/31! Send us your manuscripts today, before you are distracted by a bird or the inevitability of death. 📚💙💙 Submit here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm...

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Why are you posting your sour grapes? Those are for making wine

new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...

Caught up on website maintenance today. I've published 19 poems so far in 2026, and have several to look forward to in these venues. Particularly excited to be part of the Cincinnati Review's miCRo series! dwbakerpoetry.com/poetry-publi...

I have a pair of biblical golden shovels in the summer 2026 issue of Union Spring Literary Review. Here is the first, "Proverbs 11:4," written in a form which foreshadows my more recent riverbed pieces

And now for some speculation: "Human/After," a contrapuntal formed of two microsonnets, published in the MOTHERBOARD anthology from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social.

✂️e(i 8: Collage is live!✂️ Our #spotlight is on D.W. Baker's @lowermelody.bsky.social poem "To Hold" & D.W.'s invented form! Check out their work at buff.ly/E6d26Y2! A riverbed form after Francis de Lima’s "This is a frame" (Issue 4): buff.ly/UxDjLF9. ⬇️

"I kept thinking about how easily adults learn to stop seeing what's right in front of them, especially when they're somewhere between one country and another, neither arriving nor leaving." Read four #poems by Nivara Lune. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

Delighted to receive my gorgeous copy of Electric Pink's first print issue, dedicated entirely to musical golden shovels. One of my riverbed forms, "Transformed Stone," after Rage Against the Machine, is included.

Unpacking the trauma of chronic pain and everyday ableism is incredibly difficult. Many thanks to @sarahclark.bsky.social, Jess Silfa, and @anmlymag.bsky.social for publishing this micro about escaping the body and the cruelty of an ableist world. anmly.org/ap42/sarah-f...

from writer's block one month to illness block the next; from willing flesh to willing spirit, but each abandoned by its partner. I am ready for June to arrive, and for both to return at once.

✂️e(i 8: Collage is live!✂️ Our #spotlight is on Melissa Fitzpatrick's @melissafitz.bsky.social hybrid "dim light drifting." Check out their work at buff.ly/E6d26Y2! Source: D.W. Baker’s @lowermelody.bsky.social "last of all" (Issue 3): buff.ly/Cef0Tts. ⬇️

This week's Tuesday Taster is a sharp bite of Chlorosis by D. W. Baker. @lowermelody.bsky.social It's a striking piece with a compelling rhythm, and we especially enjoyed reading it aloud. Read it now in Issue 6.

Two more short-form pieces from SOLARPROOF, my speculative WIP, were recently accepted to the @cincinnatireview.bsky.social miCRo series and @plaguecircus.bsky.social. I look forward to sharing them soon! 👁 ☀️

I AM ON POETRY DAILY WOOOOOOO poems.com/poem/arts-an...

"When transformed by consciousness, anger becomes vital energy which is available not only for healing but also for furthering the desires of the soul." -James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul

A new Ekphrastic anthology, MURALS, is now available from Press Pause Press. First published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social & curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social, it features an international collection of public art & writing in response, including my "Microsonnet for the municipality sweepers"

(e)laments is now available from @stonecorpse.com! This collaboration with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is available from the publisher in PDF (free!) and print ($7 + shipping). I will send you a signed copy with a bespoke, hand-written short-form poem for $15 (shipping included), DM me

This got a far larger reaction than I expected. Relatable content, it would seem. Apropos of that, here is Bertolt Brecht's "Motto"

The worries and misfortunes of real life have recently shocked my literary life into a sort of hibernation. I have not been reading, writing, engaging online, or even thinking as usual. My apologies. Today I felt a glimmer of deep movement. I hope it is a sign of return.

⏰️ e(i CONTRIBUTORS! We've got some news for you! You're all invited to sign up for our new internal Book Review Exchange! Networking is hard, right? & After getting a micro/chap/book published we all just kinda want someone to read & enjoy our work. Here @ e(i we wanna help w that! ...