a real piece of time traveling beauty and wonder today from David Ward https://www.havehashad.com/judsv

from the opening paragraph of my latest review, "Rhythm and Somatic Consciousness: on AUTOCARTOGRAPHIES by @evaalterpoet.bsky.social" (2025: Eulogy Press), published in Dodo Eraser. It was delightful to write about my favorite kind of verse: rare form delivering rare insight on the body.

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid... it was the mirror eyes that got me.

Just finished composing the first of these signature verses, a new poem titled "Light Pilot," for Alex Rettie. I retain the right to collect it into a manuscript, in which case I will note the dedication, but I consider this its first publication. He may post it if he chooses (he's on X, not here)

A new verse from new contributor D. W. Baker: 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 electri city of angels on the pin eal gland — D.W. Baker

Read the full review here: moistpoetryjournal.com/2026/03/22/e... @lowermelody.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

New review of Aphorism | Paroxysm by Remi Recchia, reviewed by D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social)! Pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy this review exploring erasure and trans poetics, scripture, hybrid form, and more! 💜📚🎉

✨ Hi, Bulb Friends! ✨ Quick update. We've just sent all the outstanding acceptance and rejection emails, so if you've been waiting, go check your inbox. We are still VERY OPEN for submissions of previously published writing! If you've been wanting to send something our way, go for it!

The Micro side of @identitytheory.bsky.social has transitioned from Micro Mondays to quarterly issues. Our first Micro issue in this new format will be released on the March Equinox. It features 11 unsettling, contemplative, speculative, sad, and sometimes funny micros. Out this Friday! 🩶

(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

Delighted to share that my review of Remi Recchia's APHORISM | PAROXYSM (2025: @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social), a hybrid chapbook that addresses the contested intersection of transgender bodies & Christian beliefs, is forthcoming with @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/apho...

We're excited to share that poet and wrenster Jennifer Browne will serve as the guest editor for our 4th print anthology on liminality! Submissions open on March 25th! www.tinywrenlit.com/submit

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 3/17 from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, @caitlinpress.bsky.social, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social & @regalhouse.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.” --Roland Barthes

Excerpted from my review, "Soundscape, Landscape, Ghost: on FIREFALL by Heather Lang-Cassera" (2025: @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social), published in @panoramajournal.bsky.social last year

Catching up on emails and website maintenance tonight. Currently have nine poems forthcoming later this season. More available here: dwbakerpoetry.com/poetry-publi...

One of my color studies, titled "Chlorosis," appears in this themed issue about GREED. My thanks to Lucy & the @underbellypress.bsky.social team 🖤💚

My son turns six today. I love him so much! This year, he is super into Pokémon, which is fun for me, too. This weekend we travel to visit my parents. I will continue to be scarce on social media. Life is more than screens

My good friend Jesse Balmer has put together a book of his work. Go pick up a preorder. It’s gorgeous. He’s worked as an artist on adventure time and many other shows but his Personal work is singular. Grab it here www.harpyharpy.com

oh. yeah. 🔥 @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @lowermelody.bsky.social

Deleted the current events poem I posted as there was virtually no response. Will go to plan B, submitting it

I was a contributor to Libre before joining the team. Mary published this contrapuntal piece, "Manic/Depressive," which is very dear to me. I am sad to see its home disappear.

Dear readers of Libre, this is farewell. Libre’s founder, publisher, and EiC, Mary, has decided the project is at an end. Her dedication & expertise are irreplaceable. With this news, I will also be stepping down from my role as Managing Editor, as there is now nothing to manage. 1/2

first Gaza, now Lebanon, then where? Israel must be stopped US general strike!

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

holographic anxiety

Submissions are open for our summer issue! variantlit.submittable.com/submit

✂️ ISSUE 8: COLLAGE IS LIVE!✂️ W/in these pgs contributors remix works from our past 7 issues creating something bold & new! It's FREE to read, download & share online: buff.ly/E6d26Y2 Print copy available for purchase via Amazon: buff.ly/OOpa6Ct #poetry #poetrycommunity #indiepublishing ⬇️

Happy to have a poem in the collage issue of The Engine Idling. Titled "To Hold," it's a golden shovel in my experimental riverbed form I have a related craft essay forthcoming in print, titled "Meander, Erosion, and Deposition in the Contrapuntal Poem" www.engineidling.net/current

I predict history books will look on this war as the culminating reaction to the action taken in Gaza. The twelve days war with Iran from 2025 will just be part of a narrative about conflict and changes in global opinion spanning 2023-2026. The world order is changing

Decolonization of the middle east is accelerating as Gulf states turn on the US for lack of material support during Iran's counterattack. US citizens abroad were also left behind. Protecting the pedophile blackmailers in Israel came first, of course. I pray we avoid nuclear war

may God smite and foil the warmongering, child trafficking followers of Baal. America must revolt against their infinite wars in our name! No war but class war

I have a new one that is very close to being ready to send out...lmk if you like eco poetry that tackles AI, social media and representation...if you want a memoir of what it has been like to be an interfaith Jewish kid in a dysfunctional family full of loss, I have that, too.

I don't have an MFA, but I got a BA in Anthropology & Music, then spent several years as a touring & recording bassist, then spent ten years teaching reading intervention and english/language arts. I have learned a lot about how the body processes sound, rhythm, symbol, & sense

Minnesota trip book haul! Minnesotan poets Paula Cisewski from Diode Editions and Carol Rucks from Kelsay Books, plus Richard A. Jensen, South Dakotan doctor and writer. Also pictured: the new Mid/South Sonnets anthology from @bellepointpress.bsky.social , waiting at home

interfaith geometry

I’m delighted to share that Issue 6 of Underbelly Press will be released on the 13th of March! I appreciate your support. Thank you for taking the time to read our issues, share them, and submit to them. Cover art submissions are open until 28.02

I am emerging from over 3 months of prose writer's block. Haven't been able to progress in any reviews or other essays since November, though not for lack of trying. The poems have continued to flow. Separate waveforms; separate decay/sustain/release patterns... it would seem...

Almost done. Like all Mary Roach books, it is of course both extremely delightful and also way too short

New #poetry #books from Seagull Books, Mad Creek Books, Milkweed Editions, @ugapress.bsky.social, Guernica Editions, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social, Black Lawrence Press, @upittpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

My new story "A Body, A Commodity" reimagines the folktale about The Woman with the Golden Arm from a disabled perspective... with a vengeful little twist at the end. ⚡️ This is one of the pieces in my dissertation collection of queer and disabled retellings. www.thesquawkback.com/2026/02/audr...

I have realized that editing isn't my thing. It causes the anxious gravity, and the falling tide lowers all my boats. Reading and reviewing are how I intend to focus my contributions moving forward.

this Russell Atkins poem is an all-timer for me

"Poetry is intimately concerned with the historic process. It tells us what it feels like to be alive in a given time and place." - Stanley Kunitz on poetry in a time of crisis poetshouse.org/from-the-arc...

Read the poem "The Bravest Among Us" by @theonlygman.bsky.social from the new issue of Variant variantlit.com/the-bravest-...

ISSUE 6 POETRY ☆ Abraham Aondoana ☆ @poetloz.bsky.social ☆ @lowermelody.bsky.social ☆ David Anson Lee ☆ @devonwebbnz.bsky.social ☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆ James Fleet Underwood ☆ Jeff Skinner ☆ Lauren Paré ☆ Maëlle Keita ☆ Paul Whelan ☆ Rebecca Leek ☆ Sarai Nichole ☆ @swhoffmann.bsky.social ☆

Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Reminder! Two weeks until submissions close for Prune Juice! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. Submission guidelines here: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/ #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors ✨️ T. De Los Reyes / Kathy Jiang / Stefanie Lee / Arielle Kaplan / Christie M Buchovecky / Jane Zwart / Grace H. Zhou / Lalini Shanela Ranaraja / Nick Daoust / DL Pravda / Jeff Whitney / Guinotte Wise variantlit.com/issue-twenty...