Hey, come celebrate with me on 3/22! ❤️‍🔥🧨 I'll be reading alongside legends Shelley Wong, Margaret Ray, and Traci Brimhall.

From @shelleywong.bsky.social 's book, As She Appears. #poem #books #writing

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

“One of the reasons I love today’s poem is how it’s an ode to walking, a reverential description of how the brain changes when we encounter animals and our selves during the journey,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore episode.

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice. 🍓🍓🍓🍓

sometimes yr poetry professor also wrote abt Tori Amos & impersonating Marilyn Manson — Joshua Clover, a true multi-hyphenate, the first person I ever saw with an iPod

I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...

Joshua Clover was my Cal undergrad poetry workshop teacher. He returned to Berkeley, where he grew up, after writing for the Village Voice & Spin. I loved the work of our visiting writers — Juliana Spahr, Jennifer Moxley, Ange Mlinko. His debut book is mesmerizing.

"Spring insists we can build the world around us again." From @shelleywong.bsky.social's book, As She Appears. #poem #books #writing

My poem “When We Were Young” is up on the Best American Poetry blog - just in time for Dungeness crab season. It first appeared Hanging Loose & is an outtake from my first book. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

Love is a story we never tire of telling… Love lives in many rooms. ––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living

The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2

In March, I’m leading a 2-part Poets & Writers workshop on applying for grants, fellowships & residencies. We’ll think through our writing goals & what we need to get there. Come through! www.pw.org/content/work...

poetry party party let’s go