Delighted to have a few poems in the esteemed and historic Angel Exhaust. Here's one of them. #poetry

I'll be giving an online talk at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, on 25 February, 6-8pm GMT:⁣ ⁣ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐀/𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬⁣ ⁣ Free and open to all. DM me for the meeting link. #poetry #lacan ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We have no grand metaphors, just an insistence to say where we come from without shame. The plain and direct language is the emotional core of the piece He acknowledges facing your past is difficult and that the bravest thing is not reinvention, but recognition. #poetry #poemoftheday

Happy Saint Valentine's Day to all the courtly lovers. Let's listen again to the wonderful sounds of J.H. Prynne reading 'Cocaine' by John Wieners. 'For I have seen love and his face is choice Heart of Hearts...' m.soundcloud.com/william-25/c...

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

I'll be giving an online talk at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, on 25 February, 6-8pm GMT:⁣ ⁣ ‘𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐭’: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐀/𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬⁣ ⁣ Free and open to all. DM me for the meeting link! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great to be back in the wonderful @dadakuku.bsky.social with my short poem 'Resolve'. Big thanks to editor @petrock.bsky.social.

So good to see – and hear – a new poem from @kathrynmaris.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/kath...

Tonight, I'm launching my new poetry collection, Retablo for a door! The event's at 7.30 pm in the Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. I'll be reading with @ianseedauthor.bsky.social, who's also published by the brilliant @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social. Please join us!

Happy Birthday, John Wieners. Born on this day in 1934. Here's one from Asylum Poems:

@marcchamberlain.bsky.social - Remembering John Wieners on the anniversary of his birth - allenginsberg.org/2026/01/t-j-...

Magical, majestic, shattering poems from @michpenn.bsky.social. Grab a copy now from the wonderful @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social.

Always this poem at this time of year. One of Michael Donaghy's startlers.

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My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:

Great tribute. JC's approach to reviewing is an approach I share, and one which poetry needs. If your review only cements a friendship, or solicits a good review in return, or is only written for "the community", it's not doing its job.

Beautiful. I've always found this one extraordinary. Same book; my translation: Four Ages II I strangled my brother because he would not sleep with the window open. My sister, he said before he died, I have spent entire nights watching you sleep, leaning on your reflection in the glass.

This is good (and links to #REF2029 if that's where your head is at today). Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.

Out in the US already, the reissue of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike should available in the UK in Jan or Feb.

If you are a member of a university library, or any other library, please make a purchase request for Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners. Of interest to anyone concerned with New American Poetry, queer poetry and, in Allen Ginsberg's estimation, a "pure poet". bit.ly/3YdRcdn

Call for applications! Poet-in-Residence Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich Applications open until 20th January 2026 www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...

How lovely to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Small Town', published in Carmen Et Error by @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social. carmenerror.com?page_id=510

Fascinating piece on poetry and AI from Michael Schmidt. I love the idea that Virgil, Horace and Ovid were LLMs guiding Renaissance Latin poets. I wonder if we could argue some much more recent poetry was similarly composed: Homer, Dante and Aimé Césaire as LLMs for Derek Walcott's Omeros?

🎉We're hiring!🎉 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social Pls share!

Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode. www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...