Sketchbook, mixed media collage. Part of a diptych. Slow clouds ii. mixed media collage found papers, acrylic, foil, wax #art #artist #artsky #collage #mixedmedia

the human body was not made to take in this much bad news every single day

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

“I feel a heavy kinship with the speaker in today’s poem. Their embrace of the world exhibits the ecstatic yearning and vulnerability essential to the imagination,” shares Major in today’s encore episode. Read “In Love” by Chloe Martinez: bit.ly/3U5Hx6H

Denise Levertov

"In a place where institutions and systems have collapsed, it is the human gesture—freely given—that preserves the sacred." Alaa Alqaisi in Beneath the Howl of Hunger @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...

It’s the time of year for hot poems about fruit. Here’s the beginning of D. H. Lawrence’s “Medlars and Sorb-Apples”: I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. (You can read the rest yourselves, you beasts.)

Therapist: and are the ominous Newsweek bisexuals in the room with us now? Ominous Newsweek Bisexuals:

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

panic attacks count as cardio

Holli Carrell is a writer to watch, friends. Just read a sample poem at the link and you’ll be preordering the book, just like I did. A clear descendant of Jean Valentine. I can’t wait for this one to arrive.

We’re excited to announce APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell: Release date September 15. Available NOW for preorder at a sale price till 9/15 at perugiapress.org/product/apos... and also available at asterismbooks. Check it out in our Linktree! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

My first full collection of poems, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf comes out today! Many many thanks to Richard Siken, Jennifer Harris, & Simone Muench for believing in it! It wrestles with the doubt, desire, addiction, identity. You can buy it here, bookshop.org/p/books/wolf...

Tiger Bark Press will be publishing my translation of Tania Langlais' Pendant que Perceval tombait, a book-length poem about Virginia Woolf's last day. I'm excited to share this spare, strange, and beautiful book that reads like a riddle. Pub date Feb 2026🌊🐎

a wonderful evening of poetry at the Highland Bowl with readings by @kathryncowles.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social -a huge thanks to Writers & Books for hosting and @robinweeg.bsky.social for hanging

Outdoor reading in Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, if you’re in the area. Thursday at 6:30 with @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and me. Bring a blanket!!

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.” “making life, not explaining anything” I missed having these conversations. open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...

Thanks to @oldstermag.bsky.social for publishing this graphic memoir piece with introduction about visiting my sister after she was moved to assisted living. #memoryloss #aging #sisters #alzheimers #graphicmedicine oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...

The vocation is not to cheat by not destroying yourself The vocation is not to cheat by not erasing your cultural identity On a globe of fools pretending they aren’t the same animal Pretending they are dignified screw dignity - Alice Notley

I got to speak with an amazing poet this morning. ❤️🎙️ @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social @uakronpress.bsky.social

I am down here, solo, shooting arrows into some clouds after a drought. And you're the clouds making me sweat, and the arrow's trajectory, and the idea of the field. Sarah Green @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social @uakronpress.bsky.social

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

Happy to have my review of Molly Peacock’s newest book of poems in @periodicities.bsky.social today. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/kim-...

preliminary view // handcut paper collage on cardstock, may 2025 #collageart #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

It’s here. It’s queer. Thank you @haymarketbooks.org what a great press to work with.

A few years ago, Alice asked me if I was still writing poems. I responded, no, only critical work. She said, "You're changing your destiny." Now I've written this poem for Alice. Thanks to Lucy & Zona Motel for organizing this tribute. zonamotel.substack.com/p/tribute-wh...

200 books. 153 orders. Packages going to US, Ireland, England, Australia, Japan, & Canada. A mountain of adhesive scraps & address labels & envelopes. The weirdest & coolest poetry collection of 2025 is officially en route to your mailbox.

Favorite recordings of writers reading their own work? I’m listening to @zadiesmith.bsky.social reading The Fraud right now and it’s mind-bogglingly terrific, both the book and the reading of it. The way she does the accents, holds people’s voices.

A collection of the Letterform Archive's ephemera — from chopstick wrappers to transit tickets to product labels to punk flyers to calendars

I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer’s sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer. Thoreau, The Journal 1837–1846

talking love, talking revolution which is love, spelled backwards Diane di Prima

Larry Eigner

Hi friends—I’m offering this workshop twice in July, to raise money for our upcoming year at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 📚💙 It’s a suggested $100 donation to attend, & you can donate here to save your seat: tinyurl.com/mnbtc3ks Then email [email protected] & let me know which day!

Such a little, sweet, wide-eyed mood from my pup and Diane Di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters

like two rows of raindrops slamming into dark water. Running out to the dark mailbox for the chapbook beauty from @martin65.bsky.social!

TONIGHT: an above/ground press zoom launch! Orchid Tierney, Meredith Quartermain, Brook Houglum, Sandra Doller, Tom Jenks + me too, 7pm EDT / @orchidtierney.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/abov...

*glancing around nervously Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 Middlemarch lovers together in a single online location!

Reading Rachel Cusk’s memoir a life’s work and I find myself sometimes underlining so much I have to revert to circling to differentiate passages from one another.

TODAY’S MY BIRTHDAY & I LAUNCHED AN INDIE PRESS & OUR FIRST BOOK IS OUT TODAY! It would mean the world if you grabbed a copy, or saved it on Goodreads, or requested it at your local library, or screamed about it from a rooftop 📚❤️ asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN & EASY IS OUT TODAY! asterismbooks.com/product/disi... here's a pub day moodboard

Sarah J. Sloat @sjane.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

I feel like Debbie Harry and Blondie predicted this very thing in their song "Rapture."

am I going to try to get a bookshop full of unsuspecting strangers to perform a fluxevent using one of my poems as the source text? come along on June 5 and see

“CLASSIC CRIMES is a work of genius.” —Mark Wunderlich Out now, Sarah J. Sloat’s (@sjane.bsky.social) newest collection of visual poetry repurposes William Roughhead’s mid-century true-crime volume with her signature whimsy, wry humor, and cheeky, liberating poetics. Link in bio to get your copy!

It's pub day for my 2nd book of visual poetry, Classic Crimes. Thanks to the super humans at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. They took great care -- from the paper that makes the images/text crisp & vibrant to the title page to collage outtakes scattered throughout. Support independent publishers!

My daughter keeps spreading loose hairs all over the shower wall. Nothing I say changes this. So I am now trying a different tactic.

Lazarus stem update: I plucked the shoots off and floated them in water all winter, fed with some hydroponic plant drops that were left over from a partially used kid garden kit. They grew roots and I planted them in little pots earlier this spring, then in the ground where they are now growing 🌱

So grateful to @gathcreator.bsky.social for inviting me to ramble and think aloud about the poetry collection, MY HERESIES, that just came out from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. ❤️ www.hypertextmag.com/nothing-less...

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.