Now that's what I call a happy eoy mail day! 💃💃💃 Eleanor Eleanor (@fencebooks.bsky.social) by @kathryncowles.bsky.social ✨️✨️😍✨️✨️ 📚💙

✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨

any recs for poetry or personal essays engaged with learning a language as an adult? bonus points for texts on heritage language learning

What a year. This arrived today, very lovely & very cold, from Orison Books. If you want a copy of your own, you can pre-order here: Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/NR1Q8l2d3jcV...

Call it a close shave if you want, but here's my 2025 Recommended Reading list. Grateful for all the poets & for @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for encouraging folks a year ago to do small press-only lists! Last time was so fun, I had to do it again 😎 necessarymess.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/r...

Now that's what I call a happy eoy mail day! 💃💃💃 Eleanor Eleanor (@fencebooks.bsky.social) by @kathryncowles.bsky.social ✨️✨️😍✨️✨️ 📚💙

someone trustworthy said, go to the shoreline to tell what needs to be told

Fatena Abu Mostafa wearenotnumbers.org/what-new-year/

❤️ thank you, Burgi! free shipping through Jan 8 www.tigerbarkpress.com/catalog/p/wh...

Hi it's my birthday. If you think I have added anything to your bsky experience, please donate to the Elhakawati Theater in Jerusalem. el-hakawati.org/support-us/s...

Fatena Abu Mostafa wearenotnumbers.org/what-new-year/

Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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"We are not helpless."

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj

Frank O’Hara

Hahaha amazing.

Looking to courageous people & how they don't give in to dispair & fear. There are many & together they nudge me on, showing again & again that not to give in is possible.

Loving this incredible & absolutely brilliant endorsement of MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org) from Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer (@kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social)! Kathryn, thank you for blessing MORE FLOWERS with your abundant spirit & with everything that makes you, you! I am so grateful! 🌸🌺🌼

At the Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities, one-time treasures bring back memories and are a reminder of the eternal life of plastic waste. n.pr/4540mx9

THESE gorgeous words from @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social about MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org)! I am so happy to have one of my favorite poets (& people!) endorse this collection & with a book about being seen, it is wonderful to see myself in her insights & to feel so affirmed. Thank you, Cynthia!

A quick programming note: Glass: A Journal of Poetry will be taking the next two weeks off. We look forward to bringing you your weekly Wednesday poem again in 2026. Until then, you can always spend some time with the 18 years worth of poems in our archives. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/arch...

A screen recording of a 60 Mins segment about the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be aired today but was pulled last minute for "unclear reasons." Despite being pulled, it aired on Global-TV in Canada anyway: archive.org/details/60mi...

Vannida S. Kol 💙 “…souls remembering their way / back to the body…” Really loving this poem, first featured in @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Number 4.

chuffed.org/project/mawa... This December, your money has helped to get meat to families who've gone a long time without access to any fresh meat; your help really makes a difference. We also called NGOs to help vulnerable families (that have medical patients, injured, or children) get tents.

“The best six poetry books of the year” in the NYT might as well have been “the best poetry book of the year” and the way I had to not throw my phone.

"In my mother’s theory of miracles / there are two columns..." "In the Lion's Mouth" by @janezwart.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/22/i...

Gather with us for the Sick & Disabled Showcase, a virtual poetry reading on February 5, 6:30-8 pm EST! Hosted by Kay Ulanday Barrett & featuring Arianna Monet, Ina Cariño, MT Vallarta, Amir McClam, Tala Khanmalek & Joselia Hughes. Tickets start at $5. Learn more: bit.ly/4aWQ4T1 #Poetry #Poets

Writers, what's one helpful skill, tip, or bit of wisdom that helped you with book launch & promo? Especially if you had to be your own publicity & marketing team!

Listen to Episode 82 with @fklein907.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 Read “Schoenbar Road, Midwinter” here: www.culturaldaily.com/frances-klei...

We’re feeling spicy today. 🔉

Today's Featured Poem: "Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/geomorp...

Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts @bookcritics.bsky.social

Beautiful poem by Lisbeth White (@earthmaven.bsky.social) here 💙🌊💙 www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

Beautiful poem by Lisbeth White (@earthmaven.bsky.social) here 💙🌊💙 www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

Printing cover items for Sarah Teresa Cook’s ORIGIN STORIES which you can order here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/origin-...

it’s late in the day, but I’d like to try something. here’s a poem by Thomas Horan called “Moonslick Bay in Pain”—I’d like to share it for #twopageplustuesday, a day of sharing poems you like (or poems you yourself have written!) that take up two or more printed pages, roughly speaking. (1/2)

Super stoked to be a finalist for the Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! I just love this list of poets, and I’m so happy to be among them! Congrats to all! Thanks to all! 💜🩵

While Christmas ads are on a loop here, while we spend an enormous amount of money of stuff none of us really needs, there are actual needs everywhere. Please don´t look away, donate and share widely. Thank you. chuffed.org/project/mawa...

icefloepress.net/2025/12/17/v... Something a little different today, honoured to appear as part of icefloepress`"New Works" Thank you to @icefloepress.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

Something beautiful to look forward to 😍

My author copies arrived & I took one on its first field trip! Here she is on the mantle in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom & in my arms in her mother’s bedroom (Emily Norcross Dickinson). Thanks to all the poetry predecessors & to all who helped make this book come true. ♥️ @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

OverJOYED to see @juneroadpress.bsky.social, @perugiapress.bsky.social, @bobsykora.bsky.social, ENTRE RÍOS Books, @sundresspub.bsky.social and @djvorreyer.bsky.social on this list! 📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.

The free version of @susanlleary.bsky.social’s interview with Lili Gourley dropped today! View it here: open.substack.com/pub/triohous...