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Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍

Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍

Join us on Monday in CWC for our upcoming craft class with Gaby Calvocoressi, who has written one of my favorite books of the last 10 years, The New Economy.

Jorie Graham:

I hope @mayacpopa.bsky.social doesn't mind me sharing her beautiful poem here. I just thought it was lovely and you should all see it.

Raymond Carver:

“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon”

Last chance to register for @alinaetc.bsky.social's three-part intensive, which starts TODAY at 12 PM EST (recording available if you miss it!).

Last chance to register for @alinaetc.bsky.social's three-part intensive, which starts TODAY at 12 PM EST (recording available if you miss it!).

Today’s poem is selected by Maya C. Popa (@mayacpopa.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.” appeared in The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2025.

Mary Ruefle:

"Beyond the shale night / filling with rain."

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So grateful to @mayacpopa.bsky.social for the world she nurtures, the wonder (and hope) to which she commits language and being, and her relationship to poetry as life. ❤️

Please spread the word, friends. I really hope this scholarship reaches and serves writers who would not otherwise have access to instruction and community. (Form is on our IG, @consciouswriters)

"Why does this light force me back / to my childhood?"

The amazing @alinaetc.bsky.social will be teaching 3x workshops on the essay in Conscious Writers Collective this October, November, and December. Link in bio ✨

The amazing @alinaetc.bsky.social will be teaching 3x workshops on the essay in Conscious Writers Collective this October, November, and December. Link in bio ✨

"where we stood, saying I"

Please spread the word, friends. I really hope this scholarship reaches and serves writers who would not otherwise have access to instruction and community. (Form is on our IG, @consciouswriters)

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

Excited to be teaching a class entirely on book reviewing. September 18, 4-5:30 PM EST. Replays available. Spots are limited. See you soon. x mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

By @poetalicewhite.bsky.social:

A necessary reminder:

"Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not."

"Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not."

Love this poem by Kevin Young:

William Bronk:

Kay Ryan:

Kay Ryan:

"Being with you or without you is how I measure my time." — Jorge Luis Borges

"Being with you or without you is how I measure my time." — Jorge Luis Borges

A poem from my next book about visiting the South during the early days of the war in Ukraine. I'd hoped to capture that uncanny sense of pervasive ongoing violence that still announces itself amid beauty.

A poem from my next book about visiting the South during the early days of the war in Ukraine. I'd hoped to capture that uncanny sense of pervasive ongoing violence that still announces itself amid beauty.

Excited to be teaching a class entirely on book reviewing. September 18, 4-5:30 PM EST. Replays available. Spots are limited. See you soon. x mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

My poem about the Manhattan field hospital in Central Park (2020):

'Mine’s Not A Political Heart' by Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social I'm led into a familiar discomfort, a dark irony. Like staring at a mirror to our own vices. I try to resolve the sentiment, but fail — and that's the power behind the poem, I feel. Astounding 🖤 #poetrycommunity #poetry

My poem about the Manhattan field hospital in Central Park (2020):

Mary Oliver:

☕️ with a Popa poem:

_American Faith_ by @mayacpopa.bsky.social, spotted in the wild at the Bird in Hand Cafe in Baltimore:

From WOUND:

From WOUND:

Yesterday’s newsletter on Mary Oliver’s Augusts:

Yesterday’s newsletter on Mary Oliver’s Augusts:

Fire and Ice:

Fire and Ice:

‪Thank you, I am grateful to @mayacpopa.bsky.social & @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for this tender insight into life & work more of us should know.‬