"The patterns / of distance are well established between us. Is an unread poem / a kind of broken promise?" Every time we see a new @amorak.bsky.social poem, we make sure to read it. Be sure to read his newest in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/amorak-huey

“The sky purpling over high / cane would be enough” A phenomenal new poem from @jackbedell.bsky.social in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jack-b-bedell

“The punctum is the camera - really an iPhone - and me, as I am now. Though my voice punctures the past at times.” Read the full visual essay “Progue” by Lindsey D. Alexander in our first issue here: swiftslitmag.com/lindsey-d-al...

“For the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🙌 www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

Thrilled and honored to be included. Thank you Phillip and @[email protected].

If you haven’t signed up for it already, check out the first edition of our newsletter! You can read what we’re about, see a note from our editor @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social, & learn about our first project @swiftslitmag.bsky.social here: accumulate-quiet.beehiiv.com/p/welcome-to...

So delighted to have work in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social alongside poets I admire.

The first writer in our first issue is the phenomenal @mollyakin.bsky.social! swiftslitmag.com/molly-akin

COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!

My newsletter’s back up & running after a little break! This month features a fantastic @susanpoet.bsky.social poem, the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social, a video poem, & more. jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com/p/february-2...

Thrilled to have two pieces in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!

Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.

Really grateful to have a poem in the debut issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for including me! 👇🏻

Cannot be more excited for Issue One to be out for everyone to read! Incredible, incredible work here from @mollyakin.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & more!

Spending time with this new poem by @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social in @newyorker.com this morning

Mouth comes out this week.

Did you know the incredible @riverriverbooks.bsky.social has all their spring poetry titles up for preorder? If not, or if you haven't read all their past books yet, here's where to go. I can't recommend their books highly enough! riverriverbooks.org/store/

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

One of my great joys this year has been launching Tiny Cat Press (tinycatpress.com), which will focus on handmade, limited-edition chaps. I'm already itching to find the next tiny book to make! (But I just started a semester, so maybe that's a bad idea right this minute.)

Just realizing 2026 for @ndbooks.bsky.social includes another of their Pessoa series (!!), a new Kamau Brathwaite (!!!) and a repub of all three parts of The Arrivants (!!!!) - I need to start saving now

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! More info about this submission window: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Submission guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... We look forward to reading your stories!

So excited to hear today that I'll have some work in the first issue!!

Thanks for listing us & helping spread the word, @duotrope.com!

New journal accepting submissions

I couldn't be more excited for this new project! Help us spread the word, and I hope you send something our way!

Amazing poem by Joy Harjo.

I don’t sometimes think this, I always think this. Like this is one of the six things I think every day before breakfast

"I am a white deer, he said, as he escaped through the trees." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉 Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033 Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

"I, civil, lift my arms, balance." - Zeina Hashem Beck The mirroring/self-investigating in this poem. poets.org/poem/standup...

Still thinking about the piece I read this morning by @selahannsaterstrom.bsky.social at @thecreativeindependent.com: "We carry the archive in our blood." thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Really enjoying the new issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social this morning, and this poem by Caitlin Scarano in particular: "My organizing principle keeps slipping / off in the night, a fox silently piercing a series / of fencelines." www.theshorepoetry.org/caitlin-scar...

In a note to herself, Octavia E. Butler wrote, “Tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know. Make people feel!“ Good writing advice for academics and researchers. All writing is a form of creative writing.

“It’s extremely important for me to keep the reality of film craft alive. I want real sets. I don’t want digital. I don’t want AI. I don’t want simulation. I want old fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. I go in and paint props myself.“

What’s better than @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social on BlueSky? A Diane Seuss poem to start them off.

Can’t wait to check out this convo w @aliciawright.bsky.social!

"This interactive map explores five centuries of Indigenous histories on the land now known as Chicago. Stretching across time, it emphasizes that Chicago is, and has always been, an Indigenous place." map.indigenous-chicago.org/pr/indigenou...

Stunned and absolutely thrilled that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (@uakronpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy (@lambdaliterary.bsky.social)! Congrats to all the finalists in all categories 🏳️‍🌈

I mentioned this to friends recently as one of the few tools I use every semester without fail (for years!) & they didn’t know about it to my surprise so now I’m making sure to spread the word. I truly appreciate @wcaleb.org putting it online for everyone so long ago!

I just backed Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection (!) from @fonografeditions.bsky.social & you probably should too on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...

me and my book project

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books: 1. Toni Morrison 2. Joy Harjo 3. C.D. Wright 4. Gabriel García Márquez 5. Marilynne Robinson 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Sandra Cisneros 8. Joe Sacco 9. James Welch 10. Annie Dillard