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!

My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth

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...

“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

now in Blackpitts in Dublin, if the rain holds off they'll be there a while (you are not alone)

"How ridiculous now to think we were happy in the quick shelter / we sought from truth." - Joy Harjo, "Overwhelm" at @newyorker.com

"From the tawny light from the rainy nights from the imagination finding itself and more than itself alone and more than alone at the bottom of the well where the moon lives, can you pull me ..." — Denise Levertov www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42525/...

We're especially seeking more work by Indigenous queer writers outside of the US!

I'm honored to be a featured artist at the Missouri Arts Council this month & join the incredible roster of artists they've spotlit over the last five years! You can see the whole 200+ artist archive at missouriartscouncil.org !

"because its sound was closest to her love, because two syllables are an easier loss to bear, because like all our matriarchs, she wanted me named for a man none of us could save." - Julia Kolchinsky poets.org/poem/naming-0

“In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston (from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

Our student project showcase at the end of Book Lab has become quite the event! I was so pleased at the turnout today from the iSchool, Library, & beyond—the FabLab was packed I’m going to share a few student projects in this thread, so follow or mute as you want or need

New newsletter out this week with shout outs to Julia Kolchinsky & her new book, SLAC sabbaticals, art about Appalachia, & more

Day 6: A poem from Chrystos, a two-spirit, Menominee poet and activist found in anthology of indigenous poetry edited by Joy Harjo "Come take it Take as much as you need I give you seeds of a new way" For info on the meaning of two-spirit, www.teenvogue.com/story/gender...

My Baseline Press chapbook is available for pre-order. www.baselinepress.ca/shop/so-i-go...

Thanks so much to Poets & Writers for including a little story about us in their newest issue!

Tiana Clark in the @nytimes.com (!) on Kendrick’s performance, history & the present, & the power & possibility of Black abundance & joy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Thanks to like a field for publishing this experiment with a heart close to the heart of the new poems I’ve been writing.

What an incredible first issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social !

River River cannot be contained by the banks we first imagined—