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

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—

Social media keeps fracturing so I set this up for anyone who wants to stay in touch with me or what I’m working on. First post next week! jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com/subscribe

9th grade teacher helped me enjoy a lot of Shakespeare. 10th had Animal Farm. 11th/12th had stories by Sandra Cisneros I never forgot, W.C. Williams who I loathed then but came to like later, Dickinson, & a teacher who gave me recs at lunch, pushing me toward Garcia Marquez, Ellison, Morrison, etc.

I’m so glad this poem found a home in Appalachian Journal under its new editor Jessica Cory and in this issue with such a wonderful tribute to long-time editor Sandra Ballard.

I have known for some time that “fathom” is a unit used to measure depth of water, but I did not until minutes ago that its particular length (six feet) stems from an Old English word—fæthm—meaning the span of a person’s outstretched arms.

I took Spanish for a language requirement and just liked having a class that felt totally different so I kept taking more. It took me to Mexico & Spain, taught me about whole other parts of world history than I’d studied before, and I still use it all the time.

The publishing industry in Lebanon is one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East. Although it has been incredibly difficult for #publishers in the past 5 years, it was far worse over the past two months during incessant bombing by Israel: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Well hello. May 2025, from @carcanet.bsky.social. PATTERN-BOOK. Very happy to be able to share this beautiful cover, the colors of poems and roses. #patternbook

👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.

Love this thinking from @lydiaarnold.bsky.social - seems right in line with what happens in writing & publishing classes re: co-creation. I’d add that the “letting go” also fosters a sense of agency for the students in their learning that I hope/trust they take with them elsewhere

Since the @dukepress.bsky.social sale is going on, I'll share a few thoughts about Soundworks (t.co/DuM332amkd), though it's now almost four years old. The motivating idea: You don't study black culture to understand black life; you study black life to understand black culture.

Do you love chapbooks of poetry and prose? Do you want to support a small press in a year where small presses really need your support? Then check out our Black Friday sale: all books and ebooks are on sale, some over 60% off. www.bullcitypress.com

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Each cabinet pick is a new fresh hell so here’s a poem from @agnimagazine.bsky.social 100 (!) about birds’ nests made from detritus, extreme weather, + swimming at summer camp. Remember ‘buddy check’? Let’s re-implement buddy check for the next few years maybe for, like, everything? #ecopoetry