Give Miami Day is here! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard. Please the link below to give! www.givemiamiday.org/organization...

It’s on! Give Miami Day starts tomorrow—but early giving is already open. Please consider donating to @swwim.bsky.social to help us continue our programming for supporting women and raising their voices in Miami and the world beyond it. www.givemiamiday.org/organization...

No donation is too small & all are greatly appreciated. For those of you who appreciate good data (!) Check out these milestones illustrating the reach & vision of this incredible group. @swwim.bsky.social @kavetchnik.bsky.social

What a joy to see poetry come full circle 💫 Last year I passed the Poet Laureate baton to Caridad Moro-Gronlier — now she’s leading Generation 305! Join us Nov 22 at #MiamiBookFair to celebrate intergenerational poetry + community 🌺 www.miamibookfair.com/event/genera... @miamibookfair.bsky.social

Join us for a drink 🥂, a generative workshop, and a supportive community—all free! shop.booksandbooks.com/event/2025-1...

Please register and join us! #poetry

Join us for a virtual writing workshop series with SWWIM this fall! Get in touch with your creative energy, your “bruja,” your inner witch. We’ll explore the wonder, mystery, synchronicity, and enchantment of the creative process in our writing. Sign up for one or for all three. Broom optional.

Issue #5 of @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social is out now! These poets were anonymously assigned a packet of poems by other contributors--and then agreed to write a five-paragraph essay in response. The results are delightful! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue

Congratulations to Brenda Cárdenas! Her poem “Mercy” originally published in SWWIM Every Day was selected for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology! bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-... @bcar.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #BestoftheNet #Poetry #WomenPoets #Inclusive

Not a bad way to begin the morning! Top 60 out of 2000 entries—and 🤞🏻 to go further. Thank you #alpinefellowship!

Apply for the 2025-26 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy-South Beach. Open through 8/1! We can’t wait to read your applications! XO SWWIM Team swwim.submittable.com/submit/32635... #SWWIMReadingSeries #SWWIMResidency #WomenPoets #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive

Delighted to have this beautiful outlaw, forthcoming in Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026) in @thedodgemag.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors. 🦟⚡️

A special surprise weekend with my two! Love them so much.

📸 Check out our amazing contributors in Issue 21! @kavetchnik.bsky.social @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social @slokev.bsky.social @jerreat.bsky.social @pamelamanasco.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social @lukejohnson6.bsky.social

Come to hear about mushrooms and mangoes and whales and octopus and other poetic obsessions!

Asheville friends, please do join us!

And I get to be issue-mates with @kavetchnik.bsky.social which is delightful! www.thedodgemag.com/jenkaretnick2

Please register at thepoetrysalonstack.substack.com and join us tonight at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST!

Thank you to the editors at @thedodgemag.bsky.social for including my poem 💜

Thank you @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for featuring five poems from my book Inheritance with a High Error Rate on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. You can read them all here: sundressblog.com/category/war... or (most of them) in the attachments. 🐋🥭🦉🐙

Save the date! I can’t wait to read with Elizabeth Jacobson at Books & Books and support her beautiful new collection of poetry. Come hear her lovely, lyrical new work! Plus some of my favorite poems about mango farming and a few tidbits from my forthcoming two books. 🪸🐠🐋🐙🥭

Tonight in the BBar at The Betsy Hotel — or join us on the stream 💻

Chicago, I’m bringing a lot of fleece-lined thermals! 🥶😆 See you at Woman Made Gallery this Sunday. Please join us. #poetryreading #election #aftermath

Join us! Braving the Body, edited by Nicole Callihan, Chenda Bao, and Jennifer Franklin is Zooming your way this Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 pm EST/ 4:00 pm PST on the W-E Poetry Series. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us in the BBar at The Betsy Hotel (or on livestream on IG/FB @swwimmiami) for a poetry reading and conversation with Nicole Cooley and Caroline Cabrera! Thursday, December 12th starting at 7PM EST. @swwim.bsky.social #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries #MiamiPoetry #MiamiArts #WritersRoom

Love this! Hello Florida poets 💚

On this national Giving Tuesday, please help us Support Women Writers in Miami (and beyond) at SWWIM! The best way to donate is through Stripe (any amount) or Substack (links below). Thank you! Love from @swwim.bsky.social! 🌊📝🎤

Grateful for three dogs sharing one human 😜❤️🐶

Are you good at the writing but not so great at finding homes for your creative work? Do guidelines baffle you? Is keeping track of your submissions getting you down? Join me for a comprehensive discussion on best practices —and an AMA session at the end. Link: buy.stripe.com/eVacNXb2R6mm...

omg this poem from @swwim.bsky.social today. bit.ly/3AOzSnr

Delighted and honored to learn over the weekend that one of my manuscripts, Domiciliary, was a finalist for the 2024 Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Poetry Series. Congrats to the winner, runners-up, finalists, and honorable mentions. 📖📝📚

What a pleasure to reconnect with one of my first—and best—poetry professors, Marie Howe, at the Miami Book Fair. Taking her workshops and seminars at Tufts changed my life. I was thrilled to see her again after so many years. My poetic existence is due to her. 📖📝🎤

Thank you to everyone who supported @swwim.bsky.social on Give Miami Day! We’re thrilled to say that we met our challenge grant. Subscribe to @swwimeveryday on Substack to receive a poem in your inbox written by a woman-identifying writer. 📝 ✍️

Looking forward to reading from my latest poetry collection this Saturday at the Miami Book Fair. Details: 11/23, 11 am, room 8303. Please come by if you’re in town! 📚📖🎤

Atlanta Review is hosting a chapbook competition for the first time ever! One winner will receive $500 and 25 copies of the chapbook. Contest opens December 1. You can find guidelines at atlantareview.com/guidelines/c.... (Don't worry, we'll remind you again!)

Give Miami Day is Thursday, November 21! And early giving has already begun. Please help support @swwim.bsky.social and enable us to publish more poets, hand out more residencies, and meet our matching grant. To learn more about what we do, visit: www.givemiamiday.org/organization...

So excited to have a poem in Shenandoah with such great company! My gratitude to poetry editor @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social and editor Beth Staples. And a big thank you for getting this formatting correct online—I know it’s not easy! 👏🏻🙏🏼

I am so honored and thrilled to be the subject of the cover story for the May/June issue Of Poets & Poetry, the magazine of the Florida State Poets Association. So many thanks to MB McLatchey, the FSPA Chancellor, and Vice President/editor Mark Terry ❤️ indd.adobe.com/view/f92e32b...

Very honored to be named an HM in The Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize. Many thanks to the editors, readers, and judge, and congrats to the winner, my fellow HMs and all the Florida poets published in this issue. It’s amazing work. #MissingMaureen

Join us today at @ocinema at 3 pm for a screening of Burning off the Page, about Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin, part of the Miami Jewish Film Festival sponsored by @thebetsyhotel. I’ll be doing a q-and-afterwards some special guests. RSVP to attend here: miamijewishfilmfestival.org/films/2024/b...

Babysitting the grand-dog and his roommate in Tampa this weekend and wondering how I’m supposed to get work done when they keep doing things like this.

She’s here! Happy birthday, little one. And many thanks to The Lake for posting one of the signature poems from the #book in their One #Poem Review feature. www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/oprj...

Thank you Cold Mountain Review for publishing this reverse abecedarian terza rima. A shout out to the editorial team who persevered for a year against budget cuts and state-based oversight to transform the print magazine into a digital one. 🗻📖🔥 coldmountainreview.appstate.edu/submission/a...

Grateful to Catherine Esposito Prescott & Jen Karetnick @kavetchnik.bsky.social at SWIMM @swwim.bsky.social for taking such care with this poem & with all the poets they support & promote 🥰💫🙏💙 “Deepening the Drift”

And this concludes our two-week collab! It was great fun watching these poets read their poems every afternoon. I look forward to seeing them read in person this weekend and to celebrating the life of Maureen Seaton with friends and colleagues. 😍❤️🙏🏼

Hola, it's 3:05 pm! Join us as we celebrate women-identifying poets appearing at @MiamiBookFair this month. In collab with @305cafecito & MBF, every day at this time we’ll take a break & share work featured at MBF2023! Grab a cafecito & listen today to #NicoleSealey on our IG/FB/Substack. ☕️

Please nominate @swwim.bsky.social on IG for the #ElevatePrize!

Join us at 3:05 pm today and for the next two weeks for a really fun collab with #305Cafecito as we celebrate the approach of #MiamiBookFair2023 with a #videopoem for the afternoon. Sign up now for a free Substack subscription and it will be delivered straight to your inbox. #PoemInTheAfternoon 💻☕️

My achievement for the week: Eating these 🦀

Many thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for resharing this little love poem from their archives... www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...