new from above/ground press : Daily Self-Portrait Valentine, by Laynie Browne / @omnidawn.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Was reminded yesterday of the opening poem of @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s RECLAIMED WATER (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)—thanks for this @toddedillard.bsky.social!—so on Day 3 of National Poetry Month, here’s “Philosophy,” another poem I love from this brilliant collection! 💙

Todd, your prompt made me think of this poem, “Saddest Factory” by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social in RECLAIMED WATER (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)!

The making of this book took me through all kinds of difficult terrains—thanks so much to @ornithopterpress.bsky.social for their trust and patience with its long and winding creative process. It’s exciting to now get a chance to send it out to share and find its way into the world.

Forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Emma Winsor Wood and Eve Luckring!

Going camping! Bringing some friends @ornithopterpress.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com @eastridgereview.bsky.social

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Cole Chaudhari : Close Reading of “Gardenback” by Tom Snarsky / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/cole...

I started writing #BookReviews of #poetry collections last year. Here's one volume I found especially striking: "Site of Disappearance" by @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social, from @ornithopterpress.bsky.social. www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

Please read this review of Michael D. Snediker's JONES VERY written by the inimitable H. L. Hix: internationaltimes.it/urgency/

Introducing JONES VERY by Michael D. Snediker ✨ From what do we assemble ourselves, of what fervors is that scene of us comprised? Jones Very—named after Ralph Waldo Emerson’s haunted acolyte—is an ecology of oxymel and abacus.... ✨ www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p24/JO...

Introducing AN INCH THICK by Theo Ellin Ballew ✨ AN INCH THICK is a future-mythic life story in lullaby, peopled by punkish attempts to bind and measure and hold still (attempts egged on by the memory of their impossibility). ✨ www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p23/AN...

Hey everybody, it's wonderful to be part of the creative community here. So many new friends, this is great. Ornithopter Press has published 2 fabulous books this fall. Preparing to share them with you now. New posts coming up.

if you’re over there on the instant gram, I’m happy to have a poem-video live there for “The Star-Field Paintings”, the opening poem from my first book Light-Up Swan (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social, 2021)! www.instagram.com/reel/C8-2C6h...

Tom Snarsky with your poem and prompt today! From “Care Of,” which you can read in full here: moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/04/03/c... @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

borrowing these lines by Eve Luckring (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social) for an author bio

from Intaglio Daughters, Laynie Browne's homage to Lyn Hejinian

I could no longer permit the presence in my body / of fictions belonging elsewhere. —Laynie Brown #poetry @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

Of line breaks, of minisons, of experimental poetics, of Wallace Stevens and of Noelle Kocot, of small and large poems, of bagpipes and of the infinite variety of language and of ultimately: surprise. Episode 43: Tom Snarsky (Of Minisons, Math, and More About Long Poems) is now available!

happy #smallpoemsunday! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written and/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) here’s a snippet by Joel Oppenheimer & one by me, from my chap Threshold @anothernewcalligraphy.com reprinted in Light-Up Swan @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

I keep meaning to say. I got a copy of @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's Reclaimed Water, and I am enjoying it! It's on my new bookshelf in my bedroom and I'm not in bed to take pictures. But the longer "Rare Birds of Massachusetts" is really good!

happy #smallpoemsunday! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written &/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) I’m a big fan of what Peter Reading once called “the thirteen-line sonnet for unlucky people”—here’s one by Michelle Parkerson & one by me :)

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Hi all, please check out this review in Diagram 23.2 of Gabrielle Joy Lessans's poetry collection [a go] by Sarah Alcaide-Escue! thediagram.com/23_2/rev_les...

This is the first poem I turned to after I bought @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's book Light-Up Swan (which is the most recently written book of poems I have read more than twice and keep reading). I still don't know why it is titled "Classical" or why it moves me so strongly. Buy this book.

Our fathers didn't turn / from the patios; our mothers practiced / eternity. —Erin Malone, from Site of Disappearance (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)

Find your own copy of Erin Malone’s Site of Disappearance here, at @ornithopterpress.bsky.social! Let Erin read to you on Episode 40 (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors), linked above. 🎙️ #poetry

Last episode of the year, dropping tomorrow! 🎙️✨ Erin Malone guests, reading from her new collection, Site of Disappearence (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social, 2023) Subscribe here to listen: share.transistor.fm/s/19123bdc

happy #smallpoemsunday (Xmas eve edition)! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written and/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) here’s one by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (tr. Vala Thorodds) & a page spread from Reclaimed Water 🎄

today, Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots newsletter (a highlight of my Sundays!) is on the opening poem from Light-Up Swan (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)—Devin is an incredibly careful & thoughtful reader, & I’m so grateful he turned his eye & ear to this poem! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/tom-snarsk...

forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2024, poetry collections by Michael D. Snediker and Theo Ellin Ballew!

If you want to help accelerate Twitter's collapse, one way you can do so is by supporting creative people and small outlets on *this site*. Don't just like, share! Help them rebuild their audiences here!

happy #smallpoemsunday! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written and/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) here’s one by me & a snippet by nguyen thakhur~

ICYMI I had a wonderful conversation with Hannah Lamb-Vines that is up at Full Stop! it was such a pleasure to talk with Hannah about the long poem, Reclaimed Water, and the obsessions that keep poetry moving, “Like looking at mountains and seeing waves.” www.full-stop.net/2023/12/05/i...

happy #smallpoemsunday! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written and/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) here’s one by me & one by Alice Notley

happy #smallpoemsunday! if you feel so inclined, you can share a small poem you’ve written and/or a small poem you love by somebody else :) here’s one by me & one by Frank Lima

"...I’ve become more intensely invested in the nuts and bolts of language, the limitations of its mechanics, and how the limitations themselves are responsible for so much of what we think we know only because we can say it." - Kate Colby

Hey, check out this terrific interview with Erin Malone in the Chinook Observer in which she talks about her new poetry collection Site of Disappearance! www.chinookobserver.com/opinion/colu...

This is happening tomorrow evening, @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social & Kathleen Flenniken in-person on Bainbridge Island, WA!

I’m grateful to have a poem called “Truth and Love” up as part of the new issue of Knowles Teacher Initiative’s journal Kaleidoscope! The poem owes its origins to one of the most rewarding experiences of my teaching career: advising the MHS Philosophy Club. A link: start.kstf.org/kaleidoscope... 🧺

I’m delighted to have a poem in Frozen Sea Poetry issue 1 alongside some utterly brilliant poets! editor William Ward Butler has put together a beautiful pub; here’s the poem & a link to hear the recording + read/listen to all the other splendid work in the issue :) frozensea.org/tom-snarsky 🧊 🌊 🪓 💜

Review of Laynie Browne's new poetry collection Intaglio Daughters: www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-book...

Laynie Browne, Letters Inscribed in Snow, Practice Has No Sequel and Intaglio Daughters robmclennan.blogspot.com/2023/09/layn...