Yes yes yes just got an essay accepted thatβs been rejected like a dozen times wheeeeeeee!
Yes yes yes just got an essay accepted thatβs been rejected like a dozen times wheeeeeeee!
How dare you know my midnight habits π§
Beautiful poem Han! π
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POETRY OPEN READING PERIOD 1 May-June 30 RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
Hi poetry babesβhope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1.
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Cold but happy last night, on my way to hear Tiana Clark read from her new book SCORCHED EARTH
Transgressive joy last night at Tiana Clark βs reading at Smith College from her new book SCORCHED EARTH! Her conversation with Ocean Vuong afterwards was illuminating and catharticβyou can find the recording online with the Smith College Poetry Center β¨πβ¨ It was a chilly night but magical!
Iβll be at the free Artists Book Day at the Clark Art Museum this Sunday for Nine Syllables Press- come say hi!
Saw a wonderful concert Friday night with my teen who spent two years severally sick and now is recovering π so joyful
By Jenny George, from her new book AFTER IMAGE.
By Tishani Doshi
Thank you so much! π
Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today!
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Went to the bulb show with my eldest π
Very similar to my comfort read rn!
One black cat in a lap with another grey tabby cat sleeping on the bed, and an open laptop.
Helpers this morning
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
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Orchards on a hill with snow on the ground and some mist
Mist over the orchard this morning
Image shows the poet standing a podium in a navy blue suit with a pink curtain behind them
Image shows poet, K Iver and poet, Joan Kwon Glass seated on stage in discussion with each other.
Loved hearing K. Iver read their poems at Smith College this week π
#OtD 3 Mar 1991 Rodney King was brutally beaten by police in Los Angeles. Despite it being caught on film (almost unheard of in those days), the officers were acquitted, and the city went up in flames in what were the biggest riots since 1968 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...
Our 2025 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize for poetry is open! Judge: Ellen Bass. We welcome both emerging and established poets, so whether you're publishing for the first time or adding to a brilliant body of work, we want to hear your voice. Weβre on Submittable! Full guidelines: calyxpress.org.
red bunny on mint green background with a call to boycott on feb 28 - buy nothing, use small businesses and remember we have power
remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!
Free subs for Black poets open tomorrow morning π
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
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shout out to all the parent writers. to all the projects started and then withered because a kid had a cold, or fell when you were jotting an idea down, or started a bath and jumped in still dressed. for the conferences and fellowships and sub windows missed. shout out to yβall who keep coming back.
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I did this just now and it worked.
Opening paragraph of a substack with title βBrownies and Evie Shockleyβ
New substack out today with brownie recipe π
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To be absolutely clear Iβm with Judith Butler