Craig Beaven
@craigbeaven.bsky.social
4 books of poetry, most recently In Arcadia (Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series) and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize.) Poems in Pleiades, Tin House, Hollins Critic, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, etc. PhD Houston
Pleiades is always a banger, but this particular issue seems even hotter than normal for them. @pleiadesmag.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pleiades is always a banger, but this particular issue seems even hotter than normal for them. @pleiadesmag.bsky.social
No one has ever wanted to shampoo me :(
I mean, I'm totally bald. BUT STILL!
I mean, I'm totally bald. BUT STILL!
July 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
No one has ever wanted to shampoo me :(
I mean, I'm totally bald. BUT STILL!
I mean, I'm totally bald. BUT STILL!
Yikes! Free in the mail to all Tallahassee residents. #LivingInsidetheApocalypse
June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yikes! Free in the mail to all Tallahassee residents. #LivingInsidetheApocalypse
hashtag: summer reading (for my rising 5th grader)
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
hashtag: summer reading (for my rising 5th grader)
DEADLINE TOMORROW. Submit today!
May 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
DEADLINE TOMORROW. Submit today!
Great to see an Anhinga Press author representing on @poetrydaily.bsky.social! Wonderful piece!
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Water Sons
Outside, mowers===another plan to be happy.
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May 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Great to see an Anhinga Press author representing on @poetrydaily.bsky.social! Wonderful piece!
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Was assigned to read this in ’05 but never got it.
Bought it in ’08.
Finally reading now.
I’ve been super busy and just now had the time.
RIP HalfPrice books in Rice Village. @halfpricebooks.bsky.social
Bought it in ’08.
Finally reading now.
I’ve been super busy and just now had the time.
RIP HalfPrice books in Rice Village. @halfpricebooks.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Was assigned to read this in ’05 but never got it.
Bought it in ’08.
Finally reading now.
I’ve been super busy and just now had the time.
RIP HalfPrice books in Rice Village. @halfpricebooks.bsky.social
Bought it in ’08.
Finally reading now.
I’ve been super busy and just now had the time.
RIP HalfPrice books in Rice Village. @halfpricebooks.bsky.social
The Memoji of Dorian Gray
May 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Memoji of Dorian Gray
Enjoying this dissonance between my book and my bookmark
May 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Enjoying this dissonance between my book and my bookmark
classroom door this morning:
May 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
classroom door this morning:
Loving this. Super delightful.
May 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Loving this. Super delightful.
My local indie bookstore is reporting that this year’s #IndieBookstoreDay was their single biggest sales day ever, all time. That’s super badass. Love to see it.
April 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My local indie bookstore is reporting that this year’s #IndieBookstoreDay was their single biggest sales day ever, all time. That’s super badass. Love to see it.
morning skylight outside my classroom three compound words
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
morning skylight outside my classroom three compound words
good way to start a poem:
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough
It seems to inhale the water, is holy.
I refuse to explain.
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough
It seems to inhale the water, is holy.
I refuse to explain.
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
good way to start a poem:
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough
It seems to inhale the water, is holy.
I refuse to explain.
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough
It seems to inhale the water, is holy.
I refuse to explain.
This is a small, independent, women-led press that publishes such beautiful books and such great poems. This is their 51st year, which is itself a triumph. Please consider submitting to the Anhinga Prize soon!
April 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a small, independent, women-led press that publishes such beautiful books and such great poems. This is their 51st year, which is itself a triumph. Please consider submitting to the Anhinga Prize soon!
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.” I think to read this book is to just quietly weep for ~200 pages. #JamesBaldwin #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.” I think to read this book is to just quietly weep for ~200 pages. #JamesBaldwin #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
update! while teaching "Political Poem" from this book a ruby throated hummingbird flew in through the window and observed the entire class!
April 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
update! while teaching "Political Poem" from this book a ruby throated hummingbird flew in through the window and observed the entire class!
Having INCREDIBLY insightful convos in AP Lit this week discussing this classic book and the use of closed-forms to express selfhood. The shape of thinking/consciousness, the structures available to us. Good stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Having INCREDIBLY insightful convos in AP Lit this week discussing this classic book and the use of closed-forms to express selfhood. The shape of thinking/consciousness, the structures available to us. Good stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
props to my local bookstore Midtown Reader! Can't wait to dig in to this. Loved her last one and teach it in my AP Lit class. #poetry #poems #RosalieMoffett
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April 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
props to my local bookstore Midtown Reader! Can't wait to dig in to this. Loved her last one and teach it in my AP Lit class. #poetry #poems #RosalieMoffett
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
The description of a poem’s structure, then, becomes the answer to the question “What keeps it going?” [...] This allows the possibility of the corollary question, “What stops it from going?”
April 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The description of a poem’s structure, then, becomes the answer to the question “What keeps it going?” [...] This allows the possibility of the corollary question, “What stops it from going?”
Currently teaching these gems in AP Lit / high school seniors. I love bringing the kids into contemporary poetry. Invariably they are energized by these collections and go totally bananas.
@upittpress.bsky.social
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@collegeboardpress.bsky.social
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@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
@collegeboardpress.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Currently teaching these gems in AP Lit / high school seniors. I love bringing the kids into contemporary poetry. Invariably they are energized by these collections and go totally bananas.
@upittpress.bsky.social
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
@collegeboardpress.bsky.social
@upittpress.bsky.social
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
@collegeboardpress.bsky.social
"As we read a poem, our expectations concerning the *probable* ending are determined by the structure that emerges as we read--a poem's structure should suggest an ending."
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"As we read a poem, our expectations concerning the *probable* ending are determined by the structure that emerges as we read--a poem's structure should suggest an ending."
rereading this for the millionth time in hopes some of the magic finally wears off on me #poetry #LarryLevis
March 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
rereading this for the millionth time in hopes some of the magic finally wears off on me #poetry #LarryLevis
March 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Incredible. I’m not super good with taxonomy but I would call these poems “visionary.” They twist and turn and think and have all the freedom they need to inhabit consciousness. Alive and fresh. Truly stunning. #poetry #reginaldshepherd @upittpress.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Incredible. I’m not super good with taxonomy but I would call these poems “visionary.” They twist and turn and think and have all the freedom they need to inhabit consciousness. Alive and fresh. Truly stunning. #poetry #reginaldshepherd @upittpress.bsky.social