David Ward
davidww.bsky.social
David Ward
@davidww.bsky.social
poems, fossils, videogames
editor @ publicschoolpoetry.com
lecturer @ university of michigan
Loud af sandhill cranes passing by in the middle of the night
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Very cool idea!
SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE!

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Remix our works!

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December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I had a joke about Zeno, but I never quite
I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.
I had a joke about Icarus but I couldn't get the punchline to land
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.
I had a joke about Icarus but I couldn't get the punchline to land
I had a joke about Narcissus but I took a long hard look at myself first
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wrote a poem over the weekend called "Reasons for and Solutions to the Masculinity Crisis." Nice to have that all sorted out!
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Got to play "osculate" in bananagrams last night, thanks to that one Monica Youn poem!
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Subs have closed for Issue 6 of Public School Poetry, and we're reading through an an amazing bunch of submissions! Thanks for making our Vice Principal selecting work an exciting challenge.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I guess technically WE aren't selling anything, but PSP does have a Bookfair page for our contributors: www.publicschoolpoetry.com/book-fair

All our funding, true to theme, is via a once-a-year bake sale...
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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NO
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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forest foot
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Buncha supposed politics experts are going to spend the next week looking at a young charismatic candidate with an optimistic message like it’s some cryptic formula for cold fusion
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A former student of mine just published this story in @adroitjournal.bsky.social--it's always bewildering and delightful when undergraduates can write at this level. So proud!

"Hsiu-hua’s strange behavior started along with Taiwan’s monsoon season..."
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Audrey Tang
Visit the post for more.
theadroitjournal.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Somehow managed to overturn a whole-ass table while teaching today. What on earth am I even doing
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"put me on repeat on repeat" yeah will do! One of my favorite tracks from this album
the final video from Neigbborhood Gods Unlimited

relentless hands and feet - directed, illustrated and animated by M Ay Be

youtu.be/Rozqinqo31M
Open Mike Eagle - relentless hands and feet (official video)
YouTube video by Open Mike Eagle
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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New platform for congress is when you're elected Pokémon tutorials will be optional
free me from this legends za tutorial
October 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"We, foolish, dribble. / each bounce-back brings a stranger. can't call us for traveling / because // we ain't going nowhere"

Any morning a @scryptkeeper.bsky.social poem shows up I know I'm headed for a good day!
What a sweet surprise to wake up to this this morning. Thanks for the love @poetryfoundation.bsky.social !! 🥹🫶🏾
#blacksky
#booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you or any poet-friends want to get involved in Public School Poetry, send us some work! Our contributors write "5-paragraph essays" for each other (the poems randomly, anonymously assigned, of course). It is, we hope, a totally different kind of engagement than you can find anywhere else!
For the next six glorious weeks, the submission window for Issue #6 of Public School Poetry is open! Homework is due December 1st!

publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit
Public School Poetry Submission Manager
publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After teaching, before take-out and Survivor
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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i would be such a good writer if books did not require tension, character development, or settings
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM