David Ward
@davidww.bsky.social
poems, fossils, videogames
editor @ publicschoolpoetry.com
lecturer @ university of michigan
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
Loud af sandhill cranes passing by in the middle of the night
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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
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
Very cool idea!
SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE!
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Very cool idea!
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
I had a joke about Zeno, but I never quite
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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
I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.
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
Wrote a poem over the weekend called "Reasons for and Solutions to the Masculinity Crisis." Nice to have that all sorted out!
Got to play "osculate" in bananagrams last night, thanks to that one Monica Youn poem!
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Got to play "osculate" in bananagrams last night, thanks to that one Monica Youn poem!
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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
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.
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...
All our funding, true to theme, is via a once-a-year bake sale...
November 28, 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...
All our funding, true to theme, is via a once-a-year bake sale...
Reposted by David Ward
Reposted by David Ward
Reposted by David Ward
Reposted by David Ward
All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
Reposted by David Ward
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
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
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-...
"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
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-...
"Hsiu-hua’s strange behavior started along with Taiwan’s monsoon season..."
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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
Somehow managed to overturn a whole-ass table while teaching today. What on earth am I even doing
"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
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
"put me on repeat on repeat" yeah will do! One of my favorite tracks from this album
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check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
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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
New platform for congress is when you're elected Pokémon tutorials will be optional
"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!
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
#blacksky
#booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 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!
Any morning a @scryptkeeper.bsky.social poem shows up I know I'm headed for a good day!
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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
PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!
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
publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit
Public School Poetry Submission Manager
publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 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!
After teaching, before take-out and Survivor
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
After teaching, before take-out and Survivor
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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
i would be such a good writer if books did not require tension, character development, or settings