H. M. Cotton
@hmcotton.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher. Naturalist. Four-leaf clover finder. Editor at Birmingham Poetry Review and NELLE. In love with the Alabama outdoors. MFA student at Warren Wilson. TheCahabaProject.substack.com
Some of y’all need a lil more razzle dazzle in your life. Some whimsey if you will. Some chicanery and bafoonery. In short—y’all are not silly enough geese. In this economy?? You absolutely must latch on to your small joys. I expect to see some improvement from you soon.
September 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Some of y’all need a lil more razzle dazzle in your life. Some whimsey if you will. Some chicanery and bafoonery. In short—y’all are not silly enough geese. In this economy?? You absolutely must latch on to your small joys. I expect to see some improvement from you soon.
One of my fav things as managing editor of @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social is assembling the cover. Check out this upcoming issue with cover art by Debora Greger. Also, a lil whale tail told me Victoria Change is the feature poet. BPR is open for subs today! Go hit our linktree for deets
Shhhhhhhhhh… y’all wanna sneak peek at the cover of our next issue? Swimming to you Spring 2026:
September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
One of my fav things as managing editor of @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social is assembling the cover. Check out this upcoming issue with cover art by Debora Greger. Also, a lil whale tail told me Victoria Change is the feature poet. BPR is open for subs today! Go hit our linktree for deets
Been thinking about what I want to do with my one and precious life & all the adventures I’d like to have. I’ve come to the decision that if an activity requires any sort of bottled air, it’s not for me. This takes the highest highs & the lowest lows off my list.
Turns out I’m a middle bits person
Turns out I’m a middle bits person
August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Been thinking about what I want to do with my one and precious life & all the adventures I’d like to have. I’ve come to the decision that if an activity requires any sort of bottled air, it’s not for me. This takes the highest highs & the lowest lows off my list.
Turns out I’m a middle bits person
Turns out I’m a middle bits person
No submission fee or cover letter or anything like that. Just a good ol fashioned poems in an envelope with a SASE, because we still party like it’s 1987 (the year we were founded).
Hey! We’re thiiiiiiiis close to opening up our submission window. That gives you just enough time to print your 5 best poems, shove ‘em in an envelope, and mail them to us! Hit the link for deets! (Yes we know we’re old school; we make a gorgeous journal though!)
www.uab.edu/cas/englishp...
www.uab.edu/cas/englishp...
August 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
No submission fee or cover letter or anything like that. Just a good ol fashioned poems in an envelope with a SASE, because we still party like it’s 1987 (the year we were founded).
My phone ran out of storage, and I deleted this damn app. I am back now. What did I miss?
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My phone ran out of storage, and I deleted this damn app. I am back now. What did I miss?
You know one thing you’ll never hear me slander? Wikipedia.
It’s been helping me answer my most pressing questions for decades. It’s dependable, consistent, convenient, and gives me just enough to start my deep-dive spirals.
It has hella value for being what it is.
It’s been helping me answer my most pressing questions for decades. It’s dependable, consistent, convenient, and gives me just enough to start my deep-dive spirals.
It has hella value for being what it is.
April 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
You know one thing you’ll never hear me slander? Wikipedia.
It’s been helping me answer my most pressing questions for decades. It’s dependable, consistent, convenient, and gives me just enough to start my deep-dive spirals.
It has hella value for being what it is.
It’s been helping me answer my most pressing questions for decades. It’s dependable, consistent, convenient, and gives me just enough to start my deep-dive spirals.
It has hella value for being what it is.
March 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Brick Road Poetry Press is thrilled to announce our 2024 contest winner as Christopher Shipman for his manuscript “Mortar” which will hit bookshelves this fall. Congratulations, Christopher!
March 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Brick Road Poetry Press is thrilled to announce our 2024 contest winner as Christopher Shipman for his manuscript “Mortar” which will hit bookshelves this fall. Congratulations, Christopher!
Today has been a hobbit hole day. Groundhog day approaches.
Y’all, I’ve done about met my fill of this cold. You better hope the local possums have good things to say about the forecast.
Lord knows the groundhogs can’t get their sh!t together.
Y’all, I’ve done about met my fill of this cold. You better hope the local possums have good things to say about the forecast.
Lord knows the groundhogs can’t get their sh!t together.
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Today has been a hobbit hole day. Groundhog day approaches.
Y’all, I’ve done about met my fill of this cold. You better hope the local possums have good things to say about the forecast.
Lord knows the groundhogs can’t get their sh!t together.
Y’all, I’ve done about met my fill of this cold. You better hope the local possums have good things to say about the forecast.
Lord knows the groundhogs can’t get their sh!t together.
A spider built a web between the ice and the bucket
January 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A spider built a web between the ice and the bucket
Tonight’s sky on fire
January 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Tonight’s sky on fire
Today’s the daaaaaay! Come spend a lovely evening with us at @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social with a nice poetry reading. Trust me, you’ll have a delightful time.
Heyooo poetry fam! Come join @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social for our annual zoom reading Wed Dec 18th at 6pm central featuring Dr. Erica Dawson, Dr. Beth Gylys, Dr. J. Bruce Fuller, and Dr. Henry Hart. I look forward to this every year!
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Today’s the daaaaaay! Come spend a lovely evening with us at @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social with a nice poetry reading. Trust me, you’ll have a delightful time.
Reposted by H. M. Cotton
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December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Reposted by H. M. Cotton
Heyooo poetry fam! Come join @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social for our annual zoom reading Wed Dec 18th at 6pm central featuring Dr. Erica Dawson, Dr. Beth Gylys, Dr. J. Bruce Fuller, and Dr. Henry Hart. I look forward to this every year!
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Heyooo poetry fam! Come join @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social for our annual zoom reading Wed Dec 18th at 6pm central featuring Dr. Erica Dawson, Dr. Beth Gylys, Dr. J. Bruce Fuller, and Dr. Henry Hart. I look forward to this every year!
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: uab.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
It’s the last week of classes and everyone has saved up their emails for all at once.
Y’all quit emailing me. You had all semester to do so 😭
Y’all quit emailing me. You had all semester to do so 😭
December 2, 2024 at 11:02 PM
It’s the last week of classes and everyone has saved up their emails for all at once.
Y’all quit emailing me. You had all semester to do so 😭
Y’all quit emailing me. You had all semester to do so 😭
Give us your poems!
Last day to submit ur #poetry manuscript to Brick Road Poetry Press. I'll be judging & looking for poetry that moves me, leaves me with questions. We want great poetry out in the world. @hmcotton.bsky.social will design! Winner gets $1000 & 25 copies.
www.brickroadpoetrypress.com/poetry-book-...
www.brickroadpoetrypress.com/poetry-book-...
Contest — Brick Road Poetry Press
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December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Give us your poems!
Tis the season where I only want to do hand crafts 24/7. The only thing currently stopping me from picking up a new hobby (pine needle coiling) is all this grading I have to do. Consarn it all.
December 1, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Tis the season where I only want to do hand crafts 24/7. The only thing currently stopping me from picking up a new hobby (pine needle coiling) is all this grading I have to do. Consarn it all.
Cattails for your Saturday
November 30, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Cattails for your Saturday
You now have one day left to submit to the Brick Road Poetry Press contest. Subs close at midnight on December 1st. @miriamcalleja.bsky.social is judge, and I’ll be your fabulous book designer. We’re thirsty for the verse. Send it!
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
Brick Road Poetry Press Submission Manager
Between August 1st and December 1st, we accept entries in our poetry book contest. The first place winner receives a publication contract with Brick Road Poetry Press and $1000 prize.Who do we publish...
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
You now have one day left to submit to the Brick Road Poetry Press contest. Subs close at midnight on December 1st. @miriamcalleja.bsky.social is judge, and I’ll be your fabulous book designer. We’re thirsty for the verse. Send it!
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
You have two—YES ONLY TWO—days left to submit to the Brick Road Poetry Press contest. Subs close at midnight on December 1st. @miriamcalleja.bsky.social is judge and I’ll be your fabulous book designer. We’re thirsty for the verse! Send it!
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
Brick Road Poetry Press Submission Manager
Between August 1st and December 1st, we accept entries in our poetry book contest. The first place winner receives a publication contract with Brick Road Poetry Press and $1000 prize.Who do we publish...
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
You have two—YES ONLY TWO—days left to submit to the Brick Road Poetry Press contest. Subs close at midnight on December 1st. @miriamcalleja.bsky.social is judge and I’ll be your fabulous book designer. We’re thirsty for the verse! Send it!
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
brickroadpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
Found in this morning’s reading assignment:
November 28, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Found in this morning’s reading assignment:
Y’all, stop rejecting me on major holidays. It’s not very holly jolly
Big rejection week out there in lit mag world. Editors across the country, bored and stuck in overcrowded airport terminals, clearing the queue before going home and trying again to explain to their aunt that actually $50 for a 4000 word story is *pretty good*
November 25, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Y’all, stop rejecting me on major holidays. It’s not very holly jolly
A lil friend to brighten your day.
November 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
A lil friend to brighten your day.