Thanks Ross. Check DMs.

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

Today in Intro to Creative Writing, we are starting to talk poetry, which means that between Richard Blanco’s “Translation for Mamá” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” I can’t promise not to weep in class.

I made this limited edition broadside of one of my favorite stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell for her reading and craft talk at GVSU today.

Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖

Nomination details at link below.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working

and success is a spirit & craft blunter

(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

What a blast, getting to visit BGSU to see my old friend and poetry co-conspirator Amorak Huey and his amazing students (championship edition) to talk about poetry. Now driving back to Michigan where I am going to hug my kids until they tell me to stop.

News outlets should be saying in every story about the coming shutdown that Republicans control both Houses of Congress. Senate Republicans can end the filibuster & pass the bill if they want to.

What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.

Did you know we accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, we do! But ✨ please✨ withdraw your piece immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. It makes our process easier!

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Are you thinking about treating yourself to a book today? Here is my weekly reminder that Unrivered is now in pre-orders at @sundresspub.bsky.social - on sale for the price of a couple of fancy coffees - AND if you order soon, this little broadside swag included.

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Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions!

www.theweightjournal.com

Subbing my 2nd MS to University and Indie presses...what are your suggestions...preferably not prizes

Black Lawrence Press is a good one with good people at the helm.

"...and why am I not doing the things I need to make me happy, and better yet, now that I think of it, why am I not just a dog?"

Big love for this piece of writing by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“the kind of beauty you have to pretend not to see”

Seth Landman
in Diagram

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

25th U.S. Poet Laureate, first Asian American to hold this honor. A big hell yeah for Arthur Sze today!
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It's so hard to concentrate on the good in these overwhelmingly bleak times, but this new Split Lip Issue is truly one of our best ever. It arrives this Monday morning like a balm. Thank you for reading, supporting, and sharing this incredible work ❤️

“He let me drive the winding
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.

I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
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Caring for each other is a form of radical survival that we don't always take into account.

~ Ada Limón

We're between innings, so here, have the first page of my book.

The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies.

For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH