Wild that lines on this abandoned wasps' nest landed in the new issue of POETRY. Many thanks to the editors @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for including "On Humility".

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Next weekend, please join us in celebration of #StanleyPlumly. A terrific lineup of writers will be reading from Stan's recently published COLLECTED #POEMS. Virtual event. Sept 28. 3:00 to 4:30. Link to register with @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. 💙
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Drafting about Chagall fleeing N*zi France for NY, his beloved wife suddenly dying, a year of mourning (no art) until Balanchine commissions him to design costumes / sets for the reimagined Firebird ballet (Stravinsky) with genius Maria Tallchief in titular role. The world sucks, but there's that.

While people are cruising the bookfair at #AWP25, I'm at home scrambling to meet three deadlines while laughing at the absurd -- yet totally on brand for the current state of America -- phrase, "cutting the cheese," landing on the cover of a magazine.

Calling all #BrigitPegeenKelly fans! Five new #essays on the 30th anniversary of SONG by @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social C. Dale Young, and yours truly. Please help us celebrate this singular #poet! 🎉🐐
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Lucille Clifton forever and always.

Perusing the new issue of Poetry Northwest and absolutely love the imaginative play and wit of @dapowell.bsky.social's "Catwoman's Clause". 🧶

It's true, everything has gone to hell. But #BrigitPegeenKelly fans, stay tuned for a five essay spread on the 30th anniversary of the publication of SONG forthcoming in West Branch. Criticism and remembrances by David Baker, Gabrielle Bates, Amit Majmudar, C. Dale Young, and yours truly. #poetry 🐐

Grateful for the radiant talent and vision of #JudithJamison, who helped transform American movement as both dancer and, later, director of Alvin Ailey. If you need a dose of excellence, beauty, and joy, look her up. RIP.

Poem for the lot of us who've gone out of body! W/thanks to 32 Poems (esp. George David Clark, who's been a terrific supporter of my work over the years). This issue is a knockout!

Haven't really been doing the whole blue sky thing, but reviewing this book by Irish poet Rosamund Taylor with enthusiasm and admiration, especially for inventive queer love poems! A wonderful debut.

Both livid and sad about the treatment of editors and staff at Gettysburg Review. I hope the lit community will speak out against the sudden shuttering of the magazine.

This barn never fails to deliver! Thanks to the entire VCCA staff for the chance to return to studio W8. A short stay, but I'm walking away with a new essay on disordered sleep, interview in-progress, and review of four recent collections of Irish poetry. 🖤

Been thinking about and rereading "Headwaters" by Ellen Bryant Voigt, a poem--from her outstanding collection by the same name--that continues to resonate more deeply every year that I'm alive.

It's that time of year: dreaming myself back to the path in Winchester where #Keats composed "To Autumn". Thanks, as always, to @kenyonreview.bsky.social for publishing this essay in memory of Stanley Plumly. kenyonreview.org/kr-online-is...