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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 14h

So grateful for you!! 💙

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 15h

preorder my friend griffin’s latest specpo volume at a discount via bookshop!

Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 15h

How did I forget to do this? You can find it on Bookshop.org or Barnes and Noble (though, pro tip, it’s discounted on Bookshop right now)!

bookshop.org/p/books/list...

listen-a poetic creature

Check out listen-a poetic creature - All this happened, more or lessNow, listen to me- / - / - / - / - / -I have, doubtless, </em...

bookshop.org

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 15h

How did I forget to do this? You can find it on Bookshop.org or Barnes and Noble (though, pro tip, it’s discounted on Bookshop right now)!

bookshop.org/p/books/list...

listen-a poetic creature

Check out listen-a poetic creature - All this happened, more or lessNow, listen to me- / - / - / - / - / -I have, doubtless, </em...

bookshop.org

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 19h

Was an honor to blurb this wonderful book!

Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 19h

“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”

Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!

Griffin’s new chapbook, “LISTEN—“, lays on top of a collection of science fiction-related patches on a black background.

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 19h

“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”

Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · 6d

TOMORROW!!!!!!

Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!

Cover art for Griffin Rockwell’s forthcoming book “LISTEN—“ which features an androgynous person staring at the viewer, outlined in purple, with a starry background.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was delighted to blurb this wonderful book!

Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very grateful to @taylorbyas.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, and Warren Longmire for blurbing it and sharing in my excitement, to mick Powell for the absolutely incredible cover artwork, and of course, so grateful to Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Aug 18

Chicago! Tonight at 7! So excited to read with @nberlat.bsky.social, @saramatson.bsky.social, @ejoylevinson.bsky.social, and my wonderful co-author Elena Rielinger Ferguson!

Poster advertising a reading tonight at 7pm in Chicago with Noah Berlatsky, Griffin Rockwell and Elena Rielinger Ferguson, Sara Matson, and Elizabeth Joy Levinson. Address is Pilsen Community Books at 1102 W 18th St, Chicago IL 60608.

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Jul 27

Can’t wait!!

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · Jul 21

this i really want to go to, because @saramatson.bsky.social & @daftrockwell.bsky.social in one beloved place together 😻 hell yeah

an e-flyer for a ghost city press summer series event at pilsen community books, 8-18 at 7 pm, featuring noah berlatsky, elena rielinger fergusen, elizabeth joy levinson, sara matson and griffin rockwell.

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Jul 27

💙💙💙

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · May 9

1st 2025 pub, ft. Creature from the Black Lagoon references, gender feelings, and shadow selves!

Thanks @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for picking it up 💙

Find the anthology here: www.defunktmag.com/product-page...

Picture of thr Creature from the Black Lagoon swimming under a woman, with this text overlaid:

From “I Go Looking For My Shadow Self—Lose Her” in the Defunkt surreal confessional anthology.

Poem excerpt reads:
“My body is an old black and white movie, a lagoon with a creature stirring in its depths. I dream my shadow self swims beside me, silhouette tenuous against the water’s edges.”

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Jan 16

Sweet Pumpernickel! Look at those ears. I’m so sorry for your loss!!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Nov 25

Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders!

Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.

Done! Easy accessibility.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Nov 25

Use alt text

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Jan 16

Starting Perry Janes’ book “Find Me When You’re Ready” and having to pause in the prelude. Wow.

Poem by Perry Janes, titled “Love Poem as Trojan Horse.” Poem reads:

The forest fires above Los Angeles have crept down
The hills overnight, where this morning their scorched
Sunrise rouges my fiddlehead fern. Sometimes
Hope is a question of redirecting the camera.

A friend tells me he has to trick himself into feeling
Anything but numb for the world. What won’t burn?
Not the patchwork quilt Tina bought
For our engagement. Not the brewery growlers

Stacked along our wine crate bookshelves, teacups
Glazed with our fingerprints. The fake stars
Glued to our ceiling in constellations forever
Spelling fortune. Not the anything we truly cherish—

I used to prize clarity without compromise.
I used to want suffering center-stage, well lit
In the lens. Now, it’s changed. So many
Routes in the heart’s city, steadily walled.

So much need for a gentle hand pulling
Focus from one fire to another, the tug
That leads me from my window out
Into the night, our night, a blanket

Tossed around our shoulders, full
Bellies swaying, her body stamped
On mine as we stumble to the gates.
If it must be ruin, if it must come

To ruin: Love, open me.

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Jan 13

Apparently today is the day they hit the Breach. In honor of that, have a snippet from my abecedarian Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim—or check out the whole thing here:

www.freezeraypoetry.com/gretchen-roc...

Excerpt from Griffin Rockwell’s “Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim,” which reads:

Adaptability / has always been an asset /
Building ourselves / new bodies / new strength
Cherno coyote crimson Corinthian chrome
Danger / the names we give ourselves / matter
Exoskeletons / are as strong as / we make them
Fighting unwinnable wars / every apocalypse more
Grim than the last / we think of ourselves / as beyond
Human / we already see a body / as something bigger

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · Dec 28

New poem in-the-world, rare rare for me this year.
Beyond grateful to this circle for its soft landing.

Here's to long-ago friends, escape vehicles so ancient they only had a tape deck, every too-young-nuthoused kid—

and to you, still playing the hidden track.

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Dec 28

NEW POEM #193: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me 'til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social)

"nights you hear
the unspool, the moment the hand lets go
of the ribbon. How each throw scribbles the map."

stonecirclereview.com/snapped-tapes

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Dec 24

Hard to believe it, but my first semester at the Workshop is done. (Now that grades are in, it feels real!) Never could’ve imagined this is how and where I would end my year, but incredibly grateful to be here.

Griffin stands in front of a sun setting behind a University of Iowa building. They are wearing a teal shirt and cicada collar pins and smiling.

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Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · Dec 22

Girl in foreground labeled "6 new poem ideas", boy in midground labeled "me" looking at girl in foreground, and another girl in the background labeled "the poem I spent over a month figuring out and am finally starting to make headway on" looking angry at the boy

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm the poem of the day at @swwim.bsky.social 🥺

www.swwim.org?fbclid=PAY2x...

SWWIM

SWWIM publishes, promotes, & celebrates women writers.

www.swwim.org

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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · Nov 29

BLACK FRIDAY BOOK SALES 🧵
There are so many! Please add any that I missed.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Nov 26

One short message from a reader is all it takes to turn a bad day around. Want to drop an author a line? Please do so. Trust me, it means the world to us.

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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Nov 27

If the whole poem is about the image of a red wheelbarrow, can’t the title be something different? Make it INTERESTING, William! Make it interesting!

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