Michael Garrigan
@mgarrigan.bsky.social
Teacher. Writer. Pennsylvania. River, Amen (2023 - Winner of the Weatherford Award), Robbing the Pillars (2020) — Wayfarer Books.
www.mgarrigan.com
www.mgarrigan.com
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Morning on K Road, by Steve Gunn
from the album Daylight Daylight
stevegunn.bandcamp.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️
best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌
youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌
youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
Taper's Choice Live From Kung Fu Necktie, Philly
YouTube video by wook plus
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September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️
best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌
youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌
youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
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My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler
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It’s been years since my mother and father
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.
___
From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis
Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem
missourireview.com/davis/
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.
___
From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis
Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem
missourireview.com/davis/
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It’s been years since my mother and father
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.
___
From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis
Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem
missourireview.com/davis/
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.
___
From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis
Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem
missourireview.com/davis/
Susquehanna River petroglyphs
September 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Susquehanna River petroglyphs
Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail!
#freelibrary
#freelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail!
#freelibrary
#freelibrary
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Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙
I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:
riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:
riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
August 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙
I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:
riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:
riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
Does anyone else love this record?
August 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Does anyone else love this record?
Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???
August 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???
Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?
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Our Summer 2025 issue is here, kicking off our second year as a magazine! It's full of poetry and personal essays from this wonderful list of folks.
Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com
Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Our Summer 2025 issue is here, kicking off our second year as a magazine! It's full of poetry and personal essays from this wonderful list of folks.
Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com
Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com
Excited to have three new Dead elk poems in the latest issue of Cutleaf Journal!
cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
Dead Elk Antlers a Constellation - Cutleaf Journal
Dead Elk Listens to the Last Crickets and understands what’s done and what’s to come. He sighs into the hillsideand for the whole length of that breathhe is
cutleafjournal.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Excited to have three new Dead elk poems in the latest issue of Cutleaf Journal!
cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
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I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Grant Clauser - Terrain.org
Grant Clauser's ecopoem "Slugs Have Teeth, and Other Useless Facts" (with audio) may, like the poet himself, keep you up worrying at night.
www.terrain.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
New author photo?
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New author photo?
Is it possible to write an erotic (intimate?) poem with a mountain? Because I think I just did?
July 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Is it possible to write an erotic (intimate?) poem with a mountain? Because I think I just did?
Working on a quadtriptych, hoping to mirror a mountain range.
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Working on a quadtriptych, hoping to mirror a mountain range.
I’m writing a sonnet but breaking all the rules.
July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’m writing a sonnet but breaking all the rules.
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It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.
The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions
The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.
matchfactoryeditions.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.
Paddling into a wilderness lake in the Adirondacks (pre-falling in while portaging a beaver dam and breaking a lovely glass fly rod.)
June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Paddling into a wilderness lake in the Adirondacks (pre-falling in while portaging a beaver dam and breaking a lovely glass fly rod.)
Ride slow, die whenever
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Ride slow, die whenever
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Poet Anne Michael writes aboout the new anthology for Pennsylvania Poetry. annemichael.blog/2025/05/27/b...
Back in PA
Last year at this time, I had covid and was languishing in bed, unable to tend to the garden. A regional drought meant I really should have been watering the new plants; and it also kept the weeds …
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May 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Poet Anne Michael writes aboout the new anthology for Pennsylvania Poetry. annemichael.blog/2025/05/27/b...