Michelle Penn
michpenn.bsky.social
Michelle Penn
@michpenn.bsky.social
Poet
RETABLO FOR A DOOR (shearsmanbooks, 2026)
PAPER CRUSADE (arachnepress, 2022)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A DIVINER, FAILING (paper_swans_press, 2018)

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Loving the new issue of Perverse - with special joy reading poems by @lkiew.bsky.social, Sue Burge and Jeff Sugarman! Frogs, Gandhi and New Year's Eve - brilliant stuff!
PERVERSE 9J is out today! The last section of this issue! This week features five poems by Annie Katchinska, L Kiew, CP Nield, Jeffery Sugarman and Sue Burge, on parties, adjectives, frogs and more. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9j
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Thrilled to be in such weird and wonderful company! Thanks, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social!
PERVERSE 9I is out today! This week features five poems by Dawn Sands, Sam Harvey, Charlotte Whittle, Michelle Penn and Edward Doegar, on Jean Valjean, leaf mulch, and Lush glitter. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9i
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Very interested in reading this and discovering more about the poetry of John Wieners. Congratulations, @marcchamberlain.bsky.social!
Looking forward very much to reading @marcchamberlain.bsky.social ‘s essay
Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode.
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM