Michael Bazzett
@mikhailbazharov.bsky.social
Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
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Cover reveal!
I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️
I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️
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From the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER, (Copper Canyon), orginally appeared in Poetry Review...
July 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
From the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER, (Copper Canyon), orginally appeared in Poetry Review...
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Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
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After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!
Mia: A Novel
A Novel
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November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!
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That cover is classic, striking, and beautiful, just like the author. Preordering!
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
That cover is classic, striking, and beautiful, just like the author. Preordering!
After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!
Mia: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!
Thanks for all the love on the new poems, folks. It's been nearly five years since my last book, and I'm a little rusty at all this "sharing," lol. These poems will all be a part of CLOUDWATCHER, forthcoming from APR & Copper Canyon early next year. If you're curious, you can read more below...
Cloudwatcher by Michael Bazzett (paperback), The Stern Prize Winner, 2025
PRE-ORDER -- OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 7, 2026 Winner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review, Michael Bazzett's astonishing Cloudwatcher is laced with wit and buoyed ...
the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Thanks for all the love on the new poems, folks. It's been nearly five years since my last book, and I'm a little rusty at all this "sharing," lol. These poems will all be a part of CLOUDWATCHER, forthcoming from APR & Copper Canyon early next year. If you're curious, you can read more below...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
So delighted to have this little poem appear in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, alongside a handful of others! Much gratitude to the editors!
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So delighted to have this little poem appear in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, alongside a handful of others! Much gratitude to the editors!
I started sending poems to POETRY magazine 37 years ago, received mnay dozens of rejections in the interim, and this next December issue is hosting two of my poems, and forgive me if I have a second beer this evening....
Invest in the work. Don't quit. Persist.
Invest in the work. Don't quit. Persist.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I started sending poems to POETRY magazine 37 years ago, received mnay dozens of rejections in the interim, and this next December issue is hosting two of my poems, and forgive me if I have a second beer this evening....
Invest in the work. Don't quit. Persist.
Invest in the work. Don't quit. Persist.
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Hey #NCTE25, if I *had* gone to Denver today, I'd be trying to tell you about my book without sounding like a dingus. So, hey old teacher friends I haven't seen in a while, I have a debut poetry collection!
It's just as well. I'd only bore you all with my book anyway, wandering around the exhibitor booths writing this url on people's hands. "It has some teacher poems..." I'd mutter, incapable of normal book promotion.
The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees
Check out The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees - <p>Parents can be expected to know all, but they don't have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs....
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November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hey #NCTE25, if I *had* gone to Denver today, I'd be trying to tell you about my book without sounding like a dingus. So, hey old teacher friends I haven't seen in a while, I have a debut poetry collection!
Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
Over the moon to have new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) in the December issue of POETRY! Huge gratitude to the editors... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Over the moon to have new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) in the December issue of POETRY! Huge gratitude to the editors... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
“Everything that a person pronounces or expresses is a marginal note in a text that has been totally erased. From the meaning of the note, we can more or less work out the meaning of that vanished text, but there is always a doubt, and many possible meanings.” – Fernando Pessoa
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“Everything that a person pronounces or expresses is a marginal note in a text that has been totally erased. From the meaning of the note, we can more or less work out the meaning of that vanished text, but there is always a doubt, and many possible meanings.” – Fernando Pessoa
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Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~
Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
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This
Isn’t
Even
The
Worst
Stuff.
Isn’t
Even
The
Worst
Stuff.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This
Isn’t
Even
The
Worst
Stuff.
Isn’t
Even
The
Worst
Stuff.
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These emails are horrifying.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
These emails are horrifying.
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Siri is it bad when your numbers fall 13 pts in your own party
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Siri is it bad when your numbers fall 13 pts in your own party
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Hunger
They say you catch more
flies with honey.
Dead bodies
also work. The question
is why you want
flies at all.
Trust me. They will come
soon enough .
I’ve heard they visit
the eyes first.
Michael Bazzett
Image courtesy @taraskurtu.bsky.social
They say you catch more
flies with honey.
Dead bodies
also work. The question
is why you want
flies at all.
Trust me. They will come
soon enough .
I’ve heard they visit
the eyes first.
Michael Bazzett
Image courtesy @taraskurtu.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hunger
They say you catch more
flies with honey.
Dead bodies
also work. The question
is why you want
flies at all.
Trust me. They will come
soon enough .
I’ve heard they visit
the eyes first.
Michael Bazzett
Image courtesy @taraskurtu.bsky.social
They say you catch more
flies with honey.
Dead bodies
also work. The question
is why you want
flies at all.
Trust me. They will come
soon enough .
I’ve heard they visit
the eyes first.
Michael Bazzett
Image courtesy @taraskurtu.bsky.social