Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

"I, civil, lift my arms, balance." - Zeina Hashem Beck

The mirroring/self-investigating in this poem.

poets.org/poem/standup...

I'm also going to keep thinking about her phrase "I no longer mistake endurance for belonging" for a long time to come.

Still thinking about the piece I read this morning by @selahannsaterstrom.bsky.social at @thecreativeindependent.com:

"We carry the archive in our blood."

thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Really enjoying the new issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social this morning, and this poem by Caitlin Scarano in particular:

"My organizing principle keeps slipping / off in the night, a fox silently piercing a series / of fencelines."

www.theshorepoetry.org/caitlin-scar...

In a note to herself, Octavia E. Butler wrote, “Tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know. Make people feel!“

Good writing advice for academics and researchers. All writing is a form of creative writing.

“It’s extremely important for me to keep the reality of film craft alive. I want real sets. I don’t want digital. I don’t want AI. I don’t want simulation. I want old fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. I go in and paint props myself.“

What’s better than @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social on BlueSky? A Diane Seuss poem to start them off.

Can’t wait to check out this convo w @aliciawright.bsky.social!

"This interactive map explores five centuries of Indigenous histories on the land now known as Chicago. Stretching across time, it emphasizes that Chicago is, and has always been, an Indigenous place."

map.indigenous-chicago.org/pr/indigenou...

Stunned and absolutely thrilled that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (@uakronpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy (@lambdaliterary.bsky.social)! Congrats to all the finalists in all categories 🏳️‍🌈

I mentioned this to friends recently as one of the few tools I use every semester without fail (for years!) & they didn’t know about it to my surprise so now I’m making sure to spread the word. I truly appreciate @wcaleb.org putting it online for everyone so long ago!

I just backed Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection (!) from @fonografeditions.bsky.social & you probably should too on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...

me and my book project

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

1. Toni Morrison
2. Joy Harjo
3. C.D. Wright
4. Gabriel García Márquez
5. Marilynne Robinson
6. Virginia Woolf
7. Sandra Cisneros
8. Joe Sacco
9. James Welch
10. Annie Dillard

now in Blackpitts in Dublin, if the rain holds off they'll be there a while (you are not alone)

"How ridiculous now to think we were happy in the quick shelter / we sought from truth." - Joy Harjo, "Overwhelm" at @newyorker.com

"From the tawny light
from the rainy nights
from the imagination finding
itself and more than itself
alone and more than alone
at the bottom of the well where the moon lives,
can you pull me ..."

— Denise Levertov

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42525/...

We're especially seeking more work by Indigenous queer writers outside of the US!

I'm honored to be a featured artist at the Missouri Arts Council this month & join the incredible roster of artists they've spotlit over the last five years! You can see the whole 200+ artist archive at missouriartscouncil.org !

"because its sound

was closest to her love, because two syllables
are an easier loss to bear, because
like all our matriarchs, she wanted me named

for a man none of us could save." - Julia Kolchinsky

poets.org/poem/naming-0

“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

Our student project showcase at the end of Book Lab has become quite the event! I was so pleased at the turnout today from the iSchool, Library, & beyond—the FabLab was packed

I’m going to share a few student projects in this thread, so follow or mute as you want or need