IMMENSE gratitude to Diannely for this joyous conversation! Listen to us gab about bread and poems!

MY HEART MY HEART MY HEART!!!

Truly such wonderful news. Cannot wait to experience this curation by the brilliant Meg Day!

A BOOK!!!

Announcing a new free Guernica Magazine fellowship for virtual poetry mentorship and community for those without MFAs or books!

The short-answer application (rolling basis through January) is available here:
guernicamagazine.submittable.com/submit

So many fantastic books available to purchase and gift to yourself or loved ones! There are 2 copies of CEREMONIAL available that I will gladly sign! (And they're the last two copies I have on my person!)

Anyone have a poem that demonstrates crafty syntax and has a recorded reading of it that I can play for my students? I'm going to use it as a prompt for my students' free-write time and would love to see what poems I could be missing!

The winter was like that: turning into the wrong room
in my new apartment, reaching into the trash

for the thrown-away letter,
coming back with broken glass.

—Grady Chambers in the September issue of POETRY.
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Remember this sestina by Ciara Shuttleworth?! poets.org/poem/sestina

This gloomy day has a bit of sunshine, indeed!

The happiest, happiest pub day to dearest Leslie Sainz! Love you so much, poet sis--cannot wait for your poems to hold so many people, as they have held me for years 💖

I'm trying to remember what it's called when you have a poem that follows a vowel and the words/letters used cannot go above the height of the vowel?! (Yes, it's a diversion of also using the same letter/vowel sound as well... But what's that even called?!)

Been a minute, but very excited to have a new poem in the latest 🧂 Salt Hill Journal 🧂! 🐂🌙

Very excited to have a poem in this issue!

Today's Food Plot serves a hot take about lettuce!

You can read about the incredible food and what brought me to discuss my thoughts on lettuce here: open.substack.com/pub/carlyjoymi…

Let me tell ya: I can identify a good sandwich.

Today on The Food Plot, I'm talking about where I learned this skill (from my dad, coincidentally), and how I work through where to take my dad when he comes to town.

Read about it here: open.substack.com/pub/carlyjoymi…

In my latest essay for The Food Plot, I wrote about where you can get the best burger in NYC and McDonald's nostalgia. This one's dedicated to my beloved for his birthday (and no, my beloved isn't Grimace, although he's pretty great)!

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/carlyjoymi…