Here’s a poem to break your heart in the morning. You’re welcome 💔. By the stunning Carolina Hotchandani

Looking for a wonderful thing to boost & support? MKDorDiggsy on ALL socials - get it? does such deep hearted work—he makes the world a better place.

So excited to read with MKDorDiggsy on ALL socials - get it? and Michael Bazzett 🐋 I mean REALLY? I get to DO THIS?? ^swoon*!!!

Coming your way on April 15th! Poetry with the AMAZING Michael Kleber-Diggs and the other AMAZING Michael Bazzett at Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis! It's my birthday! It's MKDorDiggsy on ALL socials - get it? 's birthday too! Two Birthdays, Two Michaels, and Three Poets!! Come out Minneapolis!!!

This Saturday in San Diego! Come out for poetry! Katie Manning Kazim Ali Carly DeMento Jane Muschenetz, Leo Simonovis and so many more!
Would love to see you! Bring poems--there's an open mic earlier in the day. Here's the full program
sandiegowritersfestival.com

Grind Good News!! Marcia LeBeau's (Marcia LeBeau ) debut poetry collection, A CURIOUS HUNGER, comes out April 30th from Broadstone Books (broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/a-curio…). Born and bred in the community of The Grind!! Check it out it looks WONDERFUL! Congratulations Marcia!

From the incredibly generous Jen Benka a list (in progress) of the small presses impacted by the SPD debacle

More Grind Good News! Daye Phillipo's fine poem 'Shadows', born and bred on the Grind, now up at the fantastic ONE ART for your reading pleasure! Congratulations Daye
oneartpoetry.com/2024/03/29/sha…

Congratulations Jennifer Franklin Nicole Callihan Pichchenda Bao for bringing this beautiful anthology into the world! Thank you Small Harbor Publishing Dustin Brookshire and Megan Merchant for seeing her into the world! Thank you for giving me a place in this amazing family of poets!

Grind good news!! Pamela Manasco wrote this amazing poem in this month's Grind and here it is in Rattle Poets Respond! rattle.com/abecedarian-fo…

Grind Good News! Kellam Ayres' Kellam Ayres debut poetry collection, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF MY UNDOING, chosen by Gary Soto as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, has been published by Gunpowder Press!! Congratulations Kellam!!!
kellamayres.com/book

Skye’s education.

Dana Levin has made this brilliant essay on her time with Charles Simic in The Yale Review. “A realization, perhaps, that the real task (…) was not to chronicle the development of knowing but to enact, via enjambment, the struggle of seeing—“

yalereview.org/article/dana-l…

this poem / is a political poem / is a war poem

—Lucille Clifton

I still wake up in the middle of the night days before a reading and worry about the set I am still choosing.
But I get to read with Peter J Harris, Denise Tolan, and Ernesto Garay for FlowerSong Press! Please come! Tomorrow, 2/28, at 7:00 CST. Register: shorturl.at/dGNPY

So excited to be reading for FlowerSong Press's online series Essentially Poetic with Peter J. Harris, Denis Tolan, and Ernesto Garay! Catch us on February 28th at 7:00 CST via Zoom. You can register here flowersongpress.com/blog-1/essenti…

Psaltery & Lyre open for submissions for ONE MORE WEEK! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/
We are looking for essays, stories, poetry, and hybrid works that push the borders of sacred and secular.
Bring us your tasty morsels! Submissions are free!

Me right now signing books at Tahoma Literary Review T1518! @AWP Tahoma Literary Review until 2:00!! David Blakesley come by!!!

A fine exchange between poets Jessica Jacobs and Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي hosted by Jenny Hamel Very much worth a listen

Can't stop reading this Lucille Clifton poem