Check out the whole portfolio here!

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Sleepaway is officially in the world today! Coincidentally, I’m here in Warrensburg, MO, where the novel is set. Everything feels vaguely fictional….

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'Also, I think I need a little more / space for my imagination / which sometimes sighs like a tired dog / after half a hundred years.'

from 'The Temple' by Michael Bazzett | THE TEMPLE, 2020 Frost Place Competition Editors Selection #OnSaleNow #NationalPoetryMonth

Congratulations to Fady Joudah Fady Joudah, winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. The prize, which this year carries an increased award of $100,000, is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. Read the press release:

Over the past year, I've been talking to one of my favorite living artists about love, grief, his band's matchless legacy, & what's next. to say it's been an honor & privilege considerably understates the way I feel. anyway here it is.
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Welp, ok, if you need me I’ll be in my thinking/weeping room, having read this poem by Michael Bazzett 🐋 (“We’ll make the whole enterprise smell of mint”)

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

Just for the record: I was doubly productive during the eclipse. I raised my eyebrows and said, 'Hmm...' twice as much as I usually do.

Thrilled to read with Donna Spruijt-Metz (a.k.a. Donna Spruijt-Metz - all the way from California!) and Michael Bazzett 🐋 (a.k.a Michael Bazzett) at abolish the police on my birthday AND DONNA's birthday next Monday night. Come celebrate your big ol' tax refund with us!

This'll be a hoot, MPLS! Come through!

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!!!

Next week! Northfield, I'm coming your way, hosted by Content Bookstore!

It's April & the marvelous poems of Humberto Ak'abal await you & this book arrives at solstice, & I'd be so grateful & honored if you gave it whirl....

DAWN

Dawn
is a little animal
that comes in noiselessly.

It's so tiny
it slips under the door.

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It's April & the marvelous poems of Humberto Ak'abal await you & this book arrives at solstice, & I'd be so grateful & honored if you gave it whirl....

DAWN

Dawn
is a little animal
that comes in noiselessly.

It's so tiny
it slips under the door.

bookshop.org/p/books/if-tod…

5. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Beautiful and thoughtful and poetic and heartbreaking and uplifting science, history, and memoir. This book is famous, but it didn't disappoint. Eminently readable feast of cultural and historical and biological insight.

Incredible books,
on sale for National Poetry Month,
at one of my favorite independents
(that could use a little ❤️
in the wake of being stiffed by SPD)...

Go grab a book, for the price of a pint or a latte.
You won't regret it!

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