There is no ecologically safe way to mourn.

Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of. 🌸

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: In her latest prose collection 𝗔𝗺𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 redefines the term hybrid work. Check out C.W. Bryan's review of 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩 and get to know more about Amy Barnes

inkinthirds.org/book-review-ba…

We review a new book each month!

happy #smallpoemsunday 💜

if you feel so inclined, you can post a small poem you wrote +/or a small poem you love by someone else :)

here’s a small poem by Jo, twinning with my favorite small poem by Molly Brodak, plus one by Tomas Tranströmer (tr. Bly) & one by me 🌻

June 19 is JUNETEENTH & the date is open in my Reckon Review Wind & Root feature. I’d love to fill it with a craft column centering on Juneteenth. My email is open to submissions until 6/5. Submit to [email protected] w/JUNETEENTH in subject line. 🙌🏾 #writingcommunity

I'm out of instajail for the moment and am slowly following people back so I don't trigger another incarceration. If you want to connect there to my visual poetry account, I'd love to. Here's the URL: instagram.com/kossvisualpoet…

They sat there, feeling happy together.

We borrow from the land what we can but cannot
return to it: bluestem, coneflower, boneset, broomcorn,
a ring-necked pheasant tied to a pole, a flat stretch of land
we strip and tar and pave [. . .]

––Sarah McCartt-Jackson
#PoemADay

poets.org/poem/borrow

Last night in the warm spring air while I was
blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't
interest
me, it was love for you that set me
afire,

Iowa City, I'll see you Tuesday!

Fady Joudah

One of my favorite poems by Gregg:

My next multi-week class Brooklyn Poets 🖤✍️

I’d love to write with you!

brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/mot…

Written for Wick Poetry Center

Coming soon! Maybe near you?

So thrilled to receive my contributor copies of Nimrod Journal! My poem 'Shoreline Abecedarian' is in their fabulous Refuge issue 🌊

“A certain thought can’t deepen and yet” A poem by Kay Ryan.

i love you, flowers, clouds, and language very, very much.

(of course like language, i love you—
like language, i barely know you.
…)

—Wo Chan, from “August Moments”

Congratulations to the finalists in the 2024 Trio Award and Louise Bogan Award and to the winners, Rhoni Blankenhorn and Anthony Borruso, and many thanks to the judges, Jessica Q. Stark and Oliver de la Paz

“I wish I weren’t such a glutton for meaning.”

—Diana Cao, “Omens” in RELATIONAL

Diana Cao