Why did the Eridanos Library stop publishing when they had an undefeated record for selecting pure fire?

Just another Monday feeling grateful that Mamman Sani exists. Every ounce of his discography is magic. Niger has made such outsized cultural contributions to the world's music. I only wish their cuisine was more known as well. mammansani.bandcamp.com/music

A remarkably resonant quote-headline in today's nzherald "We're not suddenly ok with it. We are tired." Feels like this story could be about 800 different things.

Congratulations Tracey Slaughter! What a year. ⭐️

Thanks to Chris Tse and Cordite Publishing Inc. for publishing a prose poem of mine in which willows are compared to drunken colonists.

Thanks ZiN Daily Literary Magazine and great choice for the cover image!

When one of your favorite poets slows their poetic output to start publishing novels you feel... (I don't have enough followers to make a poll work. But I'm doing it anyways!)

Fuck this.

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“I am all the dogs in the dream” from The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan 🌙

reminds me of an old fave (which used to be written on the wall at Open Books: A Poem Emporium): “A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.” -Allen Grossman

Two days left to answer this poll .... so far, poets who are planning to write novels should take a good close look at the results 😅

Loved this Carl Phillips poem this morning on Academy of American Poets poem-a-day.

It's too bad that receiving 1200+ rejections from poetry journals doesn't make it easier to endure the rejections that really matter. More like: erosion erosion erosion landslide.

Having this be your legacy really puts literary prizes into perspective... rnz.co.nz/international/…

No idea how I wrote this. It scares me this morning as I try to learn from it. Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Time Frame’ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…