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last year, I'd given up on the idea of having a book. This year, I turned 55, and I am both shocked & happy to have a collection coming out in one month! I'd be very grateful if you'd consider pre-ordering @stillhousepress:stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto…

Translators! The Wisconsin Poetry Translation Prize at the U of Wisconsin Press is open until November 7! Judge this year is Idra Novey !Submit your manuscripts of poetry in translation! Guidelines below! Jhttps://uwpress.wisc.edu/poetryguide.html

Honored to have a tiny tale in this fantastic line-up!

Let’s get into it

👀 We’re OPENING SUBMISSIONS for our 2025-26 poetry list, for full collections and pamphlets, this incoming Monday 9 September 👀

Good morning from I'll-clean-this-house-once-a-year for the once-a-year get together week.

Timothy Liu ❤️

I just briefly forgot the word “library” and wrote “bookchamber” in a panic… How’s your Friday going?

We're open and hungry for more submissions for our Winter Issue 20. Submissions for this issue close in one week! Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme

Being kind so that others will appreciate your kindness is a fool's errand. People will always see whatever they want to see, regardless. The value in kindness is internal. Be kind selfishly.

I have long admired the stellar books published by WTAW Press. Kevin "Mc" McIlvoy’s work is fierce, powerful, and visionary. I am honored to be on the panel with Olga Zilberbourg and James Tate Hill to judge the second annual Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize. Please send in your manuscripts! 🤗

I did this yesterday...contract officially signed with Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open 4 A CASE OF KINK). ALL AND THEN NONE OF YOU coming Sep. 2 2025

My kids can't understand why I read multiple poetry books simultaneously and I explained it was less like reading a long story and more like listening to different songs. "You need to make a playlist of poems," one of them said. "That's what literary magazines are," I replied.

Jane Hirshfield in LEDGER 💙

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath’s prose, including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, is out on 12 September. faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Twitter world: I have TWO chapbooks forthcoming in 2025! Poetry: WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY & CNF: EDGE OF THE SEA! Beyond grateful to the folks at Finishing Line Press and CutBank for selecting to publish these two little books! ❤️❤️❤️

This is a solid prayer.

It's like this.

Look at this cover! 😍