What tf is the universe doing?! I’m so honored & deliriously happy to be part of this year’s cohort of Whiting Award recipients. Deepest thanks to all the nominators, the final judges, & everyone at the Whiting Foundation, for this profound gift, & my congrats to the other awardees✨🧚🏽‍♂️

Happy Birthday to LYING IN, you genius you!

Lying In is one today!! 🔥❤️ Milkweed Editions

'I’m thinking of my childhood piano teacher closing her fist at the sight of a whole note rest': my one-question interview with Callie Siskel Timothy McSweeney W. W. Norton & Company

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In this week's marginalia, Elizabeth Metzger digs into Carolyn Orosz's 'What We Lost in the Fire' to think about the 'low doorway' of marriage (intimacy, guilt, desire, disappointment, and children). 🔗 32poems.com/prose/look-wha…
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Where can I see the superbloom most easily with children?

'There on the gravel between weathered shingles in Provincetown, or in the light of her living room, I can hear Jean assuring me that I don’t need to correct myself or tell the story accurately.' @anelizabeth2 reflects on Jean Valentine's 'Light Me Down.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

In my essay “Look What Fire Made Us Do” for 32poems contributors marginalia I had the opportunity to l write my raw heart into Carolyn Orosz’s beautiful poem “What We Lost in the Fire” and meditate on intimacies and disappointments!
32poems.com/prose/look-wha…

'While we can usually assume that the voice goes out with the body, after reading Light Me Down, I can say with nervy, embodied delight, 'I don’t know.''—Elizabeth Metzger on LIGHT ME DOWN for Los Angeles Review of Books 💛 Read more 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

A meaningful moment for me as poetry editor Los Angeles Review of Books to meditate on Jean Valentine personally while reviewing her posthumous collected Light Me Down. If you’re looking for silence in your poetry or poetry in your silence ✨🤍 lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

.@anelizabeth2 reads “Light Me Down,' Jean Valentine’s posthumous poetry collection: “Her poems are polyvocal offerings to others, from others. They are talismans in process, doors ajar.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

Well, friends, what you've heard is true. 32 Poems #42 is out there wreaking havoc all over this beautiful country (international subscriptions will go out next week). ✨ Keep an eye on your mailboxes because this one is especially good: Bob Hicok, Amit Majmudar, Shara Lessley…

Giddy and starstruck hearing Boris Dralyuk read My Hollywood Hammer Museum and give the most generous and capacious, sensitive and hilarious Q and A! 💛

This Sharon Olds got me good this morning

Such bad timing

Delighted to be back at LARB!

Huge thanks to editor and transcendent poet Elizabeth Metzger & Sewanee Writers' Conference where I got to workshop this draft last summer with the sweetest friends
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A sonnet of mine in the latest issue of Los Angeles Review of Books

Thank you Elizabeth Metzger and Callie Siskel

2023 had some real highs and real lows. Two highs for me were the publication of Lying In and signing this contract for book three coming 2025 ❤️✨ Milkweed Editions Happy New Year!