I have a new story up with The Rumpus today! So much gratitude to Reena Shah for working with me through the drafty draft and being such an astute and deep editor! 'Second of April' on second of June! therumpus.net/2025/06/02/sec…

“Accept me.” —Traci Brimhall in LOVE PRODIGAL An incredible poem.

Any poets with a book coming out in 2026 and want to pitch an AWP panel for Baltimore? DM please!

in a burst of lightning holding in the darkness a paper candle Basho

George Oppen

Really enjoyed this Preeti Vangani Detail befitting a novel. But also, I thought, just the perfect length. My congratulations on such a deeply felt story. Rumpus Original Fiction: Second of April therumpus.net/2025/06/02/sec… via @the_rumpus

Helen Oswald. From: Learning Gravity (tall-lighthouse, 2010).

my poem remembrance which is in the summer 2025 issue of Nimrod Journal

Hard same

Richard Wright

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe, RIP

Fanny Howe, RIP

Andrea Gibson, “Wellness Check” M.R. Mandell — another one worth remembering

Another remarkable poem by Marianne Boruch, this one demonstrating Robert Pinsky's observation that "[h]er poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice."

Beth Ann Fennelly

Beautiful and badass new story from all time favorite writer AnnieZaidi hudsonreview.com/2025/08/zinnia…

Tony Hoagland. From: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (Bloodaxe, 2010).