to say I see you // is to admit much of you isn't visible

The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn. #Tiredearth #biodiversity

"And what is a more apt description of a ghost than a haunted absence? ... as I hovered over the lines, I heard the collective work of bees—the swarm." - Ashley Dailey reviews IMAGINE US, THE SWARM Nightboat Books for Poetry Northwest I love this! Thank you!

“I don’t remember wanting my town until I lost my way / around it.” Read Andrew Butler’s new poem about music, home, sibling rivalry, and cultural markers of success in the dreamy new music issue of Oxford American! Definitely feeling some homesickness now 💔🪕

Super Bowl commercial for Jesus? #SuperBowlLVII

Grateful to see a poem about Whataburger and maybe Jesus in the McNeese Review, tucked away in a beautiful issue that matches my wall.

Three generations of Grist Journal editors. Andrew Butler sarah UTK Creative Writing

I started this poem in 2019 in workshop with @howtopreserve. Then I workshopped it with Ashley Dailey and @CoreyGins11 last summer. I’m so proud of this and so grateful for all the help getting it homed. Thank you, friends, thank you American Literary Review. <3

Anna!!! 🤩🤩👏👏👏

“It was June in Richmond / and I was young and held an unconditional belief / in a heat made utterly obscene / from humidity.” There is such a heat.

"We held the bigger/ pieces to the light to see the patterns/ we were made of." sonorareview.com/2023/04/29/luc…

My visual poem "Luck (A Sequence)" just came out with Sonora Review! Thanks to editor geramee for making this happen! Check it out if you like diagrams and sad poems about dogs♥️ sonorareview.com/2023/04/29/luc…

The poet instructs her words before the final draft.

This season’s issue of Oxford American includes a brave and moving prose poem from Emily Jalloul. I will be thinking about those “compound fractures, bright white and bleeding” for days.

~ W.S. Merwin

“We have to lie to live. But to write we must try to unlie.” (Cixous)

Sustaining an independent, nonprofit literary magazine in the American South is a formidable endeavor. So, when the Whiting Foundation judges acknowledge our unwavering commitment to capturing the region's multi-layered exuberance and intellectual vigor, it means the world!