bringing this back as we enter the most poetic season

rip maggie smith one of the undeniable greats of her time

Rest In Peace Maggie Smith ❤️

Maggie Smith in Death on the Nile appreciation post

IT IS HERE! IT IS ALIVE! cover reveal & preorder link (in comment & bio!) i'm so freaking happy! please share! & also remember pre-ordering is very, very important! my excitement is through the roof!!! tomorrow i will post blurbs, a new blurb each day. thank you everyone!!!

Chicago White Sox White Sox admin is the only one earning his pay rn

daughter had a sleepover last night and my wife set up a spa for them and served them sparkling apple cider in champagne flutes and my daughter keeps asking for more of that “sizzling apple juice”

A sincere thanks to Susurrus for nominating my poem “Only the Cow Knew” for the Best of the Net! Since its inception, Susurrus quickly became one of my favorite journals, particularly because of its focus on the American South. I’m so thrilled! Congratulations to all! 🌻❤️✨

I am very excited to announce that my second poetry collection, Perforated, will be published by Lily Poetry Review Books in January 2026!!! I just signed the contract and have all the feels! Thank you, Eileen Cleary, for your continued trust.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know there will be poems in it! I don’t know what the future holds, but I know it will be held together by poetry.

Reminder that my forthcoming SundressPublications craft book on unlearning the ableist writing workshop to develop a disabled writing practice is full of all sorts of useful advice for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to thrive despite terrible takes like this one.

"...I write almost by feel, like stacking up objects on a table, stepping back to assess how they look and feel in relation to each other, moving things around." Jennifer Wortman interviews Amy Stuber about Sad Grownups (Stillhouse Press). ➡️therumpus.net/2024/09/30/amy…

My own dog Malachi is missing from the Pendleton Adventure Trails Recreation Area in Pendleton, Oregon. He was running with my husband then went over a hill and disappeared. He might have jumped in a car with someone who thought he was lost 😭 Please RT #dogs

our annual awards announcement: it really feels like everything we publish is a "best of the net," so we skip announcing noms. if you had something on HAD between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 please consider yourself as having been nominated. Congrats!!

high speed rail? you mean a quickie

This world needs more witches. This world needs excoriating reprisals that write with an eye on the misogynist’s pyres rather than their prizes.