Thanks to Banshee Press for sharing my jellyfish poem 🐙.

Happy to have been a finalist at Autumn House Press 2021 #AHPPoetryPrize for my MS “Mother, Float.”

Always so soothing & sobering to read Kaminsky…

So honored to work with the esteemed editor Libby Maxey at <Literary Mama> whose superb Letter from the Editor is in the current issue: 🥰💪 literarymama.com/articles/depar…

'Grammar' and 'glamour' have the same origin: Old French 'gramaire'. This word was borrowed into Middle English and Middle Scots. In the latter language, it became 'glamour'. Its meaning evolved from "study of occult things" via "magic" and "charm" to "beauty". Here's more:

My first The Sealey Challenge … I need to wait til I’m stateside to get the remaining 4 (planning on Tiana Kelly, Jennifer Franklin, Valzyhyna Mort, and Katie Farris, all new/newer works). And my daughter made me a bookmark & then a stack of her own 🤓👍

Thank you POETRY magazine for publishing two (different) poems of mine. I just realized if there’s one common denominator, it’s the shipment of flowers.

Лёша, спасибо тебе за 26 лет абсолютного счастья. Да, даже за три последних года счастья. За любовь, за то, что всегда поддерживал, за то, что смешил даже из тюрьмы, за то что ты обо мне всегда думал. Я не знаю, как жить без тебя, но я постараюсь так, чтобы ты там, наверху,

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov (1880).

I wrote about some recent poetry—all 3 poems deal (subtly) in some way with violence toward women—in this blog post at Literary Mama. The 3 mother-daughter poems appear in their newly published anthology 💐

Jay Wright constructs a poetic sequence out of the last lines of this Hölderlin poem, using each major word as the title of a section