this is the only reason i have any phone at all

just wanted to share this with poetryland. i’m starting a reading series in oakland, first one is at 7pm on thursday 2/15 at tamarack. come!

Have you listened yet? Warning: two listeners told me they needed to pull over to cry. 🩷🩶💙💚💛💜

no better way to beat the heat in this unlikely park on pride weekend with poems and D. A. Powell. just don’t ask how he got those beads

thank you for always reminding me what it means to be an expression of love in this world 💖💖💖 D. A. Powell

thank you North American Review for giving this one a home 🤲

Attending this back in 2006 (!!) changed my life and introduced me to loves sophie klahr and Jane Wong! Tell the undergrad poets in your life to apply!

it’s easy to love books. it’s hard to let them hold you

Thank you Read A Little Poetry 🙏

Zagajewski is the best at train poems to me (tr. Clare Cavanagh)

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It falls upon us to be the center of the flower field, to be the place where the plums hang freely, suggestively, belonging to the world of the poem. We must make more worlds to disappear into...

slap me i’m dreaming

grateful for this french translation of my poem 💕

We are more connected than ever, but poet Matthew Siegel finds it’s made communication more difficult. “We all have these major distractions of our technology,” he told us in 2018. “And it often gets in the way of us actually having to face our lives, to face what we’re

thank you Read A Little Poetry 😭🫀

don’t stop belieeeeeeevin

So grateful for the share. Thank you Read A Little Poetry