“My favorite show was canceled. / Nobody was watching. / Besides me. I glowed before it like a mirror. / I woke up thinking about / dead lawyers and scarred antagonists” —Paul Guest, “Testimonial” Kenyon Review

My thanks to Verse Daily for the Web Weekly feature! variantlit.com/poet-laureate-…

from BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE by Paul Guest diodeeditions.com/product-page/b…

In collaboration with @poetsorg, we're excited to announce Meg Day as our 2024 Poet-in-Residence! 🎉 Meg Day is an author and recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. #GuggenheimPoetry Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence made possible by Van Cleef & Arpels. Photo: Kristin V. Rehder.

Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Ecopoetry Now, David Keplinger writes on "The Ice Age Wolf That Love Is." Read here: poems.com/features/what-…

Michael Keaton, who has played Batman in three live-action #DC movies, addresses his future as the iconic Caped Crusader. 🦇 buff.ly/3TfxJWK buff.ly/3TfxJWK

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

I’m beyond grateful. Thank you so much to the National Book Critics Circle for this extraordinary honour! Thank you to my team Simon & Schuster for helping to bring this book into the world, and my deepest thanks to my family for allowing me to share our story with the world. 💚✨

My thanks to ⁦The Nation⁩ for publishing this poem, forthcoming in You Are Here by ⁦Milkweed Editions⁩ — thank you, also, to ⁦@adalimon⁩ for including it in this anthology. thenation.com/article/cultur…

hey I’m poem-a-day Academy of American Poets today! if you want a poem with bison + National Parks | USA + Yellowstone National Park + Dolly Parton + @JasonIsbell + Delilah in it, I’ve got you covered! poets.org/poem/just-dark…

Read today's #PoemADay: “Just as the Darkness Got Very Dark / Another Data Point” by Erika Meitner erika meitner poets.org/poem/just-dark…

Yo SlapFIGHT Championship I'd like to watch #SlapFight420 in person to write about it for Esquire. Where I can find details about the event?

Congrats to these poets! What an amazing group. Kaveh Akbar Jos Charles Elaine Equi Vievee Francis Airea D. Matthews Robyn Schiff Safiya Sinclair Tracy K. Smith Mai Der Vang

“Not today, / Satan, or Ronald Reagan— / you learn that often enough evil is not about / nuance. It was raining / the day I was born / and years later I haven’t learned much more / about the stars” —Paul Guest The American Poetry Review aprweb.org/poems/20209

some book news—thrilled to be joining the Milkweed Editions family + excited to work with @jbaileyhutch + can’t wait to share ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE with y’all in 2026! + big thanks to Nat Jacks InkWell Management! 🎉

I’m not on here that much, but anytime you want a poet to visit your classes, holler at me 💙 My second book Larks comes out from @OhioUnivPress in the spring, and my published work so far centers memoir and writing whiteness/difficult family narratives.

“When not an outright impossibility / or form of neurological science fiction, / sexual congress will either be with / tourists in the kingdom of your tragedy, / performing an act of sadistic charity; / with the curious” —Paul Guest The Paris Review Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/users-gui…

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