“I find the divine in the everyday” Jael Montellano interviews @RubenQuesada over his newest #poetry collection BRUTAL COMPANION and chats about identity, divinity, longing and more: hypertextmag.com/cosmic-grandeu… #WritingCommunity #amreading #newbooks #poets #writerslife #bookspotlight

Talon Abraxas

Ada Limon

Chicago folks! It’s Reader voting time—and I’ve had the enormous privilege of having interviewed two of the nominees for Best new poetry collection by a Chicagoan 😏 Congratulations to Diego Baéz and @RubenQuesada on their noms! Vote at chicagoreader.com/best-of-chicag…

I love her. 🙃

Anne Sexton ending a poem with the mighty question: ‘eh?’

For anyone obsessed with Erik Satie, these are my lecture notes for a course on poetry and music that sent me into Satie’s archives. Nothing spectacular. Just form for form. :) static1.squarespace.com/static/5aea0d8…

I am exhausted of seeing Emilia Pérez win awards while mocking Mexicans and trans people alike. “[W]ithout embracing either the perspective or experience of trans, queer, and Mexican people, [Audiard] ultimately takes us on a trans-racist touristic journey.”

What a pleasure to converse with Donna Seaman and reflect over books as a measuring rod for life. Drop in for a read!

Poets! What advice would you give about your first collection/chapbook? What do you wish you knew then that you know now? #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Witch going to the Sabbath #artbots #varo

My friend Ed Sage and I workshopped this poem of his last year, so I’m thrilled he found a home for it!!! Go Ed! passionfruitreview.com/what-remains-b…

Today is for springtime tea and Alina Stefanescu’s stunning MY HERESIES, coming soon to Hypertext Magazine! #poetry #newbooks #poetrycommunity

I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile.

and mary oliver is there to save my life over and over again

Happy Pub Day to our own poetry editor extraordinaire Alina Stefanescu ! Run, don’t walk, for your own copy of MY HERESIES: sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/m…

‘I entered into motion because …I was not put here to prove I could endure the terrifying, brutal things humans do to each other. Because there are flowers in bloom that need my attention… Because “one wild and precious life.”’ lithub.com/after-the-roos…

The grief. How far-reaching like the desert sun. Writers in the literary landscape have long spun gold from straw and we shall persist. Nevertheless, I want to name the loss of NEA funds that have supported publishers & writers I work with and benefit from. I’m sorry, friends 🥺

A conversation with Jael Montellano in Hypertext Magazine on May 16th, which is also the day on which Derrida delivered his lecture on the blindness of the author in the year 1991 at Les Havres amen etc 🖤 hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…

Truly this collection is lush for study, a prismic array of the sacred and profane. I’ve long fan-girled over Alina Stefanescu, so it was a dream to read and a dream to chat! Now for cloudscapes ☁️