😭 They made me the poet laureate of Vermont. I just love this state so much.

Thank you everyone for the messages I just happen to literally be teaching poetry in the woods today. Thank you Vermont Arts Council ❤️❤️❤️
vtdigger.org/2024/05/01/thi…

Proud to be part of the team that won a Webby!

'I was particularly struck by the writer’s balance of historical research and personal narrative, a feat rarely executed with such dexterity in so concise a narrative.'-
Jerald Walker, judge of our '22 Summer Essay Contest, on Michael Metivier's winning essay, 'Hold On Magnolia.'

Wow, the kindness I've seen from everyone supporting my MFA journey to Memphis is eye watering. Thank you!
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Every repost and donation means the world to me.

Let's keep the momentum going!!!

gofundme.com/f/help-martins…

Here's an article for all you Tortured Poets out there.
ow.ly/LI9E50RiZaq

the Blackecologies Zine is an open resource containing sixty-six pages of essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, experimental field notes, and original art globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

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We are making our first change in our primary dictionary in decades, turning to Merriam-Webster as our first source.
We announced our new partnership today at the ACES: The Society for Editing conference. We will officially make the transition when we publish our new print edition May 29.

Today River River Books 🌊🌊 we’re launching a kickstarter to help us get back on our feet after SPD’s closure. We have REWARDS, y’all! 📚💙

Check out River River Books: Poetry Distribution by Han VanderHart on
Kickstarter Amorak Huey
kickstarter.com/projects/hanva…

Spring is about to be sprung.

cc U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

merriam-webster.com/wordplay/signs…

Try this: stand outside some cool, rainy March morning & stfu a second & let everything be, exactly as it is, no judgment or fear or planning, no insistence on justice, no beauty, no death—you can always come back to that shit—but for a second just be the scene itself, become it.

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Roses are red
Tan are some Days Inns

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┃┃╱╲ In this
┃╱╱╲╲ house
╱╱╭╮╲╲ we keep
▔▏┗┛▕▔ buying
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mustard because we forget
we already have plenty of
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NC peeps!

Incredible show last night. Third time seeing Tank and the Bangas in three years and every show has been both completely different and completely revelatory. Took our daughters to this one too--on a school night! More than worth it.

there is so much overlap with my own list that i am compelled to look up the others.

This song is just bonkers good - how they captured perfect sound on every voice/instrument recording live in a bar is beyond me, but they did. Perfect signing by Jagjaguwar as well. Looking forward to seeing them in June.

Two poems by Michael Metivier badlilies.uk/michael-metivi…

Two poems by Michael Metivier badlilies.uk/michael-metivi…