Today's Featured Poem: "Blessing the Baby" by Diannely Antigua (Diannely Antigua), from Good Monster, published by Copper Canyon Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/blessing-…

Pub day for "And the Monster Swallows You Whole" by Adrian S. Potter! Go grab your copy!

Jessica Johnson's METABOLICS at Poetry Daily! "Rich, intricate, valuable: adjectives call up the sword fern, mahonia, & yellow stream violet that grow under the tall, broad cedar I love & try to listen to, the whole system around her unsuited to commodification." shorturl.at/puO24

Interview: "I didn’t feel like an editor at all. I felt more like a steward, like a caretaker, like I was only trying to make sure that every plant was in its right spot to get enough light." (The Nation) #pdnews thenation.com/article/cultur…

Today’s Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Ecopoetry Now, Evelyn Reilly writes on “Having Broken, Are," published by BlazeVOX [books] . Read here: poems.com/features/what-…

Today's Featured Poem: "Grievance" by Morri Creech from The Sentence, published by LSU Press Read here: poems.com/poem/grievance/

Today’s Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Ecopoetry Now, M. W. Jaeggle writes on “Wrack Line." Read here: poems.com/poem/wrack-lin…

Poetrywalas and friends please come out for this group reading- my first in many moons- Amanda Newell and Danny Lawless have new books -desert wine and Fab community! Poetry Daily Watershed Lit The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center Plamen Press please tell your friends!

Today's Featured Poem: "Thank You Goodbye" by Lisa Olstein, from Dream Apartment, published by Copper Canyon Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/thank-you…

Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Language as Form,hua xi writes on "Seven Poems for Seven Flowers and Love in All Its Forms" by Bhanu Kapil. Read here: poems.com/features/what-…

Today's Featured Poem: "Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street" by Reginald Shepherd, from The Selected Shepherd, published by @UPittPress. Read here: poems.com/poem/black-ice…

Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Language as Form, Lloyd Wallace (Lloyd :() writes on "the sensation is without artifact" by @kellyrosehoffer. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-sensa…

Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Reading Prose, Robert Pinsky writes on David Ferry’s “Johnson on Pope." Read here: poems.com/features/what-…

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Yeats Country: by Arpita #InAnotherCountry "An Indian man, slightly younger than me, approached me one day as I watched the swans. He was a nursing student ... He rarely saw someone from back home..." cheusecenter.gmu.edu/fellowships/in…

last year, I'd given up on the idea of having a book. This year, I turned 55, and I am both shocked & happy to have a collection coming out in one month! I'd be very grateful if you'd consider pre-ordering @stillhousepress:stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto…

I’m too awkward to do one of those unboxing videos. But my book arrived today and it’s such a thrill to hold it in my hands! Thank you Stillhouse Press & Rebecca Burke (SAD GROWNUPS comes out Oct 8 - pre-order here: stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto… or @bookshop_org)

big thanks to the very wonderful richard scott larson for reading and sharing my book! SAD GROWNUPS comes out oct 8 - pre-order Stillhouse Press: stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto… OR bookshop.org/p/books/sad-gr…)

Theme 2024-25 The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center the politics of language/ the language of politics. Are you ready to soften language, remake it, can we take care of each other with our words?