Happy National Poetry Month! Catherine Carter (Good Morning, Unseen) and Tina Barr (Pink Moon) will be reading from their new books on Saturday, April 20, at 3 PM at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC. Hope to see you there✨

Eileen Myles:

During AWP 2024, I gave a talk on documentary poetry on a panel with Paisley Rekdal, Michael Leong, Joe Harrington, and Tara Ballard. The talk really became something of a poem. This is it: Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide.

'It wasn't a commercial project, it was a romanticized journey of self-destruction, which I survived for reasons I don't completely understand.' lithub.com/little-cash-lo…

Happy National Poetry Month! Catherine Carter (Good Morning, Unseen) and Tina Barr (Pink Moon) will be reading from their new books on Saturday, April 20, at 3 PM at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC. Hope to see you there✨

Stay tuned for Labor Day weekend, folks! I'll be teaching a virtual workshop through Jacar Press's The Gathering and it's gonna be GREAT.

An honour to be on the judging panel ⭐️🔥 this shortlist is, in my opinion, SO strong but let me tell you, there were other INCREDIBLE books that didn’t quite make the cut. This process has taught me to be a little softer on myself for the shortlists I didn’t make it into 🦋

Remember the night you called and said you might hurt yourself? It was the middle of winter.

Kathleen McGookey, “Cloud Report, 5/28/23” one.jacarpress.com/issue-29/

I love chapbooks and this greatest hits collection from Bunkong Tuon is a perfect example.
Jacar Press did a beautiful job with these poems.

Tomorrow from 7pm Irish time! I absolutely can't wait to chat with two of my favourite poets (nothing to do with the fact that they're Corkonians—pure coincidence, like!) and with huge thanks to Jacar Press for making it possible.

No fooling, we have a great lineup for the 2024 Gathering of Poets. This is just a teaser for our weekend of workshops from 8/31-9/2 this year: we'll be featuring Michelle Bitting, Danusha Laméris, Mary O'Donnell, Ed Pavlić, & Claire Wahmanholm. Stay tuned for more 🔥🔥🔥

The closer I come to you / in reality / the more the key sings at the door of the unknown room

André Breton, tr. Hélène Cardona, “Always for the first time” one.jacarpress.com/issue-29/

The Washing Windows series from Arlen House Publishing Women has rapidly become iconic, and I am feckin' delira to tell you I have a poem in IV.
Pre-orders are available now from Ireland's oldest independent bookshop Books Upstairs at the following link: booksupstairs.ie/product/washin…

“Writers in times of crisis ought to take a pen and scream. How can anyone begin to articulate the spiraling travesty that is humanity? What is pouring your heart into a work for it to be misunderstood?”
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Here’s one of two poems recently published in The Banyan Review. The poem is about my daughter, but it’s really about me.

Thanks to editor Juan Pablo Mobili for his thoughtful, smart, precise suggestions.

Please check out the 2024 spring issue in the comment section. (1/2)

Two of Ireland’s brightest young poets, Victoria Kennefick & Lauren O’Donovan, will be joining Molly Twomey on Zoom Weds., April 3 (6pm Ireland/2pm EST), for an intimate hour of poetry and discussion on Just to Say. Email [email protected] for the free Zoom link!

I needed to meet you, God / was making me wait. // Everywhere I looked there were signs / for someone’s lost dog named Cause.

Molly Kirschner, “It’s No One’s Fault” one.jacarpress.com/issue-29/

I am weightless, 
a speck of time
in Gaza. 
But I will remain
where I am.

—Mosab Abu Toha

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Here is the first of three poems from the winter issue of Gargoyle. Someone did ask me this question on the relationship between writing and healing. Huge thanks to Richard Hoffman for publishing it in his highly esteemed magazine. (1/2)