The new issue of Image is in print + online! Poetry by Jane Clark Scharl Jacques J. Rancourt @_janezwart_ Graphic essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval In the Culture section: Katie Kresser on sham + Mary Lane Potter on McIlvoy + Lispector imagejournal.org/journal/subscr…

The finalists for the NBCC Award for Poetry are Saskia Hamilton, Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi, Romeo Oriogun, Robyn Schiff, and Charif Shanahan.

There were so many wonderful books for the AJA this year. Really excited for y’all to read these two 📚 💕

To wrap up their unit on poetic form, my 8th graders had to write a poem in a nonce form created by a classmate. These rules were, as you can imagine, nearly impossible to meet. But in the final 15 minutes, each student had to write a poem in their own form. Today was a good day.

You never shake that “I’m 2-5 good poems away from being done with this manuscript” feeling

I’m perturbed by how many folks tell me they don’t read poetry books cover to cover—All that agonizing over order, and y’all out there making your own remixes??

why has nobody started a lit mag called PoemHub

Hey y’all, I have a new poem in The American Poetry Review — on the back cover! Thanks to Elizabeth Scanlon and the whole team at APR. It’s a dream to have this little poem featured in such a special way 💗📚💗

Was I a good teacher today or just caffeinated?

I have four poems in the April issue of POETRY magazine from my book MAKING A LIVING, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Here’s one.

For Tomas Tranströmer’s birthday (Translated by Robert Bly)

That feeling when you see a book announcement with the same title as the manuscript you’ve been working on for the past 5 years 😭😭

4 years 💔 There are no words adequate to describe how much I miss you. What a long, relentless journey grief is. And yet I feel your love and encouragement every day guiding me. Sharing your beautiful poem Amber which resonates so much today.

Very excited to announce that my new book of poems A Brief History of the Midwest will be out in May 2025 from @BlackLawrence Press!

“It is not beautiful like the past / but like the past I wear it.” Matt Gellman (from Beforelight)

✨PUB DAY FOR COACHELLA ELEGY! Thank you to everyone at Trio House Press and to family and friends who supported me. This book is for Michael and my brother Jeremy.

A tremendous honor to be named one of this year’s 2025 NEA fellows. So much gratitude to the judging committee for their faith in these new poems.

Congratulations to Jacques & press mate Richie Hofmann, who have both been named 2025 NEA Fellows 🙌

What an immense day! LML poetry instructors Jacques J. Rancourt and madeleine cravens were both named 2025-26 NEA Fellows. Congratulations to them and to LML friends Victoria Chang, Richie Hofmann, and James Allen Hall. arts.gov/impact/literar…

Will you be at AWP? We will! Put us on your calendar of events for that Saturday night! We have a stellar lineup, partnered with Ninth Letter, we’ll have free drink tickets and we’re pretty excited about this venue!! Hope to see you there!