Kyla didn't want to ask, so I am, cos friends do. If you have any (US) leads on a quiet place she could make a home? If you have a few spare $? If you have magic or prayer or spare wishes? Any, all. PayPal is [email protected] Zelle is [email protected] Please share 💙

Open to all! 📚 canadianauthors.org/national/event… Wolsak & Wynn

TONIGHT! An evening of poetry with Catherine Graham Catherine Graham, 7:30 to 9 pm! (Online) Register here to receive your personalized link:  us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Event details:  canadianauthors.org/toronto/events/ Free. All welcome! #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth

Wooo, Lucian! This is amazing, and so well-deserved!

I keep replaying lines from the poems Catherine Graham shared with us last Thursday. Her work lives and breathes and makes space for those other companions, the dead. "Fractures of light through the trees ripen her pelt to a time-lapsed apple." That line gets me every time. 💚

The The Poetry Society Annual Lecture / University of Liverpool's Allott Lecture with Ilya Kaminsky (Ilya Kaminsky) on Poetry in a Time of Crisis on Monday 15 May 7:30pm: bit.ly/AnnualLectureK… You can now book to attend the lecture online here: bit.ly/AnnualLectureO…

An honour to be interviewed by Pinhole Poetry | Submissions Open:

I had a short story accepted today by one of my favourite journals, tomorrow is my birthday, and I have a pickle ball game tomorrow night. Yesterday my friend Jen came by with these beautiful plants and a gigantic jar of Nutella, my drug of choice. What’s next?? A pony??

✨🎤 Join us for an Open Mic Night🎤✨ On Thursday, May 18th at 6 pm, listen to poems by @PoetsNorthern and join the sign-up sheet to share your poems in a safe and supportive environment! Tickets are only £5 and can be booked below. salfordmuseum.com/event/poetry-2…

I love this contest. My daughter and I have both finished second in separate years, and it’s so fun to share that honour with her. Time to try again!

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Hi! Who’s still here? I’m checking in for the first time in three months and am seeing only Tr*mp news and a trickle of poetry posts. I miss poetry Twitter! If we used to chat on the bird app and you’re still here, please say hello!

A night of poetry in the heart of Toronto! Art Bar is excited to welcome our features Dane Swan, Lee Parpart, and Jenny Sorensen. See link for more: facebook.com/events/s/art-b…

I had the great pleasure of working on this novel, and it is a stunner. Amy Wadsworth draws on her own family history in this powerful tale of sister-wife friendships and female rebellion within a #polygamous #Mormon family in 19th century Utah. amazon.com/Resolution-Amy…

I’m dipping a toe in these waters and seeing how it feels. It was the great sonnet scandal of 2024 that pulled me back in. If this ex-bird app can sustain actual exchanges about poetry and fiction, I’m in. But X is still an ex, and I’m approaching with caution.

Send your sand-themed poetry and flash fiction to this contest by midnight (UK time) Feb. 29! Thanks to DG for the heads up.

oh brother, do NOT show this to your poet friends

“What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.” — Proust, Time Regained

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.” (Within a Budding Grove)