Southern poets working on a first or second book: You've *officially* got one week to submit your ms to the New Southern Voices prize. The folks at Hub City Press do amazing work, and I'm so honored to be judging this year— Submit! Submit!

I can't remember the last time I took an actual vacation, or made it back to Mississippi (!) But I just booked 5 days home in Oxford June 14th-19th! I can hardly wait to see this view (Square Books!) and so many faces I love! Let's make plans, Oxford!?

“At its best, an MFA program can be…a place to witness people forging all kinds of shapes for language and a writer’s life, imagining a whole host of ways their art might go to work in the world.” Molly McCully Brown on reading and being read by others: at.pw.org/SeptOct2023

With folks questioning BEYONCÉ as a country artist, it’s a good moment to revisit this epic The New Yorker profile of the amazing Rhiannon Giddens & how thru a “bizarre warping of American cultural memory,” we have forgotten that country music has Black roots newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

I am so, so excited for these essays to reach the world!

My essay in @TIMEIdeas talks about how my OCD first got tangled up in America's gun violence problem in the 80s, and why neither the OCD nor our nation's obsession with guns has relented in the decades since. One way or another, we're in this together. time.com/6696791/ocd-am…

Hey ATTACHMENTS got a starred review from the good people at Kirkus Reviews and now that review is up! Very grateful for this one! kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/l…

We write today with extraordinary good news: since our Feb 8 announcement, we've seen an overwhelming show of support. We heard from friends we knew about, but also from friends we didn’t know we had. As a result, we’re not suspending operations after all. Read more on our site.

Hey #OAH24! The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize is now open for submissions! Visit go.illinois.edu/DisabilityHist… for submission guidelines. #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityHistory #dishist cc: Organization of American Historians DisabilityHistoryAssociation

Plz start the weekend right by reading this excerpt from ATTACHMENTS in Esquire many people are saying I'm the Gay Talese of dads on the internet esquire.com/lifestyle/a604…

If you are in a writing program and you're starting classes this week please remember you are all in it for a shared purpose and the clearest line of communication is perceived love. Assume the best of intentions amongst your peers.

Wondering what it’s like to publish a collection with your bestie? Peep the link below for our interview with poets Susannah Nevison & Molly McCully Brown to see how they published In The Field Between Us. telltellpoetry.com/poets-susannah…

I wrote another book ✨It’s about climate grief, the failures of language during our age of climate catastrophe, and the art of memorial. Part of Transit Books UNDELIVERED LECTURE SERIES, it’s out in Feb 2025. Preorder it pls? bookshop.org/p/books/immemo…

It’s the 4 month birthday of my collection ATTACHMENTS! Making eye contact, starting to laugh! Thx to everyone who’s read, reviewed, chatted on podcasts, and particularly hua hsu who extended the kind of thoughtfulness a writer dreams of in The New Yorker newyorker.com/books/under-re…

I couldn't be any more thrilled and deeply honored to share this news. I'm so excited for the chapter—and all the conversations— ahead at Image !

One major reason I like to write poetry is that I can be insane there. In fact, it's better if I'm insane

“…things / that can’t move / learn to see…” October, again, and the world is hard, and drenched in sunshine. Thinking of you today, LG. Still learning from you; still looking for you everywhere.

What a gift to share that Lit Hub has featured my Image essay on attention, the mystery of poems & silos, and the responsibility of working to attune ourselves to wonder, even and especially when the world is hard— It's one I'm always working at. Keep Looking:

October, I’m dragging the dog away from perfect birds lifeless on the pavement. —Molly McCully Brown poets.org/poem/virginia-…

I really love Jack Gilbert's poems for their quietness. I wish there could be more future Jack Gilbert poems.