I keep taking a break from Twitter. Once again I’m back-for connection, beauty, quirk. Here’s some giant pumpkins for you 😄#MnstateFair2022 #pumpkins #MNStateFair

Zoom meeting, circa 1300.

Earlier this year, I took a job as a narrative designer at a video game company. Here are three things I learned while writing video games that made me a better novelist 🧵 (1/14)

“Today’s poem imagines what it would have been like to have been taught some of life’s biggest lessons in elementary school.” Today’s poem is “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade” by @bradaaronmodlin SEMOPress bit.ly/3d1xu0E

🎨 The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting. RT when it works for you.

GOOD MORNING. I give you a brief thread of (primarily male) writers intending to dismiss the work of Emily Dickinson but inadvertently calling it absolute fire 🔥

Applications for the Emergency Fund are open! Diverse creatives, publishing professionals (including freelancers and interns), and now also K-12 educators can apply for grants: ow.ly/G0nn50Gx5KV

It all begins today! Festival details at windhamcampbell.org! Stream the keynote: tinyurl.com/cbm3urb9. All in-person, all free!

I created some spine poems for Daily Nutmeg with bks from some fav authors incl @CPhillipsPoet joa Alicia E. Stallings Kathy Leonard Czepiel Melissa Ostrom Renée Watson &more! Enjoy! dailynutmeg.com/2022/09/27/spi… #Poetry #SpinePoem

I've already shared my son's love of Ear Worm! (2022, words Jo Knowles, visuals @GaliaBernstein), which invites readers to invent silly voices and tunes. It became his fave when he was just 2 months old. At 9 months, the cover alone still makes him smile. joknowles.com/ear-worm

Jane Hirshfield on poems and secrets

Our poetry contest long list is here!

Working my way through contest submissions! Still haven't sent in yours? You've got time! Last day of the contest is May 1. atlantareview.submittable.com

Some very very very exciting news! vermontpublic.org/local-news/202…

I love this graphic from thebookwrangler. We accept everyone and make room for everyone’s story 😀 #tlchat #librarylife #libraries #librarians #engchat

Tonight The 92nd Street Y, New York, in person and streaming online. #AmaCodjoe and @CPhillipsPoet read with introductions by ⬛️ & @akasomeguy Farrar,Straus&Giroux Yale University Press Milkweed Editions 92NY Poetry Center 92ny.org/event/ama-codj…

“This box is for a statement about the Poem. Surely a poem is what remains unboxed. And although the first sentence above may sound merely procedural, yet you see its necessity for appreciating the second sentence.” —Anne Carson #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/short-tal…

My uncles are the tallest men I know. Every doorway a chance to bow  Their heads, they love the Lord.   Skin so dark their last name is Lenoir. —Jericho Brown Jericho Brown #PoemADay poets.org/poem/lenoir

🩶 ballast 2.1 is here 🩶 ballastjournal.com/issue-21-table… our first issue of 2024 features poetry by Julia Alter, Poet, Shae Krispinsky, Christopher Munde, Jason Fraley, @celinapoet, @snareshot.bsky.social, @DrZackaryBerger, @jeffrey_hecker, Philip Jason, Carolanna Lisonbee 1/2