D.W. Baker

I predict history books will look on this war as the culminating reaction to the action taken in Gaza. The twelve days war with Iran from 2025 will just be part of a narrative about conflict and changes in global opinion spanning 2023-2026. The world order is changing

Decolonization of the middle east is accelerating as Gulf states turn on the US for lack of material support during Iran's counterattack. US citizens abroad were also left behind. Protecting the pedophile blackmailers in Israel came first, of course. I pray we avoid nuclear war

I recall someone comparing where we are now with the broader impact of online gambling / sports betting to the beginning of the opioid crisis, when families of the affected & those working directly in the field could tell, but research, opinion, etc hadn't caught up. Worse before it gets better...

may God smite and foil the warmongering, child trafficking followers of Baal. America must revolt against their infinite wars in our name! No war but class war

I have a new one that is very close to being ready to send out...lmk if you like eco poetry that tackles AI, social media and representation...if you want a memoir of what it has been like to be an interfaith Jewish kid in a dysfunctional family full of loss, I have that, too.

I don't have an MFA, but I got a BA in Anthropology & Music, then spent several years as a touring & recording bassist, then spent ten years teaching reading intervention and english/language arts. I have learned a lot about how the body processes sound, rhythm, symbol, & sense

Four books on a table: Mid/South Sonnets edited by C.T. Salazar and Casie Dodd, Wavelength by Carol Rucks, quitter by Paula Cisewski, and The Bear, the Trout, and the Moose, by Richard A. Jensen

Minnesota trip book haul! Minnesotan poets Paula Cisewski from Diode Editions and Carol Rucks from Kelsay Books, plus Richard A. Jensen, South Dakotan doctor and writer. Also pictured: the new Mid/South Sonnets anthology from
@bellepointpress.bsky.social , waiting at home

interfaith geometry

Underbelly Press Issue 6 coming soon March 13 Underbelly Press logo in the bottom right corner. Text is on a black background with a stack of cash behind the text.

I’m delighted to share that Issue 6 of Underbelly Press will be released on the 13th of March!

I appreciate your support. Thank you for taking the time to read our issues, share them, and submit to them.

Cover art submissions are open until 28.02

first order of business is to finally finish writing about @evaalterpoet.bsky.social's AUTOCARTOGRAPHIES, a formal marvel, among my favorite chapbooks of 2025.

I am emerging from over 3 months of prose writer's block. Haven't been able to progress in any reviews or other essays since November, though not for lack of trying. The poems have continued to flow. Separate waveforms; separate decay/sustain/release patterns... it would seem...

Cover of Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Almost done. Like all Mary Roach books, it is of course both extremely delightful and also way too short

New Poetry Titles (2/24/26) Check out new poetry books for the week of 2/24 from Lily Poetry Review, Seagull Books, Changes, Unsolicited Press, Host Publications, Mad Creek Books, Milkweed Editions, University of Arkansas Press,...

New #poetry #books from Seagull Books, Mad Creek Books, Milkweed Editions, @ugapress.bsky.social, Guernica Editions, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social, Black Lawrence Press, @upittpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Creepy crypt

My new story "A Body, A Commodity" reimagines the folktale about The Woman with the Golden Arm from a disabled perspective... with a vengeful little twist at the end. ⚡️

This is one of the pieces in my dissertation collection of queer and disabled retellings.

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I have realized that editing isn't my thing. It causes the anxious gravity, and the falling tide lowers all my boats. Reading and reviewing are how I intend to focus my contributions moving forward.

Lamps New Lighted Ten o'clock the taking away of immense of storm while there has been much making of frail realm against overwhelm. Lone of a light has darad the bang - - the others all fall alack Waste of citied huges through dim, mum and dream mysterious'd: loomed like a drear'd history. Footfalls stealth to eschew. Somebody swifts by a between of things silences through! There is an amount of waiting to keep and considering some, with a sigh perhaps, the few differences between awake and sleep Lamps new-lighted now - - making frail realm against overwhelm

this Russell Atkins poem is an all-timer for me

wow. symphonic and precise

From the Archives: Stanley Kunitz on Poetry in a Time of Crisis - Poets House The late Poets House co-founder and U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz argued that poets are “stronger than tyrants” even as the "American myth belongs to politics and power.”

"Poetry is intimately concerned with the historic process. It tells us what it feels like to be alive in a given time and place."

- Stanley Kunitz on poetry in a time of crisis
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He gets the mail, reads all of it, even the T-Mobile phone stuff, the “Your car warranty has expired!” The Sam’s Club brochure. The TV is on inside, mainly for the noise, the laughter and the clapping. He’s tired, just getting the mail; almost got stuck outside. Embarrassing.

Read the poem "The Bravest Among Us" by @theonlygman.bsky.social from the new issue of Variant

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ISSUE 6 POETRY ☆ Abraham Aondoana ☆ Christian Hanz Lozada ☆ D. W. Baker ☆ David Anson Lee ☆ Devon Webb ☆ Emyr Payne ☆ James Fleet Underwood ☆ Jeff Skinner ☆ Lauren Paré ☆ Maëlle Keita ☆ Paul Whelan ☆ Rebecca Leek ☆ Sarai Nichole ☆ Sharon Hoffman ☆

ISSUE 6 POETRY
☆ Abraham Aondoana ☆ @poetloz.bsky.social ☆ @lowermelody.bsky.social ☆ David Anson Lee ☆ @devonwebbnz.bsky.social ☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆ James Fleet Underwood ☆ Jeff Skinner ☆ Lauren Paré ☆ Maëlle Keita ☆ Paul Whelan ☆ Rebecca Leek ☆ Sarai Nichole ☆ @swhoffmann.bsky.social ☆

Submit — Susurrus

Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Reminder! Two weeks until submissions close for Prune Juice! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.

Submission guidelines here: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/

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Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors: T. De Los Reyes Kathy Jiang Stefanie Lee Arielle Kaplan Christie M Buchovecky Jane Zwart Grace H. Zhou Lalini Shanela Ranaraja Nick Daoust DL Pravda Jeff Whitney Guinotte Wise

Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors ✨️

T. De Los Reyes / Kathy Jiang / Stefanie Lee / Arielle Kaplan / Christie M Buchovecky / Jane Zwart / Grace H. Zhou / Lalini Shanela Ranaraja / Nick Daoust / DL Pravda / Jeff Whitney / Guinotte Wise

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"I’ve always carried this gun. Maybe you’ve never seen it pointed at you."

drinking the expired milk of fashion my brain is the least sharp it’s ever been, looking at the moon like I’m waiting for instructions

new small poem up at lofi mag tonight 🌙

subs are down as the hate cycle spins ever higher and I'm sad for the inbox but angry in general. i hope you're all safe.

thank you 💙

Nathaniel Mackey at Conjunctions! what musical, flowing form

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