Traci Brimhall

An excerpt of “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by Traci Brimhall

A headshot image of poet Traci Brimhall

“In today’s poem we see the private language of habits, desires, and boundaries unfold. I love how this poem gives us a glimpse into the private world of love,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore show.

Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg

It Takes All of Us This May, take a peek behind the publishing curtain. Come and meet the people behind the poetry; see how you directly impact the work we do.

Read by poets TRACI BRIMHALL (@tracibrimhall.bsky.social), PHILIP METRES (@philipmetres.bsky.social), DIANNELY ANTIGUA (@diannelyantigua.bsky.social), and KELLI RUSSELL AGODON (@kelliagodon.bsky.social).

New episode alert! My talk with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social about her new book, Love Prodigal (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) is live! Get it wherever you find your podcasts!

Thanks so much for all of your hard work to bring CO poets to the Public Radio airwaves on the Great Plains!

"Resistance" by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social

I must be the heavy globe
of hydrangea, always bowing
by summer’s end. Must be salt,
like sadness at a burning city,
an ethical disobedience. I must be

Sososososo excited!

Aww, thank you, Janeen!!!

📖 my nonfiction debut, THE GRIEF ARTIST, will come out with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social in 2026!!

Aww!! Thank you!!

@tracibrimhall.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 2/26/25 at 7:30pm (EST)!

Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....

Hey Madison! Come see @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at @artlitlab.bsky.social tomorrow (Sat)! Bonus pic of us below this!

❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️

YouTube video by AWPWriter Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision

"Poems are the best time machines humans have invented so far" - @erinwriter.bsky.social
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...

YouTube video by AWPWriter Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision

This was brilliant, thank you all. What @tracibrimhall.bsky.social says about personhood, expectations, their poems, just so much wisdom, struck hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...

Thanks for listening!

Back on the road next week for four events in the upper Midwest! Hope this good weather holds!

Just a sweet face for the dopamine.

🐦‍⬛ Surviving another day with this stunner from Danusha Lameris’s BLADE BY BLADE. I loved that this book had the darkest hours and the most gorgeous hopes.

Jenny George is a master of concision. As someone who identifies as a tornado on legs, her ability to distill so much feeling into an image is so astonishing.

Amor Fati - The Nature of Our Times The vultures are a syntax of erasures, shadows stripping the deer’s body down to a crooked temple of bones. The poppies are out here getting away with murder because they know beauty is its own camouf...

🐦‍⬛ new poem up at Poets for Science, which has a great online gallery of poems about lands, waters, wildlife, and natural wonders.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/

🌻Happy Arts Advocacy Day, Kansas!

Tomorrow night, local friends! @chancedibben.bsky.social and I are so excited to host @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at the next Volta!

Thank you, Sophie!

Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks, Donna!

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body My calves ached with a pleasant pain. My hip ached with wrongness. I pulled the water bottle from the hiking backpack and poured some in the pop up bowl for the dog and took a long deep swig for my…

“I wanted to be entirely where I was, to notice actively rather than reflectively, to use my body to write and not just write about my body.” @tracibrimhall.bsky.social on how her poetry has transformed as chronic illness shifts the pacing of her life.

Joining all the cool kids here on Bluesky.