Keith S. Wilson

<3 I need to come around here more!

Open Rehearsal | Los Angeles Review of Books Keith S. Wilson’s visually experimental poetry examines the ‘asymmetries of risk’ and repetition to expose ‘how violence enters the body as habit.’

I REALLY feel seen in this book review by Jeffrey Levine that just came out in the LA Review of Books. Really made my day

"Violence often lacks intent. It requires only a system capable of assigning meaning after the impact."

lareviewofbooks.org/article/game...

There Are Some Things That Are Only Said in Looking February 26, 2026 by Keith S. Wilson, poetry faculty  Where I live in Chicago, any restaurant that feels a little fancy will open their front door and go all out on those wrought-iron deck chairs. May...

I have a short piece up on the male body and the art of looking at Good River Review!

www.goodriverreview.com/post/there-a...

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🆕 on Lab Games: three interactive visual poems by
@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:

graywolflab.org/2025/12/12/t...

What an honor! My book Games for Children is on the short list of the Chicago Review of Books awards! Thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social !

"I've Always Been Very Interested in Wonder": An Interview with Keith S. Wilson About "Games for Children" - Chicago Review of Books Our interview with Keith S. Wilson about his new collection, "Games for Children."

"I want to know what I am capable of, or what language is capable of."

Jackson Holbert's interview with @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social on his new book “Games for Children” (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/04/i...

Graphic featuring the cover of HOLD YOUR OWN by Nikki Wallschlaeger, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Manifesto" that reads: I’m putting this to paper before I lose my nerve, my courage, before this poem breaks from lies & I have to part ways with you.

Graphic featuring the cover of THE BELOVED COMMUNITY by Patricia Spears Jones, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Morning Glory" that reads: blossom / your hearty display for all to see, hold your / vine’s haven on Macon Street. Only / Winter, harsh winter will take your vines / Back to the ground your wildness calmed.

Graphic featuring the cover of FIELDNOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE by Keith S. Wilson, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "God Particle" that reads: Dust motes and a million paths of light. / I know. / Eventually, it all comes down to an / admission. / Whatever my failings—didn’t I come to it, / eventually?

Graphic featuring the cover of DIRECTED BY DESIRE by June Jordan, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "About Long Distances on Saturday" that reads: and the answer is that the question is (isn’t it) where are you going baby without me?

We're grateful for the Black poets whose work enriches, shapes, and challenges our poetry landscape. This week, we feature stunning poets: NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (@nikkimwalls.bsky.social), PATRICIA SPEARS JONES (@pksj51.bsky.social), KEITH S. WILSON (@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social), and JUNE JORDAN.

In 6 yrs we will see movies about how being ICE agents made the ICE agents so sad.

Live updates: Trump wants to send immigrants who are in the US illegally to Guantanamo Bay While signing the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said he would direct the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United ...

This is a concentration camp. Don't let him or anyone call it a "migrant facility." apnews.com/live/trump-p...

In case it isn’t clear, this is a concentration camp. Please call your reps, tell them to demand complete stoppage of the use of Guantanamo Bay as a Trump’s concentration camp, and use that language so there’s no mistaking what we’re talking about here.

Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.

Rewatching interstellar and some of the dialogue in this movie is atrocious

capitalism is a plane that only has six people on it but still won't let any of those people move to the empty seats in first class

I am getting a lot of new follows from people recently adding bluesky. can I ask someone who followed me recently: how are you following people? Is bluesky recommending people you may know?

I added this a while ago when it felt like there was only like 3 people on here so I'm not sure lol

Folks: A number of the most committed fascist trolls are coming over here and trying to create a presence, presumably bc Xitter will quickly lose its value as everyone migrates. One way to combat them is to use @numb.comfortab.ly 's list to mass block them.

I posted on Facebook about how something he had written was nonsense and he was friends with me at the time (from McDowell where we briefly met) and he responded to me with "does this mean we're not friends anymore?" And "I said that's up to you" and he unfriended me. Safe space indeed

Like this isn't a criticism of anything. Just that either best game means something different than an aggregate score of other wins (and needs a different name?) or it doesn't mean anything different (and doesn't super need to exist as a distinct category)

I think if it's the case that winning in one or several categories also means it's weird you didn't win in others, maybe some of those categories don't actually need to exist

Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone.

Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.

He puts little nightcaps on each nail

[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole...
[but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog

Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.

I hate ice breakers but I just thought of one: name a time when you were flabbergasted

I just want to see a room full of people reckon with the word flabbergasted

i was born in the wrong decade: i was meant to be born in the future, at about 20 years after whatever year everything stops sucking

the world seems all the time a darker place but as they say, at the end of it is a door <3

we didn't exactly see poetry the same way but louise said more than one thing about my work and my thoughts that mean more to me than i know how to express. and the thing about them is she never said things just to be nice: she meant them

i got to work with Louise Glück and met with her several times about my poetry. the last time, she said: "why do you keep looking at your phone?" that's where my poems were. Louise Glück workshopped with me all those times thinking i was like texting people the whole time

studies show there might not really be any savings from this actually:

large.stanford.edu/courses/2021....