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Todd Dillard

@toddedillard.bsky.social

“Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.

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This is so nice of you!!! I’m so happy my random ramblings ended up with you writing something so beautiful!!!

17.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love it!!!

17.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bathtub

A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it!

This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THX 4 LOOKING! <3

17.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 7    📌 5

thanks!

17.02.2026 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

if the person who says happy birthday to you the most also loves you the most then I am confused to announce my dentist’s office loves me, like, a lot? too much (probably)

16.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

poets are so unserious especially the serious ones

16.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a cartoon of a man wearing sunglasses and an orange hat that says bait shop Alt: a cartoon of a man wearing sunglasses and an orange hat that says bait shop doing a fist pump and saying CHA CHA CHING

burnt the toast writing about an onion’s resentment

16.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh no

16.02.2026 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they more fell out like tomatoes from a tote bag hole

16.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"AI rewrite specialist" is such a weird way to say the person with the shovel who follows the circus elephants

16.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

well hot damn I'd read that

16.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lyric poets I want to be like: your mouth is a country / its flag / pomegranate meat / its anthem / your tongue's smolder

me, stupid narrative poet: Here are some facts about bread. Gosh I miss my bicycle.

16.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

"we're going to try this new experiment where we use failed technology and then hire One (1) person to fix its mistakes, what could go wrong, no seriously what, I don't have my own thoughts"

16.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"AI rewrite specialist" is such a weird way to say the person with the shovel who follows the circus elephants

16.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
AWP 2026 Offsite reading poster, with images of the readers: Carmen Maria Machado, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Gennarose Nethercott, Matthew Lansburgh, Jennifer Pullen and Joy Deva Baglio.

AWP 2026 Offsite reading poster, with images of the readers: Carmen Maria Machado, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Gennarose Nethercott, Matthew Lansburgh, Jennifer Pullen and Joy Deva Baglio.

Hello folks! Are you going to #AWP26 in Baltimore? If you are, join me for the offsite reading that I am coordinating with @joybaglio.bsky.social. We are also reading, alongside some cool folks including @sequoian.bsky.social & Carmen Maria Machado. 03/05/26 at 6 pm in the Lord Baltimore hotel!

15.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

my old mentor!!!!

14.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks!!

14.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes!!!

14.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my gosh love this thank yoi

14.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love it!

14.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

14.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is great!

14.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thanks!!!

14.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent!!!

14.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Lee!

14.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love it!

14.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

wonderful!

14.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it's my birthday today AND Valentine's Day so please help me celebrate by sending a poem that would make your love go "wh--what??"

14.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 51    🔁 0    💬 16    📌 0

wonderful!!!

13.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Doll House

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio

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