Emilia Phillips

Good morning. Took this two years ago. No time to go through camera this morning. Nankeen Kestrel.
Have a great day.

Send UNCG MFA Students to AWP Writers Conference Join me and make a gift to send UNCG MFA Students to AWP Writers Conference!

Our @mfagreensboro.bsky.social students are raising money to attend #AWP26 in Baltimore in March 2026! The fundraiser is necessary despite our program’s long history of success because of recent budget cuts. Learn more about what they’ll be up to & donate here: www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

Floating ice chaos in Greenland, with a lonely bird playing above…
You might need to zoom a bit tho.

#bird #photography #art #sunset #landscape

Eagles nestled in their snowy perch at Lake Ballinger. Year after year still there.

#eagles #lakeballinger #washington #snowy #winter #nature

A foggy light ray shines down on a golden green tree

I love trees and fog and how they dance and play together. I watched this scene for awhile.

#monochromeMonday #fog #pnw #Oregon #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #photographersunited #PhotographersofBluesky

I started journaling again—written narratives & meditations, not just jotted notes—or at least trying to. It takes so much time & offers many hand cramps. How often I used to write by hand for hours a day back in school. How little I do now! Now: the occasion to.

PAST What is the past? We needed a word for everything before. See how my saying this is already there, and there for good —no fishing it out of that deep water, the deepest there is. The past is a tide that drags out but won't return to shore: even your question has been carried off. Look, you can see it floating. Anything heavier settles unseen like wreckage for a silver ribbon of fish to slip through. The past is not all distant. We can stand at its edge, watching the waves do the backbreaking work of pulling, pulling away. From the shore, the past seems to go on forever, because it does. We say it was a different time, but all times are different. This one, for instance. And again, this one.

Maggie Smith ♥️

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
@tupelopress.bsky.social

A landscape photo featuring the massive, snow-capped Mount Baker, partially covered by low-hanging clouds, dominating the background. The foreground shows a deep valley filled with dark green conifer trees, which gives way to lighter green alpine meadows and rocky slopes in the middle ground, all leading up to the large, glaciated peak under a dramatic, cloudy sky.

I love the mix of deep green valleys, rocky slopes, and that soft light you only get on an overcast day. It feels quiet out there in a way you can’t really explain until you stand in it yourself.

#scape #ForestFriday #photography #pnw #mountains #trees #nature #landscapephotography #cascades

No hawk photos today because he was startled by this guy.

Talking about the UK’s bounty of graveyard waxcaps, here are a group of Hygrocybe conica, Blackening Waxcaps or commonly known as Witches Hat mushroom, all lined up like the Three Amigos. #fungi

Heron and Cranes

Right now, there are many things to figure out across the many different disciplines BUT the new accessibility mandates ARE going to make learning much easier for many more students, as the classes will have to be accessible from the start! Other benefit? Students don’t have to SEEK accommodations.

Which is why I wanted to let you all know now, publishers! Support your authors’ abilities to be visiting writers are universities by making their texts accessible! And also know that instructors scanning the books & remediating them for accessibility IS legal for educational reasons.

This is going to have a unique impact on creative writing programs that have visiting writers series, especially when poets, hybrid, &/or experimental writers are invited, especially when there are no ebooks, which seems to be the case more often in these genres.

W3C standards and drafts The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Publishers, do your book designers know how to format your ebooks &/or PDF manuscripts in an accessible format? If not, you’re going to need to learn if you want American universities to teach your texts! Start here: www.w3.org/TR/?status%5...

If your books aren’t available through library databases &/or the usual ebook marketplaces in an ACCESSIBLE format, instructors won’t legally be able to teach your books, they will have to scan & remediate PDFs (extra labor, often time-consuming), or they will reach out to you for accessible PDFs.

Hey, publishers, especially poetry ones, I need you to know something: As of April 26, 2026, universities will have to meet new federal accessibility standards, which means all assigned & suggested texts must be screen reader accessible. (Thread)

The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.

Louise Glück ♥️

“I speak / because I am shattered.”

Always revisiting this poem.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas to proceed with using a racially discriminatory voting map.

Voters of color deserve to be heard – not silenced.

So proud of all our 1st-year poets & fiction writers who got to celebrate the end of their 1st semester at @mfagreensboro.bsky.social with Arrivals, a reading event at Greensboro Project Space! It’s always such a wonderfully cozy & supportive event. Thanks to everyone who came out ✨

Volume 22, Issue 1 is in PRINT! ✨ Featuring work from 23 writers, this is an issue you want on your book shelf. Check out the contents list on our website, and order your copy today! Link in bio 💚
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#litmag #poetry #creativenonfiction #shortstory #creativewriting #literaryjournal

(Also he loves Dickinson!)

Just saw a doctor who asked my pronouns when he walked in & spent the whole appointment affirming my diagnosis & setting reasonable goals for care. I almost spontaneously combusted from shock & happiness!

I forget how often those vintage paperback artworks were re-used!

When were y’all gonna tell me Mavis Staples had a new album? 🔥

love this cover art

Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono

OK, LOOK I went into the woods alone alone and came out wet and aware of the blight that's killing the aspens. You could write things down just as they are, just as you see them. You could try that.

More from Chessy Normile ♥️

Another mushroom from my walk yesterday. #Photography #Mushroom #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸

White text on black background. "Ninth Letter December 01 - ??? Free Submissions, 300 limit per genre. Submit early. Guidelines: Submittable and ninthletter.com

Submissions are FREE until we hit our cap of 300 per genre! Submit now for print consideration. See full guidelines on our website or submittable. Link in bio.