Quinn Rennerfeldt

Omg like, Diane Seuss? Ari Banias? Saeed Jones? Rachel Zucker? Fady Joudah? The list is ongoing.

All amazing! Also, so hard to whittle it down to just five 😫

GOATed list

Brawler is 🔥🔥🔥

In no particular order:

Catherine Barnett
Richard Siken
Victoria Chang
CA Conrad
Natasha Trethewey

Thank you for doing this important work 🫶🏼

a flyer showing the call for submissions for Thirty West Chapbooks in 2026. Stories and poetry with a max of ~44 pages from October 31st to December 31st.

A new era of monochrome chapbooks are coming soon from Thirty West & we're ready to read. Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks from Halloween (10/31) until New Year's Eve (12/31). Together, we shall stop at nothing to escape the mundane in 2026.

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I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Good shit 🔥

That pull quote is 🔥 and the rest of the poem is it’s equal

I am so stoked not just to have been nominated, but to have been nominated by @trampset.bsky.social, a journal I have admired for many years and which I had the fortune of finding a home for this piece with 🖤

Day 5 of the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social is the exquisiteness of @donikakelly.bsky.social’s debut

Day 4 of the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social is this inventive gem by Dodie Bellamy. A must-read of erotic, romantic, pornographic poetry.

I split Sharon Olds’ Arias into two days for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social because of its generous length, but what a gift to spend so much time with her work. Olds never fails to stop me in my tracks, again and again.

Sharon Olds can write a poem about anything, and I will read it, and love it, and wish that I’d written it

Where are my @sealeychallenge.bsky.social folks at?? Day 1 is complete; I chose this beautiful collection by @victoriachang.bsky.social to kick it off with a deep, contemplative bang

Sixth Finch - Spring 2025 - Dia Roth - IMPERSONATOR Sixth Finch - Spring 2025 - Dia Roth - IMPERSONATOR

I'm in a post-Kenyon glow, just wanting to read everything and write every moment, and there are already so many things I want to share and shout into this void even though it may go nowhere, and one them is this fantastic poem by @dia-roth.bsky.social in Sixth Finch: sixthfinch.com/roth1.html

This is equal parts bleak and confusing

This poem from Heritage Aesthetics is just 🔥

Support 👏🏼your 👏🏼local 👏🏼bookstores 👏🏼today 👏🏼

Since we’re still Mid-Conclave, now seems a good time to post this amazing poem by THE Sharon Olds

I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again

Buy from my homies @greenapplebooks.bsky.social!

It’s a much easier question to answer

Normalize asking people “How aren’t you?”

As a bookseller in California, this all rings so true! Down to selling lots of copies of “Meditations” and none of Schumer’s book, lol

I feel like I should probably include “you will end up in my writing if I date you” to all my dating app profiles

😂😂 omgggg

Nobody warned me how many customer farts I’d hear while
working retail.

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.