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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Oh I don’t know—exactly the kind of sans gravitas poets like!
Still sounds like the fae will be kissing and making dick jokes in this book 💀
😭
Or “The [Something’s] Wife”
This is the work of editors: to think of such things, and bring them to their authors.
Sarah J. Maas has ridden that dead horse past even the idea of life.
Move to retire “A BLANK of BLANK and BLANK” as a book title formula 😭👎
The smell is only good for pollinators 😭 I love their petals and leaves and the birds in them
This is so good—lauuuughter!
I also love that our risings are both laughter. Hell yesss
Omg your beaming sun moon!!
Also I will not truck with Bradford pear tree hate, as YOU are not out here feeding the cedar waxwings fresh fruit, but the pears are.
What I like is blossoms falling everywhere—blowing down the road, catching in the curve of the hose at the car repair shop. 🌸
Oh lordy—let nothing be added or taken away, haha.
🎉 Sun (Taurus)
💀 Moon (Taurus)
😂 Rising (Gemini)
/ your current top three emojis (these check out, IMO)
yesss 🙌
What if Dante had forgotten he had already had his vehicle inspected and let it fade into 90-day oblivion and then sat at a Jiffy Lube for hours on a beautiful Saturday afternoon and THAT is what inspired the Divine Comedy WHAT THEN?? Where does the soul’s butterfly GO?!
steamed pork haibun
I’M INNNN
now you have made me hungry
Omg, yes:
“These champagne flutes of room temperature milk make Beavis and Butthead look like Marie and Pierre Curie.”
I don’t know…seems hazardous to wear just because you’ll attract another writer LOL
Whewwww
THIS WAR AGAINST IRAN WULD BE BAD & WRONG EVEN IF IT ONLY COST 5 BUCKS
My eyeballs watching this absolute disgrace of a human being justify his bigotry & racism & white supremacy. I think I need a bleach/ivermectin wash now. (sarcasm)
Well then welcome to the Streisand effect
Soo good to talk for a minute, Suzi 🥰🙏🎉🙃 Hope you’ve had some good down time since AWP! I still need some naps, lol
Whew! NO PRESSURE 😭🙏💙
Another remarkable poem by Carl Phillips from our winter issue
Ugggh, Dusti ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹 I’m so sorry. 😞
It is such emotional & real labor to keep pushing back, as a new & contingent faculty member.
Thankfully my supervisor at the writing center is cool with writing faculty holding the line re: AI. And I’m “no AI” in my classrooms this semester; but it is so uneven, across the department, and blessed by the department head 🙃