Edith K. 🌸

Constant work this summer and I cannot exaggerate the amount of books I bought for class this week. I’ll post what a semester in an #MFA program looks like soon. Check out what we’re doing at @dogyardmag.com because we have a lot of posts up soon!
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Entirely not the move. Let me know if you have any online book clubs for poetry that you participate in 😭

I’m heartbroken to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. I’m blessed for the door they opened and paved the way for Spoken Word and performance poets. Andrea’s work in Button Poetry was a god-send for my teenage years and really allowed me to see this light that we all work in. Thank you, Andrea.

Poster featuring the cover of CD Eskilson's book, Scream/Queen, and a dog. The photo's text details a section of the book, "“...Scream/Queen’s horror concept is both playful and powerful... Eskilson makes it clear in their writing that there is more to the stories of all things we are told go bump in the night, redeeming monsters and redirecting horror tropes which have historically demonized trans experiences, while also creating a collection of poems that allows for the celebration of community, love, survival, and self...” -Lillian Durr"

Check out our first book review done by the brilliant @lillian-durr-art.bsky.social! Lillian covered the awe-inspiring debut from @cdeskilson.bsky.social!

dogyard mag is accepting fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and more!

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There’s so much power in a single poem that the heat that you’ve built can really explode throughout!! I’m currently having to redo the syntax and making it more direct which is challenging. Feels like I am entirely rewriting everything but it’s a book! Each voice sings but the choir captivates.

Listen, I know it’s an art form. BUT! Ordering poems is the most bureaucratic process of writing. I’m at this step and it makes me want to NEVER WRITE AGAIN haha. Bless all y’all who have multiple books, I’m drowning in # 1

I joined my first book club today! A bit nervous bc I don’t know the vibe but I’m excited! #writer #poet #writingcommunity

yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever

Started the rewrite of my manuscript today and I am truly a little bit lost. Happy with the project, frustrated with pieces. Alas, the work continues. How many rewrites have you done for a project? #writer #writers #writingcommunity #poetry #wip #create

I am SO interested. I’m currently thinking of a similar topic as a longer project so please lmk if it gets published!

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You’ve probably seen a notification from us, but I (along with some great friends) started a literary mag. It’s a big undertaking but the notes and reception has been so, so beautiful thus far. I’m so grateful for this. Blessings always. Check out dogyardmag.com and bluesky @dogyardmag.bsky.social

Apparently using em dashes are a common indicator of AI?? I’m losing it. They’ve taken so much from me, but they can’t take her. #writing #writingcommunity

Moving into my new home for the next three years! I even have a garden now!!

The one day every 5 months where you submit EVERYTHING and then wait again <3

Had a job interview today and I will always love them. Yes, please ask me random questions where you are required to listen to me ramble about things that do NOT answer your question!

This week I started a CNF project and I cannot lie, I may be in love.

Ozark Graduate Reading poster featuring readers and detailing the schools. It is on Saturday, April 26th at Two Friends Book in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Just had a conversation about poetry so enlightening that I feel like I got beat up continuously for 45 years. But hey! I give my first live poetry reading in years next week!

Geffrey Davis ends every class with the quote “Get your breath back” which is very funny in context. I wonder if that quip inspired this poem.

Grateful to have had Joy Priest speak to my class- I’ll give you the advice she departed with. “There’s a child in you that loved reading, tap into that.”

I thought you meant a cento but oh, oh no. Bless the ignorant mind and the person I was before having known this info

Happy trans day of visibility to those wanting to live—quietly, loudly, mezzo piano/forte—at the pace of their own time and need, their lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

Constantly inspired by the timing poets can work in. I went two years creating 8 poems and have wrote 60 in the span of a few months. The body is so often a well, waiting.

I’m reading The Art of Syntax after a professor recommended it to me. WOW! I love being reminded how centrical music is to poetry, language, and communication. I love love love.

What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.

A very well-done snow angel

today i accomplished a lifelong goal

Submitted some poems for the first time ever and let me just say that I am mentally unprepared to handle this stress

Just talked Star Wars lore for 40 minutes, I’m healed from the drudge of grad school

A poem titled “The Cough” from Claudia Emerson’s book, a tabby cat lays beside the poster.

Reading “Late Wife” by Claudia Emerson for class this week, my partners cat will be taking over my teaching for this week.

An aisle in a second-hand bookstore

Spending Sunday walking to a bookstore and sitting on a bench memorial, delayed my TBR by another week.