Erin Malone

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

James Schuyler, from Other Flowers: uncollected poems

Yes! Have you read her Erosion? These early books, 😮‍💨

this is my very favorite of hers

Year's End by Richard Wilbur Quotable line from poem

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TIME How will we tell time without the river? It was always there and always different. Which is to say, the perfect clock.

Michael Bazzett

@mikhailbazharov.bsky.social
@ampoetryreview.bsky.social

Time for changing the old guard— please help get Schumer out. Democrats have the will of the people behind them, but the leadership keeps caving

Cheers to everyone who marched today in big cities, small towns, blue country and red country. Keep bringing the energy. There's strength in numbers, and greater numbers in diversity than hegemony. Hold today close, remember you're not alone, and never let them steal your joy.
#NoKings 🇺🇲

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

Judgment Call In the book I'm reading, a woman wakes up every morning and asks herself: What will I do to make myself happy today? I decide to stop reading the book.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)

Seattle friends! Come to the book launch for Intemperance on October 14, at Elliott Bay Book Company! I’ll be in conversation with these two brilliant authors, who have some irreverent questions planned for me. And there will be an Intemperance-shaped cake because the protagonist loves cake. Ahem.❤️

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working

and success is a spirit & craft blunter

(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

War on the Past Love is just a clue. If we win the world can come back to the world, speechless aligned, cell within cell You must put the objects down on the table and walk casually from the room you cannot re-enter until we get it right.

Another early poem by Cole Swensen. Can't get this one out of my head.

Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means “There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”

Ursula K. Le Guin's classic on growing old and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...

Jaipur Literature Festival, Seattle WA. “To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other” September 20th, 2025. 11AM-11:45AM PST. The Wyncote Northwest Forum, Town Hall Seattle.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is one of the most famous in the world. This isn’t it, but rather the International version that appears in different US cities. I’m glad to be back in one of my favorite cities, Seattle, in conversation with legend Shawn Wong.

Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚

Trump Must Resign Now Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will.

NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...

Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!

I’m a Jenny George enthusiast 💕

The Sleeping Pig

I love Jenny George’s poems and thought to share this earthy, ethereal one with you today.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147680...

Find more of her poems on the Poetry Foundation website.

Photo by Kameron Kincade on Unsplash

Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.

She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”

With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems
Maria Zoccola

Formally inventive, funny, and fierce, this collection reimagines Helen of Troy as a 90’s housewife stuck in Southern suburbia. Finally, Helen of Troy speaks! —and her restlessness is real. This is a fast-paced collection that reads like a novel.

If everything ends,

why are you sharpening your sorrow

—Martha Silano

If Nothing MATTHEW NIENOW Friends, l've got a new poetry recommendation for you: Port Townsend poet Matthew Nienow's second collection If Nothing is a searingly honest account of addiction and remorse. Here are poems of desire, destruction, prayer, and recovery. They're structurally beautiful in cadence and rhyme (i.e. “every mirror an error") but plainspoken around the most painful admissions: "I had/ been thinking of killing myself." The balance makes for a hard-won, unforgettable book.

Sometimes over on Insta I like to post little appreciations of writing I’m enjoying. Going forward I’m going to try and put them here, too. New from Alice James Books is If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. (Alt text below) @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #indiebooks # poetry # reviews

😮‍💨 Excellent poem!

Sign reads HEY! You're about to walk by a BOOKSTORE. Are you okay?

2 books, the handmaid tale and the color purple

The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.