Michael Dechane

Yes! Great volunteers and community feelings, every time.

Many thanks!

Scored one of the best deals at a library sale a couple weeks ago. This is one of the BEST references for any poet or writer. The features in this thing are amazing. $4 my dudes. Mint condition. I flipped out.

Ah, thanks so much for taking some time with my work and sharing this around! I’m looking forward to hearing some of your poetry now. Cheers! 🧡

Of course! I bet I’ve listened to her read it 50 times. No joke. “Strings of beads in their green bowl gleamed.” Mmm. 😍

Hi! Yes, lovely to be connected here. And Pádraig was such a delight in-person, yes. Warm, funny, generous, urgent, and inviting. What a gem of a human and champion for poetry.

One of my favorites by one of my favorites. I was thinking of Stafford and this poem when I wrote “Driving Into the Morning”.

Here’s “Lapsang Souchong” a short love poem from my debut collection, The Long Invisible.

#poetry #love

Sumptuous and so alive! Thank you for the chance to remember my love of dogwoods. Here’s one of mine, in kind …

So thankful to read new poems from my debut collection at my alma mater, @berrycollege.bsky.social last week! It’s always a good day to be back on campus.

Stunner!

My poem, "Common Green Bottle Fly," in PMS&G!

David, I really love this poem. As a sometimes noticer — if not always admirer—of little buzzy things, this is a really wonderful piece. Thank you! Glad to start to get to know your work.

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My goodness. They are, indeed, choc chip delights. The best I’ve had! Here’s a post about them and the utterly delightful bookstore/coffee shop that offers them:

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Love Hollis — thanks for this.

My word she’s amazing. Do you know her poem “Moon”? Her selected works is one of the most treasured and handsome books on my shelves.

Very good! Thank you.

Yes!!

Let’s go!!!

Loving your photos and pairings. Cheers.

I’d love to be added, thanks!

True facts! Thanks.

Thanks for this! Hollis has become such a helpful voice in my reading and work.

Gorgeous work!

@charlottedonlon.bsky.social hosted me and 15 of her friends for a delicious meal (with the famous Breakup Cookies!) and a reading from my new book. The conversations and connections with her Birmingham folks are such gifts! Thank you for being a champion of the arts and community, Charlotte! 🧡

Love this poem and the bit in your interview about your practice of writing a response poem. Thanks!

YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI Minister of Loneliness: My Poem in Spiritus Journal (John Hopkins University Press)

Poets are the unacknowledged Ministers of Loneliness...

youtube.com/shorts/lyhZZ... #poetry #mentalhealth #writingcommunity #spirituality

Same, same.

Tremendous! Thank you for doing (and sharing) your work.

Photo of a frozen pond with the essay title written across it.

New post. “On the Breath beneath the Frozen Surface of the Lake: and the quick and angry tentacles of fear, lashing out.”

open.substack.com/pub/paulajla...