j. bailey hutchinson

Had a former bookworld authority figure tell me that "poetry collection" is wrong and I should always use the phrasing "collection of poems" & to that I say collect deez nUTS!!!!

25.03.2025 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BIG NEWS THAT EVERYONE EXCEPT ME ALREADY KNEW: sectionating yr poetry collection is really fun

25.03.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't mind me just lying on the ground thinking about Gorgug Thistlespring

24.03.2025 04:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Submitted MS #2 to something today though I want and will continue to tinker with it—maybe a lot more—maybe maybe—but I just felt like I needed to undermine all that!! That yes/no/it's ready/it's not/FOREVER tinker urge!

21.03.2025 01:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honored, honored, honored. 🙏🏻 And so pleased you KNOW that smell. God, what a smell.

06.02.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for sharing! :)

30.01.2025 15:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Been in a bit of a fallow period & couldn't be happier to re-emerge by way of @creamcityreview.bsky.social, a magazine I've admired for years. Here's a peek at two new & soft poems—many thanks to the CCR readers & editors for giving these a home! All heart, all flesh. ❤️🥩

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23.01.2025 00:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(also I feel like one of the bigger tells that I'm more at peace with my waking hours is how easy dry january's been this go-around; previous years have been...difficult to a degree I haven't felt brave enough to confront or unpack, but tbqh I've barely noticed it this year)

12.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(to be clear this applies largely to individual life conditions and not to large-scale sociocultural phenomena, which are as dreadpacked as they ever were—but at least not i'm not compounding climate doom with hating my job, etc)

12.01.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was holding so much daily dread between 2021 and 2024. I've made some changes in my life that have lead to much of that dread no longer existing, and it's like wiping off my glasses after a lifetime of trying to see through thumb grease. Is this how people live??

12.01.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

2024 was a great year because I got to drink champagne at the Library of Congress with the poet laureate and I also dressed up as Chiaotzu for Halloween

31.12.2024 21:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and yet

04.12.2024 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a close up of a person 's face with flames around it ALT: a close up of a person 's face with flames around it

this

04.12.2024 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

writing poems after a long time of Not Doing That feels both like lightyagamilaughing.gif and kendall jenner cutting a cucumber

04.12.2024 21:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My first bsky post..........

03.12.2024 00:52 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

from my experience working in publishing it's very uncommon to make a significant, long-term profit from a poetry book—it's just not a big-selling genre, so advances and royalties tend to be more modest. energetic publicity and event planning can help, but it's still usually a break-even thing.

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