Taylor Franson-Thiel

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Taylor Franson-Thiel on "Those Who Can't" These gaps in my history are a kind of grief I work through in the poem as I honor the women of “whom we know nothing.” The lack of early archival research allows for a kind of volta when information ...

I am abysmal at checking BSKY lately so my apologies if I haven't followed you back or interacted. (Working on it!)

Recently I had the opportunity to be featured through @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's What Sparks Poetry essay series. You can read that here:
poems.com/features/wha...

thank you so much Tracie!!!

new issue of Cutleaf! Featuring short fiction by @ladiwoods.bsky.social, nonfiction from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, and poetry courtesy of @taylorfthiel.bsky.social

cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19

thank you so much!

This poem by @taylorfthiel.bsky.social really hit me hard in a beautiful way.

Issue 41 features work by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social @taylorfthiel.bsky.social @meldoly.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social ...

look at this you haven't yet it's kinda fun kinda weird

Epithalamium, With Mentally Ill Wife by Taylor Franson-Thiel Risen stag moon, omen of failing sweat. In the dark you almost can’t tell it's autumn. The bluegrass asking hounds to trample it before the snow will. The song of light split open at the solstice—we m...

I think about this @taylorfthiel.bsky.social piece a lot too!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/epi...

this is so sweet I'm gonna die

cover letter Well, since you had your 5th birthday, (and I am not running when submitting) here's my top five of things (in no particular order)! I Don’t Know I Don’t Know by Todd Dillard This Ad Brought to You by the Law Offices of Wentz, Madden, Madden, and Durst by Frances Klein Placing in a Competition by Ewen Glass In the One Place Where You Should Tell the Truth by Jad Josey Epithalamium, With Mentally Ill Wife by Taylor Franson-Thiel (these are the one I remember the most (you know it's all good shit) and the one by Jad I have printed on my wall!

got another cover letter with 5 faves, and so gonna share so they can become some of your faves too

links in replies...

After finishing my last reading for my debut poetry collection in Utah, I have a few signed copies left!

$15 (includes shipping)! Happy to send these out to whoever wants a debut with dinosaurs on the cover!

(I do social media for a lit mag, so I find myself way too exhausted to even look at my own most days but...)

I hope everyone here is doing great and is reading some poems today. In my lil heart I do think poetry can save us. Stay safe.

Bone Valley Hymnal | ELJ Editions Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters Franson-Thiel weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity.

"Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters @taylorfthiel.bsky.social weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity."

New flash nonfiction piece up with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today:

"To The Wendy's Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying"

jakethemag.com/to-the-wendy...

To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony Behold! The same hands that broke our backs have come for the earth.

Today's Featured Poem:

"To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony" by @sonytonaime.bsky.social, from Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, published by Paloma Press.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/to-be-y...

Today's Feature:

In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.

Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...

Today's Featured Poet:

Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.

Meteor That night the wind-chapped table shouted, new peaches, bread, still warm, and consecrated by watery breezes on the shore

Today's Featured Poem:

"Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteor/

Today's Featured Poet:

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).

thank you for including BVH in this !!!!!

Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 19, 2025 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

A NEW round of shout-outs is up on our Substack:
wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

@nupress.bsky.social @middlecreek.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @taylorfthiel.bsky.social @tintjournal.bsky.social @42milespress.bsky.social @evaalterpoet.bsky.social @counterpointlit.bsky.social

Today’s Featured Poet:

Doireann Ní Ghríofa (b. 1981) is author of 7 books of poetry, most recently Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat finds an 18th century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder.

Today’s Featured Poet:

Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.

"I now see how much more powerful stamina can be than talent; or, to say it another way, how powerless talent is, on its own, without stamina—rather like what is said about the body once the soul has left it."
- Carl Phillips, MY TRADE IS MYSTERY
(Reading now... loving it!)

Today's Featured Poet:

Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre, 2024); Inside the Storm I Want toTouch the Tremble(University of Utah Press, 2022), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry; and three chapbooks.

Deep Learning In another life, I am a voice for hire. Nights in a blanketed back room I give you names, side effects, animals, hours, kinks,

Today's Featured Poem:

"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).

Read here:
poems.com/poem/deep-le...

Papyrus Pantoum under a rising moon,       we step along a ridge of white sand—

Today's Featured Poem:

"Papyrus Pantoum" by Arthur Sze, from Into the Hush, published by Copper Canyon Press (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social).

Read here:
poems.com/poem/papyrus...

Had a great time at the BH conference yesterday, met lots of cool people, sold out of books (!), but unfortunately as usual every picture of me catches me making a weird face because I'm talking so you'll just have to take my word for it that this all happened and I looked normal, most of the time

Today's Featured Poet:

陆游 Lu You (1125–1210) born at the end of the Northern Song dynasty, dedicated his life to advocating for a northern expedition to reclaim lost land.