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Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2025). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. See more poetry at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
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I have two new prose poems in the new issue of @folklorereview.bsky.social !!! One about a wolf & one about monsters www.folklorereview.com/benjamin-nie...

Feel free to visit (brandonlocher.substack.com) to read some thoughts on compression in the digital age. Artwork: Self Portrait (for Claude Mellan), Ink on Paper, 11" x 11", 2022

Today’s the day—my first poetry collection is out in the world with @driftwoodpress.bsky.social. If you’ve ever wondered what it all means (or doesn’t), I hope these poems meet you there. I’d be honored if you took a look and grateful if you shared. (Details in the post below.) #poetry #BookSky

rare Local Angle(s)

Fun to see my work on a list like this! And, greatly appreciated. lemongrovewriters.com/posts/our-pr...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

My new chapbook, REMAINDER, has a cover and a preorder page!! I'm immensely proud of this collection, and I hope you'll take a peek! Many thanks to @bullcitypress.com for ushering these poems into the world! 🙏

hosting the launch of my new press with some of my literary heroes I hope you'll join us this Sunday! bit.ly/distintigrationlaunch

New work in Exacting Clam. Thanks so much to the editors @exactingclam.bsky.social www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...

🚨SALE!🚨I noticed a certain retailer is selling my book for less than $5 and thought I should offer copies for the same price! So, if you've been wanting to read DRESSING THE BEAR, l'd love to send you it! $5 INCLUDES SHIPPING, until I run out! DM me! And thank you in advance! 💙 @triohousepress.org

My next reading is going to be pretty cool. for the first time in my life i was commissioned to write a poem. if i had a bucketlist, that would be on it! Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage

Lesle Lewis @factoryhollowpress.bsky.social

If you’re a published writer (recent book, ideally in paperback) and would come to Denver for a $500 speaker fee, please let me know. I may have leads for you for an event series.

splice the light // handcut paper collage on cardstock, may 2025 #collageart #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

Congrats to @robertallenpoet.bsky.social on the upcoming release of APHASIA, and thank you, Robert, for including me in this celebration of the collection!!

Poetry Daily is trying to add 1000 subscribers to their poem-a-day newsletter this month—it’s free, it’s a diverse reading experience, it’s an email you’ll actually be happy to see. 💫 @poetrydaily.bsky.social Sign up here:

The site to donate to the ACLU is down for maintenance rn. THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER is a trans-led organization that files lawsuits to address discrimination & abuse against transgender ppl. ABOUT: transgenderlawcenter.org *DONATE: transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ #transrightsarehumanrights

Remember when you were a kid, walking in the dark? I love this poem by Humberto Ak'abal, from Waxwing Magazine!

!!! The bill banning necessary healthcare for trans people is not final. Call & email your senators. It seems like nothing—but it is one thing we can do to help. I’m donating to the ACLU to help trans people fight legal battles. Pls rec more ways to help in the comments! lithub.com/how-trumps-a...

You guys. I've got a poem out today in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. It's called "Fuck my lecture on craft, your people are dying" and it's after @noorhindi.bsky.social. It's about daisies and some other things. I hope you check it out and if it hits you share it around.

🚨 🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 🚨 BOYSTUFF by Philip Kenner is officially available for pre-order! Only $7.50 for this incredible chapbook length crown of sonnets! www.glass-poetry.com

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

I'm doing a series of nature art in support of #TransRights this month... if anyone has any suggestions for creatures you'd like to see, feel free to drop a comment! #art

It's a good day when the new South Carolina Review arrives stacked with poems from @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @charles-kell.bsky.social, and @fklein907.bsky.social. Here's Frances Klein's "Funeral Procession Up Deer Mountain," but definitely check out the whole issue if you can!

highly recommend visiting @stitchpixie.bsky.social & kevin sampsell (of @futuretensebooks.bsky.social)'s Sharp Hands Gallery, which has a number of shows online for you to browse! i contributed some work to the fall/winter 2022 show, which you can see here: www.sharphandsgallery.com/allison-anne

This is a heck of a poem

🚨🚨🚨new @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social poems 🚨🚨🚨

Excited to have two poems in the new Lake Effect -- here's "Topography" (from my chapbook REMAINDER, out from @bullcitypress.com's Inch series later this year):

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

Eeek! So excited to get the new @westtradereview.bsky.social (Spring 2025), w/ my poem "Bootleg Poem (" Horses"by Tori Amos)"!& to share space w/ favs @emmabolden.bsky.social, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, & so many more! Get it (& read the full poem) here: www.westtradereview.com/spring2025ed...

Glen Martin Taylor, “Generational Trauma” www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/04/glen...

Algorithms buried this one before, so let’s try again! I’m reading from DIORAMA at Secret World Books this Saturday! Apparently they have a “diorama nook” and I can’t wait to see it! Come hang out with me so I don’t have to sit depressed and alone in the diorama nook. 😂 Thanks!

"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak." @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US. lithub.com/after-the-ro...

My local radio station celebrates poetry month every year with “One Poem a Day Won’t Kill You” You can hear me read my poem, “Schoenbar Road” here: www.krbd.org/2025/03/29/o...

Thrilled to have two poems up in the latest Four Way Review! Here's "Deus Ex Machina":

Cole Swensen

"maypoles riddle the coming of spring" Jesse Ball