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Happy news: today I signed a contract with Cornerstone Press (out of University of Wisconsin Stevens Point), and MOUTH, my fifth full-length poetry collection, will be out in January 2026.

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Looking for a flash on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @amorak.bsky.social has one published in JAKE 🎉 Read this intimate piece here: buff.ly/sHXQLV2

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OoOoOoOo JAKE has a premonition that you're going to love the piece up today from @amorak.bsky.social jakethemag.com/premonition/

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Tiny new flash up at @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: sex & death & candles: jakethemag.com/premonition/

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Tiny new flash up at @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: sex & death & candles: jakethemag.com/premonition/

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Yes. So much. Grammar is a fundamental place of meaning- and decision-making. It's a world-imagining technology. Figuring it as dull and delegatable (and beneath our interest!) is such a loss—and a mistake

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Oooh, shoutout to @bettysueblue.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in here for the forthcoming THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER (2026). Nobody loves on their contributors like @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, I swear.

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I know I’m biased bc Han is my press partner but I swear this is the best book of poems I’ll read this year.

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"... the shadow has to have risen up and invaded the haiku poem, otherwise it is not a haiku. The least important thing about it is its seventeen syllables or the nature scene." -- Robert Bly

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"Sound invites concentration by engaging the body and the emotions." -- Jane Hirshfield

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“There’s the idea of, when we’re just trying to live, do the ways we live create danger for others?,” she said. “The childhood environments I grew up in get tangled up in that conversation. How do you live with the least amount of harm? —Corrie Williamson riverriverbooks.org/store/Your-M...

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Write away from certainty, not toward it.

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I blinked for a solid minute before I understood this was a joke which just tells you how deep into the teaching I am right now. Also, I like Silo.

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omgoodness, this is exciting

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Corrie Williamson is a brilliant poet & this book is amazing & she speaks so thoughtfully about her work here.

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Issue One Poet @amorak.bsky.social has a new chapbook coming out! What are you waiting for? Smash that pre-order button!

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Editor @amorak.bsky.social with a new forthcoming chapbook! 🎉🎉🎉

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And it's simultaneously a "presales are open" reveal! trameditions.com/extinction-l...

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Okay, so I guess I get to do a cover reveal? My small chapbook of small poems comes out very very soon from @trameditions.bsky.social & I love this cover --

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Still, There are good things in this world. James Wright

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“Poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot ever aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection.” -- June Jordan

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Happy Valentine's Day from The Cincinnati Review! To celebrate the day, we've assembled a roundup of our miCRos about love, romance, and sex, including work by @amorak.bsky.social, @dango-ramen.bsky.social, @dinahcox.bsky.social, @davidwrites1.bsky.social, and others. Link in first comment.

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PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others. Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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PSA: It’s not okay to bash writers for sharing links to their works on Amazon. I know Amazon is shitty but it’s not on writers who are just trying to survive to change a whole distribution system that is deeply ingrained, no matter how bad that system is.

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Morning sun in the icy trees

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Thank you, and welcome to my strange little world…

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Tree full of ice

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I know I posted this earlier but I kinda think this is one of the best two fiction pieces I’ve ever written, forgive me for boosting it again.

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Here’s what me aka @bettysueblue.bsky.social, Morgan Bridges, & @doslauren.bsky.social are looking for in the queue AND our submission guidelines. Spread the word.

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THIS BOOK, y'all. This is the one.

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The gap between “love something enough to make it a practice” and “if you love something enough it means you don’t have to practice” was too much to overcome. monkeybicycle.net/the-eleven-m...

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every writer in the world—living, dead, whatever—is a huge em dash slut and saying this is a sign that someone doesn't read or write

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“If it would piss off the oligarchs, send it”

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One among many, many takeaways for creative writing teachers: embed in your pedagogy that you’re only ever offering the beginning of a larger conversation. Your class is never the final word.

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