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callistabuchen.bsky.social
poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
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WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

Charles Simic

✨COVER REVEAL✨for my third full-length collection of poems, DIORAMA, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press this April! Pre-order links in the comments! Do get a copy!

“At the museum I learn I am as tall as some bombs.” — Steven Duong, “Ordnance,” At The End Of The World There Is A Pond

We could’ve had Tim 😭

my book came out when the lockdowns started. I barely promoted it. Then when the protests began I continued to stay silent. I felt small and insignificant and unworthy. I’ve since heard several people say they needed my poems. Please. Don’t keep your art from those who need it. Especially not now.

🐦‍⬛ Surviving another day with this stunner from Danusha Lameris’s BLADE BY BLADE. I loved that this book had the darkest hours and the most gorgeous hopes.

Molly Brodak

#MaryOliver #Poetry

Wednesday Prompt Plus: Need a spark? Here’s a prompt, and here’s the link to “Tornado”: baltimorereview.org/fall_2017/co... And here’s the plus: link to Brecht de Poortere’s huge database for fiction/CNF writers: www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings

Praise for Look Look Look by Callista Buchen "This is a book about mothering like no book about mothering that has ever been mothered forth." —Diane Seuss Learn more about Look Look Look - blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-l...

Hurray! Super honored to have two poems in the latest Quarterly West, and extra grateful to the editors for a Pushcart nomination. Poetry forever!

It’s pub day for my first poetry collection! To celebrate, I’m sharing the final blurb from the incomparable Tiana Clark. You can order a copy from @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social ghostpeachpress.com/purchase/ or soon I’ll have signed copies available ❤️

Send me your poems? www.autocorrectmag.com

Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

Husband has been baking bread this week, so bringing back this love poem for him that first appeared in last fall’s RHINO.

I’m going to keep it real and hope I don’t get accused of overstating the issue; children’s liberation is the key to the future you want. The active, and often dismissed, oppression of children is near the root of what ails us as a nation.

In the classroom for the first time since the election. “Dead Stars” by Ada Limón seemed like a good way to start today’s discussion of The Carrying. I’m grateful for this poem, for so many poems.

Since the poets are here now, here’s a poem of mine that just came out, that’s kind of dear to my heart. ❤️

So much stretchy, squishy love.

Pretty obsessed with these sleepy cuddle monsters we adopted in September, Wally and Iris. They help us remember we all need more love and more naps.

Taking Care - a poem by Callista Buchen. Illustrated by The Oatmeal www.instagram.com/p/C48VteRrZw...

my copies are in and they are GORGEOUS!! thanks to Variant Lit!!! Preorder yours now before they sell out!!! variantlit.com/product/td/

The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center designed a broadside of the first poem in frank: sonnets, and a handmade book with selections from frank, both with linocut art by Shannon Hardy. Link to the full book in the comments. kalbookarts.org/shop/broadsi...

Looking for poets, poems, and so on? Here's a place to start. No promises that it includes everyone but I tried to get a lot of y'all in here. Some room to add a few more as people show up. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

hmm ok here's a recent #poem published in @havehashad.com that i think kinda encapsulates my (usual) poet vibe

Here's one of mine from HAD: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/man...

Here’s one of mine!

This Wendell Berry #poem forever

Hey guys - did you know that some of most prevalent themes in gothic fiction and films are fear, loss, trauma, oppression, decay, societal collapse, the death of reason? How about writing some gothic fiction with me in December? No reason just saying writingworkshops.com/collections/...

Hey writers: it’s post-MFA fellowship application season! If you’re post-MFA check out my long-time crowd-sourced tumblr for info on fellowships, residencies, & other stuff! post-mfa.tumblr.com

@dorseycraft.bsky.social’s poem “When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life” is today’s poem in @versedaily.bsky.social! www.versedaily.org/2024/whenwei...

The best of all the days!

Be glad if the wind frisking the orchard re-fires in you the need to live —Eugenio Montale, trans. Jeremy Reed #poetry

Our new kittens!

New poems up today at Quarterly West, one on the etymology of pinking shears, and the other on my son’s red sweater and trying to parenting right.

Today would be a good day to send us your poetry manuscript.

This version of “Taking Care” is so special

So much gratitude to The Oatmeal for making my poem “Taking Care” into this gorgeous comic: www.instagram.com/p/C48VteRrZw...