Jill Kitchen

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I love this book so much! @mfitejohnson.bsky.social is a magnificent writer.

A picture of the cover of midlife Abecedarian by Melissa Fite Johnson

A notes app with the following text Midlife Abecedarian—Melissa Fite Johnson Had to start with this book, and I immediately knew why it SOLD OUT the last two years at AWP. Everyone knows Melissa is the queen of the pop culture poem, but what I think sometimes gets overlooked is how she uses pop culture references to establish a common language with her readers. The references aren’t there just for fun, they’re present to give you an anchor as Melissa takes you into the heart of grief, or girlhood, or joy. This book made my endless flight out of Baltimore feel like no time at all.

Quick notes app review of Midlife Abecedarian by @mfitejohnson.bsky.social

Sending you all so much love. I hope you stay safe during these horrid times.

Ask me anything anything anything!

On this day in 1987, U2 released their fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree” featuring singles "With or Without You" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "In God's Country"

Dealt with my massive AWP FOMO by sending out many submissions...

i typed too fast - thank you so much for re-posting!

thank you so much!

image of sand-colored boulder formations surrounded by small green shrubs, possibly sagebrush, beneath a mostly clear blue sky, with mountains in the distance

where would you send a sort of southwest / road-trip prose poem starting in a diner?

Anti-Fascist Love Poem Reading JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE MICHAEL TODD COHEN CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA DOMINIQUE AHKONG HAN VANDERHART JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON JEN ROUSE K. IVER Off Site Baltimore Saturday, March 7|79pm Fells Point | 1640 Thames Street use entrance to: 1636)

TONIGHT, BALTIMORE! #AWP2026

7-9pm 🎉🎉🎉

we talked about being from romania and living in multiple languages and never belonging to a single on of them, always withholding a piece that exists in/for/with the other

oh man, if there are any totes left after, i'll order one from you!

Thank you so much!

I'm sorry you get it, but grateful not to be alone in this writers with chronic illness world!

trains are THE BEST.

Me, too! I'm an hour away, but a bad autoimmune flare and the whole parenting gig without much community is keeping me in DC. Sending love to you all! Hope you have an amazing time.

Nice! If I was there, this would be the first place I would stop!!!

Grave in the shape of a man staring up at a dismembered head he is holding in his hands.

My dead poems published in journals that no longer exist talking to my dead stories published in journals that no longer exist.

Oh, glad I saw this! Unfortunately I might be less likely to be able to attend for the whole event due to parenting/bedtime dramas at that hour. What is Not at NAWP, NANAWP?

"When I was a child, my mother told me to make my bed so that the shape of my body wouldn't be left upon it for invisible beings to find." Alina Stefanescu Imprints in absence... and a motif in raspberry. ALINASTEFANESCU.SUBSTACK.COM

I did... and I didn't. But raspberries stain the margins.

A link to my raspberry excess.
alinastefanescu.substack.com/p/imprints-i...

"We were adults in waiting, her with her English degree, me with my scars, neither of us ready to rejoin the world."

I really love this brilliant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙

This is so beautiful. Congrats, @barlowadams.bsky.social!

"I didn’t make a move because it seemed like trying to kiss the moon, so when she leaned in and put her lips on mine it momentarily broke the tides of my mind."

What a great progression from the moon to the tides! @barlowadams.bsky.social at the new @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

This Thursday! Come join us.

oh gods, i'm so, so sorry, majda. hope your dear mum stays safe. sending you all love and protection.

a blue-rimmed white bowl full of blue-purple italian plums surrounded by seeming hundreds of italian plums on a fern-patterned tablecloth.

how i imagine one builds a poetry collection:

woman with slightly longer than chin length dark red-brown hair covering one side of her face, one green eye showing, posters on the wall behind her.

once upon a brooklyn apartment, a guitar-strumming girl...

SWWIM Readers Eggie, Leila Farjami, Dani Janae, Arden Levine, and Susan Rich with photos of each poet.

THE READERS SWWIM Eggie Leila Farjami Dani Janae Arden Levine Susan Rich MER Eileen Cleary Jennifer Militello Carla Panciera Donna Vorreyer Karolina Zapal NELLE Saara Myrene Raappana (read by Halley M. Cotton) Zoë Ryder White Melissa Crowe Maria Nazos Kate Northrop Perugia Press Catherine Anderson Nancy K. Pearson Abby E. Murray Carolina Hotchandani Holli Carrell Whale Road Review Ashley Hajimirsadeghi Sally Rosen Kindred Annie Marhefka Yamini Pathak Jessica L. Walsh Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Jen Cheng Anya Kirshbaum Janet MacFadyen Dorsía Smith Silva Mona Zamfirescu

SWWIM MER NELLE Perugia Press Whale Road Review Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Present Off Site. On Purpose. dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (image of red rose) A reading featuring many of today's most inspiring women & nonbinary writers & poets Wednesday, March 4th 7:00PM (Doors 6:30) Westminster Hall 519 W. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21201 #AWP26

We are thrilled to highlight these five brilliant and talented SWWIM poets, as well as the wonderful readers of our partner organizations, at the upcoming “Off Site. On Purpose” reading next week in Baltimore.