it’s me I’m shaking with excitement
it’s me I’m shaking with excitement
oh……….
Also… mark your calendars! Powerhouse lineup live in Durham next month with @bullcitypress.com 😍 I might have a special gift for an NC local who attends and can send me some pics/vids to put on our socials… holler @ me for deets 👀🤓
Doing some behind the scenes/behind the screens stuff for @bullcitypress.com today and WOW look at all those books 😍😍 all BCP chaps on sale this month… y’all go get you some 😘
BCP in the wild today!! reading Daniel Wallace’s “Beneath the Moon and Long Dead Stars” and gearing up for the Sealey Challenge next month… keep your eyes peeled for a BCP sale……. 👀😆
Wendell Berry The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. From Openings HB&W, 1968. #wendellberry #peaceofwildthings #poertyisnotaluxury
the day-blind stars
Morning read: @hanvanderhart.bsky.social ‘s “Dixie Land Delight”
“I've looked in the glassy eyes of dead/ things. I've washed feathers and blood/ from my hands. I've laid down on/ a quilt, on an August day, watched/ the threads slip from their seams.”
Whew! Awesome!
“This book made me ugly cry. At once intimate and frank, beautiful and brilliant, AN UNSTABLE CONTAINER is unafraid of big feelings and unanswerable questions ... What I mean is, AN UNSTABLE CONTAINER is a knockout and LaPine is a gift to us all.”—Marisa Crane bullcitypress.com/product/an-u...
awesome mail day thanks to @bullcitypress.com and @rosswhite.com 😁 poems on poems on poems!!
Sad to miss this one- it's going to be awesome! Sending premature applause from Nashville and wishing I could be there!
So excited for @patrycjasara.bsky.social ‘s “We Contain Landscapes” from @tinhouse.bsky.social ! Just got a copy in the mail (thank you @westtradereview.bsky.social) and can’t wait to read ✨
Excited to share two pieces in the Jan/Feb issue of POETRY ✨ “Girl Blood Ritual One” and “Girl Blood Ritual Two” www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amelia...
Would LOVE to get my hands on this reading list! Do share!
This is gonna rock! Wish I could be there but sending applause from Nashville!
pretty sure I heard that one Ross White would be making a POETRY appearance as well 👀
So proud of my former student @amelialoeffer.bsky.social for appearing in the new POETRY!
All my NC friends- here’s an awesome opportunity for emerging poets in and around Charlotte, NC!
Alexander Gast! Best of the best! Drop some links to your work pretty please!
Hi, Bluesky! I'm Alexander Gast. Interests: cats on Instagram / cats off Instagram / words that lift off the page like UFOs, braille / looking at stars and, in company, saying: "y'all, these stars!" / sifting bowls of syllables / line breaks, if the line brakes / air, cloud, sky.
Let's be friends!
I heard all the poets were here now, hello! Bit about me: KY born and raised, BA in English & Geography from UNC Chapel Hill (thank you @rosswhite.com) Currently living and writing poetry in Nashville, TN! Poems out now in @chestnutreview.bsky.social, Variant Lit & forthcoming in Poetry Magazine!
Happy to be here and in such great company!!