Woke up today with this Charles Simic poem front of mind🪞

Don't miss this beautiful piece by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social!

photo of bookcover for Dear Mothership. poems by Marcus Wicker. cover is a colorful painting featuring a brown-skinned man wearing an unfastened button down shirt with t-shirt beneath and large sunglasses with blue circular lenses. pink flowers dangle at his ears like earrings with a matching crown of pink flowers on top of his head.

oh, this is gon be good!

DEAR MOTHERSHIP
the new poetry collection by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social dropping Sept. 8th...

Coming in September!

Appreciate you @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

A new essay about Nate Dogg, a week shy of the 15th anniversary of his passing✨ www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...

That was the most beautiful, cinematic, lit as hell half time show I’ve ever seen. And understood maybe three words.

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Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

A millennial poetics of work in late capitalist america. Feat. Works & Days by gina myers, I Was Working by Ariel Yelen, and Making a Living by Rosalie Moffett

Re-sharing this today! I wrote about an emerging millennial poetics of work, as represented through three great poetry books. fencedigital.com/2026/01/30/c...

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Mannn I was so mad I missed Kamasi. I bet he and the band showed out too!

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Common & John Legend
Esperanza Spalding
A Tribe Called Quest reunion show at Rock the Bells Chicago
Roy Hargrove
Frankie Beverly

The pain, and joy, of Rachel Eliza Griffiths' writing journey Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, “The Flower Bearers,” after enduring profound personal tragedies.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, "The Flower Bearers," after enduring profound personal tragedies.

Aren’t you?

My 1-month-old son is instantly soothed by Luther Vandross’ “Never Too Much.” So basically we’re nailing parenthood over here.

To Waste My Hands Three years ago, I stood on the dock near my father's house while the small shark suffocated & was killed. He was like an angel culled up from the purple sea. & the air smashed into him like an anvil & his muscles sank desperately into the ribs. Terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible to watch him that way. More terrible to waste my hands, just standing.

Aracelis Girmay ♥️

“I’ve got the blues and I don’t, but I do.”

— @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social details the National Guard’s arrival in Memphis, Tennessee, where the governor has authorized federal government intervention to carry out anti-immigration initiatives.

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The cover of 'The Second Stop Is Jupiter' by upfromsomedirt, featuring an astronaut-maiden wearing a white dress with a nlue sash, a transparent helmet with a tube attached to an oxygen tank, shaking hands with tentacled beings.

this weekend's #poetry book from @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

Wayyyy too many!

A Bluff City Blues

I’ve been giving myself permission to complete some essays on my first love, music. Thanks to @oxfordamerican.bsky.social for running this piece about how the blues can become a sanctuary & rallying cry, an outlet for communal joy in a moment of political tension. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-blu...

A Bluff City Blues

the incomparable Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social

I love the way this begins:

"Protected by contoured sunglasses, body armor, and Military Police shields stitched to their backs, the National Guard have come to combat crime at the Bass Pro Shop."

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Appreciate you!🙏🏾

Another perfect New Year's Day poem.

From Jane Hirshfield's book, After: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060779191

#poem #books #writing

⏰ Last call for entries! Deadline is 11:59pm EST Jan 1! The Stern Prize is open to all poets age 50+, regardless of previous publication history. The prize of $2,000 will be awarded in 2026 with publication by APR in partnership with Copper Canyon Press in the following year. More: loom.ly/JUkTfFM

Started my Christmas by dancing around the living room with baby in my arms to the Marcus King Band at 4 AM & then working on a poem🎄🎅🏾

Text graphic featuring a portion of Ryan Teitman's poem: Every few months or so, I turn into a rock. First, my joints stiffen as if there’s weather coming. Then, I get the urge to read some doorstop novel. Finally, I become a rock. A smallish one, usually. My wife isn’t surprised anymore. She picks me up from the kitchen floor or the driveway and sets me on her desk as a paperweight. It’s nice to have a singular purpose.

Photograph of poet Ryan Teitman. He's a bearded white man and is wearing glasses and a blue sweater.

"Today’s poem charmed me immediately with its imagination and its restraint," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shared in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1406. "It’s also a poem I want to read again as soon as I finish it."

Read "Paperweight" by Ryan Teitman: bit.ly/4oZE6fH

No matter what, an hour spent talking shit in the barbershop is alway gonna lift me up. It’s also always mad insightful, for better or worse. & when it’s worse, man…

graphic featuring a portion of Marcus Wicker's poem

photograph of poet Marcus Wicker

"Today’s poem is so relatable, because the speaker is doing what I so often do: watching videos on the internet in the middle of the night," says host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in episode 1375.

Read “Dear Absent," by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4nUopG3

Graphic featuring a portion of Ama Codjoe's poem "Lotioning My Mother's Back"

Headshot of poet Ama Codjoe

"Today’s poem speaks to the ways we can care for one another, and of how profound and meaningful even the smallest gestures are,” shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.

Read “Lotioning My Mother’s Back” by Ama Codjoe: bit.ly/3KCwVKR

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