What a nice surprise. I never got to see the shortlist earlier so was really not expecting this. So many great photos never even made the SL this week. Thanks @supergios.bsky.social !

There’s enough light to go around for everyone. Collaborate instead of competing. Uplift and share the joy. 💛

Oh, that’s so lovely!

Somethinge ys happeninge wyth poetrye. It ys showinge up more yn unexpectid places. People are talkinge about it more. Walke downe the streete and a poeme will fly above you. Somethinge ys goinge to happen wyth poetrye, somethinge goode. Poetrye ys on the move.

your moment of calm

Quite unbelievably my poem has *won* the 2025 Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun - I’m stunned. Huge thank you to editor Roberta Beary of Modern Haiku and the panel of judges

(how cool is that x 3)

💫Still 5 more days to get the fabulous Story Bundle by @lavietidhar.bsky.social with amazing books💫
My eco-horror novel CHLOROPHILIA, published by @apexmag.bsky.social , is one of them so give it some love!

storybundle.com/scifi

cover for book: I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore The image suggests a car driving down a dark road. The title is semi-transparent to imply a haunting mood.

Hiiii. I blow at posting here & am likely just doop-de-doing into the wind, but am here to say my first book, "I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore" is being released April 20th in the year of our economic demise 2026. That's Monday. Much love to Lion Bridge Publishing for everything & then some. 💙📚

Graphic with blue background with 18 longlisted jackets for the three awards, and logos in white font. More info at www.jhalakprize.com

The news is out! When I started this mad, bad, dangerous prize a decade ago, I never thought it would grow to three awards. But here we are: still shouting about future classics and current #mustreads
#jhalakprizeat10

Congratulations!

Really excited to have made the shortlist of the @livecanon.bsky.social 2025/6 Collection Competition, honoured to be in such great company!

'Mary Shelley and I are shipwrecked' by Catherine Redford from her debut collection THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME ✨

⭐ Order your copy here: buff.ly/JfpT3ta
⭐ Explore more of Catherine's work ~ online launch feat. guest poet Sarah Doyle available on YouTube: buff.ly/fJF8wGL

Trying to pray with Portuguese maestro Eugenio de Andrade

To see clearly
Tr. Alexis Levitin

All poetry is luminous, even
the most obscure.
It is the reader who, at times,
instead of sun, has fog within.

The Artemis missioun doth show that the thinges that are trulye the most astoundinge yn thys worlde, the thinges that will echo on thrugh historye, are not technologye, howevir marvelous, but common human braverye, wondir, and love. These will be the themes when thys storye ys tolde for centuryes.

A purple book lay atop moss and reads "The Sweetening: a poetry memoir on growing up, breaking down, and letting go" by Lori Jones. Magenta chrysanthemums lay at the corner.

This is the most vulnerable thing I've ever done. I've published my first poetry collection: The Sweetening.

Congratulations!

So delighted to find out today that Floodwater was a finalist in the American Legacy Awards for poetry (general). Floodwater was published in 2014 , by Glass Lyre press

a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

Dillon Jaxx wins Brotherton Poetry Prize A poet who once wrote in secret has been awarded the University of Leeds Poetry Centre’s 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate and Professor, Simon Armitage.

" ... we have eaten god in his entirety .."

Actual brilliant and funny poem wins prize. Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social

You can read it here (if you scroll down a long way):

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Bookshops need new and neat handwritten recommendations from new and transient booksellers for customers at Christmas. We have templates waiting, blank cards affixed to shelves in acrylic holders, ready to be uniquely filled. Each one must be suitable for windows, for shelves, and for the fronts of stores, a small ticket adorned with a book title, your signature written at the bottom, not to summarise but to compel, because you intrigue. The shorter your writing, the stronger your work will be. Like a poem, it can rest on a single well chosen word. Sell a favourite book of yours on the strength of your passion for it. Share what you are reading, and if it is not what you love, reach instead to convince the reader who might love it for themselves. Know the stock for Christmas gift buyers. It need not be about Christmas; that is no flaw. Non fiction is a star seller, more than make believe at this time of year. If you have not read something, recommend it still, but never pretend you have. By Kay Medway

#Poetry #Poem #Workshop #Prompt

Here is my poem in the style of a job advert.

Happy to say my #poem won Third Prize in the #Magma Poetry Judge's Prize. Huge thanks to @betarish.bsky.social and congratulations to all the winners and commended #poets.

a mass of green anemones mostly closed and red sea stars

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

green tentacle anemone

orange sea star

shrimp like creature against the sand

barnacle w other life forms on it

i have loved exploring tidal pools and coastal areas since i was a child in fiji, and still the coast of oregon is something special

A row of colorful poetry spines on a bookshelf

This #NationalPoetryMonth, I’m celebrating by sharing a poem I love from an indie-published poetry collection or literary magazine every day! Read on for poems ⬇️

Another writing first: I'm going to have a poem in Best Canadian Poetry!

"We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which originally appeared in @cv2magazine.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue, will be reprinted in the forthcoming 2027 anthology.

Portrait Of The Heart In Love, At World’s End I will wake alone, closer to crimson water than land. It's hard to fit in with meaning when we are split, along breastbone like that herring at the wet market where Mother shopped — saving money to travel elsewhere with him in mind. A dying fish glittering the grey, that gentle disturbance worth a human vessel, sinking into itself. She’d rather trudge through swarms of loud, foreign bodies at the edge of survival just to claim the first batch of clams for chowder he loved. The steam from the bread bowl easily confused with his breath, ghosting the harbour. There’s an early light. A blessing before the engines sound. The pier where we last met, extends into the vital artery I cannot reach. You say blue must mean sky. Must be what haloes the living. But there’s a different hue around those who pass us by. It bruises the horizon while the world consumes its own mortal tissue. There’s a chamber at the core of what isn’t. Not silence, but its artefact. Everything is a quarter pace. Disease spreads slower but its cure needs another century to be discovered. Is it philosophy or loneliness that brings us rushing back here, transfused? It’s the oldest dilemma. Trespassing a holy enclosure to pick the reddest clots of peonies for you. Being the organ you desperately need donated — but the wrong blood type. The molten pulse softening to broth — the fish flung back into its own wild heaven.

Honoured to have a new poem out in Pinhole Poetry's @pinholepoetry.bsky.social 5th Anniversary issue, 5.1!

Grateful to EIC Erin Bedford for including 'Portrait Of The Heart In Love, At World’s End' alongside many beautiful poems🔥

Explore the wonderful issue here: pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

Dear Friends,

AN ANNOUNCEMENT:

My first poetry collection will be published in the Spring of 2027 by Broken Sleep Books.

I am simply delighted - and immensely grateful to @godzillakent.bsky.social and everyone at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetryislife

Good morning to poets three weeks longing

Three Weeks
Anne Michaels

Three weeks shipwrecked on this mad island;
twisting aurora of perfumes. Every boundary of body electrified, every thought hunted down by memory of touch.

Congratulations! So nice to hear some good news