from HOW TO STAY Feather-drifting thick flakes of spring snow catch and melt in Vesper’s curls. I’m an old half, she says, then, koala crying. My neighbor lifts and shapes a tall vase, explains craft saturates into philosophy. I spread my hands between story and sound, sip wild white sage tea, brain finger-limned, slipping yarn through parabolas of decrease. It’s dinner time. Our children wedge the dough like clay. Later, like language, they devour it.

Bronwen Tate @bronwentate.bsky.social

An excerpt of “Bruised Peaches” by Bronwen Tate

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“Today’s poem speaks to how we track our days and how easy it is to get lost in the day’s rigamarole,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore episode.

Read “Bruised Peaches” by @bronwentate.bsky.social: bit.ly/43jMJIq

We loved hearing you read all of With My Back to the World from start to finish! The lines, like Agnes Martin's, are clear and packed with intensity-it was wonderful to see the images while relaxing into your sustained read. @bronwentate.bsky.social and I were happy to host you!

Magazine cover with turquoise background, surreal figure in a hat with cut-out face leading to inner courtyard or colonnade, figure wears red scarf. Text: The Waxed Lemon, Issue 8

Text of a poem called Sunday Brunch. A response to Catullus 13.

Just arrived in Toronto! My nugatory offering to a fav poem by Catullus. 😁 Thanks to Joanne & Derek at The Waxed Lemon for including this one!

#CatullusPoems #Reception #Carmina

Sign-up Form for Creative Writing Teachers (Across Contexts!) Open to an Informational Interview with a UBC MFA Student Thank you so much for being willing to discuss your teaching experiences with a UBC MFA student of Bronwen Tate's CRWR 550: Teaching Creative Writing! I'm especially looking for people who teach out...

I am once again soliciting creative writing teachers (across levels, genres, and contexts) open to a possible informational interview with UBC MFA students in my pedagogy class this term. You can add yourself to my resource sheet using this brief Google form: forms.gle/x7LtKCTcFDFX...

Thanks!

Oh yeah. I get one TA per 50 students, and each TA has 96 hours available to allocate.

For my class of 229, I have a built-in one-week extension (but students who turn in work after the initial due date get rubric marks but no written comments). I tend to have very busy drop-in hours the days before, but not a ton of day-of email.

Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.

Sending strength and appreciation to all teachers pushing through this final stretch of the term. Also, any teacher who's been frustrated by corporatized inservice needs to read this piece by @jessicacuello.bsky.social

Now that this place is hopping, it might be a good time to remind #poets that our MFA application deadline is approaching here at UW-Madison! #mfa #creativewriting

I'll bet she would be very interested in these.

Cucamelon Plant cucamelon seeds in containers or raised beds, or in the greenhouse where they will produce scores of tiny, sweet, watermelon shaped cucumber fruits.

The first item on my 9-year-old's holiday wishlist is . . . cucamelons. A type of small cucumber that looks like a watermelon. She's the best.

How to Do Avoidance Club Gather with one or more supportive people who are committed to confronting avoided things in a way that will move forward and release shame. The Steps: Name something you’ve been avoiding and say why it feels hard. Decide to either take one step closer to completing this thing (it can be a very small step!) or delete it from your to-do list FOREVER. Act! Either delete the thing forever or take that small step forward. Then maybe another step. A friend can help! Sometimes things are easier to do exactly because they aren’t OURS and we don’t have the accumulated weight of having avoided them. You can stick with one thing or just take that first step and move on to something else. Schedule a next meeting when you will pick things back up. Make a plan either A) to take an action in between and report back for encouragement or B) not to move on things (and not to feel bad about it!).

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UBC Creative Writing is hiring in Black Speculative Writing (TT position). Speculative is understood capaciously—writers across genres are invited to apply. Please share with your networks. 12/11 due date. Happy to answer questions about dept, Vancouver, etc. creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

Our first reader will be Ali Blythe on November 8th. wholecloth.substack.com/p/ali-blythe...

The Whole Cloth Reading Series | Bronwen Tate | Substack Updates about the Whole Cloth Reading Series, an experiment in deep listening where a poet reads an entire book of poems from start to finish. Hosted by Green College at UBC and organized by Bronwen T...

I made a Substack for the reading series I'm hosting with @eleekg.bsky.social at Green College, UBC. Sign up if you're in Vancouver and you'd like to attend some beautiful poetry readings! wholecloth.substack.com

My 11-yo: "Can I have a carrot—even if I don't share it? Oh! oh! How about this one? Can I have a shallot—it just might cleanse my palate?"

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A person holds up two books. The one on the left has differently colored stripes and is THE LONG FORM by Kate Briggs. The one on the right shows a blue water wave and is THE NEW ANIMALS by Pip Adam.

It's PUB DAY! We are delighted to be the US publisher for these two completely BRILLIANT and totally ORIGINAL books. Both novels. Both long (for us). Both from award-winning writers (one in The Netherlands, the other in New Zealand) who happen to be lovely people. Please help us spread the word!