Used to think “Maybe I’ll finish my first poetry collection soon!” Then started thinking, “Maybe I’ll finish a poem someday?”

if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything

Ahh that makes sense! Gonna scout that year’s sadness now though because I need more 90s nostalgia

Screenshot of webpage to register for the next event with the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Orion Magazine on February 12. Photo of two smiling people, a black man with facial hair and his head in his hand, and a woman with long dark hair wearing a pink top. Text on the page reads: Earthly Love: A Conversation with Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Register for the event at the link in my post!

Looking forward to this! Earthly Love: A Conversation with Ross Gay and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social on February 12, 12-1pm.

Register here: yff.yale.edu/events/earth...

with the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, @religion-ecology.bsky.social & @orionmagazine.bsky.social 💚

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind!

Did you know you needed a climate change poem today? You need one every day, a prayer and foghorn. Read @lindszd.bsky.social's beautiful work: "Love is a simple object navigating | blurry physics, an ark baring its hull | to flood, remaining afloat." From www.ronslate.com/given-after-...

Poster that says "New Poetry! and features an artistic photo of baskets hanging in a rustic home, a mirror features a woman with dangly earrings. The words on the poster say "Read Lindsay D'Andrea's poem in dogyard mag!" and a snippet saying "the game is to draw one / or the other to the end in pieces / until someone made whole / can swing"

We're here to give you a little present while these dogs take off back to our dog houses for the holidays! @lindszd.bsky.social gave us such a great gift and we're happy to share it with you! dogyard would love if you gave us a gift as well... Maybe a fiction piece or two? #poetry #writingcommunity

Hopi Leia, black and white relief print by Hopi artist Sikuyva Dawavendewa. Behind her is a village but in the style of Tatooine's Mos Eisley town, with the two suns as well. The border is also symbolism to rain clouds with rain falling on the side. The graphic is laid over a pale lavender background.

Back cover of issue listing 48 contributor names. The graphic is laid over a pale lavender background.

Cover reveal: Shō No. 8 | Winter 2025/2026
Cover art: “Hopi Leia” by Sikuyva Dawavendewa.

Our winter issue features 72 poems by 48 poets (names threaded below).

Pre-order link: tinyurl.com/shono8

The winners and runners-up of the editors’ prizes will be announced this week!

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

@realDonaldTrump I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! 2.14k ReTruths 8.64k Likes May 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

Read two powerful pieces by Lindsay D'Andrea in our 2025 NaPoMo Issue:
"Ferragosto" & "Fossil Record Reveals Early Cambrian Origins"
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Ploughshares Spring 2025 issue table of contents

…SO Honored that I’ve actually been having nightmares about seeing my name in this kind of table of contents.
But seriously, go get the issue! Not to read my poem but to read the whole thing—it is an amazing collection!

The spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares propped on a windowsill surrounded by plants, a pinecone, and a seashell.

✨Dream pub since 2004✨In high school I used to spend hours in Borders (RIP) reading issues of Ploughshares, trying to understand how one might accomplish the caliber of poetry on display in each issue. It’s still my favorite pub, so I am beyond honored to have a poem in the Spring 2025 issue!

So excited to read the whole thing!

Tim Seibles is one of my favorite poets working today. Loving this poem in The Offing (which is killing it lately with the work it has been featuring…probably just a regular thing, really).

Ah, yes…the customary post-AWP wave of rejections.

The moral of the story is that poetry takes time, in one way at or another. I have so many more in me that haven’t finished “processing.” Sometimes they arrive sooner and need more care, sometimes they arrive late, fat and healthy from their emergence. This is what I love about it.

On the other hand, I wrote “Milk” last fall after waking up early itching to write. It just sprung from me fully formed like god from a kneecap. I adjusted the ending and that’s it. It saw just 1 rejection. But “Milk” is based on an accident I witnessed in 2016 that I’ve been processing ever since.

I started drafting “Subsistence” in 2018, and it took quite some time to get right. Over the years it garnered 16 rejections (5 encouraged) and went through countless drafts. I’m very proud of this version and happy to see it among such awesome company.

I just received the 2025 spring issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social and I am loving the large format layout! I have two poems in here that were selected as James Hearst Poetry Prize finalists. Here is a little bit about their (opposite) histories.

An unabashed testament to the importance of embracing the messiness at the core of any story, a process which drives our humanity. 👏 @geetha-iyer.bsky.social 👏👏

As a poet who is pushed to view AI as essential to my capitalist career, I feel urgently close to Iyer’s line of questioning in this wonderful/horrifying piece up now at The Offing.

In awe of this poem by @emmabolden.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue of Potomac Review.

I’ll be waiting for the piece! The way Chad handles ethics questions is even more unsettling than its inability to accurately account for human appendages.

Yeah I mean…how do you beat the OG? And the best take ever of the OG on top of it.

That’s kind, thank you. Congrats on being selected for “Get the Word Out!”

Agree. Part of me wishes it was less predictable. I was pulling for The Kid from the Giving Tree (but not for long after the first round exit).

I’m always disappointed when I walk into a used bookstore and browse the poetry section only to find it stocked with mostly white men. These are poets I read and respect…but where are the women? Teach. More. Female. Poets. And remember there is more to the story than Sylvia Plath and Mary Oliver.

Check out this interview with Michael Beard, editor of new-lit-kid-on-the-block @paraselenemag.bsky.social. (They are open for submissions, by the way!)

Check out my poem "Premonition" featured on @versedaily.bsky.social today: www.versedaily.org/2025/premoni...