Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.

Thread: This semester at Texas Tech, our new chancellor has required a portal to be created through which a form must be submitted for every course. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

Thank you @carlenemgadapee.bsky.social for this generous review of Querida! So grateful for the precious attention! @upittpress.bsky.social

Check out my interview with the incredible Daniela Catrileo about the recent translation of her novel CHILCO from @fsgbooks.bsky.social Thank @therumpus.net you for hosting us!

Catrileo's author photo. In the bottom lefthand corner is the book cover for Chilco. The cited information, but not the quote, appear in white to the right of the book cover.

"I can never tear myself away from who I am, and at my core, I’m a poet."

Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).

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First official #HispanicHeritageMonth #FollowFriday, here are some of our favorite Hispanic poets!

🎉 Nathaly Camilla Genao (@natcgwrites.bsky.social)
🎉 S. Salazar (@writessalazar.bsky.social)
🎉 Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social)
🎉 Daniel Ruiz (instagram.com/danielruizpoet)

In celebration of Robert Frost and the Dartmouth-Poet-in-Residency, I’ll be reading alongside incredible poets and writers at the @thefrostplace.bsky.social, @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social, and the Meetinghouse this coming week. I’m excited to share Querida and new work (!) with New Hampshire!

We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !

POETRY 2/2
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

Congrats, @nxo.bsky.social !

Check @kristiosorio.bsky.social's moving, intimate review of @nglipson.bsky.social beautiful memoir in essays on the @therumpus.net!

“...an absorbing memoir of a life permanently altered by the burden and beauty of motherhood.”

@kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism).

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Shape Shifting: Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters - The Rumpus Lipson’s ability to do both with precision and compassion, often within the span of a single essay, will touch readers who are mothers, but also readers like me—and like all of us—who know what it is ...

It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...

Today's Featured Poet:

Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Thank you for sharing @poetrydaily.bsky.social!

It's always been a dream of mine to have a poem in @poetrydaily.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors and to M. F. K. Fisher for the inspiration!

A photo of the Newly Published / Poetry page from the 2/16 New York Times Book Review. Encircled portion describes Rebecca Lehmann’s new collection The Sweating Sickness.

The Sweating Sickness got a mention in last weekend’s @nytbooks.bsky.social !!! @upittpress.bsky.social

An incredible flash nonfiction piece by @kristiosorio.bsky.social on The Palisades Review. Don't miss this one!

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"The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola by Nathan Xavier Osorio" written in white at the bottom of Olayiwola's author photo. To the right of these words is the book cover for Strange Beach beneath the full white Rumpus logo.

"These are things you can’t see. They’re only measured by visceral reactions: by sweat, touch, some sort of illness even."

@nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).

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Have you read this week's poem from Glass, yet?

Trust me, you don't want to miss it.

31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024 – Alcalá to Zarin Reviews by David Starkey Every year since 2014, I've set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of of poetry published in the past twelve months. My goal is to revie...

Congrats to @nxo.bsky.social and Ajibola Tolase, whose collections, QUERIDA and 2000 BLACKS, were included in the California Review of Books 31 Best Poetry Collections of 2024!

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Thank you!!

BOMB Magazine | Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio Altars made of poems: on memory, machismo, and code-switching through crown sonnets.

“Sacredness can be so fraught! What happens if we peel away at the reverence or gold flake of the statue—what do we find underneath?” —Nathan Xavier Osorio

Poets Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio examine memory and machismo in their debut collections.

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BOMB Magazine | Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio Altars made of poems: on memory, machismo, and code-switching through crown sonnets.

Honored to have been in conversation with Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his stunning debut Cowboy Park (uwiscpress) and Querida (@upittpress.bsky.social). I'm inspired by the connections & humbled by the rich diversions. Gratitude to @bombmag.bsky.social for their generous editorial care!

Hi old friends and new, BOMB Magazine is a nonprofit, independent publication. We have been spotlighting artists’ insightful and intimate conversations since 1981. Discover emerging talent, explore groundbreaking ideas, and engage in unique perspectives on the creative process bombmagazine.org

What if we get off everything and just start reading?

Two of the writer-friends I talk with and collaborate with the most are shyly getting their footing on BlueSky. Follow them or I will bully you!!!!

@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

DO IT OR DIE BY A THOUSAND INSULTS.