Poets Jennifer Chang and Randall Mann, Cafe Zuni, San Francisco, 10 April, 2026
Can't remember when I've had such a marvelous Friday night out. Here's Randall Mann and Jennifer Chang in the warm coziness of Cafe Zuni.
“Near beer, / tight ends. / Night bends. / I know / it’s late / for a love game. // Which isn’t / sadness, / or freedom, / it’s a feeling / that precedes / feeling, a narcotic // urge” — @randallmann.bsky.social, “The Scene” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social airlightmagazine.org/airlight/iss...
Today our newsletter readers received two poems from our Winter 2026 issue by Anna Lena Phillips Bells. These took second place in our annual Pablo Neruda contest, judged by @randallmann.bsky.social and are featured in the poet’s new Anthony Hecht Prize-winning collection, MIGHT COULD.
A copy of the winter 2026 issue of Nimrod atop a blue USPS mailbox. The cover displays the magazine's nameplate, its date, and the names of contributors, in colorblocked shades of brown.
A page from Nimrod Winter 2026 with the following text: ANNA LENA PHILLIPS BELL / Undoing / The list, / though long, / won't last, // though, loosed / to sing, / the list // spools past / even evening. / Won't last, // you, this fast, / unpausing— / you list, // creased, / task-stung. / To last, // rest, persist / in ceasing. / The list / won't last.
SScreenshot with text on a pale yellow-orange background reading: Mann on Anna Lena Phillips Bell: I love the economy yet fecundity of language in these poems, the sidelong wit and sense of wonder. My favorite of these is the villanelle "Undoing," the scrupulous pleasures and refusals therein: the play and pathos "spools past," slow but fast. And there is much to note in other poems too, the "style and stigma" of flowers; the unexpected elegy for a hat, a hat a proxy for us all as we inevitably fall apart. In knowing, winning ways, the poet transforms the everyday into a kind of open secret.
Here's the new @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, looking ✨✨✨. It has two poems from MIGHT COULD, including this one. Thanks to editor @bdralyuk.bsky.social, and to @randallmann.bsky.social, judge for the Neruda Prize, for naming this poem second place and for his comments. 💚
Brilliant poem & excellent reflection on writing by BlueSky poet
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www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
graphic featuring a portion of Randall Mann's poem
photograph of poet Randall Mann
"As I was reading The People’s Project submissions from contributors, I felt strongly that this poem should come last, closing the book," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says in today's episode.
Read “Puzzle” by Randall Mann (@randallmann.bsky.social): bit.ly/4poo5PW
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Me, Randall Mann and Godzilla.
So thankful for my friend @randallmann.bsky.social. We went to see Hamnet at the Kabuki then had sea bass and potstickers at a restaurant in Lower Haight called Beijing Duck House. Perfect day, grateful for all of it.
If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including @talianeffson.bsky.social, @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social, and @randallmann.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...
“Butch. / A monocle / dangled / in her razored // neckline; / she saw us all / for what / we were— // not a lick. / Sick / of suspect / looks, // of plague, / I walked / Paynes Prairie” @randallmann.bsky.social The Summer of 1996 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social www.cortlandreview.com/issue-87/ran...
Giants are smokin hot tonight. Already up by three runs. Here with the brilliant @randallmann.bsky.social
My new poem "Theological" is up at today's Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day! Big thanks to @randallmann.bsky.social, whose curation this month has been incredible.
Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the great @dapowell.bsky.social, who is, let’s be honest, a national treasure @graywolfpress.bsky.social ❤️ 🐅
Today's #PoemADay @poetsorg.bsky.social is by
@miguelmurphy.bsky.social, a moving piece on the cruel indignities of grief: "the answer / between / everything." I love this sort of self-aware vulnerability in a poem.
@barrowstreetpress.bsky.social
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Today's Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by @rudemechanical7.bsky.social, a gorgeous San Francisco poem about the Panhandle. Jack Spicer! Sue Bierman! I love this poem, and this city. @unboundedition.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social 😍🌁
Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by Leonel Sánchez Lopez, quiet & vulnerable & beautiful. 🥰🦜
Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
I dearly love this poem by @theferocity.bsky.social — incredible addition to the “self portrait as” mini-genre.
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Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
Hello Bluesky! I'm curating August's Poem-a-Day poems @poetsorg.bsky.social, and today's is by the great Andrea Cohen. @fourwaybooks.bsky.social 🐖😍