new release from Trinity University Press!
The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry edited by Ashley Capps and Allison Titus, foreword by @alexispauline.bsky.social
I have a poem about cows in this beautiful anthology 💜
"Cows in the Evening"
Posts by Todd Dillard
this and the time someone accused me of appropriating meme culture--some of my fave online times
my favorite review of my book on goodreads is still the one where someone gave me a three, but the review said "3.5, look for a longer review to come in [some journal]" and the review was never published, guy failed at rounding and follow-through, he just like me for real
imagine discovering you're the author of this book, you find his goodreads, and he still only gave it three stars
unfortunately my permanently onlineness means the frequency I have read "rawdog" has created Confusing Associations with the title WWE Raw
the confidence with which people do not know things never ceases to amaze me
gender abolition is when I see cute baby and say "cute baby"
A double win to start the week! 🙌 @toddedillard.bsky.social and @sabrinahicks.bsky.social were published in Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine! buff.ly/rpoHEev
“My dragon went to training school”
“THERE WERE SHEEP IN THAT FIELD WHEN WE WALKED BY IT ONE HOUR AGO”
100% just had to deal with someone on the trail who did not! keep! their dragon! leashed! 😡
feel like you just let this post crash into me
why is today national garlic day and not national the recipe calls for one garlic day but let’s make it a whole week
let's be the inaugural members of the PORK SHOW WORK SHOP school of poetry
is 43 the year I get WORK SHOP tattooed across my knuckles
Wild nights - Wild nights! We've all had them, right? Nights can be so wild. Before we get into Emily Dickinson's masterpiece of pacing and em dashes or dare I say Emily Dashes, I know you just want to make my night wild by not going gentle into smashing those like and subscribe buttons.
Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree. Before we get into the rest of this poem, if you like this content, please hit the like button and consider subscribing. It really helps the channel. My metrics show just 27% of my channel viewers are subscribers, and I really want to be ab
what if the horse was running some errands for you, bringing you back something invisible but needed
30ish copies of “Poems to Stage Dive to” fanned out in the authors hand.
“Poems to Stage Dive to” is officially out on Tuesday. From now until then, physical copies are PAY WHAT YOU WANT. Send me a DM and we can work something out.
why is today national garlic day and not national the recipe calls for one garlic day but let’s make it a whole week
omg your excitement for this makes me so happy thank you
oh i heard you're supposed to collect money first then give advice, sorry!
not the music 😂😭
anyway, I assume no publisher will want this bc I just babble all this craft stuff for free to anyone who asks anyway, though there are less insects
apparently the solution to me writing a longer work is just to do one page at a time, usually in short bursts that are focused on something specific, I wish someone would've told me, a poet, sooner
this weird little craft book composed of thoughts too big for skeets but too small for chapters is now 165 pages and I am worried I may never stop writing it
excruciating read but so, so vulnerable and human.
"and she'll never ask for a raise" yeah bc the business model is the same as a drug dealer's
"really wonderfully rendered, tremendous work, just one question: have you ever threatened someone with a banana"