Thank you all for being great!

Got There: Cake from April Gloaming Publishing (out on 4/28/26).

Many thanks to Exclamation Mark for publishing three Emily as poems in their new issue.

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Next Sunday: April Gloaming's Sunset Salon

Forest trees sitting at the base of a mountain.

ICYMI: Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social's poem EMILY AS THE TUMBLING PLACE was published in the White Wall Review! 👏 🔥 buff.ly/d5aDR7K

Less than two weeks until my 25th full-length collection, Got There: Poems on Vanishing comes out from April Gloaming Publishing.

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April 28th

Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social has a new collection coming out on 28 Apr from April Gloaming Publishing. Get it here:

“Let us join hands in praise of the shablam, the milkshake,

for every shield of leather & tulle & fishnet.”

Excerpt from "Draglesque Prayer for the Gays and Theys Backstage at the Gig" by @ritamookerjee.bsky.social from Winter 2025 Online Exclusives.

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Tonight!

Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

All All #72 Citizen is a term for the count.Human beings just being don’t countAfternoons are gone. What is a nap?I ready myself to make music,but I know it’s already a war.I thought songs of peace were worth …

Many thanks to @sanantoreview.bsky.social for publishing my poem "All All #72" on their website.

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“I thought songs of peace were worth a life.”

A stark, urgent poem confronting war, identity, and what it means to count.

Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/02/a...

#poetry #politics #writing #peace #literature #war

Grace Notes: Poetry at Grace Cathedral Litquake celebrates National Poetry Month with Thea Matthews, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Preeti Vangani, and Devon Walker-Figueroa

Get your tickets! Join me and MK Chavez in honoring and celebrating these four outstanding poets at Grace Cathedral on 22 April during National Poetry Month ✨❤️

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Rhapsody & Refrain 2026 4/1-4/15 Rhapsody & Refrain 2026: 30 Columbus Poets is a 2-week series showcasing the diversity and quality of voices that contribute to our nationally-recognized poetry scene. Covering a vast range of …

Rhapsody & Refrain starts tonight at Streetlight Guild. So many friends and brilliant poets reading these next two weeks. I read on 4/8, but every night will be incredible. Get to as many as you can.

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Vol 5:03 April 2026 | Forthcoming — The Pasticheur: Literature, Art, & Ideas • contemporary art and poetry journal • literary arts magazine 2026 • visual art and poetry collaboration • ekphrastic poetry contemporary • photography and poetry dialogue • experimental literar...

Many thanks to the editors of Pasticheur for including three of my Emily as poems in their new release.

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Heading to the post office tomorrow with signed copies of Now Flourish. Let me know if you’d like one.

They want the people / I serve to be dead people

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Tonight is the night!

Today is the day! I'll see you all at the Marion-Franklin Branch of @columbuslibrary.bsky.social.

Now available ✨
The Constant Hum of Elsewhere by Jen Rouse

Hallucinatory, vulnerable, darkly humorous poems that wander dreamscapes and question the faith we place in doctors, therapists, and lovers.

Get your copy:
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darren demaree / poem 4/6/25I’m not holding fruit.Ohio is a fatal bough.There is test-hate here.The pink, inner-thighof America is shakingin our faces. I’m donewith the faithful. Theyhave no philosophies.They burn the wate...

Many thanks to the editors of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social for including my poem 4/6/25 (from my No Nation-State Wants Its People to Outlive It manuscript) in their new issue.

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This week is the week!

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Text graphic that reads: That the fact that I’m still reaching out & up should be enough, that faith is only faith when there's no proof.

Photograph of poet Emma Bolden.

"If there was ever a time to think about what we know, and how we know it, it’s now," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode number 1474.

Read "Epistemic Distance" by @emmabolden.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Pv631S

Join us Wed to hear Grant Chemidlin, Chloe Yelena Miller, & Isaiah Vianese read for the WPLS.

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Amorak Huey Mouth Saturday March 14 2:30 pm Gathering Volumes Bookstore, Perrysburg, Ohio

If you’ll be in or near Northwest Ohio on Saturday & wanna come help me celebrate my new poetry collection, I’d love to see you—

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