It is really reassuring when the CAPTCHA lets me know I am, in fact, human.

I had a dream I was trying to kill a cockroach and it kept repairing itself somehow and then it became a tall blonde man and started fighting back by launching rubber bands at my face with surprisingly great accuracy. Interpretations?

Life really is just applying to things, isn’t it. You just apply to things and then you apply to more things and to other things and then sometimes you get the courtesy of a copy and paste response.

I’m having so much fun teaching comp this semester (our topic is ways of knowing). This week we talked about fear and they came up with fears they think are inherently human. One group decided on the fear of being forgotten, and that we counteract that by caring for the people around us :)

Happy Spring!! Check out the new issue, so much weird and delightful poetry in this one:

Recently been contacted by “Sherry Organizer” who wants to feature my book in her book club! Can’t wait, I wonder if I actually have to write a book first?

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Hi! Haha we just missed each other! Maybe next awp we will actually cross paths :)

Stack of books: Places I’ve taken my body by Molly McCully Brown Dear Beast by Catherine Pierce Last Train to Paradise by Martha Silano A Mother is an Intellectual thing by Kimberly grey Instead, it is dark by Catherine Hogue

Very happy with my AWP book haul :) can’t wait to dive into these!!

Tonight! 6:30 @ Old Major!

Come say hello at AWP’26! The Shore will be sharing a table at the book fair with our friends from @HarpurPalate at booth 419 ! 🌊🦀

#AWP26 #BaltimoreMD #AWP

A great fog has enveloped Baltimore. The poets are coming.

Gonna be findable at AWP this year! You can catch me at The Shore table (419) and reading with these lovely people Saturday night:

Photo of a yellow dandelion and other little spring yard flowers

A little collection of the blooms I found in my yard today:

Lyric Time 1: Courtney Kampa & The Weakerthans Our First Pairing--A deep and rich combo.

Check out this new review series pairing albums and poetry collections!

This one is on Courtney Kampa’s A Bright and Borrowed Light and The Weakerthan’s Left and Leaving:

The task I put off for three months took approximately an hour and a half to complete! I will not learn from this :)

New issue is up!!! Can’t believe The Shore is 7 years old now. There are so many brilliant poems in this one, check it out:

Thanks!

Thank you!

A copy of the new issue of The Greensboro Review (fall 2025, number 118) the cover is bright orange.

The Greensboro Review was the first print literary magazine I ever owned, so this feels really really special :) I’m so excited to read everyone’s work!

The cover of Courtney Kampa’s poetry collection Bright and Borrowed Light

Just finished reading Courtney Kampa’s brilliant poetry collection. I really can’t recommend it enough, I think everyone should read it. It brought me to tears multiple times, it feels like something very precious and important.

If you use AI to generate poems you should receive the natural consequence of that action (never being able to weep human tears again)

It is gluten free and vegan :) and as a perk you are legally required to get wine drunk when making risotto

A photo of mushroom sage risotto

I can’t cook many meals, but I am very proud of my mushroom sage risotto

Don’t buy anything today. ✊

Read a book. Rest as much as you can.

(Write a list of things to buy later.)

#nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙

Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®

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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

🏝️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🐠Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Anastasios Mihalopoulos, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores!

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Daydreaming about how I’m gonna deep clean my house over Thanksgiving break. I am itching to scrub some baseboards.

Thank you!

Two copies of Louisiana Literatures new issue

Poem titled “Almost Autumn”

So grateful to have poems in this beautiful issue of Louisiana Literature, and to get to hold this poem in print on the same porch I wrote it on :)