Oh those final words.

From Ursula K. Le Guin's Collected Poems.

#poem #booksky #writing

Very happy to see this mushroom-foraging poem in the Missouri Review! A love (hate) letter to sultry summers in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

Busting out my one Kiwi Christmas poem for our southern summer solstice..... Barbecues and beers and sunburn and pōhutukawa in full flower oh my

Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social

Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals

anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...

There will be Books

Reading in Christchurch tomorrow to launch our Nick's new book!!!! He has been redirected via mighty Timaru!!!!!!The flights have been nightmarish but you can mosey right on in to Scorpio (it won't be windy any more, they put that on just for us)

Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)

Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁

Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥

thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖

Beasts of humidity

Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods

Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods

Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods

Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods

ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️‍🔥

sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...

Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️

I LOVE it

A beautiful grasshopper molt. It’s very detailed but translucent. Almost all the legs are entirely intact.

Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!

learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all

Thanks for the link - they publish gorgeous work!

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House

www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

Worm theology is the idea in Christian culture that in light of God's holiness and power an appropriate emotion is a humble view of self.[citation needed] The name may be attributed to a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (Pub 1707)[1] which says "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?" Furthermore, worm theology can be attributed to a recognition of the ugliness of sin, resulting in contrition.

God would still love you if you were a worm

Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree

A life sized cardboard cut-out of a huntaway dog from a Tux ad in my parents' living room,.that looks exactly like our """"retired""""" farm dog Stanley

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Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem

Shows a pages of a detailed illuminated manuscript, with flowers, gold gilt and painted figures in a scene with animals

On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection.

[MS 2087]

a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...