Here's a teaser of some of my work on this theme. Thanks @pangyrus.bsky.social for publishing it.

Writers on #estrangement at @belmontbooks.bsky.social on April 29th at 7pm. Editor @jennybartoy.bsky.social and Nicole Graev Lipson.

Let's talk about hard things.

"the euphoria of being an error"

i am in possession of a very active and very homosexual imagination

Omggggggg

It's summer in the winter of my life!

Anyone know Rochak Agarwal(l)? He reached out a 2nd time about putting my poem on a bottle of Reed Diffusers he sells. Nothing bad happened the 1st time, but ...

I do not like diffusers, so I didn't buy. I do not like scams. I do like cute collabs and gifting my art to others. Thoughts #poets?

House Climate Bill is a Big Step Backwards – read our coalition op-ed Coalition partners Cindy Luppi, Clean Water Action; Kyle Murray, Acadia Center; Caitlin Peale Sloan, Conservation Law Foundation; and John Walkey, GreenRoots jointly authored the following op-ed, publ...

The terrible climate rollbacks bill is on hold, thanks to the voices of grassroots organizations and people across Massachusetts. Read more about what was proposed, and why a broad coalition rallied to stop it: cleanwater.org/2025/11/17/h...

House climate bill is a big step backward   - CommonWealth Beacon At a moment when President Trump is dismantling federal climate policy, this bill would do the work for him. It would abandon our 2030 emissions targets, gut our most effective programs, and lock Mass...

If anyone is wondering why Democrats look the same as Republicans to a lot of young people ...

commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/hous...

Thank you Cindy, Caitlin, Kyle, and John, for saying the thing.

#mapoli

Photo of a country land with a hedge at the left. A lone poppy grows out toward the road. Blue sky in the distance.

the poppies return
and we vow ‘never again’
again, and again

#HaikuSaturday #haiku #poetry

I am in awe and gratitude for every page. I am made more ready to hold everything.

Don't miss bangers from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social's Karan Kapoor and editor I appreciate Miriam Akervall in the issue.

We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing.

Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs

www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/

A promo graphic with author photos, and it says: A NAWP Reading Majda Gama Julia Kolchinsky Alina Stefanescu Hosted by Jared Beloff September 9, 2025 7:00-8:00 PM EST

POW! It's NAWP time!

Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.

Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!

Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
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“Poetry makes nothing happen”—an Auden quote out of context, with a grain of truth. We must do more than art right now. We must return again and again to our connections with people who persist in the face of being starved, bombed, shot, trapped, occupied. We must tend these connections in the streets, in our homes, in difficult conversations with decision-makers, and in our own hearts. And art also has its place in this moment. Last fall, in a completely packed and sweaty Harvard Bookstore, the words of Mosab Abu Tohah reopened my heart. He and many other Palestinian writers can help us orient to and confront our reality. Let’s be in conversation with them.

Let’s harness the power of words. May they allow all of us, from centers and peripheries, to slowly grow a shared vision for living together on our one Earth. Aracelis Girmay says, “& so to tenderness I add my action.” Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine.

...throw pillow   is for placing over the mouth   after calling your representative again,   for contemplating what we sent & didn't ... from "Throw pillow" full poem in The Columbia Journal

#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine Thank you, @mosababutoha.bsky.social.

www.columbiajournal.org/articles/fou...

It’s the day after summer solstice. In my new neighborhood, hundreds of bands are playing music on their porches. And I am just not able to be here.

Watching my country fund, arm, and abet genocide has sucked something out of my soul. No words can touch even the edge of the horror. But being silent feels even worse.

And so I try imperfectly to say what I believe: None of us will be free until the people of Palestine are also free. May we resist every justification for occupation, starvation, and slaughter like our own humanity is at stake because it is.

A year ago, I submitted some non-Gaza-related poems to the Columbia Journal, a publication run by MFA students at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Then, a lot went down, including that the Trump administration accused Palestinian advocate and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil of being a "national security threat" and the university administration capitulated to his arrest and detainment without charge. A few months later, I received an acceptance note in my inbox. Unsure what to do, I reached out to the student editors to learn about their curation duties and efforts to hold up artful and timely political expression. I asked them to take a small risk with me. They agreed to add one more poem.

#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine

Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday!

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Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this.

If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.

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Lmfao

Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.

I first bumped into James' work through a Parker Palmer style Circle of Trust with at Hallelujah farm and I am so excited to read with him and Brad at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on 6/5 at 7PM. What a way to kick off Pride Month!

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Thank you also to the incredible James Crews and his husband Brad Peacock for holding up these words in their new anthology "LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: poems of tenderness and belonging from the lgbtq+ community and friends" with truly charming art from @lisacongdon.bsky.social

Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows:

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

Pacifica Literary Review Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.

New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts

Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com

This Thursday!