July’s Inner Moonlight episode is special. Michelle Nicholson is from New Orleans, and as you’ll hear her say, wherever she goes, there’s New Orleans. We had unexpected rain mid-show; the entire audience helped move indoors. Thanks to The Wild Detectives, to poetry, and to you, faithful reader. 📚✨🌕
Stoked to present the latest Inner Moonlight podcast episode featuring our Pride Open Mic event! This show was so much fun! Thanks to all the queer poets; thanks to The Wild Detectives; thanks, especially, to you, dear readers! It’s all for you! 🌈📚✨🌕 #PoetryPodcast #QueerAsInFuckYou #HappyPride
Super grateful to the @sundresspub.bsky.social blog for featuring WELCOME TO MIDLAND for The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed series! I’ll share all their posts in this thread. Here’s the title poem:
Honored to report that Welcome to Midland is featured for Sundress Publications’ blog, The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed! 💅
Stoked to see this @texasobserver.org article giving @amandajohnston.bsky.social her flowers! Stoked they gave me the chance to sing her praises! #TexasPoetLaureate
Stoked to share this month’s amazing Inner Moonlight podcast episode featuring Jessica Manack! I loved her poems and I know y’all will too. Big thanks, as always, to The Wild Detectives, and to you, dear reader! 📚✨🌕 #PoetryPodcast #LiteraryDallas
I am stoked to share this Inner Moonlight episode featuring the luminous Caitlin Cowan! I featured Caitlin back in the first iteration of IM, before I was making a podcast, and I am so grateful she came back. Thanks to The Wild Detectives, and to you, dear readers! 📚✨🌕 #LiteraryDallas #PoetryPodcast
🔥 Awesome public health messaging from Matt McGorry & @nychealthy.bsky.social
Direct simple facts that everyone should know
🌟FACT 1: There is a risk of #longcovid with every COVID infection... 📺🧵
I print and save the original web pages after they publish, just in case. I’ve added those pages to my personal website after magazines have gone down and the links die. That way people can still find the poem if they find me.
The measles outbreak first reported in Gaines County, Texas, has doubled to 48 cases since a count released earlier this week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday.
Stoked to share the latest Inner Moonlight podcast episode featuring the incomparable Hannah Smith! This episode is full of gorgeous Texas landscapes and sports! I know y’all are gonna love it as much as I do 🤩 Huge thanks to The Wild Detectives and to my audience. 📚✨🌕 #LiteraryDallas #PoetryPodcast
I can’t prove that I didn’t! 😂
I immediately thought of this FB post from our time in the foxhole together in 2012 💀
Tremendous thanks to Andie Salm Carver for the poetry, the dad jokes, and the perfect Inner Moonlight performance to close out 2024 💕 Also, cheers to 4 years of podcast episodes! 🥂 Big thanks to The Wild Detectives, and to you, dear reader 📚✨🌕 #PoetryPodcast #LiteraryDallas
Thank you so much for the kind words! Looking forward to seeing you at the next show! 💕
Today is a good day to share the poem I wrote for the Praisesong for the People project created by Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! She says it’s important to give people their flowers and I agree! 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻
Proud to share my poem “You Should Know,” for the virtues project for the Thanks-Giving foundation! Big thanks to the Dallas Poet Laureate Mag Gabbert and all the brilliant poets involved in this project 💕
The cover of the Fall 2023 Nasher Magazine
Permian Sea My father told me once all this desert was vast inland sea: all mollusks and trilobites, amphibians bigger than my imagination. He pointed westward, explained the Guadalupe Mountains are an enormous ancient reef. All this, he said, everything was water. Then the sea stagnated, temperature skyrocketed, acid rained from the sky, everything died: the most massive extinction in recorded history. All those fossils, oil now. Of course. I was born here, to the pasture, spiny mesquites, cracked red earth. I imagined being born underwater, born a suggestion of what’s to come, something so basic it could survive when earth starts over, a nautilus, maybe, all tentacles, no memory. I dreamed of it, the sea before its horrific death, before millions of years sun blazed over lifeless desert. Sometimes, waking I thought I heard the waves.
Tremendously grateful to the Nasher Sculpture Center for publishing my poem “Permian Sea” in their Fall 2023 magazine! This piece is from my book, Welcome to Midland, available from @deepvellum.bsky.social 🤩✨💛
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Howdy friends! Happy to be here! 🌈
