New England is so beautiful and vibrant this time of year.

So happy to see this book in print! I fell in love with this collection when judging the 2025 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest. Great for the Sealey Challenge. tinyurl.com/ph22txws

You have until Thursday, July 31st to submit to our Adrift Writing Contests! Use the link in our bio for details and to submit. #deadlineextended #writingcontest

Next Saturday at JustBook_ish in Dorchester, MA. We would love to see you.

Today’s visitor 🧸♥️

Graphic Lit prize is open for another month @solsticelitmag.bsky.social which has been a joy to work with. Submit.

Many thanks to the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social editors for including one of my poems and an interview in this beautiful anthology.

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Yay!!! Congratulations!!!

"Everything we write
will be used against us
or against those we love.
These are the terms,
take them or leave them.
Poetry never stood a chance
of standing outside history."

Adrienne Rich, from "North American Time"

Author copies! (Yes, those are tears in my eyes.) So grateful to The Word Works, especially to Nancy White and @bradrichard.bsky.social . Thank you!

Read “The Rain, Life, and Other Things” by Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social: bit.ly/4l1QnyH

Unfortunately, I am not able to be at AWP, but my book is there! Just to clarify—these are pre-release copies of my book. Stop by The Word Works' table (booth 1001).

Lucky to share some good news––you can now preorder my poetry chapbook, Running with the Hare: www.writerscenter.org/product-page...

It should also be at #AWP25 at The Hudson Valley Writers Center Booth T830 (though sadly, I won't). Thanks to everyone who picks up a copy!!

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Slapering Hol Press is delighted to announce that @jemmaleighroe.bsky.social’s Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 SHP Chapbook Competition is now available for preorder!

www.writerscenter.org/product-page...

Today's poem is "Mars Changing Her Name"
by Kenneth Pobo
from At the Window, Silence
All Subscribers got to hear this poet from their inbox!
www.versedaily.org/2025/marscha...

Evelyn López de Guzmán in Her Own Words — The Latinx Project at NYU Evelyn López de Guzmán's talks about the trajectory of her career after leaving New York.

“At Hunter College in the 1970s, though, there was no one to exchange any ethnic or background ideas. I don’t recall any Latinas in my graduate art classes.” —Evelyn López de Guzmán #repost

On Family, History, and Identity in My Poetic Practice A Q&A with Aaron Caycedo-Kimura | I teach Introduction to Creative Writing at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where most of my students are freshmen and sophomores. The goal of the course is to give ...

Family, history, and identity are what @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social’s poetry is all about. And he’s obsessed with trying to come to terms (in verse!) with who he is and what it is that he’s inherited. #PoetryIsLife

Image of water upon water in blue, green, and red.

My forthcoming collection has a cover & is now available for preorder at the link below!

www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...

#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity

Foggy sunrise. Sleepy morning,

And more.

And concision.

Congratulations!

I’m delighted to announce that All Were Limones is now available for preorder from The Word Works! wordworksbooks.org/product/all-...

Definitely. The first few sentences are often an on ramp for the poem and end up deleted (or needing to be deleted) later.

It’s a great day to work in the breezeway. Normally I would be concerned that it’s warmer than it should be this time of year, but today I am grateful. I was craving sun and warmth desperately.

No. 7: @TaraSkurtu
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http://iambapoet.com/tara-skurtu

I hadn’t heard. It’s so hard to keep up these days with everything moving so fast. Thank you.