it’s here!! so excited I get to hold are you there, my first full-length poetry collection!! stunned at how beautiful the book is and I’m so so SO excited for all of you to get to read it, and I’m so grateful for how much love you’ve all shown it already!

My advice, emailed by CBC Books this week. It helps me--maybe you too!

My favorite poet Emily Skaja dropping knowledge & 50 ways to end a poem for Literary Hub this morning✨Somebody should hire her to teach at a summer writing workshop. Just saying!

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Webcomics + poems! The two best things. A Callista Buchen poem illustrated by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens fame.

woohoo! you heard it here first, friends! if you’ve been waiting to pre-order, here’s your sign 🪧

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Today River River Books 🌊🌊 we’re launching a kickstarter to help us get back on our feet after SPD’s closure. We have REWARDS, y’all! 📚💙

Check out River River Books: Poetry Distribution by Han VanderHart on
Kickstarter Amorak Huey
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Support small presses. Black Lawrence Press treats its books and authors with such dignity and care.

Friends, thanks so much for the generous response to the Black Lawrence Press fundraiser in the wake of the SPD shutdown. 🙏❤️ Sharing the link again in case anyone missed it. Retweets very welcome! #poetrylives #blacklawrencepress gofund.me/d4966ff7

Like so many other small presses, Black Lawrence Press
is devastated by the sudden closure of Small Press Distribution which leaves us and hundreds of other small presses to grapple with logistical nightmares and financial peril.

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If you pre order my debut poetry collection at a discount in March you will receive the book in time for National Poetry Month! It comes w/ a candle too! whitestagpublishing.com/poetry-books-1…

I'm so honored to know Téa, to claim her as one of my former students. And I can guarantee this book is going to be incredible. Téa is such a talent, such a splendid artist. You should preorder this one right away!

Thanks to The New Yorker : 'poem by Idea Vilariño, translated, from the Spanish, by Jesse Lee Kercheval. nyer.cm/WxpxLeA '

stealing this pic of proof of life/book from Bad Betty Press!! have any of you ever written a poem based on the thought “what if a self-driving tesla ran me over?”

It’s HATCH’s official pub day! Thank you to everyone who has supported this project! ❤️

🌱 HATCH is almost a book in the world! Thank you Jessica Q. Stark, (((gayle brandeis))), Marisa Siegel, for your support & thank you to kind & generous team Northwestern University Press, & thank you to my dear fellow writers. Without you all HATCH wouldn’t be.

Please join us on Sunday for readings by six Black Lawrence Press poets followed by a panel on Blackness, womanhood, girlhood, and healing. This event is free with Zoom registration.

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Happy to announce that my first book of poetry, which I have been working on for ten years, will be published in the fall with Kelsay Books. The book is named Water Castle, and here is a working cover. The artwork is my own, as is the photo of the St. Joseph River in South Bend

My parody of Mary Oliver's WILD GEESE is up Verse Daily today. Thanks to the folks at Kestrel magazine for originally publishing it! versedaily.org/2024/flyingrat…