Brett Hanley
@brettghanley.bsky.social
Poet, Debut: I WAS YOUR BIRD; https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-was-your-bird-brett-hanley/1edaa7aea9c6964b?ean=9781956907995&next=t PhD from FSU Writers; NO GREAT FISH, Black Lawrence Press '28
I'm super stoked to have two poems from my forthcoming second book published today in @dialogist.bsky.social --https://dialogist.org/poetry/2026-week-34-brett-hanley ! Thanks so much to the editors!
Poetry, Week 34: Brett Hanley — DIALOGIST
Flammable Pantoum For as long as we could, we waited and tended the man who smelled like petroleum, flammable man who feared we were half his, all hers. We tended the incendiary ma...
dialogist.org
I’m hosting this book launch for Brett’s debut with @jacklegpress.bsky.social one week from today. Join me, Simone, Anthony, @dorseycraft.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, nat, & Natalie for the fun! RSVP ⬇️
Brett Hanley@brettghanley.bsky.social · 2mo agoHelp me celebrate the launch of my debut on July 15 with @jacklegpress.bsky.social and friends! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Help me celebrate the launch of my debut on July 15 with @jacklegpress.bsky.social and friends! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Surreal and incredible to see my debut book for sale wherever books are sold online: Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon (if you must). I Was Your Bird is my eco-feminist, post-confessional, queer baby. rb.gy/zjgne4
Swirl & Vortex, the collected poems of Larry Levis, will be published next February by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. So pleased that the full breadth of Levis’s immensely beautiful, troubled and troubling lyric poetry will be available to read.
🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 The Summer 2025 issue is coming soon! Head to the link in our bio to purchase your subscription. ☀️
Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
washingtonpost.com
Our verses (and Mary Ruefle) are once again calling us back to ourselves.
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
I’m so happy to have a couple of poems in the absolutely stunning new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, including this one, which took far longer than any of my poems to find its ending (three years)! Thanks so much to the Editors for taking such care with the work in this journal.
Here’s the cover for our upcoming issue, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25), which features 57 poems by 40 poets. Cover art: “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi. Preorder your copy at: bit.ly/shono6 – orders ship in January.
Always returning to this Solmaz Sharif poem, especially now.
