As I move into the final week of the summer semester where both my students and I feel like we've been penned up and unloved for 7 weeks straight, I'm finding a lot of joy in this video. I'm going to have to ask my human to put a bunch of toys in the middle of the yard for me next Tuesday.

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dogs at the Rescue Center get to pick their own toy 🧸

Today is the last day of presales for my 1st book. Presales help new authors establish marketability for publishers (@finishinglinepress.bsky.social). You can help me by buying. Wouldn't that feel nice? #poetry #masculinity #domestic #neurodivergence #family finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

2 days left in my presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social . You can be an early adopter! An excerpt "Armwrestle, Again" You will beat me someday, long past now you will suddenly be more and I will be less Find the rest here: finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Today is the last day of presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social. Imagine the profit if you had bought presale copy of Action Comics #1 for 7 cents. You can save more than that on my first appearance. Buy my poetry. It's an investment. finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

I’m honored to have 5 featured poems in the newest issue of The Windward Review V25, 2025. Beautiful journal worth supporting (link in comments). If you’d like to see more of my work, my chapbook is available for preorder from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Authenticity for the win!

Mitchell Nobis@mitchnobis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My first poetry book has made more money than their dorky thievery machine. Run up the score and get your copy here. (Don't want mine? Cool. Buy any book by an actual person!)

My first book is available for preorder. Check it out below. If you have any questions about quality, production, or usefulness of the work, I’m happy to talk. If not, go ahead and buy a copy!

Finishing Line Press@finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TO ORDER: finishinglinepress.com/product/what... What Makes Us Purple is a book about noise, boys, dads, daughters, and dogs. In poems about Fruit Loops, algebra problems, wrestling, and Mary Oliver, it finds the poetic… #poetry #masculinity #domestic #neurodivergence #family @ccprof.bsky.social

Our website is up at DelicateEmissions.com! Within the next few months, our past issues should all be there too. Don't worry -- we're not deleting any accounts now (though we deleted our X account a couple years ago), so past contributors can still find your stuff where we left it! LinkTree, too!

I once wanted to be avant-garde, but in a world where meaning is fractured, maybe a poetry reaching for connection is transgressive. Or not. Why not read my perfectly pedestrian book about #fatherhood, #family, #nuerodivergence and the #everyday to decide? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

This weekend my Union, HFCC-FT Local 1650, celebrated our 60th year. We were thrilled to welcome our retirees, spouses, members, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammond, members of our school board, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @reprashida.govpeeps.us to a great party. We are #unionstrong!

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Local 1650's commitment to higher education & collaboration with HFCC's trustees, is a perfect example of the "beloved community" Dr. King wrote about: Diverse communities learning from each other & working together for the common good is the promise of America, and the promise of this school.

4 months away from Christmas in July. How's the shopping going? Not well? Don't Panic. My 1st book is set for a July release and you can pre-order today. It's a chapbook, so it's perfect for your sunny x-mas stockings. @finishinglinepress.bsky.social www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

Connie Hills’s debut poetry collection, “Wet Season” is a crop of juicy riff-driven poems ripe with sensuality, clarity and humor… #family #loss #sex #travel #Buddhism To Order: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/wet-...

Hey, I'm being featured. I've never been a feature before. I feel cool. You too can be cool if you pre-order my book. Ok, well, that a bit non-sequetorial, but when I get sales @finishinglinepress.bsky.social gets happy. Making people and publishers happy is cool. Be cool.

Finishing Line Press@finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: WHAT MAKES US PURPLE by Michael Hill On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what... What Makes Us Purple is a book about noise, boys, dads, daughters, and dogs... #poetry #masculinity #domestic #neurodivergence #family

My first chapbook will be released in July, but you can preorder now. Preordering poetry is like putting money in a savings account; the return is always greater than the investment. C'mon, you know you'll want words later this summer--why not them now? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...

I've been dormant here over the last few months due to health issues, but I just received notice that presales for my first book of poetry have started. I will be sending out opportunities/requests/begging for purchases over the next few weeks. Please forgive the intrusions. But, Hey! Look at this:

You might want to pick up the latest issue of Barstow and Grand. www.barstowandgrand.com/vb9dgwt1le72... It has some great work in it. And it also has a little poem by me.

I haven't submitted work to any journal since August due to teaching and some health issues, but I could not let this opportunity pass. Most of my work looks for the awkward spaces between love, faith, and sex, so I am honored to contribute to the conversation. Maybe you should too.

ONLY POEMS@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's closing time! Last call to submit your s*xy and divine poems for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize. One Winner will be awarded $1000 + publication & nomination for Pushcart, Best Spiritual Literature, Best of the Net, or Best New Poets + lifetime ONLY POEMS membership 💙 All good wishes! ☺️

The Nobel Peace Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, so unless you're calling from Sweden that day, I won't be answering my phone. I mean, someone on the committee has to appreciate poems that explore an awkward, yet healthy, masculinity in narratives about the domestic front, right?

This is not the worst way to spend a beautiful fall afternoon. Purchase copies or access of the newest issue of @inkinthirds.bsky.social at www.magcloud.com/browse/issue... and then check out my poem “Water/Skin” on page 38. Such a beautiful journal, well worth your time.

I made it to the finalist stage in some recent single poem and chapbook contests. I mean, just a few, but a few is better than straight out rejection. I’m surprised how good not winning can feel.

Check out my poem "Water/Skin" in the new issue of *Ink in Thirds* (Fall 2025, 6.2) @inkinthirds.bsky.social, a journal full of wonderful writing and art. The print version costs a couple of well-spent dimes, but you can also purchase an online version for $3.33. inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/

vol 6 i.2 - Ink In Thirds

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald   Come explore vol 6, i.2...

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ICE has fatally shot an Illinois resident close to a school. Schools must be safe zones; ICE should not be creating this fear for our kids and families and communities- I join the IFT in calling for a full accounting

Illinois Federation of Teachers@iftaft.bsky.social · last yr.

Joint Statement from IFT President Dan Montgomery and West Suburban Teachers Union President Kyle Stern: Condemning ICE Agents’ Fatal Shooting of Franklin Park Resident https://www.ift-aft.org/post/joint-statement-condemning-ice-agents-fatal-shooting-of-franklin-park-resident

Why am I getting followed by a whole lot of "women" who love my posts and are just looking for friends? Do I come off as that lonely and forlorn? Or are these new friends really turned on by political/poetic/pedagogical content? Ah well, at least I'm reaching the bots.

Mr. Rove, Dr. Arendt would like a word: “Thought..is still possible [when] men live under the conditions of political freedom. [N]o other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.” Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. (1958)

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last yr.

Karl Rove: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. .... We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” (Ron Suskind, NYTimes Magazine, Oct. 17, 2004).

Violence begets violence begets violence. Peace is attainable by breaking that chain with critical thinking, discourse, and the promotion of mutual rights. If a group commits to violence, all the rest can do is practice peace, support others who seek peace, and work to persuade those who don’t.

My dog may be the only one in the house who is grateful I’ve been forced to lay flat all week due to the sadistic tendencies of my back.

There's probably a poem somewhere in being flattened by back pain. If I wasn't so drugged up, maybe I could find it.

Please check out my new poem (as well as the other fine work) in the new issue of MINYAN. (Special thanks to editor Liz Marlow.) It should be easy enough, just choose a psalm, any psalm, say #19 for starters… www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...

How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress | MINYAN

How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress from Issue Sixteen

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F25 office hours sign quote: “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.” --Hannah Arendt, 1954

The fall semester has started and my submissions, my writing, and my reshuffling of poems to try to make them make sense have all fallen dormant. This is the way of both poetic and economic work, but I need a slight moment to feel bad about it. Alas...