I’m so excited to be teaching this 4-part Zoom workshop starting Sunday! Come join us!! (Tuition assistance is available.) Register here: iowacitypoetry.com/workshops/fo...
Form's Not Dead: New and Invented Forms
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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)
@daftrockwell.bsky.social
• queer poet • master of science fiction • cat parent • Godzilla enthusiast • MFA Iowa Writers’ Workshop MLitt University of Dundee https://linktr.ee/griffinrockwell
New poem in @redividermag.bsky.social! So excited to be featured alongside the other amazing authors in this issue. Here’s a snippet—check out the rest here (and def read the rest of the issue, too!): redivider.emerson.edu/three-body-p...
A teaser of my poem in this quarter’s issue! So excited and grateful to be featured again in Up the Staircase — you can read the rest of the poem (and everyone else’s great work!) following the links below.
Up the Staircase Quarterly@upthestaircase.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd then August came and brought us a new issue of UtSQ. www.upthestaircase.org
what's a better "after" than "—after the many torn shirts of Captain James T. Kirk"?? today from Elizander Espenschied: https://www.havehashad.com/lvu3p
IF ONLY WE HAD MEDICINE LIKE THAT TODAY by Elizander Espenschied
—after the many torn shirts of Captain James T. Kirk Every the opens his select around the His keeps this a simple His remove a replace his In this is a brief he catches his less the
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At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...
Greater Gestalt: An Interview with Griffin Rockwell
Author of LISTEN — A Poetic Creature, Out Now from Interstellar Flight Press
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A lovely interview about this groundbreaking poetry book. LISTEN is a treat for the SFF canon nerds and so subversive.
Interstellar Flight Press@interstellarflight.bsky.social · 11mo agoAt Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...
preorder my friend griffin’s latest specpo volume at a discount via bookshop!
Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)@daftrockwell.bsky.social · 12mo agoHow did I forget to do this? You can find it on Bookshop.org or Barnes and Noble (though, pro tip, it’s discounted on Bookshop right now)! bookshop.org/p/books/list...
Was an honor to blurb this wonderful book!
Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)@daftrockwell.bsky.social · 12mo ago“I had worked hard for nearly two years…” Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
“I had worked hard for nearly two years…” Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
TOMORROW!!!!!!
Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)@daftrockwell.bsky.social · last yr.It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
Was delighted to blurb this wonderful book!
Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)@daftrockwell.bsky.social · last yr.It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
Chicago! Tonight at 7! So excited to read with @nberlat.bsky.social, @saramatson.bsky.social, @ejoylevinson.bsky.social, and my wonderful co-author Elena Rielinger Ferguson!
this i really want to go to, because @saramatson.bsky.social & @daftrockwell.bsky.social in one beloved place together 😻 hell yeah
1st 2025 pub, ft. Creature from the Black Lagoon references, gender feelings, and shadow selves! Thanks @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for picking it up 💙 Find the anthology here: www.defunktmag.com/product-page...
Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders! Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text. Done! Easy accessibility.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2y agoUse alt text
Starting Perry Janes’ book “Find Me When You’re Ready” and having to pause in the prelude. Wow.
Apparently today is the day they hit the Breach. In honor of that, have a snippet from my abecedarian Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim—or check out the whole thing here: www.freezeraypoetry.com/gretchen-roc...
New poem in-the-world, rare rare for me this year. Beyond grateful to this circle for its soft landing. Here's to long-ago friends, escape vehicles so ancient they only had a tape deck, every too-young-nuthoused kid— and to you, still playing the hidden track.
Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW POEM #193: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me 'til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social) "nights you hear the unspool, the moment the hand lets go of the ribbon. How each throw scribbles the map." stonecirclereview.com/snapped-tapes
Hard to believe it, but my first semester at the Workshop is done. (Now that grades are in, it feels real!) Never could’ve imagined this is how and where I would end my year, but incredibly grateful to be here.
BLACK FRIDAY BOOK SALES 🧵 There are so many! Please add any that I missed.
One short message from a reader is all it takes to turn a bad day around. Want to drop an author a line? Please do so. Trust me, it means the world to us.
Thank you to @puneetdutt.bsky.social for including this prose poem in the new issue of The Ex-Puritan -- ex-puritan.ca/adventure-ar...
Adventure / Ars Poetica
Read Amorak Huey's poem "Adventure / Ars Poetica" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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“Nothing but the trees offered sympathy – their spindly arms reaching out as I tasted the new vocabulary of flight…”
Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · 2y agoICYMI: Our latest poem, the immersive "Dragonfly" by Christian Ward. 📝
This is a (belated birthday?) @tomsnarsky.bsky.social appreciation post!! Want to read lots of really lovely and varied poems you might never find otherwise? Want to experience the joy of bite-sized poems? Follow Tom and you will not be disappointed. ✨ Great if you’re joining this site for poetry!
Too many good quotes to pick one to pull. Read this!!!
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice)@seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 2y agowhat are you feeding to remember (from The Water Engine, 2021)
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