We can't believe our last In Conversation of 2026 is on Nov. 17th! Please join us to hear Wendy Wisner and Emily Hockaday read their work and discuss the juxtoposition between grief and parenting (and whatever else they discuss!). Free registration here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

In Conversation: Wendy Wisner & Emily Hockaday

Wendy Wisner’s newest collection, The New Life, came out in fall 2024 with Cornerstone Press, and Emily Hokaday’s newest, Blood Music, came out with Harbor Editions in February 2025.

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Don't miss your chance to hear @bernadettegeyer.bsky.social and Sylvia Fox in conversation on Oct. 20th! Both are currently in Berlin, so they're staying up late so we can host them! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con... As always, our in conversations are free, but you must register.

In Conversation: Bernadette Geyer & Sylvia Fox

These are writers who relocated to Berlin and made it their home. Both published books in 2025 (Bernadette Geyer’s What Haunts Me and Sylvia Fox’s Little Fish) and are highly influenced by ancestors…

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Super excited for this class and hoping it helps me take drafts I've left sitting in a notebook to a different level.

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Let's talk revision! What works for you? What doesn't? Does it intimidate you? We've invited José Angel Araguz (one of our favorite teachers) to lead a class in revision, specifically as a way to be curious. We'd love for you to join us! thenotebookscollective.com/event/revisi...

With September comes (hopefully) cooler weather and--even better--this In Conversation event with poets Nicky Beer & Catherine Pierce. So excited! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

In Conversation: Nicky Beer & Catherine Pierce

As poets, essayists, and teachers, both Nicky and Catherine embrace a practice of play. Far from being frivolous, or antithetical to serious and complex work, play can be an essential part of the…

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Let's talk revision! What works for you? What doesn't? Does it intimidate you? We've invited José Angel Araguz (one of our favorite teachers) to lead a class in revision, specifically as a way to be curious. We'd love for you to join us! thenotebookscollective.com/event/revisi...

Revision as Listening

Revision can sometimes feel like correction, judgment, or pressure to make a piece “work.” In this two-hour workshop, we’ll reframe revision as a practice of listening: a way of returning to a draft…

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Loving this conversation between Dorsia & Vincent on joy as resistance, water as a right, community & mutual aid. @notebookscltv.bsky.social

September 1st at Urban Artifact in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood, we'll welcome 2023 Ohio Poet of the Year @Rikki Santer & Founding Director @LitYoungstown @karen-youngstown.bsky.social (Karen is also a fabulous poet). If you're in Cincy, come on in and bring a poem to share in the open mic!

It was a sad affair, in every sense of the phrase. Taylor Byas 💙 our Poet of the Week

hello afternoon bluesky, i’m proud to have a poem in the latest issue of Four Way Review about pain, language, God, St. Teresa of Ávila, arrows, failure, and things I heard in creative writing workshops. you can visit it (and hear me read it!) here:

I CONSIDER WHAT TO SAY WHEN MY DOCTOR ASKS ME TO DESCRIBE MY PAIN by Emma Bolden

Nothing. I can’t construct a sentence able to withholdthe weight of it; I can’t explain or calculate the kind of weightI mean, what it is that I am with or holding. In high school a teacher explain…

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Blogged about #TheSealeyChallenge on @notebookscltv.bsky.social Patreon. Hope you'll read it--and tell me what you're reading this month! www.patreon.com/TheNotebooks...

The Sealey Challenge | The Notebooks Collective

It's August, which means it's Sealey Challenge time! If you don't know what the Sealey Challenge is, it's the genius brainchild of remarkabl

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We're back in August for what promises to be a fantastic conversation and reading with poets Dorsía Smith Silva & Vincent Toro. Learn more and register (for free!) here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

In Conversation: Dorsía Smith Silva & Vincent Toro

Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning, CavanKerry, 2024) and Vincent Toro (Hivestruck, Penguin 2024) will explore why their writing in these precarious times is essential…

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What an awesome Q&A with our 4th annual Spotlight Poet Mary Simmons and @notebookscltv.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the recording of the reading that followed.

Check out our interview with @marysimmons.bsky.social on our new podcast...Please let us know what you think!

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In this episode, Lisa and Rebecca talk with Mary Simmons, author of Mother, Daughter, Auger. We selected Mary as Solstice Creative Writing Program's Spotlight Poet for the July 2026 residency. Here we...

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Tonight! We'll be at the Solstice MFA Reading Series to chat with @marysimmons.bsky.social before her reading at 7:30 PM. You can catch the reading online - it's free! Can't wait to catch up with all these amazing folks!

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Join us for the fourth event in our July 2026 Reading Series, featuring faculty members @jennifermurvin.bsky.social and Laura Williams McCaffrey and our 4th Spotlight Poet Mary Simmons, nominated by @notebookscltv.bsky.social. Hang with us in person or tune in via the livestream: buff.ly/fViwAs7

We aka @notebookscltv.bsky.social are still very new to this whole podcast thing...planning episodes etc. I'm excited about the possibilities even with the pains of editing. Here's our first episode of Notebooks. Please take a listen!

Serendipity with Mary SImmons | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

In this episode, Lisa and Rebecca talk with Mary Simmons, author of Mother, Daughter, Auger. We selected Mary as Solstice Creative Writing Program's Spotlight Poet for the July 2026 residency. Here we...

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Join us for the fourth event in our July 2026 Reading Series, featuring faculty members @jennifermurvin.bsky.social and Laura Williams McCaffrey and our 4th Spotlight Poet Mary Simmons, nominated by @notebookscltv.bsky.social. Hang with us in person or tune in via the livestream: buff.ly/fViwAs7

A new #staybrave is live with Melissa Kirsch, the creative behind 'The Good List' newsletter at @nytimes.com Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...

'Stay Brave' with Melissa Kirsch

‘Stay Brave’ is an interview series by woman-identifying creatives for woman-identifying creatives to inspire bravery in the creative life. [Created and curated by Leah Umansky]

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Congratulations !!! We love you @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social

Lambda Literary@lambdaliterary.org · 5mo ago

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry: YEET! by Jason B. Crawford! @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Good morning to this beautiful review of THE VISIBLE FIELD in Radar Poetry! 📚 💙 Read it here: www.radarpoetry.com/review-the-v... @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

We love this poem! Have you tried this new form? Let us know!

Melissa Fite Johnson@mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You guys, I created a poetic form! @whaleroadreview.bsky.social just published my essay about the "lockbox" form and all the people who helped me build it. You can read "Estranged Lockbox" here! (Also, always an honor to be in WRR, one of my favorite journals featuring so many incredible writers ❤️)

So excited to have episode 2 of our podcast out into the world! Check it out!

Into a Darker Wilderness@intoadarkerwilderness.com · 5mo ago

Episode 2: Into Soft Memories with Michael Kleber-Diggs (@mkdordiggsy.bsky.social) Now available wherever you get your podcasts 🌿 Links available at intoadarkerwilderness.com/supporters/p...

New poem plus a thoughtful review of The Visible Field in the new issue of Radar Poetry! www.radarpoetry.com/issue-45-toc

Next Wednesday, @notebookscltv.bsky.social will host a reading in honor of Jenn. Please join us to celebrate her poetry and help us raise money for the Eastern Mass Abortion Fund. I'm so looking forward to an evening of love and solidarity and poems.

A Notebooks Reading for Abortion Access

On June 24, on the 4-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson decision, we will gather to honor late poet Jennifer Martelli in a reading to support abortion access. Jennifer was a fierce…

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June's In Conversation is between poets @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social & Callie Siskel. Join us on June 9th. thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

In Conversation: Keith S. Wilson & Callie Siskel

We are excited to host Keith S. Wilson & Callie Siskel in conversation about their recent books: Keith’s Games for Children and Callie’s Two Minds. Books that center absence and reimaginings. Keith S.

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May's In Conversation is between poets and artists Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza and Octavio Quintanilla. Katherine writes about their two books as singing together, or rather, “By sing, I might mean keen, not as a wild wailing but sometimes as a wild ceremony, sometimes as a ceremony in the wild.”

In Conversation: Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza & Octavio Quintanilla

Join us as we bring together two poets and artists from Texas, Katherine D. Oldmixon and Octavio Quintanilla…

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Happy National Poetry Month! We're celebrating by welcoming @gabbat.bsky.social & Sasha Waters for our April In Conversation! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con... (1/3)

In Conversation: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Sasha Waters

In this conversation poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi and filmmaker Sasha Waters will discuss Sasha’s American Masters documentary about Mary Oliver (forthcoming Spring 2026) as a means of entering into…

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Come see me next Thursday! As part of the Maynard Book Festival, I will be co-hosting a reading featuring Maynard-area and Lowell poets at 6 PM at Felixology, with a reception at Barrels & Vines at 4:30 PM. Learn more here: maynardpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/may...

Summer/fall '26 deadlines are approaching! Apply by May 11 (April 27 for fellowship consideration). Decisions in as few as 10 biz days if we have your personal statement, writing sample, and 2 recommendation forms. (Transcripts are due July 1 at the latest.) More info: buff.ly/9osPRIt

We're thrilled to host @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social and Callie Siskel on June 9. Link to register coming soon. In the meantime, check out this brilliant animation...

Keith S. Wilson@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Also here is part of the animation I debuted at the event. It's a transformation of a poem from my book called Linedance for an American Textbook

Didn't realize this had been published! Briana Reed did an awesome writeup of the design process of my book, featuring the arist who worked on my book (and cover!) Alex Guerra. It also covers the amazing convo I had with Chaun Webster & Douglas Kearney. milkweed.org/blog/changin...