Very happy to be among friends in the new issue of Shō

Shō Poetry Journal@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Cover reveal: Shō No. 9 | Summer 2026 Cover art: “Past Looking” by Nara Allsop Our summer issue features 69 poems by 45 poets (listed below). Preorder Shō No. 9 at: tinyurl.com/shono9 Issues will ship in July. Conal Abatangelo Jessica Ballen Anne Barngrover Madeleine Bazil Finnegan Bly

Today I'm saddened to hear of the loss of Jools Topp. The Topp Twins have been lifelong icons of community spirit and a better, brighter, more inclusive New Zealand. I wrote this poem a few years ago for an event honoring our queer ancestors, later published with Cordite. Photos via RNZ

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

Oh those final words. From Ursula K. Le Guin's Collected Poems. #poem #booksky #writing

Very happy to see this mushroom-foraging poem in the Missouri Review! A love (hate) letter to sultry summers in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

Busting out my one Kiwi Christmas poem for our southern summer solstice..... Barbecues and beers and sunburn and pōhutukawa in full flower oh my

Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...

There will be Books

Nick Ascroft@assscroft.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Christchurch! Next Friday, 24 October at 6pm at Scorpio Books. Wellington’s least annoying poets will read while you eat cheese. Ashleigh Young! Rebecca Hawkes! Stacey freaking Teague! Erik Kennedy?! Oh and me-sir. IT’S WHAT THEY WOULDA WANTED. Part of the nationwide celebration of my new book. 🍷

Reading in Christchurch tomorrow to launch our Nick's new book!!!! He has been redirected via mighty Timaru!!!!!!The flights have been nightmarish but you can mosey right on in to Scorpio (it won't be windy any more, they put that on just for us)

Nick Ascroft@assscroft.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We’ve come along way, though a hurricane. Please come to the reading/launchette at Scorpio Books on Friday (24 Oct), 6pm.

Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)

Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁

Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖

Merciless troll lord@gorsebloom.bsky.social · last yr.

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

Beasts of humidity

ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️‍🔥 sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...

Sixth Finch@sixthfinch.bsky.social · last yr.

Our spring issue is live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @meganalpert.bsky.social @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @timothyliupoet.bsky.social @thatjanemorton.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @dia-roth.bsky.social @pagestar.bsky.social and more

Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️

Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!

learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

God would still love you if you were a worm

Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree

Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem

HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.

sad but also beautiful new one today from Rebecca Hawkes 🐶🐶🐶 "The sea is chasing something in its sleep and all the dogs we cannot see awaken to start barking their good news through the cabins." https://www.havehashad.com/1xq2q

On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection. [MS 2087]

a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...