I'm teaching a new writers.com poetry workshop soon! “Surprise! In Poetry: Building OOMPH into Your Practice” begins 9/23 and runs for 4 Wednesdays on Zoom, 7-9pm. Course description & enrollment info here. Join me! writers.com/course/surpr...
L.J. Sysko
@ljsysko.bsky.social
Poet • Books: THE DAUGHTER OF MAN (UAP, Miller Williams Poetry Series, 2023), BATTLEDORE (FLP, 2017) • Contrib. Editor, Tupelo Quarterly • Faculty, writers.com https://ljsysko.com/
In this BKR interview, poet Erin Belieu & I discuss resisting: the "wisecracking gal" label, workshop groupthink, & saying yes when you really mean no. Check out our interview & pick up a copy: @erinwriter.bsky.social COCKLEBUR: NEW & SELECTED POEMS! www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
In this BKR interview, poet Jessica L. Walsh & I talk about sobbing in a McDonald's parking lot post-book launch, ancestral jump scares, & selecting both responsibility & realism. Check out our interview & @jessicawalsh.bsky.social latest book: BLOWDOWN. www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
I've got a new poem in RHINO! "Middle age has a branding problem" is the first poem to blink into the light from my new collection about menopause and mid-life. Thank you to @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for selecting my poem for publication! #menopause #menopausepoetry #midlife #teachers
Join me Sundays in February for my new writers.com poetry workshop! I’m excited to launch this generative workshop full of personality and play! Enrolling now!
LIT YOUNGSTOWN, look out! 😎😍👀 @lityoungstown.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social @ninandrews.bsky.social
Dustin Brookshire (he/him)@dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 12mo agoCan’t wait to read at @lityoungstown.bsky.social with my friends Nin Andrews, @benkline.bsky.social, & @ljsysko.bsky.social! Join us for a pop culture infused reading on Friday (10/17) at 3pm!! #poetrynews #poetrysky #poetry #poets #writers #popculture
In TQ36, Donna Stonecipher munches the madeleine and spills the tea on prose poems, her 6th grade haiku habit, and resisting the urge to make poems "capital 'P' poetic." Check out our chat, online now.
It was my honor to assemble a 100th birthday tribute to great American poet Gerald Stern with contributions by Derricotte, Gay, Hirsch, Macari, McGrath, Montilla, Moscaliuc, Ras, Salerno, Stern, Waters, and me! In Tupelo Quarterly TQ36. Online now.
What a damn joy to be interviewed about fashion by @charlesjensen.bsky.social! Thank you for the FUN, Charles! (My mailman is still a little dubious about the sequins at noon, but he’ll recover, I think.)
Charles Jensen@charlesjensen.bsky.social · last yr.The radiant @ljsysko.bsky.social stops by Writer’s Style Guide today to discuss gowns, billowing drapes, and the primacy of silhouette and structure! charlesjensen.substack.com/p/writers-st...
I'm bowled over by this story--every paragraph in this article is food for deep thought... www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Seattle author who won a Pulitzer for her first book says she’s ‘one and done’
After spending 10 years working on her first book, “Feeding Ghosts” — and winning, to her astonishment, a Pulitzer Prize — Tessa Hulls says she’s never writing another book.
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@lityoungstown.bsky.social here we come! Very excited to join @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & @benkline.bsky.social & Nin Andrews in October in Ohio!
Dustin Brookshire (he/him)@dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m joining Nin Andrews, @benkline.bsky.social, & @ljsysko.bsky.social for a pop culture reading that will include a brief discussion. Beth Gylys & I have a villanelle presentation that that is based on my Converse University Low Residency MFA research paper. Woot! Woot!
Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2y agoThat article is here: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...
Happy 212th birthday to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice 🎉 Shall we take a turn about the room to celebrate?
Shakespeare's 12th Night is five acts of Failing Dry January.
Please join me for a solo poetry reading. Thanks to CallingAllPoets.net for inviting me. See you Thursday, 1/16/25 @ 7pm? (Zoom link on my website's News page.) I'm not sure which new poems I'm reading yet, but I know this...if you're there and wearing a fleece onesie, I'll ship you a free book.
Two starter packs of mostly poets & poet-adjacent people and journals to follow. Remember that any starter pack is just that: a place to start. Won't include everyone. Seek out your people. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ go.bsky.app/ThphD9V
…our country’s founding Karens…from my book The Daughter of Man.
What a fun and warm space to read poetry is @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Night Light reading series❣️ We had a great time, and I feel like it shook me out of a spell of poetic vertigo, too. Brb--off to write my "Carp and Clitoris" British pub grand opening poem 😎
Tom Snarsky@tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2y agolast night’s reading was a complete joy!! here is the recording of @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social, @ljsysko.bsky.social, @jebloemeke.bsky.social & @benkline.bsky.social bringing the house down with their heartbreaking, musical, funny, excellent poems :) give it a listen! youtu.be/gBEJAy9MYSc 💡
How fun is this? Pie Lady Books turned THE DAUGHTER OF MAN into pie!
Next Tuesday! Jump on! I'm thinking of spilling tea about best / worst workshop advice between poems. 😎😁
Tom Snarsky@tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2y agovery excited to be hosting @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social, @ljsysko.bsky.social, @jebloemeke.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social, & Aaron DeLee on Thursday 5/9 at 9PM Eastern! register via Zoom here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💡
A little poem snippet from me to you on this Monday. Kintsugi + trauma from THE DAUGHTER OF MAN.
Oops. Posted this from my personal account instead of the series. Sorry! Register at the link for @ljsysko.bsky.social on Nov. 16!
Donna Vorreyer@djvorreyer.bsky.social · 3y agoNov 16 feature @ljsysko.bsky.social L.J. Sysko is the author of THE DAUGHTER OF MAN (2023, University of Arkansas Press), a Miller Williams Poetry Series book selected by Patricia Smith, and BATTLEDORE (2017, Finishing Line Press). Register for the link! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This book review! 👀🔥 Thanks to Ellie Black and Colorado Review! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
The Daughter of Man - Center for Literary Publishing
$13.46 Buy Book About the Book Author: L. J. SyskoReviewed By: Ellie BlackGenre: PoetryPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublished: 2023Pages: 124 Book ReviewForgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sys...
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Here we go @hphseries.bsky.social!
A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series@hphseries.bsky.social · 3y agoWe're coming to the end of our second year of readings, and November 16 bring the autumn abundance of FOUR poets. Join us to hear Ariana Benson, Matthew Thorburn, @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social & @ljsysko.bsky.social Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Did I mention that my book is cooler than me? It was There and I was Home and, well, here’s the dang photo.
If you’re a poet coming in from Twitter reply here and tag the poets who’ve also joined, let’s rebuild!