What is poetry to an American right now beyond identity politics

MER IN THE POETRY REVIEW! MER IN THE POETRY REVIEW! summer issue! cold climate poem! ft. curiosity around interpersonal intimacy, climate anxiety, and orcas! poem displayed lovingly in 27° scotland summer sun! thank u Wayne & Poetry Review Team for publishing with care 🤍🙏 @poetrysociety.org.uk

The Summer 2026 issue of The Poetry Review (116:2) is out now, featuring new poetry from Rachael Boast, Jemma Borg, Sean Borodale, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Ishion Hutchinson, Tim Liardet, Claudia Roquette-Pinto (translated by Stefan Tobler), Chloe Stopa-Hunt and Evan Wang among many others.

pleased (& honoured!) to have a poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social along with so many other brilliant poets I admire! thanks to editors sara and jacob for taking my poem, & for the effort of curating & amplifying literary work!

ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

bc World Ocean Day 💙🫍

“you joined the gang of neighborhood kids roving down to the softball field confession stand” My piece, “Summer of the Malaprops” is live today at @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social along with a really killer lineup www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026

Now available on our site: the ebook for Issue 10.2! We sold out of this issue so quickly that we're upping our print run for Issue 11.1, so thank you for subscribing to Foglifter and supporting queer and trans literature! 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102

It's issue day! This issue is full of incredibly creative, raw, and vivid pieces. A huge thanks to everyone who sent in work this window, and a super huge thank you to all the contributors! Cover image: Edward Michael Supranowicz You can check it out here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026

Belated on this issue drop / major thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for publishing my first poem of 2026 🫶🫶🫶

Full House Literary@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Featuring: River Vetter, @mairmacleod.bsky.social, @louisemather.bsky.social, @johnadlam.bsky.social, @fklein907.bsky.social, Tammy Pieterson, @gphydeauthor.bsky.social, Jeremy Giles, Noble Alobu, @iridescentwords.bsky.social

Cataloguing 2025 (media recs)

remarkable

Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍 You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-... (best read on desktop)

ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ@petrichorlit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Our Best of the Net nominees are in!

Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa

I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!! www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...

Meredith MacLeod Davidson Spring 2025

Hysteric       TUESDAY                 They arrived at the shore in the night, mist marring the coastal highway, puddles lying in wait, cellphone flashlights hurriedly flicked on to...

jetfuelreview.com

the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad

growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression

Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.

That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜

Anthropocene@anthro-poetry.bsky.social · last yr.

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by Meredith Macleod Davidson 🧺🫧

Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad. Share, DM 🌸.

WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP

Mair MacLeod@mairmacleod.bsky.social · last yr.

what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars

what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars

genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture

love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?

"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"

David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... @aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social

magic dusk moments

hello from the forest today 🤍

🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀

Abridged@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Afternoon, we have a very limited number of copies of Legion available from us, free plus postage and packing. See www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... for info. Or if you like what we do and can spare us a penny or two we'd be most grateful. All our projects are free but we do have costs. Ta!

Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.

Abridged@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

The new Abridged issue is now online and free to read! Go see at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1...!

Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜

Dust Poetry@dustpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

Today’s poem is Love Begins Off the Record by Meredith MacLeod Davidson. Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/love-be...