My third book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, is out now from @wwnorton.com. Please DM me if you'd like to purchase a signed copy. 🤍

My third book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, is out now from @wwnorton.com. Please DM me if you'd like to purchase a signed copy. 🤍

Our latest issue has four memorable new poems by @mayacpopa.bsky.social. The last movement in “Had We But World Enough” arrives with such precision and energy. Read it here: kenyonreview.org/piece/had-we...

Save the date for 8/12/26!!! Join the WPLS on 8/12/26 to hear David Baker, Gregory Orr, & @mayacpopa.bsky.social. Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST). Reading starts at 7:30pm. #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry #writers @wwnorton.com

Congrats @mayacpopa.bsky.social on your new book of poems! My copy arrived today, & I can’t wait to read!🫶🏼

“In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets / who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez / with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien.” Read “The Romantics,” a poem by @mayacpopa.bsky.social from the collection If You Love That Lady.

“The Romantics,” a Poem by Maya C. Popa

In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien. Where he withdrew his handkerchief and saw the death wa…

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My review of Maya C. Popa's new poetry collection IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: robertjtiess.substack.com/p/my-glowing... The book wwnorton.com/books/978132... MCP/LARB interview lareviewofbooks.org/article/maya... Opening poem substack.com/@mayacpopa/n... @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry #poets #books

My Glowing Review of IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: POEMS by Maya C. Popa

FIVE OUT OF FIVE STARS

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Grateful to The Atlantic for running this poem from my new collection, out in 10 days from Norton. I'm teaching a FREE class on July 25th at 1 PM as thank you for anyone who pre-orders the book. myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...

Grateful to The Atlantic for running this poem from my new collection, out in 10 days from Norton. I'm teaching a FREE class on July 25th at 1 PM as thank you for anyone who pre-orders the book. myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...

Post 3/3 Other links: Article midbrow.org/maya-c-popa-... Goodreads www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Substack mayacpopa.substack.com Other Books www.mayacpopa.com/books Maya's Conscious Writers Collective www.consciouswriterscollective.com @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry #poems #poets #books

Conscious Writers Collective

Writing

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Grateful to have four new poems in this issue of Kenyon Review. I wrote this one in Vamvakou, Greece, where I was introduced to the hawk moth (also called sphinx moth) after running from planter to planter thinking I was watching a rather drab hummingbird up close. 💛

We created a mini portal for anyone wanting to trial CWC for a week. It's been an amazing way to meet and answer new members' questions before they jump fully in. ✨ consciouswriterscollective.circle.so/forms/74b6b508

We have an EXTRAORDINARY National Poetry Month lined up in CWC. Join us this April—14 meetings, 200+ hours of past courses in the vault, 3x live workshops for feedback. www.consciouswriterscollective.com

It’s National Poetry Month! So take a poet to lunch. I’m speaking literally. 🥪 🍷 I don’t like poetry much. But I’d take this lady to lunch Even figuratively! I like her poems a whole bunch. —Yours, Lord

Maya C. Popa@mayacpopa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

We have an EXTRAORDINARY National Poetry Month lined up in CWC. Join us this April—14 meetings, 200+ hours of past courses in the vault, 3x live workshops for feedback. www.consciouswriterscollective.com

Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

The Blurbs for "If You Love That Lady"

And a note on asking for blurbs

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Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

The Blurbs for "If You Love That Lady"

And a note on asking for blurbs

mayacpopa.substack.com

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one. If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you: luma.com/27l7cemw

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one. If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you: luma.com/27l7cemw

Sylvia Plath:

William Bronk:

How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.

Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma

How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

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Robert Hayden masterpiece:

How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.

Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma

How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

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