FYI! Someone is emailing writers in my name from contact.meghanorourke@gmail.com, praising their work as editor at Yale Review & (eventually) steering them toward a paid service. It's a scam; don't reply, report it as phishing, and please share... I would only write from my official Yale account.

One and only cover girl moment in my life. Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this lovely review of THE STORY OF THE BODY, an anthology I edited gathering my favorite of poems of illness and resilience.

Thrilled to say my poem “Erasers” is today’s Poem-A-Day from The Academy of American Poets. Thank you, Charif Shanahan, for selecting it! poets.org/poem-a-day

Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl

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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Just learned: You can register now for a Goodreads giveaway of THE STORY OF THE BODY: Poems of Illness & Recovery, if you're interested. 💙 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book giveaway for The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery by Meghan O'Rourke Jul 30-Aug 27, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 30-Aug 27, 2026. A major new anthology of poems about illness and resilience—eighty...

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Meghan O'Rourke@meghanor.bsky.social · last mo.

Cover reveal! ⚡ I edited a poetry anthology: THE STORY OF THE BODY: POEMS OF ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, out this fall from W. W. Norton—82 of the best poems I've read on illness, medicine & caretaking. George Herbert, Sylvia Plath, Jericho Brown & more. please consider pre-ordering to support!

Cover reveal! ⚡ I edited a poetry anthology: THE STORY OF THE BODY: POEMS OF ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, out this fall from W. W. Norton—82 of the best poems I've read on illness, medicine & caretaking. George Herbert, Sylvia Plath, Jericho Brown & more. please consider pre-ordering to support!

Summer reading: I love this memoir-cum-story of a critic's origins by Brian Dillon. It's a book about grief and love and bewilderment--the best kind of book, in short! Comes out this fall from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

A new poem from me in @newyorker.com, about C-sections and children and Rothko. I hope you enjoy! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Sectioned”

“I wanted to sleep, / having been cut in half; / having been turned from one to two.”

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I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a news peg for a previous plea, that the Pulitzer board award the Miami Herald's Julie Brown a special citation, having missed the chance to give her the investigative prize years ago. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

Was an honor and a joy to judge the @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social in Memoir this year, and I'm so delighted that @appletwigli.bsky.social received the award for her stunning book THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW. I am also glad we could shine a light on the other finalists:

Tonight! This should be a really interesting conversation about writing past shame, how narrative nonfiction forms can create possibilities for complexity and understanding that others don't about of course living through and past trauma. The book is amazing. Come out!

Meghan O'Rourke@meghanor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm very much looking forward to speaking with Neige Sinno about writing past silence and taboo around sexual assault and more at the Pen American World Voices Festival. Her book SAD TIGER is a truly astonishing work. Come on by if you're around on May 1 at 8pm at the Church of the Village in NYC:

I'm very much looking forward to speaking with Neige Sinno about writing past silence and taboo around sexual assault and more at the Pen American World Voices Festival. Her book SAD TIGER is a truly astonishing work. Come on by if you're around on May 1 at 8pm at the Church of the Village in NYC:

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WIRED@wired.com · 5mo ago

The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...

A new piece from me at @atlantic: Modern medicine has diagnosis crisis, which isn't just about rare diseases — a huge number of people with #longCOVID, #MECFS, & more go needlessly undiagnosed b/c patients aren't listened to, as Alexandra Sifferlin shows: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

The Paradox of Modern Medicine

Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.

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"This is how meter is like mortality. Our lives are bounded by birth and death and punctuated along the way by the kinds of markers that biology and custom have established as roughly universal." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.

Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”

An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923

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I'm really looking forward to this online conversation with three writers I admire talking about writing and illness and celebrating 25 years of Bellevue Literary Review!

@blreview.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Four authors. One fascinating conversation.✨We're thrilled to welcome @meghanor.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social & Rebekah Taussig for a live online panel with BLR editor @danielleofri on March 26. Free - RSVP today! www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

Four authors. One fascinating conversation.✨We're thrilled to welcome @meghanor.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social & Rebekah Taussig for a live online panel with BLR editor @danielleofri on March 26. Free - RSVP today! www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

Elizabeth Bishop wrote sixteen drafts of "One Art." The first is practically a journal entry. The last is one of the greatest poems in English. What happened in between was play. I wrote a new Substack post on drafting, play, and forgetting what you know: substack.com/home/post/p-...

How to Write Better Drafts

What Elizabeth Bishop’s drafts can teach us about letting go and just starting.

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Thrilled to share that @yalereview.bsky.social has been named a finalist for two National Magazine Awards — General Excellence (in Science, Literature and Politics) and Fiction! I know how fierce the competition is. So proud of our small but mighty team and are amazingly hard-working writers. 🎉

Come do a workshop with me in Aspen this June at the Aspen Words Conference!

"my experience of being ill led me to see that our bodies may feel autonomous, but we all live in the nexus of radical interconnection." ~ @meghanor.bsky.social I just started The invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, and I can already tell it's gonna be good. #booksky #spoonie

One horrific thing about reading the Epstein files and the aftermath is not just the abuse, but the tone and scope: powerful men insisting on their own injury or blamelessness while propping up a system that treats women as collateral. This isn’t aberration but an intact culture.

A must watch. (And Shakespeare, my god: "Your mountainish inhumanity" is the perfect phrase.)

Kat Brown@katbrownwrites.com · 7mo ago

At about 22m in, Ian McKellan brings the Colbert studio to a total, rapt standstill with this speech, written by Shakespeare 400 years ago, of Thomas More to Londoners rioting over recent immigrants to remember themselves and welcome others. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

We need to reinvigorate books coverage in this country; the WaPo news is a very sad new development. But there is already a shrinking coverage in newspapers and magazines, and a real need to reimagine how we talk about and write about books

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

I wrote a new Substack about endings. It began as a craft talk but became something a bit broader — a way of thinking about why endings are so hard, and what they actually do. If you struggle with endings (don’t we all!) you might enjoy it: meghanorourke.substack.com/p/what-endin...

What Endings Really Do

A writer and editor's guide to shaping the last lines of your work — from Rilke to The Great Gatsby.

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Coming soon. Our Spring 2026 Issue. Subscribe by February 5 to receive your copy: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...

A bit late to the party about sharing this news, but so excited to be announcing our open-label trial of tafenoquine for treating chronic babesiosis! Babesia is a parasite that is often carried by ticks and it is a common co-infection alongside #lyme. investors.60degreespharma.com/news-release... 1/

Glad to see so many wonderful books on the NBCC prizes' short list, and many more I need to read; congrats to my friends Katie Kitamura and Kevin Young whose books I loved: www.bookcritics.org/awards/

Thrilled to share my poem “Changing Table” which is out in this week The New Yorker (Jan 19, 2026). It’s the first poem I’ve sent out in a while. Grateful to Kevin Young and @newyorker.com for publishing it! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Changing Table”

“The thing about children is: / they disappear.”

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