Today on the site we’ve got a fresh new interview with Emily Lapomardo and @sandrabeasley.bsky.social about disabled literary community, tectonic shifts in identity and representation, and ways to show up for crip community! www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is a prominent DC-based writer and activist who has published four poetry collections and a memoir. She often centers disability at the forefront of her work, combining personal experie...

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News: In July, I became the Editorial & Digital Content Manager for The Phi Beta Kappa Society. I'm thrilled to join a comms team making the case for the arts and sciences all day, every day. I've worked for Phi Beta Kappa twice before, and my office (back to Dupont Circle!) already feels like home.

Reminder

3 contemporary food memoirs—3 Mondays evenings in June. Come discuss these amazing books by John T Edge & Bee Wilson & Michelle Zauner with us through @politicsprose.bsky.social via Zoom! I don't know about you, but reading is what gets me writing. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

ONLINE CLASS: Reading Contemporary Memoirs of Food & Culture (2646)

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I closed out last year by writing a little post for Chicks Dig Poetry (keeping the lights on, stubbornly) and sending out four applications for creative writing residencies. 2025 was a brutal year! But you're here. I'm here. Let's try to change our luck together. sbeasley.blogspot.com

My favorite reads of 2025 with books by (among others) @israelbonilla.bsky.social @sandrabeasley.bsky.social @juliafspa.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @morgantalty.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social

My favorite reads of 2025

In no particular order, my favorite reads of the year: Sleep Decades by Israel A. Bonilla The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton Made to Explode: Poems by Sand...

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Hooray for All These Ghosts! Silas House's collection is the Top Book of 2025 at Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA (H/T for their photo). This kind of recognition is so important in independent publishing—congrats to Silas & the @blairpub.bsky.social team, where I'm proud to serve as poetry editor.

Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...

An Appetite for the Page with Sandra Beasley | Poet Camp

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It's time, poets! Last chance to submit for the Wren Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1K advance against royalties and gets to work with Blair. No reading fee. Send in by Saturday, Nov 15—but note, the portal will close early if we reach 300 submissions first!

Hey there! I'm the final judge of this year's Wren Poetry Prize for @BlairPublisher, and we're looking to give a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd collection of poems a great home. Is it yours? NO reading fee. Get your entry in soon—at 300 submissions, we close the Submittable portal. blair.submittable.com/submit

Blair / Carolina Wren Press Submission Manager

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Looking for book-ish community & convo in August? Join our @politicsprose.bsky.social seminar on contemporary memoir—we'll read Kiese Laymon's HEAVY, Chloé Cooper Jones's EASY BEAUTY, and Hua Hsu's STAY TRUE. 3 Mondays (8/11, 8/18, 8/25), 6:30-8 PM ET over Zoom. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!

I was sitting on my porch in the rain and remembered my favorite poem with a veranda in the rain, and I initially couldn’t find it, so here it is for the good of everyone. Vocation by @sandrabeasley.bsky.social

The only thing better than having my book in a vending machine of DC authors would be if our books were piled in a big heap and you had 15 seconds to manipulate a claw to pick one at random. (LitBox 2.0?) Looking forward to the LitBox launch this Saturday (5/17) with Martha Anne Toll & Kyoko Mori!

"I can't decide which / catfish is frying, history or memory, in the skillet." Happy pub day to @stevenleyva.bsky.social for THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY from @blairpub.bsky.social!

The Opposite of Cruelty, poems by Steven Leyva — Blair Publisher

Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.

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“You hit on me. You hit on everyone. / You pour gallons of lightning punch / into a trash bag, explaining that sobriety / is just a 2 AM Waffle House away.” — @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, “Love Poem for College” www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefif...

Was heading home last night from hearing Anne Carson read in Georgetown University and saw this tree. It's about to get worse. We need to fight. But also, there is still joy in the world, and we need to honor that too. Thank you to whoever makes sure this tree is doing what it is doing.

Pableaux Johnson had many gifts—cooking skills, generosity of spirit—and absolutely irreplaceable talent as a photographer. People lit up for his camera (like I did, at a Southern Foodways Symposium) because of who was behind the camera. You are so missed, friend. www.foodandwine.com/pableaux-joh...

2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...