I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...

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Plume’s recent issue is great. There’s a Kurt Cobain poem but this actually may have been my favorite

People on Nextdoor need to chill out. Headlines are like “What the hell was that?” And “I’m so angry right now!”

Every once in a while I like to scroll back through my poems and realize the ones I thought were great actually sucked and the ones I thought sucked were actually pretty okay

This little cactus

From Pushcart L “that blue-veined arrhythmia in a corncob of stars”

Nice poem @rustandmoth.bsky.social published last year. This is exactly what my oldest son used to do, list of people who loved him. It’s a nice practice for everyone, really

“As soon as you begin to ask the question, Who loves me? you are completely screwed, because the next question is How Much?” @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

Kids getting ready for bed, brushing teeth. My wife goes in and soon I hear (in angry voice) WHAT IS MICROPLASTICS???

In a new encyclical, Pope Leo XIV weighs in on artificial intelligence: “We are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Y2oE2a

“Is it winter in our city? The city with no name? Is it long ago?” D.Nurske

This is cool to see. William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral, has a poem in The Atlantic this morning: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

The Burden They Carry

A poem

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This 32 Poems issue is amazing. Every poem is my favorite. But this David Kirby poem is sooo good

I love this poem by Nick Lantz @rattlepoetry.bsky.social awarded their prize for metaphor. “A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life.” rattle.com/dolorimetry-...

Dolorimetry by Nick Lantz - Rattle: Poetry

A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life. On her birthday, he bought a gold ring for himself.

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I have to tell you

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

A 3D-printed ear trumpet

Grist has such beautiful issues. Cool to be in it with other writers I admire like @janezwart.bsky.social (whose book just arrived yesterday) feels like ages ago I wrote this but thanks to the journal for selecting it!

“Let me at least fail at my life.” -Jack Gilbert

New poem up on BOOTH. Thanks to the editors for publishing this! booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/t...

This poem… But also, the reading of this poem So good podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

1454: Katherine with the Lazy Eye. Short. And Not a Good Poet by francine j. harris

Podcast Episode · The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily · 02/11/2026 · 6m

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My 6 yo made all these little books and I realized they’re all haikus. A taster: Heavy, sad, down low, Caleb walked across the pine needles. His dog did not like it.

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

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance

Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

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this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Unsurprisingly, some work from the last decade seems once again to speak to this moment

Just a kid reading to his dog

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Just a kid reading to his cat

Spent the last 2 weeks being astonished by this James Tate poem from a book I checked out from the library (his “Shroud of the Gnome”):

“It's today. And death tolls continue to climb. You think I want the truth?”