Traci Brimhall
@tracibrimhall.bsky.social
🖌️writer 👩🏻🏫teacher 👾parent Author of LOVE PRODIGAL ☀️ ♥️
Wednesday evening: come hear me and, more importantly, @tracibrimhall.bsky.social, #Poet Laureate of KS at Botanica's final PETALS & POEMS for Tulipfest! Koi Pond Pavilion: rain or shine; admission required. More info: botanica.org/kansas-autho... tracibrimhallpoet.com linktr.ee/juliebrin
Join us Feb. 24th for this In Conversation with Poet Laureate of Kansas @tracibrimhall.bsky.social and poet, editor and professor Marianne Kunkel! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...
In Conversation: Traci Brimhall & Marianne Kunkel
Frederico Garcia Lorca said “a poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.” And what better to way to be a teacher of the senses than by looking at food as a source of…
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Published today: a superb suite of poems by Traci Brimhall! bigother.com/2025/11/12/s... Cc: @tracibrimhall.bsky.social
Six Poems, by Traci Brimhall
Color Theory Before Newton used a prism to break light into color, Aristotle said everything was white and black. What could be simpler? The air— white. Water—white. Black was the color of t…
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The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀 #poetrypodcast #poetry open.spotify.com/episode/6phF...
Traci Brimhall: Love Prodigal
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“In today’s poem we see the private language of habits, desires, and boundaries unfold. I love how this poem gives us a glimpse into the private world of love,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore show. Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg
Read by poets TRACI BRIMHALL (@tracibrimhall.bsky.social), PHILIP METRES (@philipmetres.bsky.social), DIANNELY ANTIGUA (@diannelyantigua.bsky.social), and KELLI RUSSELL AGODON (@kelliagodon.bsky.social).
It Takes All of Us
This May, take a peek behind the publishing curtain. Come and meet the people behind the poetry; see how you directly impact the work we do.
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New episode alert! My talk with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social about her new book, Love Prodigal (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) is live! Get it wherever you find your podcasts!
"Resistance" by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social I must be the heavy globe of hydrangea, always bowing by summer’s end. Must be salt, like sadness at a burning city, an ethical disobedience. I must be
@tracibrimhall.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 2/26/25 at 7:30pm (EST)! Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....
Hey Madison! Come see @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at @artlitlab.bsky.social tomorrow (Sat)! Bonus pic of us below this!
Traci Brimhall@tracibrimhall.bsky.social · 2y ago❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️
❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️
"Poems are the best time machines humans have invented so far" - @erinwriter.bsky.social 👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision
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This was brilliant, thank you all. What @tracibrimhall.bsky.social says about personhood, expectations, their poems, just so much wisdom, struck hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision
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Back on the road next week for four events in the upper Midwest! Hope this good weather holds!
🐦⬛ Surviving another day with this stunner from Danusha Lameris’s BLADE BY BLADE. I loved that this book had the darkest hours and the most gorgeous hopes.
Jenny George is a master of concision. As someone who identifies as a tornado on legs, her ability to distill so much feeling into an image is so astonishing.
🐦⬛ new poem up at Poets for Science, which has a great online gallery of poems about lands, waters, wildlife, and natural wonders. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
Amor Fati - The Nature of Our Times
The vultures are a syntax of erasures, shadows stripping the deer’s body down to a crooked temple of bones. The poppies are out here getting away with murder because they know beauty is its own camouf...
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Tomorrow night, local friends! @chancedibben.bsky.social and I are so excited to host @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at the next Volta!
“I wanted to be entirely where I was, to notice actively rather than reflectively, to use my body to write and not just write about my body.” @tracibrimhall.bsky.social on how her poetry has transformed as chronic illness shifts the pacing of her life.
Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body
My calves ached with a pleasant pain. My hip ached with wrongness. I pulled the water bottle from the hiking backpack and poured some in the pop up bowl for the dog and took a long deep swig for my…
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