Jill Kitchen

oh man, if there are any totes left after, i'll order one from you!

Thank you so much!

I'm sorry you get it, but grateful not to be alone in this writers with chronic illness world!

trains are THE BEST.

Me, too! I'm an hour away, but a bad autoimmune flare and the whole parenting gig without much community is keeping me in DC. Sending love to you all! Hope you have an amazing time.

Nice! If I was there, this would be the first place I would stop!!!

Grave in the shape of a man staring up at a dismembered head he is holding in his hands.

My dead poems published in journals that no longer exist talking to my dead stories published in journals that no longer exist.

Oh, glad I saw this! Unfortunately I might be less likely to be able to attend for the whole event due to parenting/bedtime dramas at that hour. What is Not at NAWP, NANAWP?

"When I was a child, my mother told me to make my bed so that the shape of my body wouldn't be left upon it for invisible beings to find." Alina Stefanescu Imprints in absence... and a motif in raspberry. ALINASTEFANESCU.SUBSTACK.COM

I did... and I didn't. But raspberries stain the margins.

A link to my raspberry excess.
alinastefanescu.substack.com/p/imprints-i...

"We were adults in waiting, her with her English degree, me with my scars, neither of us ready to rejoin the world."

I really love this brilliant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙

This is so beautiful. Congrats, @barlowadams.bsky.social!

"I didn’t make a move because it seemed like trying to kiss the moon, so when she leaned in and put her lips on mine it momentarily broke the tides of my mind."

What a great progression from the moon to the tides! @barlowadams.bsky.social at the new @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

This Thursday! Come join us.

oh gods, i'm so, so sorry, majda. hope your dear mum stays safe. sending you all love and protection.

a blue-rimmed white bowl full of blue-purple italian plums surrounded by seeming hundreds of italian plums on a fern-patterned tablecloth.

how i imagine one builds a poetry collection:

woman with slightly longer than chin length dark red-brown hair covering one side of her face, one green eye showing, posters on the wall behind her.

once upon a brooklyn apartment, a guitar-strumming girl...

SWWIM Readers Eggie, Leila Farjami, Dani Janae, Arden Levine, and Susan Rich with photos of each poet.

THE READERS SWWIM Eggie Leila Farjami Dani Janae Arden Levine Susan Rich MER Eileen Cleary Jennifer Militello Carla Panciera Donna Vorreyer Karolina Zapal NELLE Saara Myrene Raappana (read by Halley M. Cotton) Zoë Ryder White Melissa Crowe Maria Nazos Kate Northrop Perugia Press Catherine Anderson Nancy K. Pearson Abby E. Murray Carolina Hotchandani Holli Carrell Whale Road Review Ashley Hajimirsadeghi Sally Rosen Kindred Annie Marhefka Yamini Pathak Jessica L. Walsh Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Jen Cheng Anya Kirshbaum Janet MacFadyen Dorsía Smith Silva Mona Zamfirescu

SWWIM MER NELLE Perugia Press Whale Road Review Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Present Off Site. On Purpose. dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (image of red rose) A reading featuring many of today's most inspiring women & nonbinary writers & poets Wednesday, March 4th 7:00PM (Doors 6:30) Westminster Hall 519 W. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21201 #AWP26

We are thrilled to highlight these five brilliant and talented SWWIM poets, as well as the wonderful readers of our partner organizations, at the upcoming “Off Site. On Purpose” reading next week in Baltimore.

Yay! I love following along. I think @majda.bsky.social has been to at least two of the shows!

As I find often with Louise Erdrich's work, I cannot at all predict what will happen next, there is always so much surprise. I also highly recommend her book The Sentence, which seems even more relevant now with what has been happening in Minneapolis.

what if the horrors have you made you forget how to even want or dream?

‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

I read the NYT interview with Gisèle Pelicot. What an incredible woman. I hope everyone will take time to read her thoughts here, as well as her book.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Thank you so much for the gift link to this.

since we’re living through the horrors, you might as well go after what you really want, like, swing big

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich.

In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls by Majda Gama

Self romancing is always the best!!!

I may have fainted when I read this amazing lineup!

Anti-Fascist Love Poem image, featuring the graphic of a black hand with red painted nails taking off its own handcuff. Text: Anti-Fascist Love Poem HAN VANDERHART DOMINIQUE AHKONG MICHAEL TODD COHEN Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA RITA MOOKERJEE AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON TARA SHEA K. IVER Baltimore, MD Saturday, March 7|7-9pm Fells Point 1640 Thames Street (use entrance to: 1636)

You like love poems? Anti-Fascist love poems? Erin Vachon and I have been working on organizing this reading to take place during AWP this year—hope you can join us. @erinvachon.bsky.social 🖤 💪