@dorseycraft
Poet. A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (TRP, 2026). Plunder (Bauhan, 2020). Poems in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares. Agni Assistant Poetry Editor. Lecturer at UNF. Dreamboat Poetry Series Co-organizer.
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"'The Border Moves Through Us': From Minneapolis, 2026," a scroll curated by Senior Poetry Editor @jkwondobbs.bsky.social. Read her introduction here👇
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“Breastfeeding’s finally done, and I’m back / to getting high at night, feasts of crackers / and cheese, costume dramas, things that hold me / over so the days can keep repeating.” — @dorseycraft.bsky.social @narrativemag.bsky.social www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winte...
Shō Poetry Journal's nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award. Three different Sho Poetry Journal covers in a vertical column on the left. Listed in a wider column on the right are the nominees with circle-cut author photos, poet names, and poem titles.
Announcing our nominations for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award!
Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social
Maja Lukic @majalukic.bsky.social
Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social
Jeddie Sophronius
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social
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"Give me the purple spill
of euphony, soggy and throbbing. Salt me.
Sort me. Separate the water from the smoke."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
When my dad says my poetry is pornographic by @dorseycraft.bsky.social (2025 @adroitjournal.bsky.social) theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
The Victoria Ratliff show on ACC Network when?
✍️ AGNI at #AWP25 ✍️
👉 Reviews editor & assistant poetry editor @rmennies.bsky.social — The Personal Is Always Political — 1:45pm — buff.ly/v0aau6E
👉 Assistant poetry editor @izineh.bsky.social — The Politics of Imagining: Poetry as Social Practice — 3:20pm — buff.ly/bmrIBrz
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
If you fell for "drag queen storytime is bad for kids" for even one minute, shame on you, the people who tricked you are gonna take away your child's education and then force them to work at age 12 in an unsafe factory overnight where people lose limbs regularly
Just saw a teen waiting for the school bus flip off a passing cyber truck—thank you tiny anger angel
Find us at NAWP: an ostritch yells NAWP into the blue (sky) and in the orange frame are fictious panels for Parenting as a Poet: How to Write through a Shitstorm, a Virtual Salon: fighting FOMO with Puns. AND our very real online reading at NAWP online.
Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST
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Red poster featuring Dorothy Chan's newest book, Reign Supreme, and Avni Vyas
Jacksonville locals! Come on out for this 🔥 reading this week.
Literally told a girl I need jean shorts for dressier occasions and she understood because it’s Florida.
A chicken looks into the void, surrounded by viral particles. The virus is superimposed on the bird. It's both... threatening, but also, kinda looks like the chicken did LSD and is having the craziest night ever at the flu rave.
lmao oh no, when you google bird flu this is one of the top images. The face on the chicken is killing me.
If you are not already, pay attention to increasing attacks on porn even if porn is something you do not care for. The attacks, architected and carried out by zealots, are intended to broaden the classification of "porn" to include all sorts of speech determined "subversive" by zealots. This is what has drawn me to this community and fight. I'm not a porn super fan. "Obscenity" is long where this battle has been fought and sex workers are on the front lines of that fight. *Their* free speech battle is one you benefit from, fellow artists.
Don't get me wrong! I don't mean to distance myself from love and appreciation for smut, subversive art, literature, trash and more. I am a true fan of all of the above (in no small part because I also know and appreciate its role in the history of this struggle). But one should not feel they have to be a fan to appreciate what this fight means for the freedom of speech (especially speech including queer and feminist perspectives, which have often been grouped together as "subversive" and "dangerous" texts in the name of state censorship).
Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.
Acre Books call for submissions in poetry. Billboard sign reads January 1st to 31st Acre logo in white at the top of the page
Attention poets! Time is running out on our January submissions window. For details about how to send your work for consideration, visit www.acre-books.com. 📚🖊️✉️
My Hair Is My Thing by Natalie Shapero The symphony’s out of money again, and no wonder: all those violins, the twisted strands and sponges—who could not think of torture? Last week I read a novel about a man so awful that when he died I wept because it was fiction. I wanted it to be real so that he could really die. I wanted you to die also, and to be feted with a lengthy, organza-filled funeral, so that I could make a big show of blowing it off. I decided to go out and get a tattoo of your funeral with me not there, but apparently it’s illegal here to tattoo a person who’s crying. The trend now is to be interred with beloved possessions: pearl-trimmed gun, gold watch, whatever you’ve got. Some people recoil at the waste of it, but not me. These contused little objects of wealth—they’re disgusting. I just pray we have earth and shovels enough. I pray we have bodies enough to bury them all.
Natalie Shapero (from The Adroit Journal)
Grading finals and AI has made me feel completely differently about students who make a lot of grammar errors. I was never a stickler, but now I’m like, thank you, you are a hero in your humanity.
Rachel Mennies’ second book of poetry THE NAOMI LETTERS (BOA, 2021) held up in morning light, windows and hardwood behind, philodendron revolution, cat in a cat tree
If you love and miss Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social oh do we have good things in store for you at @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 🎙️📚 💙 #poetry #podcast
Amiri Baraka ♥️
It's hard to "move on" from a book that is so tethered to my mother's memory and the ongoing nature of my grief for her loss. Much gratitude to Cody Stetzel for this recent, smart review on BUFFALO GIRL for Salamander, and for keeping me there today.
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So grateful to @brandonyoung.bsky.social for including my poem “Suburbs” in the new issue of Quarterly West! Check out the whole issue here: www.quarterlywest.com/issue-113
Quarterly West issue 113 is now live! This is my last issue as the senior poetry editor, and as always this issue is no short of stunning. Read work from @chenchenwrites.bsky.social @aeheelee.bsky.social @jordanhamel.bsky.social @dorseycraft.bsky.social and more!
www.quarterlywest.com/issue-113
Applications for our 2025 Poets in Pajamas virtual reading series are open through December 31st! poetsinpajamas.wordpress.com/call-for-rea...
Victoria Chang
@victoriachang.bsky.social / @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Hub City Press is pleased to announce that @paradiselaust.bsky.social will judge the tenth biennial New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. The prize will now award an increased advance of $1,500 and publication to the winner. Submissions open on January 1, 2025. www.hubcity.org/news/derrick...
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A break from the gloom! Launch reading for Invisible Strings: 113 Poets respond to the songs of Taylor Swift, December 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST.
Here’s the link to register: writerscenter.org/calendar/tay...
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