Michael Bazzett

Hey AWP'ers: What a blast Baltimore's been! I'll be signing copies of this little beauty at the Copper Canyon booth, tomorrow (Saturday), at 1:30... They've still got a half dozen left, and I'd love to see you! Hugs, knowing glances, earnest smiles, gentle ramshackle-ness, etc., will be on hand... ❤️

white supremacy.

AWP 2026 Author Signings

Thursday March 5th: Leila Chatti at 10:30 – 11:30 am I.S. Jones at 1:30 – 2:30 pm Friday March 6th: Kelli Russell Agodon at 10:30 – 11:30 am Christopher Kondrich at 1:30 – 2:30 pm Saturday March 7th: Natalie Scenters-Zapico at 10:30 – 11:30 am Michael Bazzett at 1:30 – 2:30 pm

Who else is excited for the AWP 2026 bookfair?! While you're there, don't miss these author signings at the Copper Canyon booths 1038 and 1040 on March 5–7!

Check out our complete author-signing schedule and stay tuned here for more updates on where to find Copper Canyon Press poets at #AWP2026!

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...from CLOUDWATCHER. Which is arriving in April. Like this poem. Yet also will never arrive, officially. Like this poem.

(Link to the Copper Canyon book page in comments... It truly does take a village, & I'm very grateful to mine, including so many of you.)

A photo of the Cloudwatcher book cover with text reading Forthcoming April 7

Cover Art: SeamlessOo Cover Design: Gopa and Ted2, Inc.

Forthcoming April 7: CLOUDWATCHER by MICHAEL BAZZETT, winner of the 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review!

In today's #coverfeature, BAZZETT tells us about the uncanny resemblance—and rightness—between his speaker, self, and cover figure:

I'm truly grateful that this is happening! (And I love this cover!) A thousand thanks @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social!

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

My friend Will wrote an essay about what's been going on the last few months here in MPLS, and it is beautiful, and absolutely worth your time... (And don't be fooled by the NY Times headline; it may well make you tear up... ...but in a good way.)

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I'm truly grateful that this is happening! (And I love this cover!) A thousand thanks @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social!

“The working title of CLOUDWATCHER was actually 'Autobiography of a Poet,' and when I saw the artwork that became the cover of the book, I heard a ‘Yes’ in my brain along with feeling a ‘Yes’ in my body. Is this my speaker, head in clouds? Is this my mind, replaced by a cloud? . . .

Cloud Translation "And where that cloud ends and other clouds begin / is open to discussion, and that conversation / is ongoing and unending"

Feed: "Palette Poetry"
By: Michael Bazzett on Monday, February 9, 2026

New poem just went live at Palette Poetry 💜 🌨️

New poem just went live at Palette Poetry 💜 🌨️

It's great news, and the crew at Conduit really know what they're doing, so this simply means you're very close... It will happen! 💜 Congrats, and persist!

An Oral History of the Flat Earth by Michael Bazzett — Passages North Editorial intern Brandon Hofmann on today’s short: Every once in a while, we—modern, scientific, logical people—examine and reconfigure our knowledge when we discover proof of new facts. However, the...

New poem at Passages North 💜 Much gratitude to the editors! @passagesnorth.bsky.social

Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.

I did not, unfortunately... Isn't it an incredible shot? I haven't been able to find the photo credit...

I was really excited to share this image of a particularly superb owl, given that today is #superbowl Sunday, but unfortunately, it soared away with its bedtime snack before I could get the photo...

An Oral History of the Flat Earth by Michael Bazzett — Passages North Editorial intern Brandon Hofmann on today’s short: Every once in a while, we—modern, scientific, logical people—examine and reconfigure our knowledge when we discover proof of new facts. However, the...

New poem at Passages North 💜 Much gratitude to the editors! @passagesnorth.bsky.social

World’s Richest Man Wants You to Know How Tough He Has It Seriously.

Maybe try being a human being and treating people as people.

Photos of Tread Upon by Christopher Kondrich, The Man in 119 by Kazim Ali, Cloudwatcher by Michael Bazzett, and Creature Feature by Dean Young in the snow.

Photos of I Was Bonnie & Clyde by Laura Kasischke, Transient Worlds by Arthur Sze, Accidental Devotions by Kelli Russell Agodon, and A Third Commonness by Robert Hass in the snow.

Photos of Breathe by Bob Hicok and Air by Daniel Halpern in the snow. Text reads "Learn more about our Spring/Summer collections (and preorder your copies) at coppercanyonpress.org

There may be six more weeks of winter ahead, but our Spring/Summer 2026 galleys have arrived, bringing the promise of warm days and illuminating poetry!

We can't wait to share these collections with you starting in April. For now, cozy up and browse the full catalog at https://bit.ly/4qXxgIE!

"Careful. // The universe has ears." ❤️

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3 poetry books: l to r: Michael Bazzett's The Echo Chamber, Danez Smith's Bluff, Saeed Jones' Alive At The End Of The World. Then 3 stickers from the(engine idling & a card with an owl that says "warm wishes"

Epic poetry mail day! 3 books from Minneapolis presses, ordered through a Minneapolis bookstore, plus a lovely note & some stickers from @dehm000.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social !

@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@milkweededitions.bsky.social

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