BPJ in the wild! Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize winner Katie Farris and BPJ editor Kirun Kapur hanging out with the spirit of Emily Dickinson and celebrating Katie's glorious book in Amherst, MA. Grab a copy of A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving today!

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Brooklyn! See you tonight?!? 💜

This was such a beautiful

My kinda jokes

Not this year’s winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, but a woman grateful for the experience of a lifetime and for the many beautiful poets she got to meet!

Here’s to 2024, which I hope will feature this view mainly, from my writing chair. 💜

If your New Year’s countdown is not as lyric and exciting as this, I don’t wanna know about it. From the beautiful I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW by Abigail Parry

Happy Belated Gotcha Day to our two boys, Leo the ginger Maine Coon with ear flames and Mishka the tabby Siamese the shape of a bowling ball. Ilya Kaminsky & I were 9 months without feline company; 9 months too long. They are absolute love and joy and cat hair in my mouth.

So grateful for this brilliant review of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Godelieve de Bree , part of the Young Critics Program, a collaboration between the TS Eliot Prize & The Poetry Society's Young Poet's Network. Looking forward to her career!

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MATH-e-ma-TTACK

Noun

Being asked out of the blue to make a calculation you may or may not be trained or capable of performing. “She expected me to split the bill including tax and tip. A total mathemattack.”

#neologism #shouldbewords #nyt #spellingbee

Such an insightful and lovely review of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive! 🙏🏻🌲🙏🏻

I spent a lot of time resting in the shade of this beautiful cathedral in Odesa. I’m so grateful for this international solidarity. Like Mr. Rogers said, look for the helpers. Putin seeds entropy: May he be destroyed by it.

(John Denver voice)

Country toaaadds,
take me homeee,
to the place,
toad belongg,
OKLA-homaa,
toady momma,
take me homeee,
country toaaadds

WHO ATE THE PLUMS THAT WERE IN THE ICEBOX THAT I WAS PROBABLY SAVING FOR BREAKFAST?

This kind of material analysis gives me goosebumps. 🔥

Philly Friends, consider coming out tonight to distract me from the fact that my husband’s in a war zone! 😳

More importantly, to enjoy the work of the funny and the furious Olga Livshin and generous Sarah Browning Big Blue Marble Book

Hope to see y’all there!

I’ve got the candle lit for Ilya and everyone in Ukraine trying to survive and even, maybe, thrive under these conditions.

I’m on a non-fiction bestseller list? Neat!