Locomotive Cathedral (poems) March 2025 from @BackwatersPres @UnivNebPress and Best American Poetry 2024. Work in @32_Poems @SouthernHReview @conduitmagazine
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"Amble in one direction—there’s no loop trail in these woods." Read Brandel France de Bravo's (@BFdeB) prize-winning poem "The Five Remembrances" today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/fe…
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DEAR WALLACE by Julie Choffel addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility.
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Congrats to the 2026 swamp pink Prize Winners!
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Tomorrow (6/2), join Caroline Bock for THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - a workplace love story unlike any other - 7pm @ Conn Ave: politics-prose.com/caroline-…
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Thank you @ilanot_review for giving a home to my WHOLE sonnet crown about “lasts.” All seven sonnets here: ilanotreview.com/a-formal-fe…
Thanks @miracle_monocle for giving a home to three of my hybrid “Redactions and Annotation”! Read the whole miraculous issue here! miraclemonocle.com/issues/is…
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The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1. This year's contest is judged by Diane Seuss, the author of six books of poetry, including MODERN POETRY (2024) and FRANK: SONNETS (2021). wp.me/p4J9AE-j87
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"LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL speaks to the tension between my desire for stillness/eternity and the unstoppable propulsion of change," says @BFdeB in an interview with @TupeloQ.
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In LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL @BFdeB builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth.
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It was always
an empty bottle.
We were always
the dark.
Ardor is still
random and dizzy
and someone turns
the lights on
and the room
without the bottle
keeps spinning.
—Andrea Cohen, “Spinning the Bottle” @DiodeEditions @FourWayBooks diodepoetry.com/cohen_andrea…
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Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa dropped their newest podcast episode!
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Tuesday, May 27, at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD at 7 pm. I'll be reading and in-conversation with two highly acclaimed poets: Jennifer Martelli from MA and Subhaga Crystal Bacon. writer.org/event/bacon-franc…
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My newest poetry collection, MONSTER GALAXY, releases April 30th (MoonPath Press)! Preorders at Bookshop.org are discounted!
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Live in the DMV? Join me for my DC book launch at Connecticut Avenue Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse on Saturday, April 26 at 5 pm. The train is pulling into the station for National Poetry Month. April 26 is also independent book store crawl day.
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We are hosting SIX, count 'em, SIX amazing readers to celebrate National Poetry Month. Register at the link to hear these poets!
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