New poem with a heaping side of ekphrasis in @DenverQuarterly

I’m not here, but I wanted to drop my newsletter link over here—new chapbook 🖤 hawks, love poems, porch light, ars poeticas, blackberry. https://t.co/sx1sH5Qdc4

Today's Featured Poem: "Invocation" by Han VanderHart (@hmvanderhart), from Larks, published by Ohio University Press. Read here: https://t.co/LyQVavaMHa

I am just going to keep reposting this — -love — as a practice and concept is inherently anti-fascist …

Writing Love Poems is Anti-Fascist

"For the space of / this poem, I have only / thought of you // and several disasters." - @hmvanderhart's "Tornado warning of my heart on a clear day" https://t.co/vkmy3f9oQH

revise more and talk about yourself less. *takes a big drag on my existential cigarette*

last lessons before I slam down the piano lid: big ass lit accounts: stop punching down for more clout. new writers: stop publishing with flp. small presses: pay designers. & put your contracts online. notify submitters before announcing prize winners.

while I am here and being messy who the hell let Les Murray publish that final posthumous collection just because you died doesn't mean--ugh, sigh.

I can just say Triumph of Love, right. No fact checkers in this haphazard age.

dear nerds: I don't have twitter on my phone at all anymore. it is a blessing, period. but I need to ask if any of you can remember which Geoffrey Hill text cites the D.H. Lawrence Look! We Have Come Through 1917 novel title and YES I have been looking and googling myself.

The problem is the word “craft” is mysterious and unpacked (hello spooky season, ha. Write good sentences. Listen for sound. Look for images. Pay attention to everything. And play dear ones, play. ✨

Your chances of being able bodied your entire life are slim to none. It’s always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world

Behind the scenes at @RiverRiverBooks

"Where the unpredictability of the body meets weather is the world." - Stunning poems by Catherine Rockwood at @MoistPoetry. Amazing works. #poetry https://t.co/QKYbCZbxQx

Something I think that is very important in a writer’s home is unhealthy chips. no dried garbanzo beans or cauliflower puffs or dried kale or seaweed will do.

I’m not on here that much, but anytime you want a poet to visit your classes, holler at me 💙 My second book Larks comes out from @OhioUnivPress in the spring, and my published work so far centers memoir and writing whiteness/difficult family narratives.

Grateful, as ever, for the art & the generosity of poets -- poets like @hmvanderhart zooming w my Ss @GreenhillSchool Thx, Han, for your poetry & for your care with my Ss, who loved what they've read from your collection What Pecan Light! 🤠🫶🏼 (PS Link in alt-text for image!)