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Griffin Rockwell (xe/they)
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• queer poet • master of science fiction • cat parent • Godzilla enthusiast •

MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

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interstellarflight.bsky.social
At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...
Greater Gestalt: An Interview with Griffin Rockwell
Author of LISTEN — A Poetic Creature, Out Now from Interstellar Flight Press
medium.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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hollylynwalrath.bsky.social
A lovely interview about this groundbreaking poetry book. LISTEN is a treat for the SFF canon nerds and so subversive.
interstellarflight.bsky.social Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 16d
At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...
Greater Gestalt: An Interview with Griffin Rockwell
Author of LISTEN — A Poetic Creature, Out Now from Interstellar Flight Press
medium.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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divinetailor.bsky.social
preorder my friend griffin’s latest specpo volume at a discount via bookshop!
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Was an honor to blurb this wonderful book!
daftrockwell.bsky.social Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Oct 11
“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”

Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
Griffin’s new chapbook, “LISTEN—“, lays on top of a collection of science fiction-related patches on a black background.
October 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”

Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
Griffin’s new chapbook, “LISTEN—“, lays on top of a collection of science fiction-related patches on a black background.
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
TOMORROW!!!!!!
daftrockwell.bsky.social Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5
It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
Cover art for Griffin Rockwell’s forthcoming book “LISTEN—“ which features an androgynous person staring at the viewer, outlined in purple, with a starry background.
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Was delighted to blurb this wonderful book!
daftrockwell.bsky.social Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) @daftrockwell.bsky.social · Sep 5
It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
Cover art for Griffin Rockwell’s forthcoming book “LISTEN—“ which features an androgynous person staring at the viewer, outlined in purple, with a starry background.
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
It’s real and it’s coming soon—on Oct. 6, my latest chapbook will release!! This is a love letter to discovery and science fiction and the first book-length poem I’ve written. Preorder now here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/listen.html and join us at the Zoom launch party on Oct. 6!
Cover art for Griffin Rockwell’s forthcoming book “LISTEN—“ which features an androgynous person staring at the viewer, outlined in purple, with a starry background.
September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
Chicago! Tonight at 7! So excited to read with @nberlat.bsky.social, @saramatson.bsky.social, @ejoylevinson.bsky.social, and my wonderful co-author Elena Rielinger Ferguson!
Poster advertising a reading tonight at 7pm in Chicago with Noah Berlatsky, Griffin Rockwell and Elena Rielinger Ferguson, Sara Matson, and Elizabeth Joy Levinson. Address is Pilsen Community Books at 1102 W 18th St, Chicago IL 60608.
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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divinetailor.bsky.social
this i really want to go to, because @saramatson.bsky.social & @daftrockwell.bsky.social in one beloved place together 😻 hell yeah
an e-flyer for a ghost city press summer series event at pilsen community books, 8-18 at 7 pm, featuring noah berlatsky, elena rielinger fergusen, elizabeth joy levinson, sara matson and griffin rockwell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
1st 2025 pub, ft. Creature from the Black Lagoon references, gender feelings, and shadow selves!

Thanks @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for picking it up 💙

Find the anthology here: www.defunktmag.com/product-page...
Picture of thr Creature from the Black Lagoon swimming under a woman, with this text overlaid: From “I Go Looking For My Shadow Self—Lose Her” in the Defunkt surreal confessional anthology. Poem excerpt reads: “My body is an old black and white movie, a lagoon with a creature stirring in its depths. I dream my shadow self swims beside me, silhouette tenuous against the water’s edges.”
May 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders!

Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.

Done! Easy accessibility.
November 25, 2024 at 10:05 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
Starting Perry Janes’ book “Find Me When You’re Ready” and having to pause in the prelude. Wow.
Poem by Perry Janes, titled “Love Poem as Trojan Horse.” Poem reads: The forest fires above Los Angeles have crept down The hills overnight, where this morning their scorched Sunrise rouges my fiddlehead fern. Sometimes Hope is a question of redirecting the camera. A friend tells me he has to trick himself into feeling Anything but numb for the world. What won’t burn? Not the patchwork quilt Tina bought For our engagement. Not the brewery growlers Stacked along our wine crate bookshelves, teacups Glazed with our fingerprints. The fake stars Glued to our ceiling in constellations forever Spelling fortune. Not the anything we truly cherish— I used to prize clarity without compromise. I used to want suffering center-stage, well lit In the lens. Now, it’s changed. So many Routes in the heart’s city, steadily walled. So much need for a gentle hand pulling Focus from one fire to another, the tug That leads me from my window out Into the night, our night, a blanket Tossed around our shoulders, full Bellies swaying, her body stamped On mine as we stumble to the gates. If it must be ruin, if it must come To ruin: Love, open me.
January 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
Apparently today is the day they hit the Breach. In honor of that, have a snippet from my abecedarian Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim—or check out the whole thing here:

www.freezeraypoetry.com/gretchen-roc...
Excerpt from Griffin Rockwell’s “Self-Portrait as Pacific Rim,” which reads: Adaptability / has always been an asset / Building ourselves / new bodies / new strength Cherno coyote crimson Corinthian chrome Danger / the names we give ourselves / matter Exoskeletons / are as strong as / we make them Fighting unwinnable wars / every apocalypse more Grim than the last / we think of ourselves / as beyond Human / we already see a body / as something bigger
January 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
New poem in-the-world, rare rare for me this year.
Beyond grateful to this circle for its soft landing.

Here's to long-ago friends, escape vehicles so ancient they only had a tape deck, every too-young-nuthoused kid—

and to you, still playing the hidden track.
stonecirclereview.bsky.social Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Dec 28
NEW POEM #193: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me 'til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social)

"nights you hear
the unspool, the moment the hand lets go
of the ribbon. How each throw scribbles the map."

stonecirclereview.com/snapped-tapes
December 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
Hard to believe it, but my first semester at the Workshop is done. (Now that grades are in, it feels real!) Never could’ve imagined this is how and where I would end my year, but incredibly grateful to be here.
Griffin stands in front of a sun setting behind a University of Iowa building. They are wearing a teal shirt and cicada collar pins and smiling.
December 24, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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anthonyframe.bsky.social
Girl in foreground labeled "6 new poem ideas", boy in midground labeled "me" looking at girl in foreground, and another girl in the background labeled "the poem I spent over a month figuring out and am finally starting to make headway on" looking angry at the boy
December 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
I'm the poem of the day at @swwim.bsky.social 🥺

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SWWIM
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December 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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adamg.bsky.social
BLACK FRIDAY BOOK SALES 🧵
There are so many! Please add any that I missed.
November 29, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
One short message from a reader is all it takes to turn a bad day around. Want to drop an author a line? Please do so. Trust me, it means the world to us.
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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amorak.bsky.social
Thank you to @puneetdutt.bsky.social for including this prose poem in the new issue of The Ex-Puritan --

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Adventure / Ars Poetica
Read Amorak Huey's poem "Adventure / Ars Poetica" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
“Nothing but the trees offered sympathy – their spindly arms reaching out as I tasted the new vocabulary of flight…”
November 26, 2024 at 7:28 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
This is a (belated birthday?) @tomsnarsky.bsky.social appreciation post!! Want to read lots of really lovely and varied poems you might never find otherwise? Want to experience the joy of bite-sized poems? Follow Tom and you will not be disappointed. ✨ Great if you’re joining this site for poetry!
November 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM
daftrockwell.bsky.social
Too many good quotes to pick one to pull. Read this!!!
seagoatscreams.bsky.social SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · Nov 26
what are you feeding to remember

(from The Water Engine, 2021)
A poem in a book, a hint of bright orange fish in a repeating pattern behind. Feeding the koi You save the crusts from the good brown loaf, not truly stale, but tired. On your early walk through the city gardens, there is a patient round mirror to crumble them into, and in it an unfamiliar creature, folded and loose in his aspect. He watches you from the water. You have never met his eyes, although you sense they are kind. This morning, autumn has nodded last orders at the trees and the ember of the squalling sun catches a plume at his throat, and his blur blushes bright - young with reborn flame. In the dry world the wind arrives to spread the blaze outward in ripples from the man standing, the man lying, with his hands full of burning bread, and when the fish surface their mouths make round holes in his body. In one tiny circle after another the fire goes out. Cool water —O O O— welling dark and smooth from the gut. It was always the truth. What feeds on us that steals our fire. What we feed to remember what we are.
November 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
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Four poetry titles: GEOGRAPHY THAT DOES NOT HURT 15 CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA AN EYE IN EACH SQUARE LAUREN CAMP Dean Memphis Edelman Bullet points a lyric jennifer a sutherland River River Books
November 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM