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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
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she/her | books: MUD IN OUR MOUTHS Northwestern University Press (2025), LOOK ALIVE Bull City Press (2021) | chaps: LOSSLAND Black Lawrence Press (forthcoming), FAMILIAR Madhouse Press (2024) + more | poetry editor Foglifter Press | luizaflynngoodlett.com
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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · Mar 15
Today’s the day—Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social is officially here (order: tinyurl.com/38s73wez)! It’s hard to access good feelings at a time like this, but I find them easily when I think of the love and support that surrounded me while I wrote this book 🧵🪡
MUD IN OUR MOUTHS: POEMS—large image of a black-and-white artwork by Valerie Hammond, a collage of an owl with a moth head sitting on a branch.
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💕 Now through December 7, you can vote for up to five literary magazines for Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Literary Magazine Awards. We hope you'll include us in your favs! Link is in our bio. 💕

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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Grateful to have a couple poems from my chapbook Lossland (forthcoming from @blacklawrence.bsky.social) in the new issue of diode alongisde poets I very much admire like @wrenhanks.bsky.social and @sophieklahr.bsky.social

Here's one of them. Read more here: diodepoetry.com/flynn-goodle...
Text of poem: It's Perseids season again, when a great darkness pours out stars; though they're imperceptible here in the city, we counted dozens once, craning necks beside an old logging road, the first break we'd found in the redwoods. Earlier, we ripped cardboard open to free a yellow cloud of wasps, so we wonder, can they see all this light falling? Do they even know they've left the box?
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Grateful for Ashton Freeman’s thoughtful, kind review of Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social in Waxwing:

"Flynn-Goodlett is telling us we have arrived at our destination. It’s time to follow her into the forest, to take off our shoes and fill our pockets with berries, too."

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A Review of Mud in Our Mouths by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Ashton Freeman
Another sweat-filled summer in a midwest state that knows exactly how to break my heart and I find myself turning to Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s Mud in Our Mouths. Not for comfort, necessarily, but yes–the...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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How about 40% almost our entire online store to ease you into back to school season? Use the code BACKTOSCHOOL40 to stock up on some books for the cozy fall reading days ahead!
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Send me some poems before the end of the month, please! Scholarships are available!
blacklawrence.bsky.social Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · Aug 22
There's still a little over one week left to work with our incredible August manuscript consultants! Read a bit about their approaches to editing here. As always, full details are on our website!
August 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Send me some poetry!
blacklawrence.bsky.social Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · Aug 9
Have a manuscript lying around that needs new life? Our manuscript consultants are here to give you comprehensive edits, feedback, and analysis so that your project can be the best version of itself. Click the link below to learn more!

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August 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I'm open for consultations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social through the end of the month! I've been at @foglifterpress.bsky.social for more than a decade, and I'd love to spend some time with your poetry! I'd also be excited to see some chapbooks in my queue!

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Poetry Consultations with Luiza Flynn-Goodlett - | Black Lawrence Press
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of Mud in Our Mouths (Northwestern University Press) and Look Alive (winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press), alo...
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August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Excited for you to get lost in this sad little nightmare of a chapbook!
blacklawrence.bsky.social Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · Jul 9
We’re thrilled to share that Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s “Lossland” is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in March 2027!

“Lossland” is a choose-your-own-adventure journey through the ouroboros of grief.

@luizagurley.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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"...an escape was impossible / from the start. It all keeps / going, takes you along for / the ride. With us. Always."

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, from "Seven Years After"
LOOK ALIVE
Look Alive by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett 55 pages, softcover ISBN: 978-1-7320399-8-8 Originally published by Southeast Missouri State University Press/Winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize
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July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Luisa bringing the heat…
June 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I’ve got a long-for-me poem in the new issue of @bellinghamreview.bsky.social

bhreview.org/articles/at-...
At Forty - Bellingham Review
You’re still barefoot in the creek as crawdads scuttle under rocks.You’re in the kitchen too, dogunderfoot as oil swirls in a pan. You’re in the treehouse
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June 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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TONIGHT—celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social and Pride and poetry!
luizagurley.bsky.social Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · Jun 12
Celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand in Alexandra Mattraw’s beautiful Berkeley garden! A nice place to rest your feet after marching all weekend 📚🌿🎉
Post for Mud In Our Mouths book launch celebration with photos of Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand. Tuesday June 17th at 1409 Derby St Berkeley
June 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Tomorrow!
luizagurley.bsky.social Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · Jun 12
Celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand in Alexandra Mattraw’s beautiful Berkeley garden! A nice place to rest your feet after marching all weekend 📚🌿🎉
Post for Mud In Our Mouths book launch celebration with photos of Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand. Tuesday June 17th at 1409 Derby St Berkeley
June 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand in Alexandra Mattraw’s beautiful Berkeley garden! A nice place to rest your feet after marching all weekend 📚🌿🎉
Post for Mud In Our Mouths book launch celebration with photos of Charlie Neer, Reginald Edmonds-Vasquez, Max Wheeler, and Rae Gouirand. Tuesday June 17th at 1409 Derby St Berkeley
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I've got a couple poems in the new issue of Painted Bride Quarterly. Here's one: pbqmag.org/luiza-flynn-...
Luiza Flynn-Goodlet: HOW HEAVY THE DUST - Painted Bride Quarterly
HOW HEAVY THE DUST Surprisingly light, as you lift him off clover—a small bird after all, monochrome save for chartreuse under his chin that dances down belly and wings; eyes closed, but not asleep, f...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I’ve got a poem in the new issue of Spoon River Poetry Review 🐧🐦🐤🪺
Spoon River Poetry Review cover with an abstract black bird surrounded by red flowers on a tan background MIXED FLOCK Deliver me from clocks' sinister tick, heat rising  from concrete in waves,  raised voices, and unto  nature, as plain-spoken  as a howl—where birds of various species settle  on blackberry bushes to   forage together. These words turn to sand in my mouth as the rock  at my feet, being only  itself, opens to geode.
May 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I’m on the radio tomorrow! Listen to a poem from Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social on KALW (91.7) in the SF Bay at 7:19 am during Morning Edition or at 3:48 pm during All Things Considered. Or listen to the New Arrivals podcast via their website afterward: www.kalw.org/newarrivals
New Arrivals
When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved th...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Meet our players (a.k.a. poets) #ArmenDavoudian,
@luizagurley.bsky.social, and #MiaAyumiMalhotra for this year’s #PoetryWorldSeries, taking place at the #MillValleyPublicLibrary next Friday, April 25 at 7pm. Book sales to follow.

Register here ⚾🧢https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/13742365
April 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Tonight!
luizagurley.bsky.social Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · Apr 3
Only a week away—celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, @milleroberman.bsky.social, and Jason B. Crawford at KGB Bar in the East Village NYC!

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Photos of readers for Mud in Our Mouths NYC launch—Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, Miller Oberman, jason b. crawford, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett.
April 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This Thursday! 📚✨
luizagurley.bsky.social Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · Apr 3
Only a week away—celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, @milleroberman.bsky.social, and Jason B. Crawford at KGB Bar in the East Village NYC!

www.eventbrite.com/e/mud-in-our...
Photos of readers for Mud in Our Mouths NYC launch—Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, Miller Oberman, jason b. crawford, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett.
April 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Only a week away—celebrate Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social with me, Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, @milleroberman.bsky.social, and Jason B. Crawford at KGB Bar in the East Village NYC!

www.eventbrite.com/e/mud-in-our...
Photos of readers for Mud in Our Mouths NYC launch—Alicia Mountain, Noah Arhm Choi, Miller Oberman, jason b. crawford, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett.
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Come say hi!
blacklawrence.bsky.social Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · Mar 28
At #AWP25 in LA? Stop by Booths 817 & 819 to meet our authors!
Details at blacklawrencepress.com/awp25/
March 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Swing by!
bullcitypress.com Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Mar 27
#AWP25 Luiza Flynn-Goodlet will sign LOOK ALIVE today 3/27 (1pm local) at our table T-304 AND you can get a copy of LOOK ALIVE for only $10 during our #AWP25 sale running now: bullcitypress.com/product/look...
March 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I wrote a little something for the @nupress.bsky.social blog. “Remember the sacrament of that first library card, winning the summer reading challenge, the feeling even now of picking up an interlibrary loan…” Read more here: nupress.northwestern.edu/blog/2025/03...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Come hang with me at #awp!

Offsite: Decadent and Defiant—Celebrating 10 Years of Foglifter (Tabula Rasa Wine Bar, 3/27 7 p.m.)

Panel: How to Serve Queer & Trans Writing: Learning from Ten Years of Foglifter (3/28 3:20 p.m.)
AWP social card: Offsite: Decadent and Defiant—Celebrating 10 Years of Foglifter (Tabula Rasa Wine Bar, 3/27 7 p.m.) Panel: How to Serve Queer & Trans Writing: Learning from Ten Years of Foglifter (3/28 3:20 p.m.) Bookfair Signings: Bull City Press (3/27, 1 p.m.), Northwestern University Press (3/28, 11 a.m.), Black Lawrence Press (3/28, 12 p.m.), Headmistress Press (3/28, 2 p.m.) Offsite: Decadent and Defiant—Celebrating 10 Years of Foglifter (Tabula Rasa Wine Bar, 3/27 7 p.m.) Offsite: Decadent and Defiant—Celebrating 10 Years of Foglifter (Tabula Rasa Wine Bar, 3/27 7 p.m.)
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM