David Leftwich
@davidleftwich.bsky.social
Dad/cook. 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book winner: at dawn, the first of the first to sing, pubs Fall ‘27. Writer/editor covering Houston food: Houston Chronicle, Edible Houston, Houston Food Finder, Sugar&Rice, Cite. https://www.davidleftwich.net/
Unwelcome in Aggieland. Texas A&M passes restrictive policy that will hinder education. A lot will depend on how “advocate” is interpreted. Will teaching that Jim Crow laws were racist and have long term effects be considered ideology while teaching there are only two gender be deemed ok. 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Unwelcome in Aggieland. Texas A&M passes restrictive policy that will hinder education. A lot will depend on how “advocate” is interpreted. Will teaching that Jim Crow laws were racist and have long term effects be considered ideology while teaching there are only two gender be deemed ok. 1/2
Chorus for a Fractured World: My favorite reads of September:
* here is the sweet hand, francine j. harris (FSG)
* Carbonate of Copper, Roberto Tejada (Fordham Press)
* Time, Etal Adnan (trans. Sarah Riggs), (Nightboat)
* Soul House, Mireille Gansel (trans. Joan Seller Sidney), (World Poetry) 1/3
* here is the sweet hand, francine j. harris (FSG)
* Carbonate of Copper, Roberto Tejada (Fordham Press)
* Time, Etal Adnan (trans. Sarah Riggs), (Nightboat)
* Soul House, Mireille Gansel (trans. Joan Seller Sidney), (World Poetry) 1/3
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Chorus for a Fractured World: My favorite reads of September:
* here is the sweet hand, francine j. harris (FSG)
* Carbonate of Copper, Roberto Tejada (Fordham Press)
* Time, Etal Adnan (trans. Sarah Riggs), (Nightboat)
* Soul House, Mireille Gansel (trans. Joan Seller Sidney), (World Poetry) 1/3
* here is the sweet hand, francine j. harris (FSG)
* Carbonate of Copper, Roberto Tejada (Fordham Press)
* Time, Etal Adnan (trans. Sarah Riggs), (Nightboat)
* Soul House, Mireille Gansel (trans. Joan Seller Sidney), (World Poetry) 1/3
Some exciting news to share: My manuscript at dawn, the first of the first to sing has been selected winner of the @omnidawn.bsky.social 2025 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest by @daniela-naomi.bsky.social — get her amazing book Chorus.
I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry
I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some exciting news to share: My manuscript at dawn, the first of the first to sing has been selected winner of the @omnidawn.bsky.social 2025 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest by @daniela-naomi.bsky.social — get her amazing book Chorus.
I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry
I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry
This is what makes the internet worthwhile: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium online. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...
August 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is what makes the internet worthwhile: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium online. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...
Four of my favorite reads this summer; all books that are essential for our times:
* Tantrums in Air, Emily Skillings (The Song Cave): Combines humor, razor sharp wit, and meditative insights to warp the anxieties of our modern world—“a novel of peeling paint”—into a landscape haunted by Woolf 1/5
* Tantrums in Air, Emily Skillings (The Song Cave): Combines humor, razor sharp wit, and meditative insights to warp the anxieties of our modern world—“a novel of peeling paint”—into a landscape haunted by Woolf 1/5
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Four of my favorite reads this summer; all books that are essential for our times:
* Tantrums in Air, Emily Skillings (The Song Cave): Combines humor, razor sharp wit, and meditative insights to warp the anxieties of our modern world—“a novel of peeling paint”—into a landscape haunted by Woolf 1/5
* Tantrums in Air, Emily Skillings (The Song Cave): Combines humor, razor sharp wit, and meditative insights to warp the anxieties of our modern world—“a novel of peeling paint”—into a landscape haunted by Woolf 1/5
I love that so many people turned out for a 11am poetry reading at Basket Books in Houston.
August 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I love that so many people turned out for a 11am poetry reading at Basket Books in Houston.
Is it a weed or a wildflower? This small, ephemeral blue flower is currently one of my favorite things in the garden, though I didn’t plant it and it only last about half a day. Commelina erecta, known colloquially as white mouth dayflower, slender dayflower, or widow’s tears, is 1/3
August 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Is it a weed or a wildflower? This small, ephemeral blue flower is currently one of my favorite things in the garden, though I didn’t plant it and it only last about half a day. Commelina erecta, known colloquially as white mouth dayflower, slender dayflower, or widow’s tears, is 1/3
Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2
July 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2
I love finding the bookstore receipts stuffed between the pages. Maybe @zachbarocas.com checked me out that day.
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I love finding the bookstore receipts stuffed between the pages. Maybe @zachbarocas.com checked me out that day.
These vibrant green inland sea oat (Chasmanthium latifolium) flower spikelets are currently my favorite thing in our garden. It’s a beautiful plant that is native to Harris County and to much of eastern and central North America from Manitoba to northeastern Mexico. 1/3 #gardening
July 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
These vibrant green inland sea oat (Chasmanthium latifolium) flower spikelets are currently my favorite thing in our garden. It’s a beautiful plant that is native to Harris County and to much of eastern and central North America from Manitoba to northeastern Mexico. 1/3 #gardening
Sometime in the early 2000s when I was struggling, I read Fanny Howe’s Selected Poems and took a workshop with her at Poet’s House. Her poetry and her presence renewed me. She changed what I thought poetry, language, and humanity were capable of. May your final walk home be full of light and peace.
July 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sometime in the early 2000s when I was struggling, I read Fanny Howe’s Selected Poems and took a workshop with her at Poet’s House. Her poetry and her presence renewed me. She changed what I thought poetry, language, and humanity were capable of. May your final walk home be full of light and peace.
Seems like SCOTUS is one step away from deciding since the British monarchy didn’t have the US Constitution the US Constitution isn’t valid. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
June 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Seems like SCOTUS is one step away from deciding since the British monarchy didn’t have the US Constitution the US Constitution isn’t valid. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Gandhi, Marcus Garvey, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Marx, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stroker, and many more read, researched and wrote here: the British Museum Reading Room. #librariesmatter #books #library
June 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Gandhi, Marcus Garvey, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Marx, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stroker, and many more read, researched and wrote here: the British Museum Reading Room. #librariesmatter #books #library
garden vignette: flower Buddha
May 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
garden vignette: flower Buddha
I loved Christina Pérez Díaz’s From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions, 2025). In this beautiful debut, she explores landscapes fractured by colonialism in order to reclaim body, love, language, and homeland. Highly recommend! #poetry
May 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I loved Christina Pérez Díaz’s From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions, 2025). In this beautiful debut, she explores landscapes fractured by colonialism in order to reclaim body, love, language, and homeland. Highly recommend! #poetry
It’s already hitting 100+ degrees in parts of Texas. And currently over 50% of our electricity is being generated by renewables. Yet the Texas GOP wants to undermine the alternative energy industry in Texas.
www.news-journal.com/news/busines...
www.news-journal.com/news/busines...
May 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It’s already hitting 100+ degrees in parts of Texas. And currently over 50% of our electricity is being generated by renewables. Yet the Texas GOP wants to undermine the alternative energy industry in Texas.
www.news-journal.com/news/busines...
www.news-journal.com/news/busines...
A good mail day: @emily-skillings.bsky.social’s new book of poetry from @thesongcave.bsky.social
PS: Support independent presses, now more than ever.
#poetry
PS: Support independent presses, now more than ever.
#poetry
May 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A good mail day: @emily-skillings.bsky.social’s new book of poetry from @thesongcave.bsky.social
PS: Support independent presses, now more than ever.
#poetry
PS: Support independent presses, now more than ever.
#poetry
Wonderful and encouraging news to get on my birthday: my manuscript is a finalist for 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Congratulations to the other finalists and to the winner Asha Futterman. I can’t wait to read her upcoming book “Song of Gray.”
April 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wonderful and encouraging news to get on my birthday: my manuscript is a finalist for 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Congratulations to the other finalists and to the winner Asha Futterman. I can’t wait to read her upcoming book “Song of Gray.”
Today’s haul from @basketbooksandart.bsky.social #poetry #houston #bookstore
PS. Don’t buy books from Amazon. Instead support independent, local bookstores and small presses.
PS. Don’t buy books from Amazon. Instead support independent, local bookstores and small presses.
April 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Today’s haul from @basketbooksandart.bsky.social #poetry #houston #bookstore
PS. Don’t buy books from Amazon. Instead support independent, local bookstores and small presses.
PS. Don’t buy books from Amazon. Instead support independent, local bookstores and small presses.
The Trump regime has cut all federal funds to @humanitiestexas.bsky.social effectively immediately. I’ve had the pleasure of working with them on a couple of the many important programs they do. Learn how you can help: www.humanitiestexas.org/about/action...
April 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Trump regime has cut all federal funds to @humanitiestexas.bsky.social effectively immediately. I’ve had the pleasure of working with them on a couple of the many important programs they do. Learn how you can help: www.humanitiestexas.org/about/action...
