I’ve got a cover! My new book of poetry is coming out with @lsupress.bsky.social early in 2026. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Grateful to the designers who made this spiraling metallic (anti-pie) cover-vibe. And to my editor James W. Long for his guidance and encouragement. 🥳

Preorder info: lsupress.org/978080718606...

How to write about memories of being bullied? I have no idea!

Anyway, thanks Prairie Fire Magazine for including this little poem in their new issue!

Here is a picture my mother Jean took of my parents' gorgeous desi dog Ruthie beside the marvelous literary journal The Dalhousie Review which was good enough to publish one of my poems. Little pockets of love and light

Grateful to have a new poem in the latest Tampa Review.

Excited to share some good news in my life, with big gratitude to LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social & editor James W. Long, and others I'll thank soon, my next poetry collection, RESURRECTION PIE, is coming out in early 2026. 🥳🥳(second pic is me fiddling with pages of the ms in an empty classroom) ❤

Just got some good news! Mary Dalton chose my poem “Darwin Awards Song” for Best Canadian Poetry 2026, which will come out in a few months. Big thanks to Event for originally publishing the poem in 2024. And to Mary Dalton!

After a super-chaotic morning, I'm psyched to be at my gate in Boston on my way to AWP in L.A.!

I'm still (living in Vermont) haunted by the dogs of Himachal Pradesh, India

I'm so grateful to the terrific journal I-70 Review for making me a feature poet in their new issue, and publishing six new poems of mine.

They also submitted one of the poems, The Great Cooling (pic below), for a Pushcart prize!

This seems about as appropriate as it will ever be

I've tried to avoid self-promotion on BLUE SKY so far because there seems to be less of it, and that's super-nice.

But I'd love to post what I discovered this morning:

My book of essays, the Elephant of Silence, is one of Quill and Quire's (@quillandquire.bsky.social) best books of the year!

When your to-do list is the fourth circle of hell

The famous part I always think of from that poem:

Alda Merini