Katie Manning
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
And if you're lucky enough to be in a city that's included on her book tour, get yourself to the event! We will have her here in San Diego in our PLNU M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series on Dec. 3.
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And if you're lucky enough to be in a city that's included on her book tour, get yourself to the event! We will have her here in San Diego in our PLNU M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series on Dec. 3.
Happy book release day to my dear friend Kelly Foster Lundquist! Her new book, Beard, is an impossibly beautiful memoir, full of humor, food, pop culture references, and so much compassion for her ex-husband and her past self. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Happy book release day to my dear friend Kelly Foster Lundquist! Her new book, Beard, is an impossibly beautiful memoir, full of humor, food, pop culture references, and so much compassion for her ex-husband and her past self. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net!
You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/
You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net!
You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/
You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/
I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :)
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May 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :)
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Thanks to The Rabbit Room for featuring my poem "Where Death Is Not an Is" from The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman this week.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thanks to The Rabbit Room for featuring my poem "Where Death Is Not an Is" from The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman this week.
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Hi. It's my birthday. I'm now the answer to life, the universe, and everything. 😁
May 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hi. It's my birthday. I'm now the answer to life, the universe, and everything. 😁
I was sorry to miss the launch readings for the new issue of @merliterary.bsky.social, but I’m delighted to have a prose poem called “The Ghost in My Knees” included alongside some really incredible work.
merliterary.com/latest-issue/
merliterary.com/latest-issue/
May 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I was sorry to miss the launch readings for the new issue of @merliterary.bsky.social, but I’m delighted to have a prose poem called “The Ghost in My Knees” included alongside some really incredible work.
merliterary.com/latest-issue/
merliterary.com/latest-issue/
The San Diego Writers Festival was so fun today! We had a great panel on the writing life moderated by @adamgreenfield.bsky.social, and the featured poets reading in the afternoon was delightful. What a gift to be part of this writing community. ❤️
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The San Diego Writers Festival was so fun today! We had a great panel on the writing life moderated by @adamgreenfield.bsky.social, and the featured poets reading in the afternoon was delightful. What a gift to be part of this writing community. ❤️
April 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You'll need to come find me at #awp25 thanks to my sprained ankle, but I'll be easy to find at the @whaleroadreview.bsky.social booth and at some fun events!
*I missed the Taylor Swift anthology reading when I made my graphic, but it's on Saturday at 12:10 on the bookfair stage!
*I missed the Taylor Swift anthology reading when I made my graphic, but it's on Saturday at 12:10 on the bookfair stage!
March 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
You'll need to come find me at #awp25 thanks to my sprained ankle, but I'll be easy to find at the @whaleroadreview.bsky.social booth and at some fun events!
*I missed the Taylor Swift anthology reading when I made my graphic, but it's on Saturday at 12:10 on the bookfair stage!
*I missed the Taylor Swift anthology reading when I made my graphic, but it's on Saturday at 12:10 on the bookfair stage!
Being sick sucks, but resting at home has its perks. I'm hoping my sore throat will be healed enough for my friend's Wicked sing-along birthday party tomorrow, but if not, at least my nails are ready. 😊
#mooncat
💚 Serpents of Eden
🩷 Not Today Satan
#mooncat
💚 Serpents of Eden
🩷 Not Today Satan
February 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Being sick sucks, but resting at home has its perks. I'm hoping my sore throat will be healed enough for my friend's Wicked sing-along birthday party tomorrow, but if not, at least my nails are ready. 😊
#mooncat
💚 Serpents of Eden
🩷 Not Today Satan
#mooncat
💚 Serpents of Eden
🩷 Not Today Satan
If you're someone who prays, please pray for my Uncle Steve, her kids and grandkids, her siblings, and the rest of her family and friends.
December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
If you're someone who prays, please pray for my Uncle Steve, her kids and grandkids, her siblings, and the rest of her family and friends.
I keep flashing through memories, like details from many sleepovers with her and her girls, her wedding (I was a bridesmaid), our birthdays, etc. I guess I've never considered what life would be like without her. We are all somewhere beyond shocked and devastated.
December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I keep flashing through memories, like details from many sleepovers with her and her girls, her wedding (I was a bridesmaid), our birthdays, etc. I guess I've never considered what life would be like without her. We are all somewhere beyond shocked and devastated.
I feel like I've fallen out of reality. My Aunt Pam died suddenly this weekend. That sentence doesn't even make sense. I was born on her birthday (13 years and 3 minutes apart), and we lived together when I was little, so she's always been in a blurry space between aunt and big sister.
December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I feel like I've fallen out of reality. My Aunt Pam died suddenly this weekend. That sentence doesn't even make sense. I was born on her birthday (13 years and 3 minutes apart), and we lived together when I was little, so she's always been in a blurry space between aunt and big sister.
Happy Christmas to my boys, who received all sorts of cool presents from all sorts of friends and family (including $50 a piece from a great aunt), but who gave the most enthusiastic response to this big box that was filled with little boxes of grape Nerds (from me). 🤣 I love them.
December 26, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Happy Christmas to my boys, who received all sorts of cool presents from all sorts of friends and family (including $50 a piece from a great aunt), but who gave the most enthusiastic response to this big box that was filled with little boxes of grape Nerds (from me). 🤣 I love them.
December 20, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Hey, San Diego friends! Join us tonight at Verbatim Books for our grad students' winter reading, with special guests Kazim Ali and Mac Crane!
December 19, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Hey, San Diego friends! Join us tonight at Verbatim Books for our grad students' winter reading, with special guests Kazim Ali and Mac Crane!
December 18, 2024 at 1:59 AM
I read "Nikki-Rosa" to close my class tonight. ❤️
"... and I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy."
"... and I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy."
December 10, 2024 at 6:24 AM
I read "Nikki-Rosa" to close my class tonight. ❤️
"... and I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy."
"... and I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy."
November 26, 2024 at 1:37 AM
"In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself." - Uncle Iroh
The Avatar concert we saw last night was FANTASTIC! I just got goosebumps thinking about it again.
The Avatar concert we saw last night was FANTASTIC! I just got goosebumps thinking about it again.
November 23, 2024 at 8:37 AM
"In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself." - Uncle Iroh
The Avatar concert we saw last night was FANTASTIC! I just got goosebumps thinking about it again.
The Avatar concert we saw last night was FANTASTIC! I just got goosebumps thinking about it again.
I think it's my Jeff Goldblum thirst poem. 🤣
November 14, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I think it's my Jeff Goldblum thirst poem. 🤣
I just realized that I haven't yet shared my Canvas Rebel interview. Thanks to James Wright and company for inviting me to participate!
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November 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I just realized that I haven't yet shared my Canvas Rebel interview. Thanks to James Wright and company for inviting me to participate!
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