Lesley Wheeler
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.social
Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, Radioland, & the forthcoming Mycocosmic—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/her. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
I know these lists only show a fraction of the great new books out there—but how lovely for Mycocosmic to be on one! I just followed the article’s Bookshop.org link to order books in small press solidarity! lithub.com/100-notable-... @literaryhub.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I know these lists only show a fraction of the great new books out there—but how lovely for Mycocosmic to be on one! I just followed the article’s Bookshop.org link to order books in small press solidarity! lithub.com/100-notable-... @literaryhub.bsky.social
Santa Fe in a week! 7 pm, 11/7, Entropy Gallery, very 🍄 in theme. Excited to read in the new Floating Words series with Art—and about seeing lots of lower-case art and scenery over the November 7th weekend.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Santa Fe in a week! 7 pm, 11/7, Entropy Gallery, very 🍄 in theme. Excited to read in the new Floating Words series with Art—and about seeing lots of lower-case art and scenery over the November 7th weekend.
I read with these powerhouses in Bainbridge and am wowed by their books: What We Do by Michele Bombardier and If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. Recommended! #poetry @poetfish.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I read with these powerhouses in Bainbridge and am wowed by their books: What We Do by Michele Bombardier and If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. Recommended! #poetry @poetfish.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
This handsome book arrived, full of essays by poetry scholars I admire wildly. Thank you @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and editor Mike Chasar! Here’s the song I chose, “Talkin’ New York,” in case you want to give it a listen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIJ...
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This handsome book arrived, full of essays by poetry scholars I admire wildly. Thank you @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and editor Mike Chasar! Here’s the song I chose, “Talkin’ New York,” in case you want to give it a listen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIJ...
Looped around the outrageously gorgeous Olympic Peninsula today. Tomorrow, 10/22, BookTree in #Kirkland WA: free workshop 5:45, reading at 7, open mic after. #poetry
@chrisbooktree.bsky.social
@chrisbooktree.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Looped around the outrageously gorgeous Olympic Peninsula today. Tomorrow, 10/22, BookTree in #Kirkland WA: free workshop 5:45, reading at 7, open mic after. #poetry
@chrisbooktree.bsky.social
@chrisbooktree.bsky.social
Tonight, 10/20, I read at 6:30 in Port Angeles Library with Nellie Bridge! Meanwhile we’ve wrapped up the haiku contest at the OlyPen Fungi Festival. The voters elected this little beauty.
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tonight, 10/20, I read at 6:30 in Port Angeles Library with Nellie Bridge! Meanwhile we’ve wrapped up the haiku contest at the OlyPen Fungi Festival. The voters elected this little beauty.
Poets, Shenandoah reading periods are coming up fast! The one for Virginia poets will stay open till 10/31, but Samyak’s great call for formal experiment will hit the cap fast (I’d guess 3 days). www.shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Poets, Shenandoah reading periods are coming up fast! The one for Virginia poets will stay open till 10/31, but Samyak’s great call for formal experiment will hit the cap fast (I’d guess 3 days). www.shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/
Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
Headed to WA, NM, FL!
10/16, 7 pm: Bainbridge Island Public Library with Matthew Nienow
10/17-19: Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles WA
10/20, 6:30 pm: Port Angeles Library
10/22: BookTree in Kirkland, WA: 6 pm workshop “Writing From the Underworld,” 7 pm reading followed by open mic
10/16, 7 pm: Bainbridge Island Public Library with Matthew Nienow
10/17-19: Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles WA
10/20, 6:30 pm: Port Angeles Library
10/22: BookTree in Kirkland, WA: 6 pm workshop “Writing From the Underworld,” 7 pm reading followed by open mic
October 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Headed to WA, NM, FL!
10/16, 7 pm: Bainbridge Island Public Library with Matthew Nienow
10/17-19: Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles WA
10/20, 6:30 pm: Port Angeles Library
10/22: BookTree in Kirkland, WA: 6 pm workshop “Writing From the Underworld,” 7 pm reading followed by open mic
10/16, 7 pm: Bainbridge Island Public Library with Matthew Nienow
10/17-19: Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles WA
10/20, 6:30 pm: Port Angeles Library
10/22: BookTree in Kirkland, WA: 6 pm workshop “Writing From the Underworld,” 7 pm reading followed by open mic
So grateful to be part of this new anthology—The Nature of Our Times is hopeful but real, full of warnings but also inspiration. Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler: thank you for your generous, careful, timely work. @thepoetslizard.bsky.social #ecopoetry #poetry #nature
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So grateful to be part of this new anthology—The Nature of Our Times is hopeful but real, full of warnings but also inspiration. Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler: thank you for your generous, careful, timely work. @thepoetslizard.bsky.social #ecopoetry #poetry #nature
“My hoarse throat, my blue heart.” The book of Jenn’s near my desk today is My Tarantella, picked up at a June event when I realized it was missing from my little Martelli library. Her voice is so vivid and searching, anything but a “whisper”—so good to spend time with these poems on a sad day.
September 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“My hoarse throat, my blue heart.” The book of Jenn’s near my desk today is My Tarantella, picked up at a June event when I realized it was missing from my little Martelli library. Her voice is so vivid and searching, anything but a “whisper”—so good to spend time with these poems on a sad day.
A pre-birthday Spanish almond portal cake made by a dear friend, with a powdered sugar nod to the novel I’m working on
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A pre-birthday Spanish almond portal cake made by a dear friend, with a powdered sugar nod to the novel I’m working on
Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Congratulations to Susan Rich on Blue Atlas, a stunning collection that troubles all the binaries around abortion. Couldn’t put it down. @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social #poetry #womenpoetry @redhenpress.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Congratulations to Susan Rich on Blue Atlas, a stunning collection that troubles all the binaries around abortion. Couldn’t put it down. @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social #poetry #womenpoetry @redhenpress.bsky.social
Riveting! Breathtaking!! So grateful for this mycelially probing review by Laurel Kallen in the new Action, Spectacle. www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-... #poetry @tupelopress.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Riveting! Breathtaking!! So grateful for this mycelially probing review by Laurel Kallen in the new Action, Spectacle. www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-... #poetry @tupelopress.bsky.social
Thanks to Jane Harrington for this in the wild sighting of Mycocosmic! @janeharrington.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thanks to Jane Harrington for this in the wild sighting of Mycocosmic! @janeharrington.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social
Catch in the throat as you read, release in the closure—congratulations to Lauren Crawford on this powerful poetic debut! Also, is #septemberwomenpoets not a thing anymore? I was looking forward to seeing what you all were reading…@laurencraw.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Catch in the throat as you read, release in the closure—congratulations to Lauren Crawford on this powerful poetic debut! Also, is #septemberwomenpoets not a thing anymore? I was looking forward to seeing what you all were reading…@laurencraw.bsky.social
Mycocosmic is 6 months old! If you’ve foraged for it already, THANK YOU. I’d love to see photos of it in the wild. www.tupelopress.org/book/mycocos... 🍄 @tupelopress.bsky.social #poetry #fungi #mushroom
September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mycocosmic is 6 months old! If you’ve foraged for it already, THANK YOU. I’d love to see photos of it in the wild. www.tupelopress.org/book/mycocos... 🍄 @tupelopress.bsky.social #poetry #fungi #mushroom
Lots of great free stuff happening at the arts festival hosted by the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont in #charlottesville this month. My “Listening for Poetry” workshop is Sunday 9/7 at noon, free & open to anyone—you just have to register at piedmontgarden.org/2025-botanic...
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Lots of great free stuff happening at the arts festival hosted by the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont in #charlottesville this month. My “Listening for Poetry” workshop is Sunday 9/7 at noon, free & open to anyone—you just have to register at piedmontgarden.org/2025-botanic...
A brain tumor opens a “bone window” to other worlds in After the Operation by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. What a pleasure to read with you in Bryant Park, Liz, and read this on the train on the way home! #sealeychallenge #sealeychallenge2025 @etgrayjr.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A brain tumor opens a “bone window” to other worlds in After the Operation by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. What a pleasure to read with you in Bryant Park, Liz, and read this on the train on the way home! #sealeychallenge #sealeychallenge2025 @etgrayjr.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social
I read with @haydensaunier.bsky.social at the VA Festival of the Book in March and I will again tomorrow, 8/26, 6 pm, in Bryant Park NYC—so Wheel is my #SealeyChallenge read today. Congratulations on your lovely new book, Hayden!
August 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I read with @haydensaunier.bsky.social at the VA Festival of the Book in March and I will again tomorrow, 8/26, 6 pm, in Bryant Park NYC—so Wheel is my #SealeyChallenge read today. Congratulations on your lovely new book, Hayden!
“A rose is just a vegetable cat”: spending Day #22 of my sporadic #sealeychallenge with Hope Mirrlees. Love to everyone out there disappointed with various application results and feeling like there isn’t really room for a writer’s disappointment, considering.
August 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“A rose is just a vegetable cat”: spending Day #22 of my sporadic #sealeychallenge with Hope Mirrlees. Love to everyone out there disappointed with various application results and feeling like there isn’t really room for a writer’s disappointment, considering.
I read in the Bryant Park series once before, May 2012, with Richard Blanco & others—it was a blast. Please come if you’re in NYC! 8/26, 6 pm bryantpark.org/calendar/eve.... @haydensaunier.bsky.social @etgrayjr.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I read in the Bryant Park series once before, May 2012, with Richard Blanco & others—it was a blast. Please come if you’re in NYC! 8/26, 6 pm bryantpark.org/calendar/eve.... @haydensaunier.bsky.social @etgrayjr.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social
What an astonishing playlist to find my track in. I’m a little star-struck. Congratulations to everyone involved! #sealeychallenge #poetry #bestamericanpoetry
August 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What an astonishing playlist to find my track in. I’m a little star-struck. Congratulations to everyone involved! #sealeychallenge #poetry #bestamericanpoetry