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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
@luizagurley.bsky.social
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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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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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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 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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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 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Bookfair Signings: @bullcitypress.com (3/27, 1 p.m.), @nupress.bsky.social (3/28, 11 a.m.), @blacklawrence.bsky.social (3/28, 12 p.m.), Headmistress Press (3/28, 2 p.m.)
Booth signings at NUP. I’m at 11 a.m. on 3/28
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 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
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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.
March 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Feels like nothing good will ever happen again, so it's hard to believe that Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social is out in a month. If you’ve already preordered, consider asking a library to purchase it. I LOVE libraries and democracy and small good things we can still do: tinyurl.com/38s73wez
A opened box of MUD IN OUR MOUTHS: POEMS (cover: large image of a black-and-white artwork by Valerie Hammond, a collage of an owl with a moth head sitting on a branch)
February 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I don't have anything helpful to say about the horrors, but I'm living them too and I would very much like you to preorder my next book, Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014833...

And here’s a very nice thing Emilia Phillips said about it:
“Mud in Our Mouths elegiacally renders a queer experience of small-town America with care for [Flynn-Goodlett’s] subjects, attention to the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors at work, and a precision of language and lineation.” —Emilia Phillips, author of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise
February 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My final pub of the year—a painful little poem in Poetry Northwest. Grateful to be in this wonderful journal again and alongside so many poets I admire.
PRAYER Murmur under a stranger’s breath in the ER, chorus spilling into hospital halls, it’s just what you begin to mouth alongside protocols, memorize with drug labels, exhale after your mother makes it to the bathroom without another fall. It’s the morning hurrying back to intensive care when we realize the front door was left unlocked all night. So spell it nil per os. Spell it using only the X sharpied on her good leg and O on the other. Hear it when her doctor refers to the cutting instrument as if he would rest it against his shoulder and draw her like a bow. Cover of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Poetry Northwest. Contributors names run up the page on the left. On the right, a drawing of sheep grazing in the foothills of a mountain.
December 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM