Margaret Ray
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Margaret Ray
@mbrrray.bsky.social
Poet 🥸 Author of: GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (poems, BOA Editions‘23) & a Poetry Society of America Chapbook: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC she/her

https://www.margaretbray.com/

https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
2 new poems of mine are in in this rad project (here’s one) style.atwhatcost.me#margaret-ray
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Come write poems w me in this online workshop w Poetry Society of New York next week? Thurs Oct 2, 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-virtu...
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Banger opening poem in @heatherchristle.bsky.social ‘s new book PAPER CROWNS
July 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Every asshole who thinks this is a good idea should have to live directly next to it

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
July 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My fury at AI is well documented, including in this new poem in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social (see line 3). Poem guest-starting lines from HAMLET & a grim story from my early days as a teacher.
This is a really really good issue and I’m so honored to be in it
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Teachers (and everyone else!) need to be able to get season vaccines like covid and flu. Have these people ever been in a classroom in January, where you can’t hear anyone over the coughing?
May 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy independent bookstore day 📚
April 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“How to draw a line that is not stupid?” Anne Carson’s essay on handwriting in the @lrb.co.uk from last month is extremely moving
April 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
😎 (via the Guardian)
March 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Natalie Shapero’s poems never not stopping me in my tracks (in this morning’s @kenyonreview.bsky.social newsletter)
February 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Bong Joon-Ho would like a word
February 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Aftermath of the ice storm
In New Jersey
February 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Anne Carson, from WRONG NORMA
January 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Sorrow is Not My Name, by Ross Gay 🌱💚
January 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Not news to anyone, but these people are so dumb and wrong about every single thing, they’re just going to kill everybody either quickly or slowly www.ewg.org/news-insight...
January 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Moon in Vermont
January 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New small poem of mine in the new issue of Poet Lore, physical copies out in January, with a beautiful section of ekphrastic poetry guest edited by @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social Gratitude to @eaholla.bsky.social and the Poet Lore team 💙
December 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Hello from north central Florida
December 25, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Anyone out there in NJ know what’s going on w our water? American Water NJ doesn’t say don’t drink it, but ours smells a bit like gasoline 🥴
#newjersey #water #NJ #NJwater #AmericanwaterNJ
December 19, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Reading at Grolier in Cambridge this Thursday with these 🌟s. Both in-person and virtual options, follow this link (and scroll down)! www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/upcoming-rea...
@dianacao.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Hi writers new to blue sky, fellow Twitter deserters trying to un-Musk our entanglements (I still go on there rarely but less and less). Looking for poetry people here especially. Here’s one of mine, a love letter to allergy season in New Jersey
November 9, 2024 at 4:26 PM
“Practice”
March 8, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Grateful to a poet who shared this, and to whoever made this tinyurl which will populate an email for you to send in 5 seconds to UN folks calling for ceasefire tinyurl.com/yvbu8cdn
December 12, 2023 at 6:13 PM
FYI - NJ friends, I got through to an actual staffer today (maybe lucky timing, but hey). Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire now
December 8, 2023 at 5:08 PM
It’s my birthday this coming weekend, & I have a small stack of copies of my book still lying around, so if you dm me a screenshot/proof that you’ve donated at least $17 to 1 of the 4 aid agencies below, I will send you a copy of GGTG, signed to you or someone you name for a gift...1/4
November 16, 2023 at 3:54 PM