Traci Brimhall
@tracibrimhall.bsky.social
🖌️writer 👩🏻🏫teacher 👾parent
Author of LOVE PRODIGAL ☀️ ♥️
Author of LOVE PRODIGAL ☀️ ♥️
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Published today: a superb suite of poems by Traci Brimhall!
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Six Poems, by Traci Brimhall
Color Theory Before Newton used a prism to break light into color, Aristotle said everything was white and black. What could be simpler? The air— white. Water—white. Black was the color of t…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Published today: a superb suite of poems by Traci Brimhall!
bigother.com/2025/11/12/s...
Cc: @tracibrimhall.bsky.social
bigother.com/2025/11/12/s...
Cc: @tracibrimhall.bsky.social
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The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀
#poetrypodcast #poetry
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Traci Brimhall: Love Prodigal
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August 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀
#poetrypodcast #poetry
open.spotify.com/episode/6phF...
#poetrypodcast #poetry
open.spotify.com/episode/6phF...
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“In today’s poem we see the private language of habits, desires, and boundaries unfold. I love how this poem gives us a glimpse into the private world of love,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore show.
Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg
Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg
June 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“In today’s poem we see the private language of habits, desires, and boundaries unfold. I love how this poem gives us a glimpse into the private world of love,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore show.
Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg
Read “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t” by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hva6Yg
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Read by poets TRACI BRIMHALL (@tracibrimhall.bsky.social), PHILIP METRES (@philipmetres.bsky.social), DIANNELY ANTIGUA (@diannelyantigua.bsky.social), and KELLI RUSSELL AGODON (@kelliagodon.bsky.social).
It Takes All of Us
This May, take a peek behind the publishing curtain. Come and meet the people behind the poetry; see how you directly impact the work we do.
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May 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Read by poets TRACI BRIMHALL (@tracibrimhall.bsky.social), PHILIP METRES (@philipmetres.bsky.social), DIANNELY ANTIGUA (@diannelyantigua.bsky.social), and KELLI RUSSELL AGODON (@kelliagodon.bsky.social).
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New episode alert! My talk with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social about her new book, Love Prodigal (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) is live! Get it wherever you find your podcasts!
April 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New episode alert! My talk with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social about her new book, Love Prodigal (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) is live! Get it wherever you find your podcasts!
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"Resistance" by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social
I must be the heavy globe
of hydrangea, always bowing
by summer’s end. Must be salt,
like sadness at a burning city,
an ethical disobedience. I must be
I must be the heavy globe
of hydrangea, always bowing
by summer’s end. Must be salt,
like sadness at a burning city,
an ethical disobedience. I must be
April 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Resistance" by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social
I must be the heavy globe
of hydrangea, always bowing
by summer’s end. Must be salt,
like sadness at a burning city,
an ethical disobedience. I must be
I must be the heavy globe
of hydrangea, always bowing
by summer’s end. Must be salt,
like sadness at a burning city,
an ethical disobedience. I must be
📖 my nonfiction debut, THE GRIEF ARTIST, will come out with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social in 2026!!
March 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
📖 my nonfiction debut, THE GRIEF ARTIST, will come out with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social in 2026!!
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@tracibrimhall.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 2/26/25 at 7:30pm (EST)!
Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....
Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....
February 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@tracibrimhall.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 2/26/25 at 7:30pm (EST)!
Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....
Order LOVE PRODIGAL (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social): bookshop.org/p/books/love....
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Hey Madison! Come see @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at @artlitlab.bsky.social tomorrow (Sat)! Bonus pic of us below this!
❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hey Madison! Come see @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at @artlitlab.bsky.social tomorrow (Sat)! Bonus pic of us below this!
❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️
February 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
❄️ Snow tried to talk me out of the last hour of my drive into Iowa but I say why drive I-35 when you can slide? See you tomorrow, Des Moines! ☀️
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"Poems are the best time machines humans have invented so far" - @erinwriter.bsky.social
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision
YouTube video by AWPWriter
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February 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"Poems are the best time machines humans have invented so far" - @erinwriter.bsky.social
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
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This was brilliant, thank you all. What @tracibrimhall.bsky.social says about personhood, expectations, their poems, just so much wisdom, struck hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Poem Depot—Tools for Revision
YouTube video by AWPWriter
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This was brilliant, thank you all. What @tracibrimhall.bsky.social says about personhood, expectations, their poems, just so much wisdom, struck hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Back on the road next week for four events in the upper Midwest! Hope this good weather holds!
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Back on the road next week for four events in the upper Midwest! Hope this good weather holds!
Just a sweet face for the dopamine.
January 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just a sweet face for the dopamine.
🐦⬛ Surviving another day with this stunner from Danusha Lameris’s BLADE BY BLADE. I loved that this book had the darkest hours and the most gorgeous hopes.
January 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🐦⬛ Surviving another day with this stunner from Danusha Lameris’s BLADE BY BLADE. I loved that this book had the darkest hours and the most gorgeous hopes.
Jenny George is a master of concision. As someone who identifies as a tornado on legs, her ability to distill so much feeling into an image is so astonishing.
January 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Jenny George is a master of concision. As someone who identifies as a tornado on legs, her ability to distill so much feeling into an image is so astonishing.
🐦⬛ new poem up at Poets for Science, which has a great online gallery of poems about lands, waters, wildlife, and natural wonders.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
Amor Fati - The Nature of Our Times
The vultures are a syntax of erasures, shadows stripping the deer’s body down to a crooked temple of bones. The poppies are out here getting away with murder because they know beauty is its own camouf...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🐦⬛ new poem up at Poets for Science, which has a great online gallery of poems about lands, waters, wildlife, and natural wonders.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
🌻Happy Arts Advocacy Day, Kansas!
January 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🌻Happy Arts Advocacy Day, Kansas!
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Tomorrow night, local friends! @chancedibben.bsky.social and I are so excited to host @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at the next Volta!
January 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Tomorrow night, local friends! @chancedibben.bsky.social and I are so excited to host @tracibrimhall.bsky.social at the next Volta!
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“I wanted to be entirely where I was, to notice actively rather than reflectively, to use my body to write and not just write about my body.” @tracibrimhall.bsky.social on how her poetry has transformed as chronic illness shifts the pacing of her life.
Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body
My calves ached with a pleasant pain. My hip ached with wrongness. I pulled the water bottle from the hiking backpack and poured some in the pop up bowl for the dog and took a long deep swig for my…
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November 19, 2024 at 3:30 PM
“I wanted to be entirely where I was, to notice actively rather than reflectively, to use my body to write and not just write about my body.” @tracibrimhall.bsky.social on how her poetry has transformed as chronic illness shifts the pacing of her life.
Joining all the cool kids here on Bluesky.
November 14, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Joining all the cool kids here on Bluesky.