beautiful things shared on the internet

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One of many fantastic resources from Sundress Publications! FREE (and beautifully curated) chapbooks on the craft of writing; a variety of topics by remarkable writers.

My week-long residency up in the coop was an instrumental element of the creation of FishWife—I also got to know amazing folks, a little bit of Knoxville, and a flock of chickens that kept me on task.

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Buy Chavez’s book! It’s an absolute essential for writers, educators, and students—reading this text made me a better and more intentional teacher and human.

Her website features this ever-expanding reading guide to help center the work of writers of color.

Read more about Chavez’s remarkable work here.

From writer Emily Stoddard, a monthly substack sharing fantastic articles, interviews, and other poetry news—in addition to calls for submissions. These monthly updates are carefully crafted, beautifully written, and, most importantly, encouraging and helpful.

Also, it’s free! Subscribe to support their awesome submission fee support circle, which helps fellow writers get their work out into the world.

From U-Penn’s Electronic Poetry Center, an epic list of Bernadette Mayer’s journal ideas & writing experiments. It’s an expansion of her original publication in L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E, June 1978.

CAConrad’s (soma)tic rituals and their poems are an inspiration: revelatory, explosive, subversive. Creating a writing ritual trains our attention to the present moment and encourages us to become better global citizens as we connect more deeply to the world around us.

I return again and again to ECODEVIANCE in particular; there’s a catharsis in the coexistence of Conrad’s outrage & hope on the page.

Follow this link to read more about Conrad and to purchase one of their astounding collections from Wave Books.

A feat of generative programming that writes a new Gwendolyn Brooks poem with each refresh. A way to experience, re-experience, and celebrate Brooks’ work and legacy. Read about it. Created by poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.