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Today, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Your #BlueAngels had the privilege of flying over the Barrancas National Cemetery on our way back home from Miami in observance of Memorial Day. #MemorialDay #USNavy #USMC #USArmy #USAF #USCG

Congratulations to our 2025 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners—José Enrique Medina, Liz Robbins, and Matthew Buckley Smith! Print subscribers can look forward to reading their wonderful books starting this fall. rattle.com/page/2025-ratt…

NVR is honored to publish an excerpt from Daniel Cowper's new verse novel Kingdom of the Clock (McGill-Queen's University Press). A Father, a son, and a stranded oil tanker!

Go support my friend Ethan McGuire and his new poetry collection!

Equivalence (poem) on the PFPOI s*bstck. Inspired (very, very loosely) by an article by Elijah Perseus Blumov on the New Verse Review s*bstck. open.substack.com/pub/poemsforpo…

For Commonweal Magazine, I reviewed 4 books (a memoir, poems, collected essays & a monograph) by Dana Gioia. The essay ended up becoming about culture, technology, and the future of the human race. 🧵

Reading Apocalypse Dance by Ethan McGuire ! Ethan, I’ve just started but already have read the dry bones poem many times.

NVR is pleased to republish Midge Goldberg's review of a contemporary classic poetry collection--Like by Alicia E. Stallings. "Stallings has the gift of seeing things in a way no one has seen them before and arranging even the most commonplace words into...new images and sounds."

You can read the whole interview here: marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/lighting-…

The Locust Years, by Paul J. Pastor, is nearly here (publication date May 27)! Rich to its core with a child-like wonder and delight in the natural world, the book is marked by that peace wrestled from the suffering and grief that are the price we pay for love. Lush and rich,

I'm honored to release a special issue featuring the poetry grads of the MFA program University of St. Thomas. This issue is edited by Daniel Cooper and Mary Grace Mangano. It features work by Maya Venters, Carla Galdo, Christopher Honey @thomistpoet.bsky.social, Jeff Young, Mary Finnegan, and others.

I had a great time chatting with poets A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025), Michael Shindler and Sarah Ashbach. From the Renaissance and the preservation of life's mysteries through art to translating the magic of the past, we cover a lot! youtube.com/watch?v=ivXanI…

I finally moved my website, etc. over to Substack, guys! &, newly, I added a (bi-weekly) podcast: "The Flummoxed Podcast" Check it out! This move was inspired by Zina Gomez-Liss, Steven Knepper, Elijah Blumov, & David B. Gosselin, to give credit where it's due. theflummoxed.substack.com

I'm grateful to have a long dramatic monologue up today in the new issue of Pulsebeat. I'm right beside Jared Carter-one of my heroes-in the issue, so that is particularly meaningful to me. Here's the opening of my poem.

Excellent mail day. Excited for these from Daniel Cowper and Ethan McGuire

feversofthemind.com/2025/05/28/che… check out the latest collection from Ethan McGuire