Chelsea Dingman

Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

“I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.” Nobel Prize Winner & longtime fave, Anne Carson. This is only one example of her brilliance. ✨

I don’t think anybody ever knows what another person means when they speak, frankly. It’s more than translation, it’s just throwing yourself into the dark. Language is so very, very personal, private. Anne Carson, The Paris Review; Throwing Yourself Into the Dark: A Conversation w/Kate Dwyer, 2024

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“Someday my memory will cease. A blown dandelion. A child will order the fragments not by time but by the weight of its vowels.” @chelsdingman.bsky.social in TriQuarterly Magazine www.triquarterly.org/issue-170/a-...

Prairie blues & greens:

“You can’t outrun a burning planet, and no amount of privilege or money can shield you from its flames.” Climate change denial continues even as massive, destructive wildfires become the new normal. An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.

“Danielle Smith doesn’t care about Canadian sovereignty, and it shows whenever she speaks to the American far-right, which is unfortunately often. She is supposed to represent the people of Alberta — Canadian citizens — not the interests of the Trump Organization.“

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

"Death dominates much of Franz Wright’s writing as both terror and temptation, but in these late poems, there is a graceful, and often playful, surrendering." lareviewofbooks.org/article/fran...

I don’t buy the “generative AI makes art egalitarian” argument, because art making is already for everyone. Eugenio Montale said all you need to write poetry is a pencil and paper.

Why Ivy League professors are leaving Trump’s U.S. for Canada’s new $541-million research program AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Geffrey Davis from Sixth Finch, Summer 2026 #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social sixthfinch.com/davis2.html

For your @sealeychallenge.bsky.social consideration #sealeychallenge

It's true! All books are still 50% off through the end of July with code 08SALE250. You know you want to restock your bookshelves.

Of elegy, of aunts, of mothers and father, of Bombay, of form and revision, of the inexhaustibility of grief and hope and joy—join @preetivangani.bsky.social on Episode 90 as she reads from her new collection FIFTY MOTHERS, out now from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social! share.transistor.fm/s/b6cd1fe1

"It is perhaps living that one never gets over. / To live alone after living inside someone is to live within the ellipsis— / the constancy of it, the chaos. ..." @chelsdingman.bsky.social in the Los Angeles Review losangelesreview.org/the-face-to-...

Louise Glück ♥️ “You see again how far away / each thing is from every other thing.” from AVERNO

I think of trees that resist floods and storms, I think of the celebrations where the gourd is left to rest. Hussain Ahmed www.guernicamag.com/sekere/

Today, at @therumpus.net we're launching a series we're calling What is Freedom, where we ask a range of creative people to define freedom in whatever way they choose. This afternoon, we'll share the first answer, from artist Vincent Valdez. therumpus.net/2026/07/01/w...

Our history has always been contraband.

Where Am I? How far from what I keep calling the world? It appears right here, a hand's reach away, but it's miles and miles from here to the end of my arm. Craig Morgan Teicher Image courtesy @chelsdingman.bsky.social

“… I will grow my hair like loneliness. Memory will become the address lost with my father’s body. If I had loved myself too? ...” @chelsdingman.bsky.social in Indianapolis Review theindianapolisreview.com/if-it-is-not...

“No.” is a sentence.

New poem in the Winter issue of The Indianapolis Review. Thank you to Natalie Solmer for including me along w/ all the other stunning work in this issue. theindianapolisreview.com

"To stay alive, even the dead must endure / temporariness. Despite disease. Despite the burden, by which I mean / a refrain. Its vows." @chelsdingman.bsky.social in @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2026/02/02/r...

"To stay alive, even the dead must endure / temporariness." From "Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion," a new poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/EBzGLxN

“What is death/ if not a dream of distance?” This stunner by @chelsdingman.bsky.social in @therumpus.net.💙

I’ve got a new poem up @therumpus.net today. Thank you to Saeed Jones & editors for giving it such a wonderful home.

Advanced praise for Opening by Stefanie Kirby (@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social) by Chelsea Ding an (@chelsdingman.bsky.social) and Sara Moore Wagner (@saramoorewagner.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com

From 'Five Poems' —Humberto Ak'abal (tr. Michael Bazzett) #poetry #poem #poems

Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold! Here’s to more poetry and more flowers! 🌺🌸🌼

“only after breaking was my body/ believable” This poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social is so beautiful. (Thanks for passing it along, @pdforan.bsky.social!)❤️

“… You are a homesickness buffered by fantasies of orchids, scotch pines, daybreak. Blue graves scattered over cities. People I tried to love but couldn’t. …” @chelsdingman.bsky.social in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/we-have-know...

Ann Jäderlund tr. by @johannesg.bsky.social

Chelsea Dingman ♥️ “There is such violence / in the sunset.” @chelsdingman.bsky.social

“Carry me out / reel me in” A poem by Kevin Young.

"Belief gave way / to grief, its purgatories. Who will look out for you / after you are grief enough / to believe in?" A poem by 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 @chelsdingman.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

It is true there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. —Louise Glück, from "October"

Listen to Episode 79 with @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/23bf7d41 And read the full poem “Apostrophe” here: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sa... 📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast #booksky @uakronpress.bsky.social