Isaac Pickell (@isaacpickell.bsky.social)

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-smallest-mistake-we-call-human/ poet & phd student in Detroit | books and chaps @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social @deadmallpress.bsky.social | just very glad to be here.

1.5K followers 1.3K following222 posts

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! [I did this out loud, too, but thought I should share.]

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

14 Aug

There is no chance that we will fall apart There is no chance There are no parts — June Jordan

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

7 July

Really ridiculously honored and also I never want to hear my poems in not- @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social- voice ever again.

The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org

"Today’s poem grapples with parenting, and gender, and what we inherit — positive and negative — from the people who raised us," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1553. Read “When you have to remind me to do the dishes” by @isaacpickell.bsky.social: bit.ly/44clhNA

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

18 Mar

How do you get the jobs where you write seven emails a day and fire people every so often and tell other people to do things and make one hundred thousand dollars a year?

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

18 Mar

This is not a joke or a rhetorical question.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

28 Feb

Isaac Pickell reposted

Daniel Sturniolo

@dansturn.bsky.social

26 Feb

We are all experiences — everything

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

13 Feb

PRESALE TIME!! The best time to order small press books is during presale, when there are author incentives and awards buzz begins. So order one, or order ten for all your friends. I mean look at that cover — who wouldn't want this on a coffee table. blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-sm...

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

13 Feb

Oh! And I should mention! It's coming from @blacklawrence.bsky.social on August 18!

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

11 Feb

I love poetry prompts and am so pleased with the ones LeAnne Hunt — @ennael.bsky.social — came up with after reading my work. Check these out and if you write through any of them, I hope you share!

leannehunt.comTopical—Prompts Inspired by Isaac Pickell — LeAnneHunt.comSorry, everyone, for the long delay. Once I missed a couple of weeks due to the holidays and a new job, I just couldn’t get myself writing again, the blog or poetry. I have been in a bad headspace in ...

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

10 Feb

Fuck!!!!

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

8 Feb

A little science for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

8 Feb

Leslie Reese [from “Upside Down Tapestry Mosaic History” printed by Detroit’s Broadside Press, 1987] <<>> #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

7 Feb

Wrote a poem about the bags under my eyes.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

30 Jan

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

19 Jan

The poem we're all trying to write right now only Gary Larson did it better, and with cows.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

12 Jan

after @makecommon.bsky.social

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

1 Jan

Happy new year everybody.

Isaac Pickell reposted

Nikki Wallschlaeger

@nikkimwalls.bsky.social

23 Oct 2025

I got something very special in the mail today from my publisher ✨ You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, translators and editors. (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). 💜thank you for not looking away💜 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

14 Aug 2025

University administrators must have real comfy beds to sleep through the night after sending out sub-living wage contracts to adjuncts every semester.

Isaac Pickell reposted

Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

28 July 2025

happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

28 June 2025

BIG NEWS BIG NEWS CAPITAL LETTERS BIG NEWS— Mark your calendars! Save your dollars! My second full-length collection, THE SMALLEST MISTAKE WE CALL HUMAN, is forthcoming June 2026 @blacklawrence.bsky.social! Couldn't be more excited to be working with Diane on another project. You're gonna love it.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

21 May 2025

You guys. I've got a poem out today in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. It's called "Fuck my lecture on craft, your people are dying" and it's after @noorhindi.bsky.social. It's about daisies and some other things. I hope you check it out and if it hits you share it around.

theoffingmag.comFuck my lecture on craft, your people are dying - The OffingPoetry - The Offing Magazine

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

20 May 2025

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

9 Mar 2025

Not enough time is invested coming up w/ names for readings, but ATTACK OF THE KILLER QUEER ECOSPHERE may just inspire every other organizer to do their best. Come see Yasmine Bolden, Emdash, Aerik Francis, Jacob J. Billingsly, Allya Yourish, & me! Email alocasiamagazine@gmail.com for the link.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

9 Mar 2025

@alocasiamag.bsky.social for more details & such.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

4 Mar 2025

A friend of mine just shared a new poem they wrote and I am not exaggerating to say it's going to forever change how I thinkspeakwrite about its subject matter. Just an absolute opus. Make poet friends. They'll make you in return.

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

4 Mar 2025

[almost too second-hand shy to tag @myamatteoalexice.bsky.social — almost]

Isaac Pickell

@isaacpickell.bsky.social

10 Feb 2025

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"