Vikki C.

🔥 Now available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥 IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

"No mother / will ever pluck us with a gentle turn / of her wrist." Love how non-humanness feels so deeply human, plus the unexpected shift in perspective in this unique autumnal poem ❤️ 'The Unripe Apples' by @charismorgan.bsky.social in Grain Magazine #poetry #poetrycommunity

"No mother / will ever pluck us with a gentle turn / of her wrist." Love how non-humanness feels so deeply human, plus the unexpected shift in perspective in this unique autumnal poem ❤️ 'The Unripe Apples' by @charismorgan.bsky.social in Grain Magazine #poetry #poetrycommunity

Grief—I've seen her at night; the way she dresses up, my god, she sparkles, she shimmers. I can't blame you. I'd go to her too. Who wouldn't want her and then want her again once they'd felt all the ways she makes a body shake. Victoria Redel

Jen Siraganian 💙 from EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD (Perugia Press) @perugiapress.bsky.social

Lovely to come home to my contributor copy of @rowanglassworks.bsky.social, Fall 2026 issue 🍂 Honoured to see 'Queerness of Our Species' in print. Such a beautifully produced magazine. Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me alongside such stellar writers and artists from the US and abroad.

Lovely to come home to my contributor copy of @rowanglassworks.bsky.social, Fall 2026 issue 🍂 Honoured to see 'Queerness of Our Species' in print. Such a beautifully produced magazine. Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me alongside such stellar writers and artists from the US and abroad.

A new short offering written for TTT on themes of "journey", "edge" and "revelation". 'Instead of milkweed, a monarch clings to the windshield' Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the inspiration 🤍 @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #imagist #poetrycommunity #poetry

A new short offering written for TTT on themes of "journey", "edge" and "revelation". 'Instead of milkweed, a monarch clings to the windshield' Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the inspiration 🤍 @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #imagist #poetrycommunity #poetry

“I want the violence of my love / To leave my sleep and my lover alone.” — Roger Reeves . . . This poem appeared in King Me by Roger Reeves, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2013. Shared here with deep gratitude.

POEM 379: "City Pastoral with Crash Scene" by Chrissy Stegman (@chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social) "Juliet was already horizontal backstage, pinned beneath silk and hot pink municipal flowers. Her beauty had the stunned look of love taxidermied." stonecirclereview.com/city-pastoral/ #Poem #Poetry

"Where I was born / and born backwards again out of my mouth / into haze and sweet airs." Revisiting this beautiful collection interfacing the more-than-human world. From INMATES by Sean Borodale 🤍 @jonathancape.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity

"Where I was born / and born backwards again out of my mouth / into haze and sweet airs." Revisiting this beautiful collection interfacing the more-than-human world. From INMATES by Sean Borodale 🤍 @jonathancape.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity

Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle Series continues: 3 'epic' #poems from Nigerian writer Osahon Oka! & an artwork by project curator @rfredekenter.bsky.social each strand will bear a body down among the congregation to where you may be handing out benedictions, icefloepress.net/2026/10/14/t...

“By now, you know it was love / I walked toward” — Ama Codjoe . . . This poem appeared in The New York Review Volume LXX, Number 9, Issue 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

✨Let the countdown begin!✨ Only 4 WEEKS to go until ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is released into the wild on November 10, 2026 with the wonderful Bull City Press! ✨Stay tuned for a few behind the scenes glimpses as we get closer to the launch date!

Zoë Ryder White 💙 “Clouds have come down to touch us.” from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"It began with the way the two rivers touched." Returning some beauty and tenderness to the world with this gorgeous poem. A favourite. 'Simple Desires' by Mary Robles, published in Grain 52.2 ❤️ #poetrycommunity #poetry

"It began with the way the two rivers touched." Returning some beauty and tenderness to the world with this gorgeous poem. A favourite. 'Simple Desires' by Mary Robles, published in Grain 52.2 ❤️ #poetrycommunity #poetry

"I was made in the image of a thing without an image & silence, too, is your invention." This stunning and poignant poem 'Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]' by Meg Day 🤍 via Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetrycommunity #poetry

"I was made in the image of a thing without an image & silence, too, is your invention." This stunning and poignant poem 'Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]' by Meg Day 🤍 via Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetrycommunity #poetry

Having an amazing time curating all this incredible international work as part of our latest @icefloepress.bsky.social series Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle Landscapes of our times. Today welcome poet / ice floe author Lynne J. Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2026/10/09/l...

“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. ✨

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

“It’s like the place we never got to, to which I keep / arriving.” — Jacob Sheetz-Willard  . . . This poem appeared in Chestnut Review, Autumn 2024 (Volume 6, Number 2). Shared here with deep gratitude.

Some moments from the weekend's walks 📷 Greg M.

“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus (@scbrock.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in American Literary Review, Spring 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Absolutely enchanted to have a poem published today by Poetry.onl! Such an honour! Huge thanks to Tarik Dobbs and the editors for choosing to feature my Fantasia poem! 🪄✨️

"In winter, her fabrics swaddle like angels." Glorious poetry (as always) by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social in Poetry.onl 💙

This is beautiful from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social 🙌🏼

“Snow blues territories, the wolf grows hungry” Beautiful landscapes and pensive thoughts whirl together in this new poem by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social in Poetry Online! (And do listen to it too!)

Delighted to have a new poem "On Culture: An Assay" in Poetry Online's October 2026 issue — and in wonderfully talented company too! 🤍 🍂 My thanks to editor Tarik Dobbs for giving this piece such a beautiful home 🙏 Read and listen to me read the full piece here: poetry.onl/read/vikki-c

Harryette Mullen ♥️

Celebrating the 1st book birthday of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social's Drench Me in Silver published by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 💜 Here's a favourite poem 'Chai' which explores the nuance and tensions between culinary rituals and domestic and cultural dynamics. A stunning collection all round!

❛ I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. Anne Sexton, who died #OTD in 1974.

Honoured and grateful to receive an acceptance from UK based @stoatpoetry.bsky.social today. Thank you to editor Ingrid Leonard for selecting my poems 'Reverse migration' and 'Acropolis as body, as language' for Issue 2 of the magazine 🤍 #poetrycommunity

Link to full issue plus "Looking Glass" feature and video reading 🍁 www.rowanglassworks.org/fall-2026.html

A reading of my poem "Queerness of Our Species", published in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social Issue 33 yesterday. This video appears in their "Looking Glass" section for the issue alongside meta-discursive insights on the poem. Check out the full issue & features: rowanglassworks.org/fall-2026.html

A reading of my poem "Queerness of Our Species", published in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social Issue 33 yesterday. This video appears in their "Looking Glass" section for the issue alongside meta-discursive insights on the poem. Check out the full issue & features: rowanglassworks.org/fall-2026.html

New issue out today! 🍁📖 #LitMag #GWIssue33 #AmReading ⬇️ Read or order a copy: www.rowanglassworks.org

I love the game of hide-and-seek the poems in BLOODSTREAM play with passion, how they spring their fire upon a reader. 😊🔥💖 BLOODSTREAM by Sarah Carey (Mercer University Press, 2026) #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

Delighted to have a new poem "Queerness of Our Species" in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social Issue 33! Also a special "Looking Glass" feature with meta-discursive insights about my poem plus a video reading 🔥 Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me in this gorgeous issue! Link below 🤍 #poetry