Jennifer Bullis (jenniferbullis.bsky.social)

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@PsalteryLyre @OrisonBooks Much gratitude for nominating my poem!

Announcing our Best Spiritual Literature Nominees for 2025! We are so grateful for the amazing work @orisonbooks does with this anthology and so excited for our nominees! 👏 AND you can read all of these poems all on our website!

And thanks for pairing the poem, as always, with such a lovely image!

My gratitude to @PsalteryLyre for publishing my poem "Our Lady of the Cascades" today!

Much gratitude to @PsalteryLyre for publishing my poem "Easter"!

@kristenmillares @RedHenPress @stephaniecabot @SLANYC Congratulations!! This sounds marvelous and I'm so excited to read it!

@brecht_dp Hunger Mountain. I enjoy & admire the literature they feature, but the website's esthetics are embarrassing.

Are there journals you don't submit to because of the way they look? And I don't just mean the ones that look bad, but I mean those that may not "look" like your style of writing?

@BeckyLTuch AWP has had this "Writer to Agent" opportunity in place for at least the past few conferences. I skipped in 2022, applied in 2023, and was rejected. Indeed no guarantee.

Interesting. AWP will have literary agents this year. Kind of a weird system. Writers submit query + sample pages. If an agent is interested, they will contact you. Thoughts on bringing agents to AWP? Thoughts on no guarantee to writers that they'll get 1:1 meetings?

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health

AWP 2026 is in Baltimore.

Happy first birthday to OUT TAKES/ GLOVE BOX. What a trip around the sun it's had . . . so grateful to everyone who supported, lifted, and ferried her along.

Here's our last parody song about the #USElection2024. It's called "Bohemian Trumpsody" (based on the inimitable @QueenWillRock but with only six voices & no overdubs) & we've self-trolled in it as 'libtards' already, just to save folks time who might be offended 🎶🗳️🤞 👉youtu.be/YY_8WzcHqMQ

Thanks to Jacar Press—to Richard, Natalie, and Sadie—for bringing these poems into the world. I'm honored.

I'm sharing this Evie Shockley poem w/my "Writing Poetry" class I'm teaching this semester at U of Tenn. job prescription Evie Shockley will poetry change the world? no one asks this about football, the thrill of watching or playing. we get that nurses & doctors are healers. no question that rabbis, priests, & imams guide individuals & groups through spiritual thickets. we don’t tell cooks to put down their wooden spoons & go make a real difference instead of a real soufflé. teachers are honored for the learning they impart. so let poets keep on exciting passion in them- selves & others. don’t discourage us from our efforts to diagnose the human heart or create trail markers for those coming behind us on this journey. trust me when i say that poetry heals, guides, feeds, & enlivens. poetry may not change the world, but might change you.

@EduardoCCorral Thanks for sharing your lodging costs. I was wondering exactly this!

Someone asked about #AWP hotel prices. So here’s what I paid. It’s not cheap (surprise!) to stay in the conference-approved hotels. I booked four nights and with taxes it came to $1,500 plus. Posting this in case the information helps someone make or change plans.

I've been holding on to this news, and now I can share! I'm co-editing a new journal with @rebunting called Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters! We plan to publish quarterly, & Issue One will drop in January. Check out our website & follow us here at @asteralesj41416!

@MayaJZeller @Porphyry_Press Woohoooo!!! This is great news, Maya—congrats!

IT'S HAPPENING. 🪸💙⚡️😭Thank you to @Porphyry_Press for believing in my work. RAISED BY FERNS, a memoir, forthcoming early 2026, along with new work by Erica Watson (2025).

@BeckyLTuch @nashvillereview @GeorgiaReview @RaleighReview Also concerned about @LukeHankins2 at @OrisonBooks in Asheville NC. Hoping all are safe.

Checking on @nashvillereview @GeorgiaReview @RaleighReview and any other lit mags in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and surrounding areas. Hope everyone is doing okay.