Derek Ellis

I am delighted to have 3 new poems featured in Waxwing’s latest issue! Go give them a read and check out the rest of this stunner of an issue 💫🪶

Thanks again to @PoetryShore for publishing this piece in their winter issue! Be sure to check out the rest of the issue at theshorepoetry.org/issue-24

Thrilled to share another new Larry Levis poem, "Prayer" in this week's @NewYorker! Stay tuned for Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis, forthcoming from @GraywolfPress in 2026 @JeffShotts1

Jerry: I'm in Nosferatu's thrall. George: You're in his thrall? Jerry: I'm in his thrall! George: Get out of his thrall. Jerry: You can't get out of a thrall. That's the thing with a thrall! You're never through with the thrall! KRAMER BARGES IN Kramer: Well, I got the plague!

thought we could use this by James Tate a little early this year

@OkaforMichael_ @PoetryShore @HanaWiderman Thank you for the kind words! And a beautiful poem! Glad to be able to share this issue alongside you 🙏🏼

Excited to have my poem included in the new issue of @PoetryShore, alongside the brilliant works of poets like @aDerekEllis and @HanaWiderman. theshorepoetry.org/michael-okafor…

I have a new poem out in @PoetryShore latest issue. Go check it out!

@GillyWhite8 @susanlleary One of my favorites of his. That ending 🤌🏼

Frank O’Hara, “Nocturne” (August 8, 1955)

Guess we've made it a tradition for this poem to resurface at the end of each November. Love it.

An old friend of mine is finally making his amazing short film available to the public in about 15 or so minutes. Go check out Where The Bullets Go 🐦‍⬛ for some southern horror. youtu.be/9L7dZM80Uns

from MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) by Mary Ruefle

Beyond honored to have a poem selected for the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize. It's an amalgamation of Bachelard's ideas in Poetics of Space and a conversation I had with my former teacher and friend, the talented poet and translator Joshua Weiner. poets.org/2024-binghamto…

I've long thought, & other scholars w/ similar research interests have made arguments for this as well, that Faulkner is contrary to Proust in that he does not approach art as capable of embodying experience. Doris Betts too writes that “[t]here’s so much you can’t save by writing down.” It's a very big question but one wonders if there is something about the South, Southern memory and literary practice as a means of containing memory that is basically anti-Proust.

"The poet speaks on the threshold of being." Bachelard

@Lukesrant @WaxwingMag Thank you, Luke 🙏🏼✊🏼