Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ninthletter.com/feature/feat...ninthletter.comFeatured Writer #132: Kathy Fagan – Ninth Letter 020
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Such a treat to be hosted by these terrific poets on their rollicking podcast. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...breakingformpod.buzzsprout.comThe Unbecoming (with Special Guest Kathy Fagan) - Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastThe girlz queen out with Kathy Fagan who joins for the Breaking Form Interview!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry S... 001
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026theadroitjournal.org/2026/09/21/a...theadroitjournal.orgA Conversation between Kathy Fagan and Kortney MorrowKortney Morrow is the author of Run It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2026). She lives in Cleveland where she is the Program Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards—the nation’s only prize dedicated … 121
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Had a lot of fun talking with podcaster #JohnKing about #TheUnbecoming thedrunkenodyssey.com/2026/09/19/e...thedrunkenodyssey.comEpisode 724: Kathy Fagan!Episode 724 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s… 000
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026laurelreview.org/kathy-faganlaurelreview.orgLaurel Review - Kathy Fagan 000
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026hope to see you there. pub date 9/22. preorders soon to ship💛💚 010
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026feelin lucky? enter the goodreads giveaway up to 8/2 to snag a free cloth copy of The Unbecoming! 010
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals. 120
Reposted by Kathy FaganPoetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Today's Feature: "The Elevens" by @kathyfagan.bsky.social from Ninth Letter, Summer 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/the-ele...poems.comThe Elevensmy hair thin, parentheses around a mouth that could be my mother's: Unbecoming, 084
Reposted by Kathy FaganLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Poem for Father's Day. From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing 2318
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026my book can be preordered at a steep discount 6/23-26 if ordered thru barnes & noble. you can sign up for free here www.barnesandnoble.com/pages/member... 120
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026happy pride, happy full moon (minus a sliver), here are some pies🏳️🌈 010
Reposted by Kathy FaganLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Oh this poem. From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing 1307
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgHeedful HoldAn indefinite walk through a long icy underpass, a bus elapsing at a velocity that seems to deform the flank’s advertisement, the large faces of the ad’s… 000
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...open.substack.comWith No Equipment Allowed Into Gaza, Palestinians Are Digging With Their Hands to Retrieve the DeadMahmoud Khilla managed to find the remains of two relatives but he is still digging through the rubble for his wife and children. “We will continue and we will find them,” he said. 010
Reposted by Kathy FaganBull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 05/05/2026In equal measures a work of eco-criticism and a study of human behavior, ANIMAL LOGIC witnesses. It remembers. It resists. on-sale today! Arah Ko's poetry collection ANIMAL LOGIC is here: buff.ly/Lntgmfo 011
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My new book is ready for preorder wherever you like to buy books. @w.w.norton wwnorton.com/books/978132...wwnorton.comThe UnbecomingA dazzling meditation on the limits of life from a poet whose “mind is endless with depth and truth” (Brenda Shaughnessy)., The Unbecoming, Poems, Kathy Fagan, 9781324131397 092
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026luv this poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social today by @kristencase.bsky.social poems.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?...poems.us19.list-manage.comHIND (after Thomas Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt”)Just before the turn at the end of line eight, the hunter’s breath gives out, becomes general: wind from a net. 040
Reposted by Kathy FaganDerrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Happy to have a new prose poem out today that came out of a transformative morning I spent in Florence looking at Fra Angelico’s paintings. 3247
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026zeteo.com/p/iran-is-no...zeteo.com'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli WarExclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness. 000
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Dean Young in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...urldefense.comIf Anyone Asks by Dean Young"Maybe the unknown still loves me. Maybe it wants me dead." 020
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comThe Beach Where All Babies Are Born | Patricia LockwoodWe mailed ourselves the moonstones home.Ten pounds of them, a private beachThat cuts and cuts and cuts the feet.Where all babies are born, but not any of 010
Reposted by Kathy FaganThe Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 04/03/2026"I can’t imagine feeling less, or caring less. That’s not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1469. Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson — from PARDON: POEMS — and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4lbRRqu 053
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Astonishment by Wisława Szymborska open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...open.substack.comAstonishment by Wisława Szymborska"What made me fill myself with me so squarely?" 030
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Love this poem by #LadanOsman that was on Poem-a-Day a few days ago. poets.org/poem/after_f...poets.org[ ]Dear, I wished you heavens. / If not heavens, earths. 010
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026honored to talk about poetry with incarcerated communities thx to aaron hand & this amazing podcast project open.spotify.com/episode/5Bzw...open.spotify.comSpotify – Web Player 030
Reposted by Kathy FaganLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 15/02/2026From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #books #writing 293
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026A master class in rhyme. Elizabeth Bishop poetryfoundation.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...poetryfoundation.us12.list-manage.comThe ArmadilloWith a wind, they flare and falter, wobble and toss; but if it's still they steer between the kite sticks of the Southern Cross, receding, dwindling,… 000
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026love this poem-a-day selection by @katrinavanden.bsky.social poets.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...poets.us20.list-manage.comTomatoesThe best ones / I ever ate I ate / that summer, 020
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025super intrigued by this poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social 💜 142
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar 182
Reposted by Kathy FaganKathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work! 052
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/11/20252 very new poems. Thx, The Account❣️ theaccountmagazine.com/article/faga...theaccountmagazine.com2 Poems | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought 050
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025check out this poetry podcast, a favorite of mine❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 010
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025our so-called christian govt giving more demonic energy every day 030
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...open.substack.comTake This Waltz by Federico García LorcaThe hyacinth wild on my shoulder, My mouth on the dew of your thighs 021
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today. poets.org/poem/homecom...poets.orgHomecomingOne bridge and then another over the fisherman’s net / of steel water and high, secreting grasses. 0122
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for running these poems from the forthcoming book & a super insightful interview. Thank you, Karan & Shannan! www.onlypoems.net/poets/kathy-...onlypoems.netPoet of the Week: Kathy Fagan — ONLY POEMSKathy Fagan’s seventh collection, The Unbecoming, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Autumn 2026. Her 2022 collection, winner of PSA’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed), av... 010
Reposted by Kathy FaganLois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign: gofund.me/7b79d792gofund.meDonate to Help me and help my children, organized by Lamis AdwanHello, my name is Lamis. I’m 22 years old and a third-year dental student. I was supposed to … Lamis Adwan needs your support for Help me and help my children 032
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work! 052
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025... 2115
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...insidehighered.comOhio State Bans Most Land AcknowledgmentsThe new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities. 220
Reposted by Kathy FaganStanding Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza City, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). We know that this wasn’t inevitable but is a deliberate strategy of starvation by our government. (1/3) 13822