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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wise words from the great @mayacpopa.bsky.social.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/08/2026

"For passion will the mind turn / on its diet of certainties / to tango doubt’s perimeter." From "If You Love That Lady," new poetry by @mayacpopa.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/Qgq0Qiq

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My third book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, is out now from @wwnorton.com. Please DM me if you'd like to purchase a signed copy. 🤍

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My third book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, is out now from @wwnorton.com. Please DM me if you'd like to purchase a signed copy. 🤍

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our latest issue has four memorable new poems by @mayacpopa.bsky.social. The last movement in “Had We But World Enough” arrives with such precision and energy. Read it here: kenyonreview.org/piece/had-we...

From "Had We But World Enough" by Maya C. Popa

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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Save the date for 8/12/26!!! Join the WPLS on 8/12/26 to hear David Baker, Gregory Orr, & @mayacpopa.bsky.social. Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST). Reading starts at 7:30pm. #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry #writers @wwnorton.com

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Congrats @mayacpopa.bsky.social on your new book of poems! My copy arrived today, & I can’t wait to read!🫶🏼

A book cover, titled “If You Love That Lady” on a white kitchen counter with two red apples to the right and a small candle to the left.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets / who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez / with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien.” Read “The Romantics,” a poem by @mayacpopa.bsky.social from the collection If You Love That Lady.

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“The Romantics,” a Poem by Maya C. Popa

In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien. Where he withdrew his handkerchief and saw the death wa…

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Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My review of Maya C. Popa's new poetry collection IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: robertjtiess.substack.com/p/my-glowing... The book wwnorton.com/books/978132... MCP/LARB interview lareviewofbooks.org/article/maya... Opening poem substack.com/@mayacpopa/n... @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry #poets #books

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My Glowing Review of IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: POEMS by Maya C. Popa

FIVE OUT OF FIVE STARS

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Grateful to The Atlantic for running this poem from my new collection, out in 10 days from Norton. I'm teaching a FREE class on July 25th at 1 PM as thank you for anyone who pre-orders the book. myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...

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Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Post 3/3 Other links: Article midbrow.org/maya-c-popa-... Goodreads www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Substack mayacpopa.substack.com Other Books www.mayacpopa.com/books Maya's Conscious Writers Collective www.consciouswriterscollective.com @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry #poems #poets #books

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Conscious Writers Collective

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Grateful to have four new poems in this issue of Kenyon Review. I wrote this one in Vamvakou, Greece, where I was introduced to the hawk moth (also called sphinx moth) after running from planter to planter thinking I was watching a rather drab hummingbird up close. 💛

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We created a mini portal for anyone wanting to trial CWC for a week. It's been an amazing way to meet and answer new members' questions before they jump fully in. ✨ consciouswriterscollective.circle.so/forms/74b6b508

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We have an EXTRAORDINARY National Poetry Month lined up in CWC. Join us this April—14 meetings, 200+ hours of past courses in the vault, 3x live workshops for feedback. www.consciouswriterscollective.com

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Lord Frederick @noblesatirist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s National Poetry Month! So take a poet to lunch. I’m speaking literally. 🥪 🍷 I don’t like poetry much. But I’d take this lady to lunch Even figuratively! I like her poems a whole bunch. —Yours, Lord

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

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The Blurbs for "If You Love That Lady"

And a note on asking for blurbs

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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The Blurbs for "If You Love That Lady"

And a note on asking for blurbs

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one. If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you: luma.com/27l7cemw

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one. If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you: luma.com/27l7cemw

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.

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Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma

How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

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Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma

How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

FYI: CWC has a (free) Substack newsletter FULL of craft tips and exercises pulled from our recent sessions. It's a wonderful resource run by our members. 💛

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CWC Monthly Review

A look back at December's classes and office hours

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Beginning in January, this three-part course with @alinaetc.bsky.social 1)Techniques to Fictionalize Photography 2) Epigraphs in Fiction 3) Terrible and Beautiful Angelic Forms in Fiction We have FIVE spots for non-CWC members to join us:

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A Three-Part Intensive with Alina Stefanescu · Luma

Alina will be leading three sessions: January 11, 12-2 EST; February 28, 12-2 EST; March 28, 12-2 EST 1) Techniques to Fictionalize Photography “When I listen…

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨ www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

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A Three-Part Intensive with Alina Stefanescu · Luma

Alina will be leading three sessions: January 11, 12-2 EST; February 28, 12-2 EST; March 28, 12-2 EST 1) Techniques to Fictionalize Photography “When I listen…

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Really moved to see this as it's one of my favorite poems I've written. Thank you, @matthewterrill.bsky.social.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨ www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

thankful to @mayacpopa.bsky.social for including this wonderful Ellen Bass poem in her newsletter today

Dead Butterfly
BY ELLEN BASS

For months my daughter carried
a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend's house. At the dinner table
it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast.
She took it to bed, propped by her pillow.
Was it the year her brother was born? Was this her own too-fragile baby
that had lived—so briefly—in its glassed world?
Or the year she refused to go to her father's house? Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became
there? This plump child in her rolled-down socks I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me and carry safe again. What was her fierce
commitment? I never understood. We just lived with the dead winged thing as part of her, as part of us,
weightless in its heavy jar.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

On this national day of shopping (🙄) here are two craft classes I’m teaching in December: 🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c... 🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg

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Writing Desire - Five Things I've Learned

Join me in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about the ways that poets can bring desire to the page with heat, precision, mystery, and verve. Hi, everyone. I’m Maya ...

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.

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Poets, We Need to Talk About Self-Promotion

Why asking for support feels harder than writing the book

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