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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14h

some of you have never whipped it until its tips were stiff and it shows

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 17h

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dad replied this morning and said "next time you call your dead mother you tell her hello for me" 🥹

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one of the odd things about being a poet is that I am always busy with something: prepping workshops, blurbing books, sending feedback to clients, editing friends' work, etc. but my outward facing persona is Deeply Unserious Terminally Online Poet Goofball. But I am serious! mostly

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

mentioned a poem of mine is getting a lot of likes on instagram to my dad during our weekly call and he asked me to send it, which I did, hours ago, and he has not replied with anything, and I’m just reliving the “Ok….?”s if get in high school when I showed them my work 😂😭

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

had a dream that my wife left a little treat for herself on the counter and when i went to see what it was an invisible apparition started fighting me

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

so many times when i read a poem that's trying to make me feel beautiful i think to myself "the poet's definition of beauty does not include digging my kid's box of uneaten fries out of the trash and eating them"

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i really think it's lovely that part of reading a poem can be realizing something about yourself i just want more poems where people realize that thing is that ghosts are real and food is amazing

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

got a spam email with this subject and, actually, no

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i forgot about bisexuality

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"THANK YOU FOR ORDERING, click here to see your receipt" scams are so funny. ordered what. with what money

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will say some of the push for AI in writing is how a lot of non-AI writers think the point of writing is to get published and no, the point of writing is to remove the weird little thing from your body and teach it tricks

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

me from an interview six years ago (i have not changed)

BRP: When working on a project, do you give yourself deadlines? What does that time management/organization look like?

TD: I tend to avoid deadlines. I’m aware they exist! But it’s sort of like being aware solar powered cars exist. They seem nice and useful, but I take the bus.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a weird thing about editing scientists is that sometimes something will look off and there's no immediate reason why and then you discover they've added the text in a table. why

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there was a period of time where a writer could think "once more, with reeling" and a whole book would fall out of them, people would read it, if it was well-liked they'd even give it three stars on goodreads with the review "3.5 stars"

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

feels like this data is skewed by litmag editors

picture of a shark with the tag: a human's ability to smell the scent of rain (petrichor) is greater than a shark's ability to detect blood in water

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“everything reminds me of her”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

friendly reminder if you did not get a best of the net nomination you can always just *holds up net* *holds up fish costume* *waggles eyebrows*

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ode to the note in my notes app that reads “That time I was a bicycle (talk about being a bicycle)”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

daughter said she doesn’t like Jay walking but she’s ok with it for now because she doesn’t like “the current President”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I heard if you find the one that’s swallowed a clock they shave 10 seconds off your time

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ode to the note in my notes app that reads “That time I was a bicycle (talk about being a bicycle)”

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...

themorningnews.org

Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News

Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i really love how making fun of something in this way is a door to writing a banger of a poem

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*Pennsylvania accent* holy wutter

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the "i just finished a poem let me submit it" urge has been replaced with "i just finished a poem let me put it on social media"

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

every so often I think about the time the ice cream truck zoomed down our street and while we were buying stuff for the kids my wife saw this contractor looking longingly at the truck and she waved him over and bought him whatever he wanted

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my son tried to sneak his snow leopard to school and while I was buckling him up I slipped it into the hood of my hoodie and I just realized for the past hour I have been taxiing this snow leopard through coffee and poems and feeding the cat, may leave it here all day

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I’ve been thinking about releasing my nudes” is a fantastic opening line especially for a poem titled Martha Stewart

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

been thinking about it, and while I think it still comes in 2nd place as The Worst Adjective to Describe Writing, "fine" is still better than "reasonable"

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're excited to announce the winners of our inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize as chosen by @toddedillard.bsky.social! Congratulations to 1st place winner Zoe Berger, 2nd place winner Chiwenite Onyekwelu, and 3rd place winner Emily Portillo! Read the winning poems: variantlit.com/2026-variant...

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The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize Winner’s Announced

Visit the post for more.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

things I'll never forget about 9/11: 1. my gf, who lived in the middle of Texas, believing the middle of Texas would be a good target for terrorist attacks "because oil" 2. my stoner roommate, who snuck into my room to steal my change and one time some underwear, swearing to enlist (never did)

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

cats are so funny like what do you mean I am supposed to get "oh you want to play" from you arching your back, clawing at me, and yowling like a creaky hinge on a hellgate

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

11yo daughter saw some slugs on the house then whisper shouted “DONT LOOK, they’re conceiving” which is how I learned slugs having a unique mating ritual where they swap packets of sperm

two slugs intertwined hanging on the wall of my house swapping packets of sperm

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"-slop" is going to be the word of the year huh

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The streets slip on trenchcoats of water." Contributor @toddedillard.bsky.social has two new poems in @thedodgemag.bsky.social! 👏 ✨️ buff.ly/RQDEG73

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

just incredible to see thousands of people think "a book is a product, therefor expediting its means of production is an example of increased efficiency" and, like, no, sorry, you are broken

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

a nice email I got today was from a high school teacher asking if the page break of a poem of mine published in a lit mag was also a stanza break since it worked so well; he's teaching it to his classes this week and wanted to be sure

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I used to be really annoyed by those deny guys who say any story I share about my kids is just me begging for attention but I think I have become one specifically for these little stories about ppls' boomer parents realizing things are harder now and having this big epiphany

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hey remember when I had a poem in Threepenny one year ago today

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hey remember when I had a poem in Threepenny one year ago today

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“either the poem dies or the self dies” - me, getting a poem idea while driving

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I never understood why someone needed to be woken up when september rends, what is it rending, why are you asleep on the job, are months people, etc.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"everything has already been written" i dunno man. add a cow.

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