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poems used to be like "Fall's big boot / stubs out flowers / as oaks catch fire" but now they're like "at the season theme park where i work as Fall Incarnate i chase down coworkers in flower costumes and beat them" and the first line is like "with a piece of foam / shaped like a French baguette"

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's one of my favorite poems from my new MS of ekphrastic prose poems (this one appeared in @bulbregion.bsky.social) AND here's a link to the animation that inspired it: 35mm.online/en/vod/anima...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"the focus of poems is language" - someone with a publishing contract, smart, hot "what if someone dressed in rust and loam beat someone with a fake baguette" - me, no publishing contract, tired, wants bread

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WHICH IS TO SAY poems sure have gotten better over time huh

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is the first workshop of my collective tentatively titled "poetry books are too long now as a result of shifting printing practices and this is a personal insult to me, an easily distracted poet"

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FYI signups are going live soon for my workshop: "So Your Poetry Manuscript Is The Exact Length You Want It But Submission Guidelines Need Ten More Pages: How to Write Poems That Enjamb Across Page Breaks"

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IMO just classic c-suite decision-making where their only aesthetic goal is "done-ish"

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it’s neat every tool song stars with this little intro that gives you time to pee and refill your drink before the actual song song part starts

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Tony Cliff @tangocharlie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NOW we’re getting to the GOOD writing advice

SCREEEN SHOT!

this is in part why I don't understand "never think of the reader when writing" folks, thinking about your reader isn't automatically kowtowing, sometimes it's saying "I will ruin you"

yeah im thinkin about the reader. thinkin about pummeling his ass c

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sorry but this is “lactose intolerant after a night out” appropriation

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in the UK (where I don’t live)

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is in part why I don’t understand “never think of the reader when writing” folks, thinking about your reader isn’t automatically kowtowing, sometimes it’s saying “I will ruin you”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s national poetry day and not one of you has said anything to me specifically. am i a joke to you

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

also just to be clear “Instagram poet” means “poet who posts poems on Instagram” to me, I am too secure and too covetous of my own time and energy to spend a millisecond thinking about “Instagram poet” as a pejorative

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

why did autocorrect change honeybadger to homebadger

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this isnt a judgment, lord knows I think everyone should write whatever they want, it just never occurs to me to write about the news unless it’s like “deer found on roof” or “homebadger eats IKEA desk” or something

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a weird change in my life is going from getting news on Twitter to the past couple years or so getting news by seeing what all the instagram poets are writing about

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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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

this was my dad until last night

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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

just to be clear this is funny, being a teenager reading earnest poems to his parents was also funny, what was I thinking

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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 · 27/09/2026

Thanks! Was happy to see your prompt from Ben in my inbox today too!!! (Big Fan)

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

anyway I am a good husband even in my sleep. i did not eat the imaginary treat.

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

"that's the will of your spouse telling you now" pretty sure my lactose intolerance is sick of me and has started invading my subconscious in the least subtle way possible

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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 · 25/09/2026

*slowly turning into Wall-E human* this is progress!

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

just so we are clear, they were on the top! point still stands

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