Blackbird's internship program brings in guest speakers who share their insights on publishing and the creative life. Among our guests this semester was poet Allison Titus, who came in-person to share about the anthology, The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry. The anthology is out now!

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Thrilled to nominate these six pieces for the Pushcart Prize! Read these fabulous pieces at blackbird.vcu.edu🐦‍⬛ @kristinagarvin.bsky.social @poloniuma.bsky.social @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social

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Happy Lesbian Day to me!!!

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Hi honeys, I’m home from school, did I miss anything? Also how awesome is it to have school in a historical manor house? It’s not lost on me that future leaders from some of the smallest, far-flung, rural congregations in the Diocese of Olympia are being trained in this grand setting! ⚓️

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People are still complaining about free verse in 2026… when it has existed for centuries, and poets continue to use rhyme and meter, including (often) mixed with free verse. The complaints have little to do with poetry and a lot to do with reactionary culture war rhetoric.

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