J.D. Isip
@JDIsip1
Professor, Poet, Dog Dad "Imitate Jesus & Socrates" - Ben Franklin "We must cultivate our garden" - Candide
What a nifty surprise! Reluctant Prophets is now available! Here's a link to Amazon (but I checked Barnes & Noble, and it's up there now, too). I imagine that means those of you who pre-ordered should get yours soon! a.co/d/0dwS7kn
Come join us on Tuesday night for a reading with @WisebloodBooks wisebloodbooks.substack.com/p/covid-a-lite…
how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods —E. E. Cummings poets.org/poem/la-guerre…
Always on the ledge of quitting poetry forever. But a wise friend told me recently: “Don’t quit poetry—quit the business of poetry!” That is, all the things that make you forget your art. A salutary reminder. Here’s a poem from Hollywood or Home. First published in @PoetryBrum
They're live! Ready to be checked out virtually now!
A fun announcement: JAKE chapbooks are coming to @EBSCO! Ben is working behind the scenes right now with the folks at EBSCO to get the books uploaded to their service, and they should be available digitally at a library near you soon! 🎉🎉🎉
I encourage every outlet that lists journals, interviews editors, or profiles particular journals to join me!
New policy at Lit Mag News: If a magazine charges over $5.00 in submission fees, I will not be interviewing the editors.
Just spent a few days in the Vermont woods, off-grid, no running water, but amazingly beautiful, and felt again all the things I tried to express in my triple-meter sonnet in the new issue of @newversereview:
My poem from the Women of Ohio poetry contest (2nd place for me) is up on the site today: A Poem for the Aunts and Grandmothers on Livingston Avenue womenofohio.com/2025/07/25/dar…
FYI friends - I'm chatting with Kelly Foster Lundquist to launch her memoir BEARD (you can pre-order a copy here: eerdmans.com/9780802884732/… ). Save the Date: Friday, October 10th at 6 PM 📅 Location: Interabang Books (in Downtown Dallas) Interabang Page: interabangbooks.com/about/our-store
Jane Greer (@NorthDakotaJane) The Poet at 80 Here fall the years in furious disorder; thin pages in her own determined hand blow like leafmeal along the smoky border of that dark continent, that motherland called memory. Daily, parts of her crumble before her eyes and just…
This poem by Carl Phillips in the new issue of @Poetry_London
Chuffed to bits to have a poem in the new issue of one of my favourite journals @Poetry_London. Thank you @NiallCPoetry for giving my work such a fantastic home.
A warm welcome back to poet & teacher Timothy Kleiser, aka @TimothyKleiser.
My latest poem, "Lost John", was a fun way for me to experiment with a different style. Many thanks to @StevenEKnepper and team for including it in the summer issue of @newversereview. See the link in the comments for the full poem.
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Rest in Peace, Jane Greer (known as @NorthDakotaJane in these parts). She was one of the great formalists of her generation.
This is a wonderful idea--and if you already have her books, perhaps get copies to share with friends. Let's spread Jane's words far and wide.
What if everyone--wonderful that it is so many!--who remembered @NorthDakotaJane here bought her in-print books from @lambingpress and read them? Or gave them as gifts? Bouquets of words, full of life, from Jane Greer to us...