Kieron Walquist
@bigshakyred
queer neurospicy missouri-baby | 2024 national poetry series @BeaconPressBks | chap @QuarterlyWest | phd-ing @UUtah | mfa @MFA_WUSTL
✨ CO(HH)VER REVEAL ✨ OHHV, out 10/14! You can pre-order with Bookshop.org + receive a 15% discount during Pride Month! (Promo code: PRIDE15) bookshop.org/lists/visionar…

I need you the way astonishment, which is really just the disruption of routine, requires routine. —Carl Phillips, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1959 poets.org/poem/western-e…
We are so excited to announce that Asha Futterman's SONG OF GRAY, winner of the 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry, is available for preorder now at the link in our bio! This title is forthcoming in Fall 2025. Use code FUTT25 for 40% off your preordered copy now!
Report: Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy' "And that was a lesson, I think, in the fact that there is no single way to carry over one language into another language." Read here: npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-… #pdnews
I was able to hold my first book today! Pre-orders are arriving now: fourwaybooks.com/site/the-decli…
Read an excerpt from the debut @JoylandPub Editions book, Information Age by Cora Lewis! debutiful.net/2025/07/15/rea…
Lucky to have three poems in like a field! 🏕️💍🦞🐝 The issue is beautiful + here, below — likeafield.com/2025/spring
Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 A Hymn | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
Happy pub. day to PARADISO, the epic conclusion of Mary Jo Bang’s celebrated translation of Dante’s THE DIVINE COMEDY 🎉🎉 Catch Mary Jo Bang on tour! graywolfpress.org/events?field_a…
We are pleased to announce, for the third time, volunteer editorial fellowships! An opportunity to lead in many of our print sections and online newsletter. Please share. newterritorymag.com/press-release/…
Like a winding staircase, each line break and rabbit hole leads to a new surprise. We really dig the play at work here in "Rabbit Holes" by Malia Maxwell! kenyonreview.org/piece/rabbit-h…
We’re thrilled to announce that celebrated poet & former Academy Chancellor @brendalhillman is the judge of the 2026 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. Learn more: poets.org/brenda-hillman…
I'm excited to share that you can now pre-order my debut collection, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, over at the Four Way Books website: fourwaybooks.com/site/the-decli….
Very excited to share the cover for WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME!!! ❄️🩵💫 In bookstores Sept. 2 & available for preorder now! Thank you so much, @CopperCanyonPrs! 🤍
Today’s Featured Poem: “Salvation Sonnet” by @stevenespadaw published by @ScribnerBooks Read here: poems.com/poem/salvation…
Becoming a lizard-boy in the desert, but the flowers — the flowers!


I’m judging the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize. Send your manuscripts, tell your students, friends. Deadline: June 15th #poetry
Beaming to receive a @BestNewPoets nomination from @SugarHouseRev! Forgive my cringe/shaky voice, but you can listen to the poem here 🏜️🎮🤠☠️ on.soundcloud.com/OqKHDgNN8GILvb…