todd dillard
@toddedillard
WAYS WE VANISH @okaydonkeymag. RAGNOROK AT THE FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE @VariantLit. Poetry Editor for @TheBoiler_. 3penny, APR, Southern Review, HAD, etc. he/him
have had this little poem kicking around in my notes app for a while, might as well share
started juggling in front of my toddler and instead of being impressed he said “why are you doing that”
@toddedillard incredible!
The way this @toddedillard poem lives in my brain every goddamn day.
The way this @toddedillard poem lives in my brain every goddamn day.
playing clarinet. it's the most egregious and ridiculous depiction every time, like a director said "hold this giant black stick as if you are discovering what it means to hold a giant black stick." 30 seconds of study would be enough. but enough apparently is too much.
What’s something that’s always wrongly depicted in movies and tv shows?
millennials are going to be such weird old people. we don’t answer phones, we don’t click email links. everything is cake or AI. we’re going to be 97 years old and tell everyone Xneria-Z in accounting isn’t real. yes we’ll still be working at 97.
friendly reminder one time an owl stole a toy horse and people thought witches were flying around town
they don't teach you this in writing workshops but a neat writing trick is that you can lie
love this picture of a novelist sitting in on a poetry workshop
NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard) "'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!' The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture if they were still here? How could someone with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?" ⬇️LINK BELOW⬇️ #Poem #Poetry
Here’s another poem of mine in the summer issue of @FLAPPERHOUSE. It is PACKED with awesome writing, support this brilliant and quirky journal by picking up an issue today!
We are super excited to see that contributor @toddedillard published a poem in @pleiadesmag! Order your copy here: buff.ly/gY7pHBN
Have you listened to @toddedillard on the Poems & Whiskey podcast?? open.spotify.com/episode/77efGF…
toddler went number 2 but when I went in to help him he dramatically pointed at the potty and said Dun dun DUNNNNNNN
my wife keeps putting music on our Alexa and my toddler keeps shouting ALEXA PLAY MONSTER MASH
whenever someone says writing efficiently means using the least amount of words possible remind them how we all say “jobs where you get to work with your hands” instead of “hand jobs”