It is such an honor to have a reading with some of my newer work featured on Alaska Quarterly Review's channel. It premieres today, but if this blustery day isn't good for you, it'll be there whenever you've a moment. I hope that my words find a home with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExoM...

Erin Coughlin Hollowell: POETRY READING

YouTube video by Alaska Quarterly Review

Things you aren't really prepared for at 5:45am - a porcupine using the stairs up to your front door as you return from walking the dog in the pitch black yard. NOTE: Neither the dog nor the porcupine were harmed but I uttered a noise that was in a register of my voice previously unexplored.

For just a few moments tonight, I could read the whole story of splendor. #apprenticetolight

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #238,502! It's been fun watching this grow!

Although I think one might be able to substitute "spiritual" with "powerful."

jd vance is a vicious liar who is going to get people killed www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Ohio police have 'no credible reports' of Haitian immigrants harming pets, contradicting JD Vance's claim

Vance wrote on X that "people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country." Police say they haven't seen evidence.

This morning as I looked through the prismatic world of the internet, I began to feel more and more anxious. The amount of pressure on Kamala Harris right now must be absolutely unendurable. I can't imagine. I hope that her family and friends are giving her all the love and support she deserves.

This book. Phew. AMAZING.

Sometimes I look at the pictures of friends hanging out with poets that admire so much and will never ever meet and I think to myself, I get the mountains, the glacier, the moose, the bay.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it. — Alice Oswald