My poem in last week’s New Yorker—a meditation on mortality + time, with cameos from Halloween City 🎃, Mircea Eliade, + my sister! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“I refuse to be intimidated by time”

“I’m not sure what qualifies as sacred // when I am profane, or, rather, historical.”

Book news: I’m thrilled to be joining the Milkweed Editions family + I’m super-excited to work with editor Bailey Hutchinson + I can’t wait to share ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE with y’all in 2026! (+ big thanks to Nat Jacks at Inkwell Management!) 🎉

If you wanna read a poem about erosion at Dania Beach, A1A, cocaine, jai alai, + other stuff, I’ve got you covered over at Sierra Magazine! www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

“I got carded last night at the bar with the darts and my license had // VOID stamped on it since I just renewed it at the DMV which smelled / like stale smoke and camouflage and asbestos remediation” — @rika99.bsky.socialwww.ilanotreview.com/parents-poet...

Liquid Nitrogen - Ilanot Review

Erika Meitner   I dropped my son at a Saturday science enrichment program on campus then went to Starbucks to work except I didn’t get much done because last night I drank too much at the bowling alle...

“our 20s / in the city were PowerPoint temp jobs were / stealing rolls of toilet paper from restaurant / bathrooms were pagers & flip phones” — @rika99.bsky.social, “we used to go to the Bulgarian Bar but not together”

the lovely folks at Amherst College Press made a flyer for the book series I'm co-editing with @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social@glavey.bsky.social we shifted the title of the series to the virguled "Re/Verse"-- our email subject lines kept getting messed up email me for more info on how to pitch!

I have a new poem in You Are Here edited by Ada Limón + out tmrw from Milkweed + it’s up @therumpus.bsky.socialtherumpus.net/2024/03/29/f...

from You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World - The Rumpus

The Rumpus, in partnership with Milkweed Editions, is pleased to preview this anthology with poems from Paul Tran, Cecily Parks, and Erika Meitner.

“I want to tell my son it’s not shameful to need something or someone to help us out of the darkness when it gets very dark. Jeff Buckley. Joy Division. Jesus. Dolly Parton…” Read the whole poem below. It’s tremendous. #poetry#poem#music

EMrika99.bsky.socialMar 27, 2024 12:33pm

hey I’m poem-a-day over at Academy of American Poets today! If you want to read a poem with national parks, bison, Dolly Parton, a little danger, + a lotta Jesus in it, I’ve got you covered! poets.org/poem/just-da...

Just as the Darkness Got Very Dark / Another Data Point

People going through / hard times don’t listen

hey I’m poem-a-day over at Academy of American Poets today! If you want to read a poem with national parks, bison, Dolly Parton, a little danger, + a lotta Jesus in it, I’ve got you covered! poets.org/poem/just-da...

Just as the Darkness Got Very Dark / Another Data Point

People going through / hard times don’t listen

where I’ll be at AWP 2024 KC