william erickson

shuffling over a small portion of the planet this month, then gonna exist in a few places with poems this summer. if yr out-&-abt, come through! this sunday, jul 7 @ 3pm est i'm hanging out poeming with @bartonsmock on the zooms. you can email bluejawedsnake at gmail for a link (or hit me up!) monday jul 8 i'll be at @showbar.pdx with some stellar music and comedy for @bananapitch . (a variety show... can you believe it?!) thursday jul 11 i get to do poems at @whistlerchicago in chicago with a mindboggling lineup of lovelies! monday jul 15 we'll be at the mudlark in nola with a l'il tardy party for nothing lied still. hyped to read with some new pals there!! +++ i'll be flangin' some books around at all these places so if you want one put yr hangingout shoes on. portland spots later this summer for the local lovelies... more deets are chilling in the tomorrows ⏳️ also if you wanna read some poems together dee the ems i'll be nervous & awkward but it'll be fun 🫠

-UPDATE- ok portland pals, mark yr schedulers for *June 7th 7pm at @iprc_pdx ,* wherein we'll be putting my book up into the air!! there'll be poems from my great pals @dianagoldfish , @slugvsalt & me, & charmingly witty hostery by the one and only @drekklin . & i talked to everyone else, they said it was cool to cancel yr plans for my book launch 😶‍🌫️

heyyo internet, news abounds! my newest book is casually in the world (official drop date is the 14th!). some of you hit me up for copies, but if you haven't yet maybe snag one from @aprilgloamingpublishing (🔗 in b👁-0) or myself. we'd appreciate it! may 31 @7pm we'll be doing the big ol' featuring the inimitable Armin Tolentino (@slugvsalt ), the illustrious @dianagoldfish & myself at the lovely @iprc_pdx so if yr here maybe be there! also I'm reading may 17th @7pm with the bonkers talented @danika_stegeman & @matthewklone at @upupbookspdx . I'll have a few copies of a few projects and a bunch of new poems. it'll be a good time! photos: 1. a stack 0 books bathing under the godhand 2. launch flyer a la not my style designers 3. the sky over here 4. super cool flyer a la @matthewklone for may 17! 5. new spring growth 6. the proper way to use a bed via Corduroy

y'all, my li'l book is up for pre-order over at @aprilgloamingpublishing (& 🔗 in the b👁-0), due to start shipping out may 14. it's a book about my dead, but also my living. about how absence is a presence in me, or us. about being alone, too. it's been weird to cede this one to the world. i hope you like the poems inside here's a couple things in & around it: 1) a videopoem---dear cut-glass---which i made for @heavyfeatherrev a while back & am so grateful for the chance to share with that mag i love dearly (tytyty so much!) 2) a li'l erasure of one of the inventions poems, made by my dear friend & stunning poet @stone.spiral , who helped me greatly with this book. all the gratitude 3) the original invention, which was invented in @westbranchmag a couple years back in the lovely 100th issue, which is a massive honor to hold 4) a poem from the book you've probably never seen, which i rly like bc it has a cliff & cliffs are the world's front teeth 5) the actual (digital) artifact of this book April Gloaming designed, which features hagar and her son ismael (the son, too, of abraham) from the book of genisis. the story of hagar & ismael is, like most biblical stories, pretty bonkers and probably nsfw, ha! all love to AG for homing these poems :) rly i owe this books to bunches of people. I'll thank them all loudly & much other the months 😊

a rly nice boop in a pretty rough patch. a couple little odes from @hexliterary out in @poetrydaily365 on this first friday of poem month. absolute and all gratitude to @hexliterary for being such a force in this community, for lifting up writers, for giving me consistently lovely stuff to read, for introducing me to artists I adore, and for being my friends. if you don't read hex regularly, I highly recommend you begin now :) huge thanks to the kind folks @poetrydaily365 for reaching out. like, holy crap, what an honor! okok, you can go read the poems and a little par about 'em at poems.com and I'm gonna go cry in a cereal bowl for a bit, some joy tears in there today tho 🤎💙🤎💙 thank you friends. I'm sending you hugs but maybe too they're raindrops.

i thought maybe we were gonna land on the x but we just kept going. wouldn't those mountains make the perfect cousin? anyway a lot of great word machines and friend machines and anxiety machines and hunger machines got flipped on over the week(end) so thanks for all that, all of you. was/is extra rad to have been introduced not only to this lovely octavo produced in conjunction with @tiltedhouse but also (in some cases again) to the stellar people of tilted house, who amaze and astound in spades. thanks for hanging out. see you all later this year, hopefully. btw you can buy the octavo via tiltedhouse.org. it's a very satisfying thing to look at and feel, i promise. a little sad for me to read the poems, but an honor that they were (are) so well cared for now. i have to confess, i didn't really watch out for the forklifts, which were swarming all over kansas city, in the alleys and shrubs and on the river bank. they're very skiddish but they like whoppers. alright later friends. 1. a little mountain doodle 2. the newest little with other littles by adam strauss and @the.usual.variety via @tiltedhouse 3. the lovely @matbroaddus 's book courtesy of @ricocheteditions (thanks for the guinness and the hangs, my friend!! was rad) 4. fullly unfurled octavo 5. KC wildlife expo 6. a poem

NOTHING LIED STILL IN THE SEA is setting sail! it is with a weird mash of emotions i get to announce this new book-thing you can pre-order from @tiltedhouse ❕️❕️i'm so, so grateful for @rubberflower and all the peeps at TH for their kind care and atten(tion)(dance), their creativity, their love of poems and books and not-book things that also hold poems. really stoked abt how this creation turned out, its folds and overlaps and rotations. i do hope you check it out, which you can do via the 🔗 in my 👋-0h. honored to see this one come to life with such love and carefulness 💙🩶🤎💙 because i feel weird about using this space pretty much only to promote stuff, enjoy some other pics of poem-related activities. 1- title photo of Nothing Lied Still In the Sea, a textury delight and tactile book adjascent thing we made. 2- a gorg tree trunk from the Portland Japanese Gardens late december. 3- a gorg wild and free will saying thanks fr hanging out with my words

sandbox is here, which means if yr waiting for a copy from me, there's less waiting :) thanks to Bottlecap Press for making these things into rly lovely holdable things. pretty bonkers if you ask me. if you want a copy, toss a message. I have a bunch!

Okokok! Here goes! Quite excited and honored and scared to have this little chap dropping with @bottlecappress , whom I love so dearly! There's a link in bye-0 to order or for more info! This project was swirling in me for a long time trying to get out and I owe much gratitude to @mathiassvalina for helping me unlock the gate and also giving me some paths to walk down. The poems respond/react to a single image of colonialist violence and its immediate particulars, which you can read more about via Bottlecap's site. If you snag it, I hope you dig it! Also! I'll be reading some poems from the chap (and other poems!!) at @surpriseanotherpoem next Sunday! If yr in PDX, come by. And if you want junk signed, hit the DeeEmms 'cause I'll have copies soon! Alright folks and forks and oaks and table legs, I'm so grateful for all yr support and all yr art and always ❤️ 💖 ✌️🤘

A poem from my soon-to-be book. In @oceanstatereview . In the company of utterly humbling greatness. Ceaseless thank yous to my poet-friend Daisy Bassen for asking about brain/dream/mental illness poems and then snagging this one for the journal! I love this mag, so I'm a bit giddy still to see my name in it next to peeps whose work is forever blowing me away. Bonkers. Anyway, starting to engage with the work many of yall sent in for the exquisite centollage and holy geez yr amazing! Gonna be so rad. Ok ok, go give yr dogs some ice or yr walrus some soup or yr sandwich a trip to the beach ✌️🤍🤎💙

Really psyched to have a poem in the newest @sprungformal today 🤠🫎 I don't usually do poems "about" stuff in a regular sense but this poem--along with its siblings--is like a little landscape of a place I've held close to me for many many years. I'm just a little younger than some of the rocks and dusts and trees and shrubs there and I like that about it. We're contemporaries. Anyway it's a huge honor to share space with many truly amazing poets and writers and artists in this issue and for that I'm deeply grateful. Please check out their poems and arts and writings. The issue is fantastic. Mountainous thanks to the talented folks at Sprung Formal for letting me in on the fun!! I'll toss a 🔗 in the b-👀-0 to the full issue!! Also thx to my lovely supportive partner for the last photo of me probably about to trip or something.

Plant. Life. 🐧