Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 5:01 AM

After much deliberation

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:24 AM

That's fab! I hope I can make it out and see it again. That show's bound to be a stunner

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:48 PM

More info for the PSA Awards:

poetrysociety.org/awards/annua...

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:48 PM

The Poetry Society of America Awards are open, and I'll be reading entries for Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: $1000 for 10 pages of poetry from a manuscript in progress. Deadline: Dec 15. For more info on this and the other awards, I'll share the link below!

An image promoting the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award which will be judged by Derrick Austin: a $1000 prize for 10 pages from a manuscript in progress. Deadline: Dec 15.

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 1:54 AM

Watching The Philadelphia Story today, I thought about the similarly jarring ending of His Girl Friday. The sense that Russell and Hepburn's characters have compromised themselves. Grant has such a knack for playing a dreadful characters. Of course it always helps when it's Cary playing a cad.

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 1:28 AM

I Walked with a Zombie Center Stage Black Narcissus His Girl Friday

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:14 AM

I love how that fabric pulls across his shoulder and echoes that dramatic sunrise.

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:13 AM

I’ve been in a funk all week, so I wanted to share this Titian that’s newly on view at The Art Institute of Chicago, a ray of sunshine in an otherwise glum kinda day.

A picture of a painting in a gold frame by Titian called Risen Christ in which Christ, nude but for white fabric elaborately folded around his waist, winding around his wrist, and covering his left shoulder, stands triumphant against a dramatic blue-orange sunrise as he holds a staff that ends in a billowing banner: a Red Cross against a white background.

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:07 AM

Thank you for reading! 💜

@40yearsago.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 2:04 PMReposted by @paradiselaust.bsky.social

[September 23rd, 1986] Isabelle Huppert at Stringfellow's nightclub in New York City

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:19 AM

On his birthday, a poem for legendary fashion designer Patrick Kelly from This Elegance

At the Grave of Patrick Kelly by Derrick Austin

I want my clothes to make you smile. —Patrick Kelly

Bitten by bed bugs, clothes ruined,
I ache to scorch the catwalk in your dress of Corvette red kisses.
I'd never seen couture like yours,
colorful, buoyant, and sage. Don't be sullen in sweet air.
Strut, cry your buttons! Twirl, cry your bows!
A swishy boy, I'd spin
an antique globe my mother bought for me from the thrift store and where my finger landed was the place I could be happy. You, too,
gave me a world to imagine without dullness or ignorance.
Your epitaph is legible and clean.
Blazing star, a metrocard, chrysanthemum, a pot of mint— On this fifth day of the fifth month, I promise not to get lost again
when I return properly with a gift.

@sharalessley.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 2:54 PMReposted by @paradiselaust.bsky.social

Five new essays in @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social on the work @cphillipspoet.bsky.social! 💜 Thanks to James Allen Hall, Cate Lycurgus, Derrick Austin, and David Woo for their smart criticism! westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi... #booksky #poetry

@hubcitypress.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 5:45 PMReposted by @paradiselaust.bsky.social

Happy pub day to SMALL TALK by Acie Clark, on shelves today! This debut collection was selected by @paradiselaust.bsky.social as the winner of our New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. Copies are available at hubcity.org/smalltalk with free shipping through next Tues (9/30)

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 6:59 PM

Tenderness came out five years ago today 💜

Derrick Austin's second book of poems, Tenderness, rests on a red-orange floral fabric background.

Derrick Austin's second book of poems, Tenderness, rests on a medieval-style image of Christ wearing a red cloak and standing within background of gold leaf.

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 5:22 PM

Two wonderful poems from Dante Micheaux in The Brooklyn Rail

brooklynrail.org/2026/09/poet...

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:19 PM

A Maggie Cheung double feature, a fun Ghibli movie, and my first Godzilla 🍿

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:23 PM

@westbranchmagazine.bsky.social's latest issue includes a folio of essays about Carl Phillips's debut collection In the Blood. I have an essay featured alongside contributions by @davidwoo.bsky.social, @jamesallenhall.bsky.social, and Cate Lycurgus.

westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

@slowdownshow.org Sep 18, 2026, 4:10 PMReposted by @paradiselaust.bsky.social

“Today’s poem is a celebration of creatures we tend to overlook or even disdain. It invites us to reconsider our perspective,” shares @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s encore episode.

Read “I Find Myself Defending Pigeons” by Keith S. Wilson: bit.ly/4AhN3XG

📖: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 7:08 PM

Hopefully! It’s been a year I think

@paradiselaust.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 6:25 PM

There’s NER, Georgia Review, Paris Review, Plougshares…but I can’t find anything else