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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

things I was frightened of as a child: 1. Jeff Goldblum as the big bad wolf on Faeirie Tale Theater 2. Meg Mucklbones from Legend 3. Literally going to hell. 4. Moonlit pastures far outside of Midland, TX. 5. Cancer

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Jimmy Shaker Day @brgbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

He’s trying to bribe us with our own money

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Prior to John’s Table, Lesle Lewis hadn’t released a book since 2019 & we’re so happy she has TWO books out this year. Survival of the Fittest Pronoun drops in 2 weeks via Quale Press. The first 10 people to DM us an order confirmation we'll mail you a FREE copy of John’s Table.

a picture of Lesle Lewis' two prose poetry collections released this year

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Who among us has not had their butt kicked all the way to pizza hut?

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Three months of minimal traction, rabbit holes, and kind rejections, yet the STRIDES that have been taken in the last seven days are absolutely unreal works in translation via Piżama Press are very much underway

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I just always assumed Mountain Dew was an alchoholic beverage.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Great moments in desktop literature.

Photo of the horizontal spines of various books. At the bottom, the spine of a box of kraft macaroni and cheese.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Courtney Bush

One night in Park Slope leaving work alone
On a numbered avenue I beheld
Under a street light encircled by five evenly spaced trash cans
A broken computer chair
Someone had wrapped it all in a star of twine
A throne
It told me I could go ahead

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Meta makes commercial about how A.I. is not dangerous, but glorious. Don't be cynical, be celebratory! Meta uses David Bowie's "Five Years," a song literally about the end of the world, as the soundtrack. *chef's kiss*

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For $5-$15 you can have 28 writing prompts mailed directly to your house. Highly recommended! Especially since @pizamapress.bsky.social is featured Just reach out to @stonespiral.bsky.social

a stack of beautiful art (book, coffee, postcards, playing cards, writing prompts, pins)

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When a poet writes about the phenomenology of darkness Darkness Weldon Kees I have seen it in the green tree For a long time now, In the shapes on pavements, oiled And streaked with rain

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Manhattan, 1932. oil on canvas.

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Soraya French (b.1957 Iran) Sunflower Fields, Provence. mixed media.

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MISTER FILM STOCK @misterfilmstock.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#Movies #MovieSky #MelBrooks Happy 100th Birthday MEL BROOKS

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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Celebrate this publication. They are an absolute revelation.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/06/2026

"There are never quite enough stories to fill the gaps, are there?" From "The Turning of Celestial Bodies," a Pride 30 highlight by Jinwoo Chong. 🌈 buff.ly/b8E8b2l

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Perseus Greenman @futharkvillage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Poem sent around at work for Poetry Wednesday (a tradition of the English dept). I thought people here would appreciate.

THEY/THEM
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infant bright of morning

then to perceive the world in binary
is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trying to pray with James Wright. One of my dearest poems. There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch

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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New poem in the inaugural issue of Waltz and honored to share space with so many incredible poets. waltzjournal.com/issue-one/

Screenshot of my poem on the Waltz website. The poem reads:

Paradise
In fact, an unsettled heaven is what I had prepared for. In all directions the songs of specters, a harp floating midair.
There is one difference between a hymn and a song and it's in its power to parch its listener. I sometimes wonder if angels too need water for how long they're asked to hold their notes. I imagine them singing, shining, rows of plastic bottles lined at their sandaled feet.
Heaven is the planet we destroy after this one.
In the beginning, they too called this place magic.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 14/06/2026

On Tuesday, this bad boy of a horror anthology gets released. It includes my story, “Home,” about a woman and her dog who move to a remote cabin in the woods. They definitely don’t encounter anything living in those woods. No, sir. Not at all… www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre...

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Of Dread, Decay, and Doom – Stars and Sabers

Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L. Powell, and Scarlett R. Algee, featuring masters of horror fiction.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Buy the ticket, take the ride, boot on your girlfriend’s plaid Chucks

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's alive!! BODIES IN BAGS is out there in the world. With another kickass cover from @egallagher.bsky.social It's not going to be for everyone, but if you're into dark, gritty crime fiction, I hope you'll check it out. bookshop.org/p/books/bodi...

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Bodies in Bags: Stories

Stories

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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

W. S. Merwin #poetry

Rain Light
by W.S. Merwin

All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning
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This poem appeared in The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2008. Shared here with profound gratitude.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

David Hockney (1937-2026), “My Parents” (1977), oil on canvas, 182.9 x 182.9 cm.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New poem up in @theoffingmag.bsky.social !!! Been waiting for this one to come out. Stoked

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

dropped this one today - for fans of Massive Attack, Portishead, Bonobo, etc. youtu.be/Uo4929h7znI

youtu.be

The Album Leaf & Nicole Miglis - Turns [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by The Album Leaf

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“Leonard Nimoy as Doctor Strange and Lee Meriwether as Clea in the 1970 ABC pilot MASTER OF THE MYSTIC ARTS.”

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 12/06/2026

Received my physical copy of @barbarabyar.bsky.social’s incredible debut novel from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social.

Front cover of Barbara Byar’s excellent IN THE DESERT

'The most wildly original and compelling novel that I've read in the last few years. For fans of Emily St. John Mandel'
Casey Stegman
In the desert, a phone begins to ring...
A traumatized movie star returns to his dying hometown to find the woman he loves has disappeared. He vows to find her. In the Desert follows five friends as the consequences of a bartered 24 hours from their childhood unravel in betrayal, murder, undying love, and a phone booth at the end of the world.
*A propulsive, original and startling read
Noel O'Regan
'It is dark and so darned beautiful you will want to read it again and again' Jennifer MeMahon
'Raw, unsparing grit lit with the shimmer of the surreal"
Andrew K. Clar
"Inventive, dark, and
transcendently disorienting'
harieen Borrubi
'A fever dream of dust-blown horizons, carnivals, quantum transporters, and Hollywood ambition'
Jonathan Danielson
*In the Desert is a wild fucking ride, man!'
Stephanie Austin
A wildly imaginative, all-encompassing, barn burner!'
ISBN9798902717003
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"For Love, We Attempt Another Ars Poetica" by Vikki C. alongside beautiful image by @rfredekenter.bsky.social ✨️ From our collaboration IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - 2nd edition (@icefloepress.bsky.social) 💙 Available at Ice Floe: icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep... Thank you for your support 🙏💐

Artwork by Robert Frede Kenter that accompanies "For Love, We Attempt Another Ars Poetica".

FOR LOVE, WE ATTEMPT ANOTHER ARS POETICA

Vikki C.

To choose to live in this world,
blue or otherwise. That is what I tell the poet who tries

so hard to write the best opening. To creep naked into winter
without a word of evolution. For now, my new meds

save you the trouble of visiting—meaning
estrangement is a spare room not worth its view.

All year, waves break against alien rocks, wrong and spectacular.
And our secret isn’t how we left it, smothered with flowers,

but figuratively it’s there—as we are—asking:
How can the poem thrive without my anxiety?

Evening piles its tricks over my body, daring me
to leave you again. Spoon-feeding me to its damp glitter,

where abeyance is a far suspension bridge. I think of that mother
who couldn’t bear to stay on Earth, when Earth was still home.

How her orphaned daughter grew up not-a-poet—choosing a different
art altogether—painting a dead bird’s wings to obsession.

Flames of white feathers. Feathers of white flames. No matter the myth,
the irony after rising—is the fear of heights. Where questions on the

mechanics of breath happen to be mine. Will the rope soften too?
How much sky is true and available?

How will I lower myself, without missing you?

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

RIP David Hockney 💔

I'll tell you a story, this is just a little diversion. I was working at Ken Tyler's in a print workshop in New York at the same time that the Van Gogh show was on at the Met, "Van Gogh in Arles," and I went to see it. A stunning exhibition, and I went back and Ken said to me, "It's great, but isn't it disgusting in the end in that room where they're selling all the postcards and posters and stuff?"

I said, "Well, no. I must tell you I bought three of the posters and I stuck one
up above the bed, so when I wake up in the morning, I can look at Van Gogh's bedroom, that marvelous painting of the bed. Frankly, it costs ten dollars and it's a stunning reproduction of the painting. I think Van Gogh would be thrilled that you could go away with wonderful reproductions like that. He wouldn't care at all; he'd think it was marvelous that people can do it."
I said, "You're just a terrible snob, Ken, and I'm surprised considering that you're a printer. I'm surprised you can't see that sharing it would be more thrilling."

Because actually, it's new ways of printing that are opening up many things. I
point out that when I was playing with Xerox machines, I was also interested in the
philosophical implications of all this. I found for instance, that in Eastern Europe, you
cannot buy, you cannot even own a Xerox machine. Of course if you could, you'd
have a free press, and you couldn't have censorship.

For instance, if the one now becomes the thousand, it's all very different. If
the Czar's secret police knew of a subversive printer, found the printing place, and
found ninety-nine leaflets, thinking they'd printed one hundred, then burned the
ninety-nine, thinking, "There's one left, what's it matter?" But today, so long as
there's one left, there's millions left actually.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Trying to pray with Salvatore Quasimodo. A poem for lovers lost in the ides of Summer. Almost a Madrigal Here on the edge of the canal, our feet Swinging back and forth like children's Let us watch the water, the first branches in its darkening green.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Name a film with a “misleading” title.

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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hello #writingcommunity and #poetry lovers 📚💙 The #poetrybrew this week is for the nature lovers 🕊️ “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

—Wendell Berry

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#AdoorableThursday Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater #aofoto

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Work" for #weirdpoemwednesday first appeared in a now-defunct online mag, appeared also in my first chapbook Like Now.

Work

I make mistakes at work. They’re very fine.
I ship them everywhere around the world.
On Mondays, big ones. Tuesdays, little ones.
On Wednesdays, sales. On Thursdays, ordering.
But every Friday I do something strange.
I’ve never spoken it aloud before.
I climb up out onto the roof and sit
All by myself. I close my eyes and breathe.
The world spins for a while. I let it slow.
And then I pull a piece of paper from
My hat, a pencil from behind my ear.
I smooth the paper on my knee and write

One thought, as perfect as a tortoise shell.
I eat it. It’s my home next week in hell.

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Ludmilla @ludmillaart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A City Written in Memory 12x12 painted on birch cradled board. #abstractexpressionism #art #abstractlandscape #contemporaryart

Abstract expressionism painting of a city skyline, mostly yellow and red.

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📝 #SubsOpen for our Summer 2026 issue, Issue 15! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, and #CNF to @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit

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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Homer’s The Iliad, song of Ilium. #booksky 💙📚

When the South Wind showers mist on the mountaintops,
no friend to shepherds, better than night to thieves— you can see no farther than you can fling a stone-so dust came clouding, swirling up from the feet of armies marching at top speed, trampling through the plain.
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SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today’s the day, #poetrylovers! SHINE Quarterly, Issue 7 is here www.tinyurl.com/shinepoetryI7 & don't forget to watch the launch video here: youtu.be/tG9lTksK8zc . Thanks for supporting #indiewriters and #indiepublishers! #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

promo for SHINE Quarterly issue 7 - list of countries

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

June news: shorturl.at/F2oQZ New books from John Challis, Frank Ormsby & Lawrence Sail; Online launch event 23/06; Joanna Lowry wins @mslexia.bsky.social pamphlet competition; The Taste of Lightning on the @oxfordcct.bsky.social Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist; plus much more!

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢 Call for submissions🔥 'Dis/enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle' – now open at @icefloepress.bsky.social. Seeking visionary hybrid work, poems, essays, visual art, sound art that explore the theme: icefloepress.net/dis-enchantments-anomie-spectacle-an-ice-floe-project/ @rfredekenter.bsky.social

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Dis/enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle – An Ice Floe Project

“a hypermarket can provide just as much meaning and human truth as a concert hall” – Annie Ernaux Crash (2026) (c) Robert Frede Kenter Ice Floe Press is now open for submissions o…

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

haunting!

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