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Neurocabin (Spuyten Duyvil, Dec. 2025) bookshop.org/p/books/neurocabin-bre… ⬆️ Debut poetry collection out now www.brettstuckel.com Bethlehem, PA / he / AKA VH / ?-scar club

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 29/09/2026
I’ve been writing essays lately about my relationship to poetry. Three of them are in @bulbregion.bsky.social today. bulbregion.com/Short-Essays...
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Short Essays on Poetry, by Justin Carter — The Bulb Region
Short Essays on Poetry — Justin Carter Short Essay On Poetry #2 I’m playing the...
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam!! Start it with a review 😁 Contributor @brettstuckel.com's review of Rebecca Wood’s MULTIMORBID was published in Volume 20, Issue 1 of Wordgathering 🎉 buff.ly/lYv1ZiQ
A red thread goes through a needle.
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 25/09/2026
The cross-stitched cover of Rebecca Wood’s 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥 weaves questions. Hope you check out my review of @bextatic.bsky.social's debut poetry collection 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥 (@kithbooks.bsky.social, 2026) on the newly redesigned @wordgathering.bsky.social wordgathering.syr.edu/vol20/issue1...
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<i>Multimorbid</i> (Rebecca Wood) - Wordgathering – Syracuse University
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'[Multimorbid] provides patient perspective that reminds doctors: Be careful! The inconsiderate phrase, the shameful note in documentation, can shape the “body as something to hide”' @brettstuckel.com on @bextatic.bsky.social's MULTIMORBID wordgathering.syr.edu/vol20/issue1...
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<i>Multimorbid</i> (Rebecca Wood) - Wordgathering – Syracuse University
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 19/09/2026
Friday Night Fever:
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
September 1st means we're officially open for submissions! Can't wait to read your work!
A pastel yellow background features several pastel-colored paper airplanes flying in an arc across the bottom of the image, along with swooping lines and pastel dots. Pastel blue text reads, "And we're off! Submissions are officially open!"
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 01/09/2026
my new book comes out in a little over a week 406press.com/product/late...
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Laterals - .406 Press
Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 19/08/2026
Halloween sneaking up:
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
LET'S GO!!!!! kith crit: cohort two is open for applications! DON'T SELF REJECT kithbooks.com/cohorttwo
kith crit: cohort two
a grassroots critique workshop for the trans, Crip, queer, and sick

What: a FREE, eight week, needs informed critique workshop beginning at the end of September 2026. In these sessions writers will come together across genres to challenge each other; connect with other trans, Crip, queer, and sick creatives; and develop the skills necessary to support themselves and others through the process of critique. 

Who: kith crit is open to trans, Crip, queer, and sick writers of all genres. cohort two will comprise two distinct critique spaces: one general audience; and one transfeminine led, and exclusive. While anyone is welcome to apply, we’re particularly interested in those who have been systemically or functionally excluded from traditional lit ed opportunities.   Applications will serve as assertions of eligibility. 

How: Send a brief statement outlining the reasons for your interest and a writing sample to wim@kithbooks.com by August 31th. 

Accessibility: If you have access or safety needs and want to know if we can meet them, please get in touch. kith’s standing policy is to meet everyone, to the best of our ability, however they come.

for more information: kithbooks.com/cohorttwo

Autumn 2026
wim@kithbooks.com
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 13/08/2026
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
sealey timed reminder: our ebooks can always be sourced for free. email me at wim@kithbooks.com with a title, and I'll send it along.
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Rogue Agent Journal @rogueagent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Perfume, geometry, and a praying mantis…. Issue 137 of Rogue Agent is here! Ft. poetry by Juliet Cook, BCV Dieujuste, Rodney Gomez @kavetchnik.bsky.social Robin Messing, Naz Noktehporkar, Stella Rhame, Krista Speicher Sarraf, Makela Shen, and Delia Tramontina // rogueagentjournal.com/issue137
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Issue 137 — RogueAgent
Welcome to Rogue Agent, a journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.
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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you’re prepping for #thesealeychallenege then perhaps you might consider adding my debut to your list
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I spent the past day sitting with the work of @mistykrueger.bsky.social who we lost yesterday. I have taught her memoir about breast cancer nearly every semester, and it was a constant reminder of the crip kinship that we shared.
A prose poem with the following text:

Your Birthday

Every time you have an appointment or procedure (including every chemo infusion and radiation treatment) you have to tell someone your birth date. Sometimes in one day you will have to recite your birthday many times. Tell the assistant. Tell the nurse. Tell another nurse. Tell everyone your birth date. When you get radiation you have to say it every day. It became so automatic. This month. This day. This year. Again and again.
Cancer patients are identified by their dates of birth, and sometimes it feels ironic to think of birth when we are struggling to fight off death.
A poem with the following text: 

Ode to My Body: My Fingernails

Chemo tears you from your beds. It 
exposes your skin underneath 
to the elements of the world, 
curves your sides like a cylinder, 
flattens your tips like a square, and 
draws lines on your face like age rings 
on an old tree.

I must cut you short.
I don't want you to fall off.
I must strengthen you.
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today on the site we’ve got a fresh new interview with Emily Lapomardo and @sandrabeasley.bsky.social about disabled literary community, tectonic shifts in identity and representation, and ways to show up for crip community! www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
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An Interview with Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley is a prominent DC-based writer and activist who has published four poetry collections and a memoir. She often centers disability at the forefront of her work, combining personal experie...
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thanks to @cavar.bsky.social and @anmlymag.bsky.social for interviewing @sfmontgomery.bsky.social about founding N2W, as well as speaking with editor Mialise Carney and grad intern Emily Lapomardo about the kind of work we're looking for in our submissions! medium.com/anomalyblog/...
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dis/connect: Sustaining Disabled Creativity: An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve to…
I feel like it’s common to begin these types of interviews with a question on origin. I’d prefer to begin with one of genealogy. When…
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 02/06/2026
SALE SALE SALE
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 01/06/2026
Rogue Agent has escaped:
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@janehuffman.bsky.social's contest-winning poem in Midway Journal. One of my favorite contemporary poets for her work with sound and repetition.
Beauty is made my fear

Jane Huffman April 15, 2026

A few notes on a misprinted poem by Laura Jensen

What slips from me is what
slips from me. Slippage
is the hinge on which my life

hinges. When the text
emerges with a mark missing,
I kiss it. The error ablates

the face I was making
when making it. Eros, a mistake.
When I faced it, I lost it.

When it slipped from me,
it slipped from me, and I let it
slip from me: errant tear.
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 24/05/2026
Open to a random poem and BOOM—so good. Paper Pistol by @ralpheeboi.bsky.social
Photo of Paper Pistol poetry book by Raphael Jenkins and two pins with the cover image. Title/author printed as gun: Paper is the grip, Pistol is the barrel, Raphael Jenkins is the trigger. Below, a man of power.
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Bextatic @bextatic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Canadian distribution for @kithbooks.bsky.social in progress! Still need a copy? Order now at www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/multi... Release date May 28!
White envelopes with kith return labels ready to be filled with copies of Multimorbid by Rebecca Wood. The book sits on top of seven  envelopes. Cover is a cross stitch with green leaves and purple flowers surrounding the word Multimorbid.
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 22/05/2026
“Aphasia” by Ma. Arlene L. Ledesma poetrylondon.co.uk/aphasia/
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Aphasia – Discover – Poetry London
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today on the site staff member Raquel Desiree DeGrasse interviews Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her Persea Books prose poetry collection Exploding Head, OCD self-discovery and community, and writing to save your life. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
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An Interview with Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s Exploding Head is a haunting and intimate collection of prose poetry that explores the boundary between body and mind, memory and perception. Across surreal yet deeply grounded...
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
SAVE THE DATE FOR 5/27/26! Join the WPLS on 5/27/26 to hear Lauren Camp, Jami Macarty, & Catherine Esposito Prescott. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poetry #poets #writers
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 07/05/2026
Poem “Funk Graveyard” is my inadequate contribution to this zine: Thanks, @jmaq.bsky.social!
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 03/05/2026
Thanks, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! 🙏
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Head into the weekend by reading Emily Lapomardo’s review of Ellen Samuels' Your Body Should Be a Part of the World! www.nervetowrite.com/post/a-revie...
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A Review of Ellen Samuels' Your Body Should Be a Part of the World
Ellen Samuels’ new poetry collection, Your Body Should Be a Part of the World, explores themes of chronic illness and the natural world, drifting between and blending the two. The poems weave through ...
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Happening tomorrow, friends. Come join us! You can register here www.callingallpoets.net
Calling All Poets First Friday reading with Roberta Gould, Jude Marr, and Irene O'Garden. Online and in person at Full Circle Gardiner, 297 Bruynswick Rd, Gardiner NY
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 21/04/2026
Brian Turner is making multisensory beauty on YouTube. “Welcome to Turner's Lens…This is a space for storytelling, meditation, spoken word, poetry, and, with a wider lens, considering the messy human world of memory and imagination.” youtu.be/HDRgvwLDMKU
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In the Hour of Dream
YouTube video by Turner's Lens
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 17/04/2026
Star in the brain:
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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 15/04/2026
“I’m really grateful people want to enthuse about books and broadcast that. But that world is full of tropes. To film yourself crying because you’ve read a book is completely absurd. There’s something very performative about it.” www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media
From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 15/04/2026
Neur stuff:
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 03/04/2026
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Mister Rogers and Daniel Striped Tiger!
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 31/03/2026
My new long poem "Extrinsic Invocation" is now PUBBED IN FULL—check out all five parts threaded together here: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br... Thank you @juscarts.com @somewordslit.bsky.social for the March hideout!
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 31/03/2026
Much needed:
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 31/03/2026
Shelf spot reserved:
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 30/03/2026
If you see this, post a concert photo you took. Grace Kelly saxing and singing and goosebumping at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA, August 10, 2025.
In an outdoor night stage, American jazz musician and composer Grace Kelly power-sings before grabbing her alto sax and soloing and leading her bass-keys-drums band and the crowd into ecstatic funk in Bethlehem, PA, August 10, 2025.
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 22/03/2026
hey poets of this website doing an all-poetry month at @somewordslit.bsky.social for National Poetry Month still a few open spots send me a poem to somewordslit@gmail.com for consideration
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 24/03/2026
A big messy pleading poem I wrote named EXTRINSIC INVOCATION is now 80% serialized on @somewordslit.bsky.social. Check out Part IV of V here, then catch the finale next Tuesday: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br...
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 23/03/2026
Nerve us:
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Triage Cancer @triagecancer.org · 18/03/2026
🙌 Our FREE Triage Health Conference is getting closer & closer! Whether you're a patient, caregiver, advocate, or health care professional, this conference is for you. Join us May 15 & 16 for two days filled with education, resources, and support. Register today TriageCancer.org/Conferences #CanSky
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 17/03/2026
It's the holy day of Saint Patrick and our EXTRINSIC INVOCATION continues...Part III of V of this long prose poem is live at @somewordslit.bsky.social and we've got two more Tuesdays to go. Let our keg lack foam on the primary pour: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br... 🟩
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Our new MARCH ISSUE is here, fam and we couldn't be happier 💚 We hope you enjoy it and have a great night 💚 buff.ly/xk6gUgW
Abstract painting reminiscent of a horizon, gently textured with soft brush strokes. Pink, hill-like masses are topped by swooping gray and cream layers and curvy, blue, cloud-like forms. A yellow streak runs vertically down from the middle.
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 16/03/2026
Let it be neurologically known:
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Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Got a stash of gifted notebooks you're afraid to get rid of? Donate them here to be redistributed to youth & writers at community events: www.fearnolit.com/notebooked
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Notebooked — FEAR NO LIT
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 11/03/2026
There’s a Neurocabin for you in this bunch of great news:
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 10/03/2026
EXTRINSIC INVOCATION Part II of V is live at @somewordslit.bsky.social and the thread continues every Tuesday in March...three more to go...recite here: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br... Below: First draft crash pad.
Squirrel-hosting, woodchuck-protecting, formerly yellow now tan house 400 yards from a Byrne Dairy somewhere in Madison County, NY
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 05/03/2026
Yep:
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 03/03/2026
O I think we all need an invocation right now, and Some Words just published mine...Part I of V, the thread continues every Tuesday in March...hope you find something in it... Many thanks to @somewordslit.bsky.social via THE ADMIN @juscarts.com Invoke here: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br...
EXTRINSIC INVOCATION
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O Booze, grant me the blabability to splatter a story under a deadline lest I die with an awkward rhyme, --> the rest of the prose poem is at the link!
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 03/03/2026
I like how the @somewordslit.bsky.social profile pic only shows some of the words.
White sans serif text “Some Words” in title case reduced with don’t-give-a-sock abandon by circular profile pic frame to “ne Worc”. Ne indeed.
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