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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

2026 Yearlong WIP: Distill an important memory from each month into a tiny documentarian tableau in an upcycled Altoid tin using surplus textiles & other found/thrifted items. #wip #create #alteredaltoid #tinybook #upcycle

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

@mdwstscribbler.bsky.social reading The Jewel for Justin Hamm this morning. And pleased as peaches to display his original painting, Kitchen Angel. #art #poetry #heartsurgery

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It's 2026, and we're now well into the fifth year of book bans nationwide. What can you do? There are *many* things you can do. Here are 60+ small tasks to defend the right to read in your backyard and to help in the efforts nationwide. No one saves us except us. bookriot.com/how-to-defen...

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60+ Small Tasks to Defend the Right to Read: Book Censorship News, January 9, 2026

No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Electricity of Every Living Thing - Katherine May; Wintering - Katherine May; The Company of Owls - @pollyrowena.bsky.social and George: A Magpie Memoir - Frieda Hughes (Thread of three skeets for #BookSky 💙📚 - work up from this tagged one!)

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A great essay collection keeps you engaged on 3 levels at once: unique dissections that offer a new perspective on a given topic, yourself, and humanity at large. The Trouble with Loving Poets is full of these moments, offering unflinching, modern looks at dog ownership, linguistics, HPV, and more.

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The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure

By Elizabeth Zaleski February 24, 2026 Now available for pre-order! Whether failing to restrain herself from trying to find greater meaning in roadkill, or to convince her dad that psychedelic mushroo...

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Renee Good’s Time at Old Dominion Included an Award-Winning Poem www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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Renee Good’s Time at Old Dominion Included an Award-Winning Poem

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🔥 Beginning our new Ice Floe series PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S) with a stunning hybrid exploring the fluctuating states & margins of identity & illness. "Departure i am trying to render" – a Video Poem by @camwhelr.bsky.social Immerse & also read her powerful artist statement on process💫

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I'm BEYOND thrilled to have my video collage poem up today @IceFloePress: Thank you to Robert Frede Kenter, the most encouraging editor EVER, who accepted & chose to use my work to launch Ice Floe's newest project: Process / Marginalia / Other Wor(l)d(s): icefloepress.net/process-marg... ✅ it out!!

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Departure i am trying to render – a Video Poem by Cam Whelr

Artist Statement – Cam Whelr In creating this digital collage, I endeavor to render my poem “Body Surfing” as an urgent, sensorial, and impressionistic plunge into my embodied rea…

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

William Stafford

SOME DAY

It is only the world, and only your time in it; it is only
the last breath, very soft. Now the hours can go home:
they always wanted the quiet they have found.

It is only your faults that wander now — no place
for them to go. But finally they will lie down
too, since no one will care any more.

Some place on the earth it may happen, may catch the light,
some day again, like the way Sunday was, or
when you crossed through the door the last time —

And the only thing left, your way of leaning your head,
will catch in that shadow and then slip and be gone.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/03/2025

Really really want to read your fiction. This is a great opportunity to have your wintry story in print. Here's some insider knowledge, Christmas books sell well and fiction outsells poetry. This is a no-brainier. Submit today! #WritingCommunity

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 26/01/2025

Discover Tulsa like never before 🍔🍺 Dive into @jayrafferty.bsky.social's evocative prose poem, A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa, capturing the soul of the city through its eateries. Read it here: shorturl.at/O7hLU #Poetry #Foodies

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A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa – Exploring Tulsa’s Food Scene in a Poem by Jay Rafferty - The Broken Spine

Tulsa is a city that feeds the soul as much as the stomach, and Irish poet Jay Rafferty has captured its essence in this sumptuous prose poem. More than mere

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/01/2025

‘There’s the power of good writing and the power to deem writing good; these are different things with distinct geography (elsewhere needn’t be so far away: Edinburgh-based Canongate is an ingredient in Shepherd’s revival).’ @frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Fraser MacDonald · Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd

The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"I’m reading Ephesians. It’s so good. I think. I haven’t had time to read it, but it feels important. Blaise Pascal says there's an empty space in the human heart that only God can fill. That is so true. I agree. I underline." - James W. Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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The Passionfruit Review @passionfruitlit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

'semantics' by Ally Fowler Cover art: ‘Stuck to You’ by Shannon Wallace

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Superpresent @superpresent.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Superpresent is seeking submissions on any aspect of the theme Movement. We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, performance art, videos, sound art, asemic writing, and visual art of all kinds. Subsmission deadline is 3/1 #callforsubmissions #movement #callforwriting #callforart

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Use the link in our bio to submit your poems and get a response in ONE WEEK! Those selected get published in our annual anthology. #callforsubmissions

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Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit to us. And also thanks to those supporters who have shared our call for submissions! We are excited about the "Spring Warmer" and are looking forward to pulling it together. #callforsubmissions #writingcommunity

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Want to submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology? Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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Bleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Submissions are OPEN for our third issue, GAUDY INFINITESIMAL. It's all about luxuriating in the little things. We are in serious need of: visual art, essays, and hybrid work. Poets, never stop sending! (Until the deadline, anyway.)

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses:

A two-headed lambs lays on a bed of pink roses underneath a banner of text that reads

gaudy infinitesimal
wants to catalog your unabashed gratitudes!

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses:

FOR THIS ISSUE,
we're seeking work that luxuriates in petite miracles; catalogues of tiny happinesses; the captured essence of little treats.

we're looking for all the small things worth waking for.

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses, a bust-up clipping of a two-headed lamb framed in a garland of roses hovers over the following text:

For a full list of guidelines, visit
bleatingthingmag@gmail.com

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

open.substack.com/pub/camwhelr... Maggie’s poems attend so tenderly to all the awe & ash of this, our momentary, Life. She snagged me early. I felt plucked out of the wind & caught aloft. A kite broken loose. Lodged high in a tree with views of the whole horizon. I was buffeted & needed upholding.

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Maggie Smith:

Attending to Awe & Ash

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Lucent Splinter: Winter Vibe: open.substack.com/pub/camwhelr...

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry. Merry. Joyful. Joyful. Blessed beyond Blessed!!

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Jonathan Dubow @jonathandubow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Only three weeks until my submission call with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social opens!

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant

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Pleiades: Literature in Context @pleiadesmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Shara McCallum’s “Wilding” is today’s featured poem from the fall issue of Pleiades! pleiadesmag.com/online-exclu...

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello, we're back! Last reading of 2024 will be this Sunday afternoon at 2 PM Central. Come hear @danadelibovi.bsky.social and Molly Peacock discuss elegy and memory. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Emily Goss @barrowmember.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What's the best book you've read by a chronically ill or disabled writer recently? Any you're looking forward to? Read book reviews/interviews on Ciadish.co.uk & find authors to follow in this starter pack go.bsky.app/EFKNgPt (which I'm still updating but slowly due to pacing) #disability #NEISvoid

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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 19/11/2024

And this is why authors are always asking you to preorder.

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A fuller and inclusive list of writers who write about nature, climate, & the environment, who live with illness, disability, &/or neurodivergence (and combinations of), is below - to help you find community & to illustrate the diversity and range of #writers on #nature: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Poets and Teachers: use BardCode.org to generate colourized visualizations of your poetry, revealling internal rhymes and unseen patterns. Here's an example:

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/11/2024

We Grow the World Together Join @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, Kim Wilson, Harsha Walia, & Dorothy Roberts for a conversation about the intersections between caregiving & abolition Wednesday, November 20th at 7:30 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Janis La Couvée @lacouvee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There's still room for more litmags & small presses in my starter pack #2 - 30 slots left before I have to start a new one. Have I included you? Lots of new accounts joining daily. Did I miss one? Please share. Pack #1 bsky.app/starter-pack... Pack #2 bsky.app/starter-pack...

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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I will never shut up about the continued need to KEEP MASKING. As a disabled, immunocompromised person who still gets dirty looks while masking everywhere: covid hasn't gone anywhere. I know that most people don't want to hear this and want people like me to put a cork in it but this is important

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My latest, where I consider how Donald Trump is nothing new, but born from the the nation’s contradiction of beauty and brutality. The beauty is democracy, equality, and opportunity, for some. The brutality is the genocide, enslavement, colonization, and war that makes that beauty possible.

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'I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.' Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump 'Racially Purifying' the US

The acclaimed novelist's essay on the Republicans' attempt take us back to the 19th century – and where he finds hope.

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Janis La Couvée @lacouvee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Writers and poets. Have you seen my lists and Starter Packs - hundreds of writers, poets, litmags and presses. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #Litmags LitMags bsky.app/profile/laco... Poets bsky.app/profile/laco... Writers bsky.app/profile/laco... Starter Pack #1 bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ancient. Eroded. Full of holes. Precarious. Persisting.

In the foreground, a barely balancing stack of beach stones and ancient coral. Some are eroded with holes through them. Others are flat discs. In the blurred background, are scattered shells and other unidentifiable bits on the artist’s workbench.

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