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@cursetheground.bsky.social
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bleating thing • she/her • author of 3 chapbooks, most recently ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS

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K.M. Hanslik @kmhanslik.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@monarch.gay inaugural issue is now live! Read my piece “sanctimonious,” originally published by @bleatingthing.bsky.social , in this issue! So honored & elated to be a part of this! 🦋 monarch.gay/sanctimonious/
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sanctimonious - Monarch Queer Literary Awards
by K.M. HanslikBleating Thing Magazine Behind the junkyard where I usedto wish myself away—the child’s heart you kept buriedbeneath steel, & me calling it stupid, saying thisis where things go to forg...
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
2026 is already running me over with a tractor, send help
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
⚠️ Public Service Announcement⚠️ Hug a Poet Today! Our Dashboard Awards are OPEN til Jan 31! 3 awards = 3 winners ANYONE CAN NOMINATE & IT'S FREE! buff.ly/9QxTVhG #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #writers #authors #authorscommunity
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“Even the Moonlight; or, Twenty-One Scenes After Death,” another flash piece, appeared in Issue Four of @bleatingthing.bsky.social www.bleatingthingmagazine.com/current.html...
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 14/12/2025
The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Poetry feat. @bleatingthing.bsky.social et al. duotrope.com...
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Poetry feat. @bleatingthing.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/poetry/general-literary-poetry-CIaLt3q3
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! 🐑
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🪩 🕺 Hello Friends! Congratulations to our wonderful Pushcart Nominees: Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social, Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social, Will Cordeiro, Zebulon Huset, Salvatore Difalco, & Paul Hostovsky! Read their work here: engineidling.net !
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Exciting news today from @the-engine-idling.bsky.social 🫣
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My poem "Fed Herself" is in the new issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social! Check it and the rest of the new issue out here:
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩
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o / garnet @oxgarnet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
find me @the-engine-idling.bsky.social issue 7: the urge 🥀 and check out some neat poems and art!
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Go read it I beg of you
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
! POEMS ! IN @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ! Here's one, but you gotta click the link to read 'em all! (& Also the rest of the issue please look at it it's gorgeous) www.engineidling.net/current
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Rare publication news! You can find me (maybe more than once 👀) in the forthcoming issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social , The Urge An honor to be back in one of my favorite publications. This theme is guaranteed to be a banger. Do tune in.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"Jannotti's poems know well how excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved." - Lilia Marie Ellis Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti
Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti

cover: 
a fine line drawing of a moth with folded wings in black on a background of pale grey and olive green

text: 
"Jannotti's poems know well how
excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved."
  - Lilia Marie Ellis
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Feeling a lot of grace for mags that don't accept sim subs at the moment! Please, please, please tell all the little indie darlings you submit to when your piece is accepted somewhere else!!! I'm begging
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Behold, what I write in lieu of a blog. www.patreon.com/posts/20-ani...
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Joke's on the contemporary all-lowercase poetry haters; it is becoming a signifier that a piece was written by a human
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Huge thank yous to those who've purchased physical & digital copies of ANGELS & INSECTS this year. It's turned 2 this month & has admittedly been limping along in terms of sales, so the resurgence of interest this year has really put wind back in my sails. Also, Kith is wonderful.
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
To be a bit of a hater, it's disheartening to see that the Canva fonts have made it to film posters
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
New eZine of art 'n poetry up over @ thee Patreon, themed around the concept of reversed Cathedrals If you have the means & the interest, you can find it here: www.patreon.com Otherwise, enjoy this short poem
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
One thing I want all the "I finish hours of work in seconds" AI bros to know is, you are raising the threshold for yourself & your coworkers. This level of output will become expected, but your pay will stay the same or decrease. It's already happening.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hell-bent and determined, atlas st. cloud comes to the page unbothered by doctrine and defiant of form Twice saved and come through the desert, St. Cloud is risen, rebirthing. he’s paid his penance. he’s earned this time. @drdissociation.bsky.social
SEDIMENT
Atlas St. Cloud

cover:
a marble white forearm reaches up from the bottom of a gloss black cover and hooks its fingers into a gash. the opened wound reveals blue and pink fiber weeping in gold.

text:
HE/HIM

when i say i'm a man i mean my shoulders are broad yet
i cannot
carry the weight. 
when i say i'm a man i mean
but like, not really 
when i say i'm a man i mean if I had to choose

shatter my nebula
let the stars grind against one another
hope they form new constellations
the milky way we never meant to be all that there is
so i'm begging for an exploration of the sky
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"The rarest animal is the one that survives." - Amy Jannotti, TO BE LOVED & CARRIED BY THE NECK @cursetheground.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti
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The rarest animal is the one that survives. from TO BE LOVED & CARRIED BY THE NECK * * * ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS is a 27-poem exploration of the feminine body: h...
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"[Jannotti's] poems are haunting works of beauty, reminding us, across all kinds of loneliness and hurt, that 'nothing remains but to become'." - Lilia Marie Ellis, author of Love and Endless Love @cursetheground.bsky.social
Angels & Insects Are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti


cover:
black line drawing of a closed winged moth on a background of pale grey and olive green

text: 
KILL THE FLY/SAVE THE CHILD

fly in theater is the space over the stage: the sensation of being debrided, of settling on the eyes or the skin to seek fluid from wounds. without the fly, who will tell the dead tissue it's dead? who will fish? who will bait? to be a model organism requires some capability of spreading disease; some willingness to harm the cattle or the economy or both. i'm done growing. I've shed my wings & become secondary. i can detect taste & smell & respond to touch. this is theater: how i flock to light in darkness even when it shocks me. how i occupy space on the stage. how i taught myself to levitate. in many flies, the larva stage is long & adults live short lives. i am increasingly inclined to rest my gelatin head, we've only just begun.


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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New zine up on Patreon blah www.patreon.com/cursetheground
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
You ever finish a poem & know it's the opening poem of your manuscript
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The urge to reply "swag, thanks" when my coworkers answer my questions is strong today
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🔞 Kobold 🔜 UNIONzine4 @koboldorion.itch.io · 15/05/2025
Used this to call Abt KOSA just minutes ago. Super useful, anxiety-free, you should do it
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry
Autistic people’s rights are being threatened. Our worth is being questioned. And suddenly, we’re facing a bizarre accusation that an…
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Reading from my waterlogged secondhand copy of HOW WE LIGHT by @nicksturm.bsky.social when the ending of TODAY I WOKE UP BAFFLED slapped me across the face
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Don’t be sleeping, poetry lovers—on ANY of dirt’s books—but HOP ON THIS PREORDER TODAY! 📚🔥
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I've been out of the game for a while. Where are your favorite places to submit poems
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Join us TONIGHT for ANMLY: Friends & Enemies, a virtual reading with ANMLY's readers, editors, and contributors! Please tune in and support our amazing writers and amazing team! Email me at editor@anomalouspress.org for the Zoom link! Starts at 6:30pm ET!
ANMLY Friends & Enemies. An online reading. March 27th at 6:30pm EST. With sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Rita Mookerjee, J.L. Moultrie, Allison Thung, Levi Cain, jonah wu, Aylli Cortez, and Temperance Aghamohammadi.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
so starved for touch i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin cracked lips tingle sinking battleship in the absence - ghost town @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/saltbox
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so starved for touchi trace my own arms to feel skin on skincracked lips tingle sinking battleshipin the absence - - ghost town salt box traces longing and desire over the...
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
nat raum's salt box traces longing and desire over the course of three long, grey Baltimore winters. @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
SALT BOX
nat raum
cover: a mottled and worn yellow salt box sits against a wall on a floor, both grey.


text:
sour cherry

i split infinitives because you
told me it's okay
that's latin's problem
not ours
thirty-five days i've ripened
until soft flesh gives way to mealy stone fruit
(hold me gently please or i'll collapse)

blinking is
like pushing the lever
on a viewmaster
black and white
freeze frames from reels i'd love to burn
ligatured by scarlet fantasies sangria dreams
supercede whiskey nightmares for some reason)
(lest i forget them
mouldered hips alive again
kissing on the settee
it's okay
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Brief update about me is I have a patreon where I post monthly zines of poetry & art (& also blog entries, if that's your thing) Anyway, here's the cover & a poem from the current month's zine www.patreon.com/c/cursethegr...
A headless body holds a bouquet of flowers in front of the title card "& the earth screamed alive"
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As much as I love meme pages, some of the relationship ones are Very gender essentialist. More they/them memes I can send to my partner thnx
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I know I click on them on purpose but if I have to watch one more video thinkpiece about Teenage Dream In Space I'm going to scre
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
E.G.N. has a poem coming out with Bleating Thing soon & is very talented, please support xoxo
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
She is Risen
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Would you hug this creature
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I would describe myself poetically as "if Lucie brock-broido were terminally online"
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Is it too late to move into publishing cause I have actually known since youth that I was interested in designing books (not covers, like, typesetting n shit) & just didn't know that was a thing you could just do. Like, as a career.
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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Feeling stressed to the border of catatonia. Truly one minor inconvenience away from complete nervous shutdown.
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