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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 11h

First a Best Small Fictions nom... And now a BoTN nomination from The Account for art? Maybe I need to drop this poetry business...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's try that again with my glasses on... Would love to see you there!

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Joan Kwon Glass will present at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival Sunday, 10/4, giving a workshop entitled “Writing Poems of Love & Loathing,” 9:30-11am, on the panel “Being a Poet in the World,” 1:45-3:15pm & in the evening reading, 5:30-7. @joankwonglass.bsky.social @brooklynpoets.bsky.social

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm excited to go and hear Min Jin Lee on Friday evening at an author event. Pachinko is one the best books I've read in the past 15 years, and I'm looking forward to American Hagwon.

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our next reading will be in December...stay tuned for info! Also, if you have a book coming out in 2027, I have spots for six readers in July and September of 2027. Preference will be given to readers who have not yet appeared on HPH.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am writing some weird ass poems that I'm excited about and uh-oh, the word project is rattling around in my brain...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My profile pic makes me look like the career middle school teacher I am, but the real me was at @riotfest.bsky.social

A woman with short gray hair standing in the mud and rain wearing a transparent poncho over black boots, leggings, and a black NIN sweatshirt that says Broken in large white letters on the front.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Working on one of the best parts of prepping a new issue - making unique thank you cards based on each contributor's work. Issue 8 drops October 20... Until then, enjoy the art from Issue 7 from featured artist @thaddevassie.bsky.social & @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social! asteralesjournal.com

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone go read these, and that Columbine poem? Wow.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Grateful for the shoutout for my work (and the gorgeous words of @majda.bsky.social, @djvorreyer.bsky.social, and @leahumansky.bsky.social) in the brand new issue of @forgetcool.bsky.social!

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Love Poem Written on the Eve of the Apocalypse" in DMQ Review 🖤

Love Poem Written on the Eve of the Apocalypse, by Sarah Mills

Everyone talks about the apocalypse like it's all zombies and asteroids, but nobody mentions the quiet parts. Here I am, kissing your microplastic lips, pulling ash from your soft hair. I tried to be a minimalist because I knew how suffocating the landfills would feel at the end of the world. I became obsessed with letting go, throwing away things I needed, practical things like a hammer. The sky is cleaved open, its insides shining like the pipes from an organ I saw on a curb outside a church. I wondered if it could still make music. Your irises are glowing from staring at the radioactive Milky Way, its purple stars wetting your cheeks. Did we have enough time to do all the things we loved? I took so many long drives with my car packed and the windows down, trying to escape Sadness, the name of my shadow. The feeling of aloneness pressing against my face—or was that just the wind? What struck me was that I still had so much room for hope. I paid for it like an extra carry-on, lugged it through the squeaky halls of my life on broken wheels, its contents spilling out. I held each item like a favorite sweater or beloved book, running my hand over it the way I am grazing your cheek now, burning red like embers. I love this one, I said so many times, stuffing it back in, deciding to keep it.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a new prose poem "I Blame the Planets" in the beautiful new DMQ Review. The issue also features an in memoriam featured of @jpdancingbear.bsky.social's work, along with poems from @renee-emerson.bsky.social, @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social & other great writers. www.dmqreview.com/vorreyerf26

I Blame the Planets,

though I don’t understand them, even poor relegated Pluto, who has vanished from the old mnemonic memory song so that now My Very Educated Mother Just Serves Us Noodles instead of Nine Pizzas. No matter. Astrologers say that those bulbous spheres are at fault for all my troubles. Who am I to argue when my car’s battery dies beneath a flock of shitting pigeons on a cold day and the windows fog from the steam of my breath while I wait for a tow truck? I curse those damn globules of gas and rock until I remember how lovely Earth looks from space, its oceans and cloud garments, its swirling. I can’t stay mad for long, at least at Earth. Or Mercury. I wish it would clap back, rain asteroids on our heads every time someone says retrograde to explain their misfortunes. It’s not Mercury’s fault, hung on the sky like an ornament, gazing out at its backyard of stars. I understand what it’s like—to take the blame, to have no voice.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@riotfest.bsky.social day 3 was extremely muddy, but got to hear The Format, Taking Back Sunday, Alanis Morrisette and Elvis Costello before finding our car was 1 of 6 crashed into while we were inside. Ended the night in the rain waiting for both a tow truck and an Uber. Fest 10/10. Post-fest 0/10.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@riotfest.bsky.social day two: Nobro, Yard Act, The Chats, Melt Banana, Brian Fallon, Angine de Poutrine, Public Image, Sugar, Social Distortion, Morrissey, and one song from Tool.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@riotfest.bsky.social day one in the books. Cardinals, Greet Death, Slothrust, 3oh!3, The Paradox, Bayside, a bit of Alkaline Trio, Santigold (standout set for me), The Callous Daoboys, Foxy Shazam, Pixies and Iggy Pop doing "I Wanna Be Your Dog" on the way out.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've had a lot of follows via poetry starter packs this past week and I suppose that's nice? But if I don't follow you back, it's not personal. Just too much in my feed already.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In my effort to illustrate the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome, I have sent my yearly offering to Poetry Magazine. Let the games begin.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please for the love of all that good and kind, stop putting me in random starter packs. I do not have the bandwidth for this...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Suffice it to say no one was dancing on their own ... Robyn was fantastic.

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@janezwart.bsky.social gives us this deeply moving poem about connection, disconnection, and loss in Issue 7 with "On my 49th birthday, my dad calls me a fledging." www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-zwart-de...

because in my version of the past, impossible things: trains pulls up to porches every time we set suitcases down.

Curving train tracks intersecting over a blurred backgroun of foliage and street.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In 2012, I had a brief obsession with the language in the journals of Lewis and Clark. I regret to inform myself that it has returned and may be turning into something that goes with me to residency next month.

Photo of multiple books: Jefferson's America, William Clark and the Shaping of the West, Undaunted Courage, and the Journals of Lewis and Clark.

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you missed last night's beautiful reading and conversation about poetry in translation, you can watch it here! youtu.be/FBNADzBYy94

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey: Jessica Cuello, Philip Metres, & Robin Myers

YouTube video by Donna Vorreyer

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our special translation evening begins in a little less than two hours! Come join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is tomorrow evening! Come listen to these wonderful thinkers and writers!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I love that my kid (who is 33) is discovering how GOOD movies were in the 70s. He just watched Thief, and it blew his mind. He's also lucky to have a local theater in his city that shows older restored films, so he gets to see them in a theater sometimes.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am really looking forward to hearing these brilliant folks - come join us.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spent some time yesterday with Issue One of @forgetcool.bsky.social. All killer, no filler-I'm surprised my pieces made the cut! Here they are, along with my high school author photo where cool has definitely been forgotten. (Link provided for those who need alt text). forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We really want to see your work! Getting LOTS of poetry subs and very few in these two categories. Prose means fiction OR nonfiction. Send us something!

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jill Crammond gives us a poem about grief, faith, and what fills us in today's issue 7 highlight "On Good Friday, Grief Tries to Convince Me He is Holy." www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-crammond...

I haven’t
slipped into a church since my wedding, but sadness
and coincidence have left me hungry. Something more

than crumbs of fake bread, thimbles of I’m so lonely
wine. I still have questions. Who really gets filled

on their best friend’s body and blood alone?

Jill Crammond “On Good Friday, Grief Tries to
Convince Me He is Holy"

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Love this new journal and and proud to have two poems in this first issue that reference Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Willy Wonka, slumber parties, and urban legends. Will share later but read the whole issue of stellar works- you won't be disappointed!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have been returning to the play and experimentation that I so enjoyed when I first started painting, and now I remember why it's so good for me to focus on process and not worry about whether something is “good." Today I experimented with different brush strokes and blends and had a blast.

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excited to see even more of @thaddevassie.bsky.social's beautiful art out in the litmag world. Check out our own Issue 7 to see more of his stunning work! www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heading out later this afternoon to beat the BTS concert traffic on my drive...hoping to see some Chicago folks come out to hear readings from @mytwords.bsky.social new book and from @yoadrianididit.bsky.social,Chris Corlew, and yours truly as well.

Rivers and Reads 7 PM August 27 @Rivers and Roads Cafe 1259 W Devon Avenue. featuring Matthew Murrey, Donna Vorreyer, Adrian Sobol, Chris Corlew

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today's Issue 7 highlight brings the sweetness from @fakeourway.bsky.social's "Poem for My Niece Feasting on Honeysuckle."

you are not afraid & walk right through the blooming myoporum to the buzzing mass of flowers I pull one free, bright yellow and sun-warm pinch and pull its thread

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Whew, trying to solidify my @marchxness.bsky.social essay about "Coventry Carol" has been tough. Are there points for difficulty? Just asking...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just entered my first juried art competition and the imposter syndrome is STRONG right now...

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Among Us Impostor Meme

ALT: Among Us Impostor Meme

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Working on a new painting and I can't decide whether it's "done." So different from writing - if I change a poem, I can always change it back to the original version. But if I add something to a painting, it's not easy to get it back to the place it used to be.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Reposting for the weekday crowd... Thanks to all of you who have connected and shared!

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

More Issue 8 goodness with AJ Wright's reflection on the self and emptiness " I Go Scarecrow" www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-wright-d...

photo of thistle drawing superimposed over a sketch of a scarecrow on a white background

It's enough to learn the outline:
sharp as thistle spine,
all hinge and dry stalk

from "I Go Scarecrow" by AJ Wright

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We recently watched Death of Robin Hood and what is with Hugh Jackman in that he LOVES a movie where he's a damaged man that gets redemption through a girl/woman? See Les Mis. See Logan. See The Greatest Showman. See Song Sung Blue...

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Definitely worth your time...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Proud to have a new poem in the new issue of @tahomareview.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for believing in this one. I'd love you to give them a click to read parts two and three! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

Partial Autobiography in Three Parts

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Once a daisy was a microphone, and I sang into its petaled star. I had a knack for hiding in the pantry with my books. An orchid for a barrette and an erratic longing.

A lollipop stickied my knuckles, purpled my lips. Once I fished an apple from a barrel and triumphed with my mouth. The car was an airplane with arms for wings, my right arm, my brother's left. A string was a cat's cradle. A string held a worm that was death to a fish. A string was tied around my loose tooth. A string hung from my mother's apron, and I clung to it for dear life.

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@carolee.bsky.social is back for Issue 7, redefining loneliness and what we do in the darkness in her poem “When I’m Late Coming Home, I Find the Door Locked, Porch Light Off.” 😍 www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-bennett-...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy release day to Kimberly Ann Priest's Floralia! Get your copy now wherever books are sold! sundress-publications.square.site/product/flor...

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