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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 46m

NEW ISSUE JUST DROPPED GET IT BUT WEAR GLOVES IT'S HOT thediagram.com/26_3/index.h...

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Made some new hats. MFA or NO MFA? thediagram.com/merch

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wearing my @eldiagram.bsky.social shirt to the Baltimore Book Fest, like all the cool kids.

The author, Jamey Gallagher, in front of his three books. He wears a rooster shirt from Diagram lit mag and a big goofy grin on his bearded face.

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quick note to those who sent to our chapbook contest this year: we're about a week away from announcing the finalists and winners. Hard but good work this year. So many great manuscripts to chew on.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“My roommate stacks the bar jukebox with do-me-wrong songs, leaves the alcohol out of my alcohol. Angry-irons pleats into my work pants. Conducts research on bath bombs that cause urinary tract infections” — @marybid.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/21_5/bidding...

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We reprinted a few of these for AWP 2026 but we're bringing back the Rooster DIAGRAM shirt for the first time on triblend (super comfy/stretchy/breathable) fabric. This is the one on dark shirts: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I had a story, "1988," published in Black Candies back in 2018, which I recently dropped from my short story collection manuscript, and so now it kinda isn't anywhere and maybe won't ever be, so I posted it here:

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“1988” (a short story from my archives)

originally published in Black Candies in 2018

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Adrienne Celt @celtadri.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Today I'm loving this poem "About Saudade" by Sydney Lea in @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/26_1/lea.html

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DIAGRAM :: Sydney Lea

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's time for DIAGRAM 26.2: thediagram.com/26_2/index.h...

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

YOU HAVE TIME JUST NOT A LOT OF IT: 4/30/26

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

So grateful to have two new poems featured in this issue! Please go read this fantastic bunch of work 😊

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For years, @eldiagram.bsky.social has been my dream journal, and I finally published with them! I have two new poems in the latest issue and I’m so, so, so happy about it 💕 This is an excerpt from the first piece, inspired by Zelda trading quests. Read here: thediagram.com/26_1/hester....

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Knives are the currency
of young boys

and father, forever
the salesman, hands you
a Walmart sack stuffed with whittlers
all folded into cheap
nylon fiber handles, blades
concealed by visions
of eagles screeching

of does at calm unaware
how soon their skin will split
from the stinging touch
of clearance bin steel.

(keep / trade)

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

Photo of parchment with a quill and ink.

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Noah Kucij in the new @eldiagram.bsky.social: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

"User Options" by Noah Kucij:

Do you want to give Hallow
permission to use your location?

Do you want Hallow running
in the background while you sleep?

Hallow has detected the following
devices nearby: old telephone
booth, white oak stand, grazing
array of rabbits.

Hallow wants to access the following:
images, objects, notions, certain slants
of light, blind curves, rapt silences.

Hallow is set as the default
program to run when you encounter
headlights scrambled up a slope, pages
the sudden wind flips through, bare
necklines, bourbon, lone crows. Do you
want to change this setting?

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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The nightmare objects in the dreams of those in 1930s Germany struck me as too mundane when I read Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams—the lamp that tells one woman’s secrets, for instance.

The bedside lamp or another housewife soon joined the idylliIc storybook nook of the cozy stove in betraying its owner. Instead of bringing light, it brought to light at loudspeaker volume everything she said in bed:

The lamp was speaking in a loud, shrill voice, like a military officer. At first I thought I would just turn it off and stay safe and sound in the dark. But then I told myself that that wouldn't help. I rushed to see my friend, who owned a dream-interpretation manual, and I looked up "Lamp": the only definition in the book was "Serious illness." It was a big relief, but only for a moment, until I remembered that nowadays, to be safe, people were using "sickness" as a code word for "arrest." Again I felt desperately worried,

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

5 great Significant Objects + the stories that make them what they are all on auction now as part of the Significant Objects 2026 project. All of these have between 12 and 96 hours left. All live listings here: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

And here's the newest Significant Object 2026 story + object, Floral Picture Frame with Photo by Layla Todd: www.ebay.com/itm/26764357...

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

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DIAGRAM :: irene cooper on Kristine Langley Mahler

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

DIAGRAM 26.1 thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Heck yeah it's a new issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social. Behold 26.1: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

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Megan Baxter @meganbaxter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am so excited to get my hands on a copy of this book! My short piece - 'All Made-Up', originally published in Diagram, is included in the 'Best Small Fictions 2025'! A huge thank you to the editors, both at Best Small Fictions and at Diagram! @altcurrent.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Next up in #significantobjects2026 from @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social, it's Danielle Hartshorn's The Gospel of Captain Gentoo: www.ebay.com/itm/26761850...

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And finally... tarot is really not my thing 😅 but I bought this deck designed by @eldiagram.bsky.social. Brian wrote the text for the 8 of Cups. Very cool! My @brianevenson.bsky.social shrine is coming along!

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Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

simply making the list! then I have to actually... submit the poems. @eldiagram.bsky.social was the first place to take a chance on these 🙏 any recommendations out there for places open to visual poems/graphics/weird hybrid stuff?

A scrabble board on a coffee table with a poem made up of the tiles that says Nest as receptacle lure riot bite a salted wound as knife jam volume hunger for another way

A black and white graphic of a scrabble board with a poem made up of the tiles that says Nest as receptacle lure riot bite a salted wound as knife jam volume hunger for another way, the unused tiles are in black

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Happy pub day to — Chivo / @jacobgriffinhall.bsky.social — The Karen Horney Progressions / Rachael Guynn Wilson — Commonplaces / @suburbanfolktales.bsky.social — Quasi-Metalloid / Karla Myn Khine — Comfort of Stone / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Order em here: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Almost all of our 2026 chapbooks are now up for preorder! New ones from Josh Russell, Karla Myn Khine, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, and Rachael Guynn Wilson: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Mohammad Azarm tr. Kaveh Bassiri via @eldiagram.bsky.social

Before reading, please make the following changes.

incorrect correct

Title: An error message for reading? ————> An unerring message for reading!

Line 1: Forget ————> See if I care!
Line 1: all your ————> Resume all your
Line 1: complaints. ————> complaining.
Line 2: You want to say ————> Say what you want
Line 2: I can ————> you can't
Line 2: handle it. ————> handle me.
Line 3: Want to ————> You want to
Line 3: put across ————> put out
Line 3: this ————> this idea
Line 4: So that ————> That
Line 4: by being a mountebank, you can make ————> you keep amounting to a mouthful
Line 4: a name for yourself ————> of a famous name
Line 5: Or raise ————> Rise above
Line 5: your ————> your
Line 5: voice ————> the sound,
Line 5: high ————> even higher
Line 6: So no one's hand ————> So with a sleight of hand
Line 6: can get a hold of ————> you can get rid of
Line 6: it and ————> everyone and
Line 7: Put ————> Bring
Line 7: me in ————> shame upon
Line 7: my place. ————> the earth!
Line 8: Someone has ————> I will
Line 8: chopped ————> cut off
Line 8: your head off ————> your head,
Line 8: you fancy. ————> you'll see!
Line 9: This is ————> This is not
Line 9: the real issue. ————> even the real issue.

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Dan Manchester @dan.isnot.cool · 14/01/2026

Delighted to start the year with a poem in the new issue of Diagram! I wrote this one several years ago about police shootings, which is only timely again now because we have a police killing people problem that makes it always timely. *heavy sigh* Enjoy!

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 05/01/2026

My first pieces of ‘26 in the new Diagram

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I absolutely loved Anney Bolgiano's "Flat-Pack," a chapbook that @eldiagram.bsky.social published a couple years back. Anney combines IKEA visual instructions with rearrangements of Marcus Aurelius. It's marvellous.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i'm very proud of the publications i had in 2025! i'm linking these two poems in @eldiagram.bsky.social "The Multitool" is a poem which maaaaybe contains my favorite last line of any poem i've ever written thediagram.com/25_2/weiss.h...

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DIAGRAM :: Catherine Weiss

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Behold DIAGRAM 25.4: thediagram.com/25_4/index.html

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And we have 2 more broadsides up from our fall series: one by Farid Matuk and one by @utopiaminus.bsky.social. Signed and unsigned available if you want one for yourself or as a gift: thediagram.com/merch/

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We also have signed and unsigned copies of broadsides by Thomas Dai and Joshua Riedel available in the merch store too: thediagram.com/merch/

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We have signed and unsigned copies of broadsides by Richard Siken and Mathias Svalina for sale in the merch store; they make a good gift, just saying... thediagram.com/merch/

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Folks who submitted to the 2025 chapbook contest, we should have notifications out to you Thursday (or maybe before).

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柯婕 Jie "mmyno$" Venus @jiecohen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My weirdest piece of writing ever is featured in this issue. Thank you Diagram :)

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Quick note for those of you waiting on our chapbook contest results, we will have those for you this month! Our deadline was later this year, and these take a while to get through with care, but we should have news for you by end of the month if not before.

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Thanks to the editors of @eldiagram.bsky.social for including this Barbie poem alongside so much other great work!

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