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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 4h

Deadline for The Glass Chapbook Series Open Reading Period is October 31st! Get those chapbooks finished and submitted, fam! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

The Glass Chapbook Series
Fee Free
Open Reading Period

"The library, to me, is the most magical and dangerous power in the United States."

-Rane Arroyo

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today on Glass! "Negation Variation 11" by Heikki Huotari! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Heikki Huotari

Negation Variation 11

Typically we'd manifest as carnivores while strewing tools of long forgotten and or yet to be initiated trades. We'd hold our breath and pass the polygraph and so would you. If in the velodrome we'd wail and gnash, at home we wouldn't have to. Every celebration has a cause for its existence, i.e., celebrations don't just happen, i.e., each is caused by some one or some thing. As codependent as a service dog is on its astronaut, I'm sleeping in an umbra, and as accurately as ordained. The broken bottle is half full. As I'm a once and future optimist, an astral body and a useful fool, so from the circle of convergence to the circle of diversity I'm teleporting a miscellany of quantum states, e.g., the ennui of an octopus, e.g., the eight legs of a crow. One paints oneself into a corner, one clings to a cliff and subsequently situational awareness is imagination's bane. The ratio of the height of the human pyramid to the base of the human pyramid is constant, is as constant in New Jersey as it is in Florida, world without end, amen.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not Thursday anymore But (FREE!) chapbook submissions are still open! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ICYMI - it's Thursday! Chapbook submissions are open!! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ICYMI - it's Thursday! Chapbook submissions are open!! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today on Glass! "No Rain But Today" by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

No Rain But Today

after Julia Alvarez
for Addie de los Santos

I once said drying in the sun
is a fixed destination.
Rethought now to say
it's of a manmade process.
The smoke out north would be black
in this inferno.
The tides, as I adjust the viewfinder,
still do churn.
The photograph arrives:
old boardwalk, young face;
sticky-sweet smell;
sun and sea on metal signposts;
a soot-covered wall;
all the steel hills in silver mills,
your melted sandwich,
and your elementary school.
Inside, the table is set for two
but accommodates four.
I shut my camera off, decide,
nothing here to capture
in this familiar restaurant,
in books that taste of dirt.
But good timing,
the water no one has kissed lately.
As if sun-dried means wine-red,
as if it can be simple.
As if this poem is blue lips
in an old, familiar, famine.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In case you didn't know, we open for chapbook submissions on (checks calendar) THURSDAY!!! (submissions, as always, are free) www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In case you didn't know, we open for chapbook submissions on (checks calendar) THURSDAY!!! (submissions, as always, are free) www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today on Glass! "Nothing to See Here" by Melissa Fite Johnson (@mfitejohnson.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Melissa Fite Johnson

Nothing to See Here

No sea to hear, just flat Kansas plains. Middle of somewhere,
a girl’s T-shirt once said, and I smiled as we crossed paths
in our small Midwest town. I loved that T-shirt

as much as I hate my mother’s that says Life is good,
because she doesn’t mean it, it’s just nice to say.
Like Thank God. Middle of somewhere reminded me

of my uncle the artist who once visited from Providence,
which I might write even if it weren’t true, the symbolism
too perfect. But that’s where he lived, what he gave me

while his wife and my mother — sisters — fought. To escape,
we took a drive. When I apologized for the plain plains,
believing the Kansas flyover myth, he called it

the bluest sky he’d ever seen. He went on and on about
wheat fields. I couldn’t name one beautiful thing in my life,
but he wanted to paint every abandoned barn. Something to see here.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glass: A Journal of Poetry 2027 Best of the Net Nominations!! Congrats and good luck to Kristin Lueke, BEE LB, grace (ge) gilbert, Lindsay Li, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, and Derek Chan!!

Glass: A Journal of Poetry
2027 Best of the Net Nominations

Kristin Lueke
"one billion flowers"

BEE LB
"ready to lose"

grace (ge) gilbert
"When I try to explain, I say, immature eggs"

Lindsay Li
"ending credits for just a girl."

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
"with my back to the city"

Derek Chan
"Inheritance"

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glass: A Journal of Poetry 2027 Best of the Net Nominations!! Congrats and good luck to Kristin Lueke, BEE LB, grace (ge) gilbert, Lindsay Li, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, and Derek Chan!!

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today on Glass! "Independence Pass" by Steph Sundermann-Zinger! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Steph Sundermann-Zinger

Independence Pass

Six weeks after my father’s death, I am standing
above the treeline where two points of the world meet,

the wind twisting my hair into a child’s
thicket of knots. Patches of snow

cling to a bygone season, the rest having slipped
into a vernal pool thick with midges, fairy shrimp, protozoa

filmy as December breath. Snow will fall again here,
enough to close the Pass, to spit and swallow itself

down the mountain in great, roaring mouthfuls. For now,
the rocks are alive with gentians, daisies,

alpine yellowcress. I wonder if their roots
drink from two oceans, ponder the confusion of a moon

hanging over this place where one thing
joins another, the pull of divergent tides. My children

look like chess pieces in their black windbreakers,
hoods up, mouths open, sucking in lungfuls

of needle-thin air. Never having had a father,
they don’t understand the loss of one, although

they hug me when I ask, and press small tokens
into my hands—a heart-shaped stone, violet scribble

of wildflowers—gifts from this ragged hill
that stands forever in two places, and survives.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today on Glass! "Independence Pass" by Steph Sundermann-Zinger! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week's new poem coming shortly. Until then, here's a casual reminder why it's probably best to stay off social media when you have a 100+° fever 😬

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

looks at picture of my mother in law holding a glass egg... 🤔 🤔 🤔 looks at 45 years worth of Marvel comics.... I can def cartoon this up

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy happy birthday to two time Glass Chapbook author, Hannah Cohen!! 🎂 🎂

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HAD @havehashad.com · 14/09/2026

two beautiful aviaries today from Stefanie Kirby! "A suitcase drops onto the sand packed with flightless birds. We button up our green velvet gloves. Each bird we touch turns into shimmering fingers in the twisted desert light..." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

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Two Aviaries by Stefanie Kirby

Aviary Afternoon lifts from the brick. Birds cool in the oven, song rolling their tender glass eyes. One pulls a lightbulb from under its wing. We clap. There’s sadness to it, this elegy lit

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today on Glass! "City and Soul" by Rikki Santer! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Rikki Santer

City and Soul

Once I lived in the lap of an alley
that opened into the wingspan
of a parking lot. It was
the syntax of this city corridor

that nudged me that summer.
Ivy caligraphy preened the countenance
of rhyming apartment buildings,
vines of Black-eyed Susans embraced

stubborn chain link. And every morning,
a library of noise — parrot mic’d up
on its balcony, high heels clicking
alongside delivery truck groans.

But most of all it was the rivulets
of grass and dandelions in the toothy
cracks of concrete reminding me
of what can be invisible until it’s not.

I named the pigeon Bartleby,
loitering for bagel bits
at my downtown office window.
The iridescence of its neck

led me, too often, to daydream
for sprouted wings launching me
from the sill to glide above skyscraper spikes
and hard-faced glass —

this city a forest that could eat you.
Dusk and take-out at a park bench,
the spangling of fireflies, champions
after the heat, the congestion,

the monotony. Constellations of sparrows
chattering in the oaks, squirrels vogue
with T-rex paws for peanuts, cartography
of lawns patched with cigarette butts

and the rocks were the rocks.
Another morning at First and Gay.
I wait beside a leafy sycamore
for the light to change.

Silhouette of an electric man in a box
beckons me with his flashing,
and then the questioning eyes
of a studious man, facefull

of smile. The clove
of his after shave.
The green light.
This love poem.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Been blocking anyone who posts an AI generated anything or says they "asked Chat" for a long time now. Now I'm blocking anyone who likes the new Harry Potter HBO mess. If you stand with AI, you stand with fascists. If you support Harry Potter, you stand with transphobes.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today on Glass! "Invocation" by Tian Sánchez-Ballado (@tianoutof10.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Tian Sánchez-Ballado

Invocation

(nec tamen consumebatur)

I have burned,
but I was not consumed.

This is my table —
these are my words,
my bread.

“To the child I was.”

Response:
“And also, the children we were.”

Amen.

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Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy September, poets! While I queue up some Green Day (I promise you, it's not *that song*)... Where y'all submitting to this month?

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This new journal is really really cool, y'all. And the poems are outstanding ⬇️ ⬇️

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Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm a little hesitant to push this since I already have more than 400 submissions to read... No, scratch that. Send those poems in! Let's hit 500! Or even better - 600!

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🚨 🚨 ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT TO GLASS: A JOURNAL OF POETRY!! 🚨 🚨 Submissions close on August 31st. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🚨 🚨 ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT TO GLASS: A JOURNAL OF POETRY!! 🚨 🚨 Submissions close on August 31st. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Glass publishes incredible work! Might I recommend Stone Fruit by Gardner Dorton, How to Cook a Ghost by Logan February, or My Heart is a Mausoleum But Only Out of Necessity by Stephanie Tom? Run, don’t walk, to support this invaluable poetry press!!

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today (we'll, yesterday lol) on Glass! "The good and the gracious" by Bri Campbell! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Bri Campbell

The good and the gracious

I leave the golden shred
on the ground, glittering.

What it was to be
in my body with you?

It does make sense, being
60% water, transudate,

sweat under my nails, saliva:
wet stomach to wet stomach.

What it was to be tender
and thanked and thanked?

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dropping a fantastic new poem tomorrow. Until then, spend some more time with Kathy Jiang's "Love spell to remain"!

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We've entered they last week of this month's reading period and we've gotten around 300 submissions so far. Time to send in those poems, poets!

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Piece that probably really speaks to you, scrolling, here on bluesky. Take a break and channel that tech fixation on "simulation sickness" by Anisha Arvind instead. Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/8-18-26

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Jenny M. Liu @jennymliu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I really liked this. Highly recommend listening to the poet's reading of it.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today on Glass! "Love spell to remain" by Kathy Jiang! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Kathy Jiang

Love spell to remain

after Lynda Hull, Mitski

Thinking of boys on a balcony in the old part of Seoul.
Thinking of their thudless boiling points, tipping over.
Thinking of circling back. To losing. To being a loser.
Sitting there on that twin wicker chair, in the open air of love.
Thinking of audiences, shimmering blue in their shellacked faces.
Those sinuous, beating earrings, hanging, falling fast with their wavy legs.
Afterwards, God, sifting through the last ceiling rafter, left above. Spinning. Thinking.
Thinking, of you. Insinuating lateness. This thunderless heat.
Too little, too late. Surprising me anyways.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

hello afternoon bluesky, i’m proud to have a poem in the latest issue of Four Way Review about pain, language, God, St. Teresa of Ávila, arrows, failure, and things I heard in creative writing workshops. you can visit it (and hear me read it!) here:

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I CONSIDER WHAT TO SAY WHEN MY DOCTOR ASKS ME TO DESCRIBE MY PAIN by Emma Bolden

Nothing. I can’t construct a sentence able to withholdthe weight of it; I can’t explain or calculate the kind of weightI mean, what it is that I am with or holding. In high school a teacher explain…

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Say, friends—here are about 84 literary journals opening for submissions in September. Some are open now or will close soon in August or September. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well.

The Cincinnati Review
A Public Space
Wigleaf
The Fiddlehead
Kenyon Review
LIT Magazine
Glassworks
Prairie Schooner
Doubly Mad
addanomadd
Crab Creek
In Short
Last Leaves
Garfield Lake
Adroit
DarkWinter
InterrobangLit
Quartet
Kweli Journal
Inlandia
The MacGuffin
Orchards Poetry
The Spectacle
OxMag
Recenter Press Poetry
Foglifter
Passages North
Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit
The Dodge
Prime Numbers
Barely South
Apricity
Dunes Review
Long River
Atlantic Northeast
Haunter Review
Floating Acorn
MUSE Literary
Route 7
Penn Review
Think
Scattered Flock
Revolute
Paper Dragon
Wild Garlic
Valley Voices
Thirteen Bridges
Wordgathering
Mania Magazine
Pictura Journal
Rust & Moth
Southhampton
Orion
Hawkeye
Sontag Magazine
Oyster River Pages
RockPaperPoem
Ignatian Literary
Salt Hill
ROOM
Constellations
Soundings East
The Journal
The Passionfruit Review
Twisted Tongue
Louisiana Literature
The Rumpus
The New Yorker
Pine Hills Review
Compulsive Reader
Mad Persona
South Florida Poetry
Up The Staircase
Terrazo
Poetry Northwest
CRAFT
Okay Donkey
Rappahannock Review
The Quasar Review
Cosmic Daffodil
Barcelona Review
X-R-A-Y
3Elements Review
Red Ogre Review

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who has shared this and helped spread the word and to everyone who has ordered chapbooks! Y'all mean everything to me 💛

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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

great idea. bought some @glasspoetry.bsky.social chaps today!

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Support the presses & projects you love 💙💙💙 Tony does amazing work at @glasspoetry.bsky.social —order yourself some gorgeous chapbooks, today!! 📚📚

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Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Want a great chapbook (or 2 or 34 😂)? Now's a really good (and important) time to hit that order button. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...

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George B. @undisciplined.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🚨 🚨 AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 🚨 (spoiler: every Glass chapbook is currently on sale because of reasons) Soooo... apparently, there's a limit to how many poems (plus photos and audio) I'm able to publish with my web hosting plan. (the number, fwiw, is 1,644 😲) I reached that max last Wednesday.

Photo from the Glass web hosting service showing 100% of disk storage used

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