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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Guys, I’m speechless. Gonna be sharing this award with my 8-year-old since this poem was inspired by their question “why do we never see fireflies in the winter?” Huge thanks to the Ignyte organizers, all the voters/readers, and to @thedeadlands.com for giving this one a wonderful home!

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good news, found out my prose poem “Coffee table book“ published in Alta Journal this month has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a former contributor! So stoked…has been an unbelievable week.

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Z.H. (Burial Magazine) @burialmagazine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just was told powell’s ordered copies. basically fulfilling a stupidass lifelong dream

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An alien civilization from beyond the galaxy meets ancient Pompeii. Do you want to know MOAR about how I did the bonkers worldbuilding in A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD? Here's my tale. You can pre-order the book and get it nice and fresh on Tuesday! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s so lovely to welcome October with two new prose poems in the lovely fall issue of @westchesterreview.bsky.social So grateful to the editors for including my work, two poems very steeped in my the woods of my childhood in Westchester County. Listen to me read both at the links in my bio.

Cover art collage with leaves and birds from the Fall 2026 issue of The Westchester Review.

Image of a willow tree with the text Jill Kitchen and Listen.

what you still carry with you

by jill kitchen

here you are this sunlit morning watching february lift us closer to spring closer to hopes of sugar snap peas with tendrils weaving around anything they can find longing to connect to wrap their tiny arms around other plant friends as they bloom into their own crunch-sweet while spinach rises out of earth in dark green quadruplets while chard grows its rainbow popsicle-colored stalks while you wonder if this year the forsythia will grow into the fairy caves of sun-shaped flowers you hid inside as a child in that backyard in new york state that you still carry with you like a lost sibling the out breath of pitch pine of dogwood the little corner of garden where your mother showed you how to plant zinnia wild strawberry and marigold the apple tree over the sandbox whose branches tangled and swirled in patterns at first unintelligible to your small child self sitting in the sparse grass over the cement roof of hidden bomb shelter where one day you worked out the language of those limbs and even now that map lives inside you those secrets of how to climb where the tree needed to be touched how she could hold you how you still need her to hold you

The Westchester Review
A Literary Journal
cluster by Jill Kitchen
reach of basil lush and wide already hardening because winter is just about to touch us like the willow tree that used to touch ground in new york state in the neighboring yard where i longed to swing on a gathered grasp of branches but could only cross the stone wall when the neighbor's small feisty granddaughter was visiting the one who shouted you're not my father whenever my dad asked her not to do something like touch the wisteria or throw wet clumps of leaves at the window and so instead we swung our small shapes on the lengths of willows ran to my mother's lilies of the valley against the stacked stone wall the girl bowed over touching the tiny white cups with her fingers while i hovered in the side of her eye in case she felt more like destruction that day like

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Red Ogre Review @ogre.red · 02/10/2026

Like author readings and new music? We just added the tracks from our October issue to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Over 450 tracks! Which means hours of poetry and music in the full channel playlist.

Photograph of a microphone on a red background by Cord Allman (Unsplash.com license).

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"embarrassment of riches" week continues w/ "Nostalgia" nominated for "Best of the Net" by @revolutelitmag.bsky.social

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

some very exciting personal news . . . as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🚨 Big announcement! 🚨 My new book - The Fall of the West - is out for pre-order now. I travelled from Baghdad to the Rust Belt to trace how Western power created the crises now engulfing it. You can pre-order now! 👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587...

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A poem in JMWW!! By me! Woah. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/p...

jmwwblog.wordpress.com

Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle

Six days of burnt bulbs. Of whispers, no vowels and nothing

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is your sign to browse a lit mag this weekend. ✏️ 📖

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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first ever chapbook of poems, “Frozen River,” is out now. Truly grateful to the marvelous people at Anstruther Press, and to everyone who’s read these little songs. Order a copy and we’ll be friends forever! Shares most welcome! www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...

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Frozen River by Alastair Morrison — Anstruther Press

Chapbook In Stock ISBN - 978-1-998774-90-6 Please allow 2 weeks for shipping

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rereading At the Altar of Touch by the beautiful poet, Gavin Yuan Gao. Highly recommended #poets #poetry

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Julie Weiss (she/her) @colourofpoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DMQ Review has been a dream journal of mine since 2018, when I came back to poetry. TY to EIC Sally Ashton and team for publishing "School Morning Physics" in this stunning fall issue, which also includes 5 beautiful poems by the late J.P. Dancing Bear and In Memoriam. www.dmqreview.com/weissf26

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Weiss-F26 — DMQ Review

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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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Daniel Radford @radfordwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An announcement from me at last! The first volume of the DNA anthology will be coming this November. In it, fourteen authors (myself included) tell tales of wishes gone wrong across a multitude of genres, styles and target audiences. More info to come. Authors listed below.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote or ones you love by other poets :) here’s one from my first book, Light-Up Swan (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social 2021)~

LAVENDER TOWN

You tell me a spell to get the ghosts
off my back. It works for a while.

Every laundromat in town is hidden
by signs that say closed, moved, new

location. To be warm and clean and
have time for song is a big secret.

Be careful / not to look at it too long.

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just occasionally, you come across a new poem from a young poet that reassures you all is well with the future of poetry. Dean Browne, from his debut Picador collection ‘After Party’

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PJ Braley @pjbraley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remembering the birthday of Donald Hall, I am swept up in the beauty of language – of #words – sweet, fiery, and elegant. 📚💙 More: Donald Andrew Hall, Jr., award-winning American #poet #writer #editor and U.S. Poet Laureate 2006 - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald... #writers #language

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

I would also like for my siblings that live differently, more loudly, more radically than I do to have the same freedoms and rights as I should have. I am not an exception or a model tranny for cohering in the ways I do. There is and should be no “correct” way to “deserve” rights as a trans person

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've never put out a record before and we've been working on this one for about four years. Over twenty people all singing and playing. I think there's definitely some magic in it: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you to Leah Umansky for snapping this photo of my poem in the October issue of Poetry.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What a poem. From Hieu Minh Nguyen's book, Staying Still: bookshop.org/a/862/9781638934707 #poem #booksky #writing

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am JAZZED to have a new copy of the forthcoming-in-October first full-length poetry book by my friend Katherine Gibbel! This is a good one, folks, and a stunning cover to boot.

Katherine Gibbel’s book Little Sound, which is mostly black except for her name in a white serif typeface, and concentric white, red, and mauve vaguely circular abstract blobs of color with the book title in the middle.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Marie de France (1160 to 1215) was a mediaeval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England during the late 12th century. #CelebratingWomen

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Nyquist has this in mind, that each step takes him closer to the final word, but that each word in between will be spoken and lived clearly, in full, as far as he can manage, in this voice or any other voice that might yet inhabit him. Noir of different shades from @jeffnoon.bsky.social.

A photo of copies of the Angry Robot editions of A Man Of Shadows, The Body Library, Creeping Jenny and Within Without by Jeff Noon.

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thank you Libby! I’m first in line! Really looking forward to @premeemohamed.com ‘s Wickhills!

A screenshot from Libby showing the cover of Wickhills with lanterns and gothic architecture. Below it reads, “Hold placed, 1st in line.”

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here’s the whole thing.

Question
BY MAY SWENSON

Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen

Where will I sleep
How will I ride
What will I hunt

Where can I go
without my mount
all eager and quick
How will I know
in thicket ahead
is danger or treasure
when Body my good
bright dog is dead

How will it be
to lie in the sky
without roof or door
and wind for an eye

With cloud for shift
how will I hide?

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 02/09/2026

The first season 1 episode of Murderbot, "All Systems Red," won a Hugo this past Sunday! It was awesome, and I did a brief blog post about it: marthawells.dreamwidth.org/673783.html

marthawells.dreamwidth.org

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just had the news that Blackwell's have sold almost 500 copies of this since I announced it. Thank you, everyone who has ordered one. We are hoping that, if it sells enough, Waterstones might also be persuaded to stock it.

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very sorry to learn of the death of poet Wendell Berry. Such an important advocate for our relationship with the natural world, the beauty of wild things & the value of small, individual actions.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/08/2026

Okay I’m never playing this again sorry

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Ana 🤘🏻 @anageorge.art · 31/08/2026

I don’t know how I found this but it’s dark medieval folk music by two beekeepers. And it’s a bop. tabernis.bandcamp.com/album/season...

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Seasons of the Dark Hive, by Tabernis

15 track album

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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to share news of the publication of my third poetry collection 'What the Mirror Tells'! Gratitude to my publisher @5islandspress and #NorthSydneyCouncil for my residency at the #DonBankMuseum where I completed it 🎉 www.5islandspress.com/product-page... #poetry #poetrycommunity #booknews

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Incredibly honored to receive the Best Related Hugo, and so proud to be recognized by the Worldcon community that means so much to me! I've uploaded my acceptance speech video here, for those who weren't there to see it live!

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2026 Hugo Acceptance Speech: Best Related Work for "Inventing the Renaissance" | Ada Palmer

The news broke in the wee hours of the morning Italy time, and late at night Los Angeles time, that Inventing the Renaissance has won the Hu

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is utterly brilliant 🐙

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the news I've been waiting for: Blackwell's will be stocking my new short story collection, which means readers outside the UK can pre-order it for September 15th with FREE INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY... Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

My latest book, being guarded by Rod, our friendly garden herring gull.

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

look what arrived! @esylviapoet.bsky.social’s collection SCYTHE from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to these poems as we usher in autumn. Holding this reminds me of the joy of physical books - the beautiful cover, the font, even the weight of the paper. 😍

The front cover of Elizabeth Sylvia’s SCYTHE, featuring an illustration of Marie Antoinette and an abstract overlay.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a finalist for the 2026 Goldsboro Glass Bell Award, 😃. The other shortlisted authors are Florence Knapp, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Beth Lewis, Virginia Evans, and Patrick Ryan. Great company! It’s wonderful to see this novel flying in different skies. It has the wings for it. ✨

Shortlisted
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
GLASS BELL AWARD 2026

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So I’ve written a new picture book text, my first on about a decade. Aimed at ages 4-6. Any publishers/editors want to take a look? Reposts very much appreciated! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLit #KidLitUK

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Really pleased to have three poems published today at The Dirigible Balloon. Many thanks to the editor Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social for including these within the summer edition.🙏🏻 All three poems were written especially for my mum.❤️ dirigibleballoon.org/writer/carme... #kidlit #poems

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