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For #LitMagWeek, please enjoy this encore presentation of our SWWIM Chat with @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social & Editor-in-Chief Catherine Esposito Prescott. SWWIM Chats are available weekly to our paid subscribers. Annual subscriptions are 40 percent off through 10/2. Link to subscribe in our bio.

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're happy to announce our nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions! You can read them all here: www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations @barlowadams.bsky.social @nataliamartinez.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @caseyreiland.bsky.social and more!

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meet SWWIM! (narrated by Catherine Esposito Prescott, SWWIM cofounder and editor-in-chief of SWWIM Every Day) Photos by Chantal Lawrie. #LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #WomenSupportingWomen

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ahhhhhh!!! @the-big-quiet.bsky.social in the house!!!! I am so happy about this!!!!!

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thrilled to have two poems in the latest lovely issue of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social. Thank you to Anna Sandy Elrod for choosing "fade" and "on wind", both writings from my Colorado heart.

Image of the cover of the latest issue of Birdcoat Quarterly featuring a piece of art with a blue circle with blue lines crossing it

on wind
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she catches at my edges, lifts me to noticing. she carries crow to where he needs to go, his crackled call. she sings the grey center of a sunlit cloud, leans into green. without her, no one would dance. the finches would still, unruffled. she reminds you to move, even if it is only with the wings of your heart. she guides the song of the boy on his bicycle, te quiero te quiero. the crow again, a caw of lament, a drum in throat. have you ever swallowed gold, the thread of autumn light? the rustle touch of grass, the sound of ocean where there is none. within her touch, the memory of other times she surrounded. a montana plain haunted by ghost shadow. the cornish coast near tintagel. the cliffs of west maui, carrying wave crash over black rock. how she is everywhere, holding you, summoning you elsewhere, raging at you. once, she showed you how she could miracle 80 degrees and sun spears into 20 degrees and a brutal blue snow cloud, erasing everything. she carries the voices of the lost to their mothers, carries the cries of the grieving back to spirit walkers. exhales seeds across a continent, hearts across oceans. the coyote's split arc of howl in the night.

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the goldfinches have gone. the rise and fall, rise and fall of their flight. sunflowers have lost their color, leaning brown and petal-less into
the sudden lesser light of late afternoon. every creature seems to be fighting against winter's sure arrival-the jays and red-breasted finch arguing
with a squirrel over the last of the scattered seeds, a cottontail worrying over sweet remnants of flesh left on windfall cores from the apple tree. the same tree
a bearshape crunches in the almost-midnight dark, the pull and crackle of leaves on the branch, the persistent snap of teeth breaking through apple skin.
even your child hungers and wanes with each moment's loss of light. even you are fading, your shadow become the soft murmurs of leaf shapes,
the sun sighing small geometries in between. it isn't only this season that pulls you away. this story has been spinning for years, since
your absence of breath to become mother. since even before, when you began to fear the predators who might find you the day your own skin
shook you unconscious and left you on a taxi floor, the ghost songs of sirens closing in.

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very cool! Big congrats @susanlleary.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To celebrate #LitMagWeek, we’re thrilled to offer new subscribers 40% off for an annual plan. Enjoy weekly #SWWIMChats where an editor sits down with a contributor to discuss poetry & the creative life as well as other bonus content, including prompts & poems. The offer is valid through 10/2.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow night!

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Waiting for a response to my poetry submission that is at 397 days and counting...

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On this day in 1987, “The Princess Bride” was released in theaters. “Inconceivable!”

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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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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like @jillkitchen.bsky.social! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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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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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY! Tuesday, 10/6/26, 7-9PM ET, Zoom Poems That Speak to Other Poems with Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social Learn more here: www.swwim.org/readings-eve... Registration & payment link: buy.stripe.com/00wcN54p40ww... Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220

Poems That Speak to Other Poems

A poem may address another poem in different ways-- directly, indirectly, as a legacy or a disputation.

Throughout the history of poetry, the poetic form has emerged from dialogue with its ancestry. Many poems also dialogue with others through traces or by picking up lines and carrying them into the present. Each poem sets the conditions and demarcates the terrain of its particular intimacy and intensity. In this generative workshop, we will explore writing poems that speak to or with the poems that have shaped us.

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. My Heresies, a poetry collection was published by Sarabande in late April 2025. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Yes, I want / to be disturbed again—by my phone, & by the world, I guess." You've got to check out @chenchenwrites.bsky.social's IN THE FOREST OF MY OWN TEARS I SUDDENLY REMEMBER WANDA from our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🌲 💚 buff.ly/E0Wlz4L

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tiny poem from our collaborative chap, BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... Love poem-ing with Jarrett Moseley! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @darkwebtofu.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Lost Couplet

When I die, let my body be donated to silence.
The final noise: when I'm clothed in ground.

Sparrows asleep inside a glass violin.
Bells with their throats cut.

The song went: plenty, plenty. I've plenty of bones.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"You ask me what I want your child to call me once he starts talking. Not aunt. Not uncle. Aun-cle, maybe? I say, Ent. Like the trees in The Lord of the Rings."

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Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“We need sharp incisors to gnaw through the meat of this mess, unflinching.” Love this deeply felt gem of memoir and manifesto by @erinvachon.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thursday, 12/3/26, 7-9PM ET, Zoom How to Get a Running Start: A Submission Clinic with S. Erin Batiste Learn more here: www.swwim.org/readings-eve... Registration & payment link: buy.stripe.com/4gMaEXg7M1AA... Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thursday, 11/5/26, 7-9PM ET, Zoom Writing Beyond the Frame: An Ekphrastic Workshop with Tara Ballard Learn more here: www.swwim.org/readings-eve... Registration & payment link: buy.stripe.com/00w6oHdZEcfe... Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220

Fall Workshop Series, Writing Beyond the Frame: An Ekphrastic Workshop with Tara Ballard, November 5, 2026, 7-9PM ET, Zoom

This workshop invites writers to create personal and boundary-pushing poetry inspired by visual art forms. Participants will use ekphrasis as an entry point to consider gender constructions and navigate expectations of identity.

Tara Ballard holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review and a 2025 fellow at The New School's Institute for Critical Social Inquiry.

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tuesday, 10/6/26, 7-9PM ET, Zoom Poems That Speak to Other Poems with Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social Learn more here: www.swwim.org/readings-eve... Registration & payment link: buy.stripe.com/00wcN54p40ww... Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Join us for a virtual writing workshop series with SWWIM this fall! Generate new poems and learn how to send them out for publication. Sign up for one or for all three. Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220 Time: 7:00-9:00 PM (ET) Where: Zoom Registration links in bio

FALL WORKSHOP SERIES

10/6/26
Poems That Speak to Other Poems
with Alina Stefanescu

11/5/26
Writing Beyond the Frame: An Ekphrastic Workshop
with Tara Ballard

12/3/26
How to Get a Running Start: A Submission Clinic
with S. Erin Batiste

SWWIM

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Check out these gorgeous pieces by @majda.bsky.social from The House of Modern Upbringing for Girls from Wandering Aengus Press. #poetry, #poems, #multi-worlds, #dislocation, #everywoman, #poet, #bridges, #MAPS,

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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out this rad new Literary journal! And maybe even my rad new poems?

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writers! Zoom co-writing on Thursday, October 1 at noon EST. Wanna come? DM, email, or text me for the Zoom link!

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us for a virtual writing workshop series with SWWIM this fall! Generate new poems & learn how to send them out for publication. Sign up for one or for all three. 10/6/26: Poems That Speak to Other Poems w/ Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #PoetryWorkshops

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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The sun sighing small geometries in between”

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thrilled to have two poems in the latest lovely issue of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social. Thank you to Anna Sandy Elrod for choosing "fade" and "on wind", both writings from my Colorado heart.

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like Gary Jackson! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On this day in 1987, Love And Rockets released their third studio album “Earth, Sun, Moon” featuring “No New Tale to Tell" and "Mirror People"

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Delighted to have two new poems in the latest lovely issue of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social that just came out yesterday: www.birdcoatquarterly.com

birdcoatquarterly.com

Current Issue | Birdcoat Quarterly

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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ooh, cool pizza toppings! Love this issue so much.

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“… but you had this, your dad’s car that you would sneak out without him knowing, the stereo turned up until you lived inside the sound, inside the voices that spoke your soul songs …” @jillkitchen.bsky.social in @forgetcool.bsky.social forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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Two Poems – Kitchen

Two Poems by Jill Kitchen crush it was neon lights in a strip mall, the flame of red letterson yellow, big gulps bigger than a teenage torso clove cigarettes stubbed out against the humidvirginia n…

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Need some poetry for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social's poems “to be seventeen again and living on nothing but music” & “crush” were published in Issue 1 of @forgetcool.bsky.social 😎 Catch them here: buff.ly/lK7Jq3D

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Nighttime still a passion I was loyal to—" Don't miss @majda.bsky.social's two stunning poems in the glowing new issue of @forgetcool.bsky.social!

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So ridiculously excited to have two poems in the first issue of @forgetcool.bsky.social, a rad new online journal with an awesome zine feel brought to you by @mfitejohnson.bsky.social and @allisonwrites.bsky.social. Thank you so much to these fab humans for including my work! forget.cool/issue-1/

crush
it was neon lights in a strip mall, the flame of red letters
on yellow, big gulps bigger than a teenage torso

clove cigarettes stubbed out against the humid
virginia night, mosquitoes & the breathing dark

waiting to creep in against mostly empty parking lots
against the stir & sweat of all of us who couldn’t wait

for the clock to touch midnight so we could count out
our cash drawers & get back in our cars to crank music

we bought with slow-earned cash & employee discounts
to head somewhere other to basements alone

where we could keep blasting the sound of our still-forming
hearts to a friend’s house where we would smoke cigarettes

& clutch video game controllers or fumble fingers against
instruments to mirror back those same melodies that split into soul

to the backseat of a car where our mouths exhaled into the ear
& neck of another while song our only true crush surrounded us

it was belonging when you weren’t someone
who ever belonged anywhere

Image of smiling teen with long hair, a grey tee and cutoff shorts and a silver ball bell necklace.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 05/09/2026

Nothing like coming across a bouquet that perfectly matches your book cover to make you spend some quality time discovering how little you know about prop styling

A hardcover copy of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my novella, standing below a beautiful bouquet of garden dahlias, tutsan and African marigold. I’ve nestled it among houseplants, candles and pottery that share the colour palette of the cover.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Where are your favorite places to submit CNF these days?

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Passages North @passagesnorth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

‼️ attention ‼️ passages north submission queue opens september 1st!! we want to see your fiction, flash, cnf, poems, and more; more info available at the link in bio!!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

good lord y'all, just click any link at random and it's a banger standing ovation for this debut issue!

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So thrilled to have a poem in this gorgeous anthology from @juneroadpress.bsky.social!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the new pop culture-focused lit mag @allisonwrites.bsky.social and I started. We’re unbelievably proud of it and hope you’ll check it out!

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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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