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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 51m

Happy birthday to this beauty!!!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 52m

Today is Unrivered's first birthday! Thank you to all of you who have read or shared or allowed me to read its poems at you. I appreciate you all. You can still find it through your favorite local bookstore or on the @sundresspub.bsky.socia website.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And starting with the word "magnolia". Thank you!

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OMG the jealousy! Sooooo beautiful.

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Join us for our Fall Reading Celebration this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. Pacific! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Link to purchase the Summer & Fall issue in my bio. (Available in print, PDF, or Ebook.)

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still can’t quite believe I have a poem in this magical issue of Alaska Quarterly Review behind this gorgeous cover photograph. Many thanks to Ronald Spatz for including my work in these pages. (Photo taken beneath the magnolia tree where I wrote “a sudden chorus”.)

Image a hand holding the Summer & Fall 2026 issue of AQR Alaska Quarterly Review beneath a magnolia tree with a photograph close-up of plants and succulents and blueberries

Image of the Table of Contents of the AQR Alaska Quarterly Review Summer and Fall 2026 issue

Jill Kitchen
a sudden chorus
magnolia leaf like a shield like a dress you could make into armor into a crown to keep off the unwanted advances of ice storm
fiber thick enough to eat to line your gut to make a home a shelter even a width of blanket woven with the flex & bend
of honeysuckle vine the kind that sings virginia sweet not the red spears you planted in colorado that waited
until you were leaving to bloom to salute the sad curl of avocado grown from seed during early days of pandemic
suddenly surprised to find itself in high altitude & winter after being born into fruit in mexico does the cherry tree
remember how you held her caressed the soil at her edges wondered over her white summons of flowering her june of cherries

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I posted the flash link yesterday. Here the link to the cover art. Thanks to the editors at The Account! theaccountmagazine.com/article/vorr...

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The Work | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very grateful to @literaryruby.bsky.social & @april-bradley.bsky.social for this! Congratulations and best wishes to everyone on the list! ❤️

RUBY
is proud to announce our nominations for

BEST OF THE NET

Mikki Aronoff
At Sea's Edge

Patricia Q. Bidar
If I Know Santa

Earl Briones
Memory of Rice

Susan Delgado
Black Beans

Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez
Gloria Rubino Knows Who Took the Money from the Cigar Box

Maureen Langloss
The Cost of Dragons, I Never Made the Toast, and Anti-ode to the Egg

Nancy Stohlman
Last Words

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR NOMINEES!

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here’s a first look at our next book—the only one for this year, the only one like it. It’s a poetry anthology framed as a great big cross-country American road trip, featuring 100 place-based poems by emerging poets from coast to coast. More at juneroadpess.com/places-on-the-way!

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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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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"You wake up and stretch your arms in the direction of the clouds, you have gotten into the habit of sleeping on the roof, so there are actually clouds above you...." I love how @dawnsteffler.bsky.social put this amazing story together! 💙💙💙

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

Check out the whole beautiful fall issue here and listen to other writers read their gorgeous work: www.westchesterreview.com/fall-2026-to...

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Fall 2026 TOC — The Westchester Review

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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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Anne Graue (she/her) @amgraue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fall issue has arrived! So much good reading ahead of you! Enjoy! #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1984, U2 released their fourth studio album “The Unforgettable Fire” featuring "Pride (In the Name of Love)" "A Sort of Homecoming" "4th of July" “Bad” and "The Unforgettable Fire"

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our Fall Issue is going to wild places, starting with new cover from Sara Willadsen (Wild Places 1) to "characters undone by circumstance & confusion...imperfect things the catalysts for redirected lives." Read more from the Editors' Intro here: westchesterreview.com/#/fall-2026/ #wildthings

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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
Jill Kitchen
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.

fade
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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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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And there is your next poem title.

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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...

Grey kitten sitting on stairs in a silly human-like position with legs pointing straight out.

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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

I was in 5th or 6th grade and kept begging my parents to take me back, a second, a third, a fourth time. "No more rhymes now, I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?"

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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

Same! It was hard to choose which one to share!

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

Thank you for this wonderful piece of writing!

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

Such a brilliant piece by @erinvachon.bsky.social weaving in all of the terrors of the now.

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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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