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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are open for submissions! ✨

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

from Ewen Glass's ( @ewenglass.bsky.social ): The one who sees inside you * Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

from Todd Dillard's ( @toddedillard.bsky.social ): The Lampshade Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue! We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Full guidelines at LampLit.net We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

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Kathleen Palmer @kathleenpalmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hello Bluesky. Poetry in progress. Delighted to have a poem in @lamplitmag.bsky.social Thanks to editors @jlilley.bsky.social and @snakeborn.bsky.social and fellow contributors. See current issue at lamplit.net/q-issue-number/ Cover art by Mirjana M., @cyanide_cherries on insta.

$Cover art for Lamp Lit fall 2025. A figure facing right in profile. The image is broken up by concentric circles and a white cross as if refracted light.$

I have done it again
(after Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath)

I said yes; meaning no,
I swallow the near vomit of negative

Bite down on the bit
Grimace from over-smiling

I wake, jaw clenched and aching
Tongue marked by my teeth

What is this peg on my tongue?
I am mute

A strange Cassandra,
What god or witch have I offended?

To break the spell
I bathe in rage

Open the lock
Spew bile until it runs clear.

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

girlhood is a spectrum (is LIVE baby) memezinelit.com

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!

Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK

Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I read this, I think I am in love with this. Poetry ça va sans dire, but the artwork? Look at that Crazy Town! Look at it! Such a lovely place (to read and perhaps submit to)

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Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue. I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!! #poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue. So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here: lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

The Lampshade
At the gates of heaven they said
let's review: six snails eaten, but
no burning buildings entered
to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box.
You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more
you saw and never touched, never thought to touch.
And yet, you spent most of your life working
on this one species of looking.
You'd see a wooden door and make a face
from its knots and whorls. You'd find
a dead cardinal and would wonder
if the dead forget the color red first.
Mostly we were impressed with this hat
you made one night out of a lampshade.
Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost
his voice. After finishing his bedtime,
you turned to go, and he told you to stay.
We liked how he pulled an imaginary
string dangling out of your nose.
How you shut your eyes afterwards
and lay perfectly motionless beside him.
For years your son believed
light is something you become.
It's waiting, there, under your skin.

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️ Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️ #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal! Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️ #coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag 1/4

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🛋️Submissions are open until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net. . We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️ #poetry #prose #fiction #essay #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🛋️Submissions are open now until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net. . We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.1 Summer 2025 is Live at LampLit. net! 🛋️ Thank you all! This has been an amazing process and we can't wait to get started on the next issue! (keep an eye on our opening soon for Fall 2025) 1/3 #poetry #prose #art #litmags #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.1 Cover Reveal! . Our first issue debuts, Thursday, July 17th! Mark your calendars! The issue will go live at LampLit.net and will be printable! So much gratitude to our incredible contributors! ⬇️ 1/3 #coverreveal #poetry #shortshories #art #litmags #lamplitmag

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We're all full up on gorgeous poems, but reopening for a week in some categories! If you wanted to, but didn't, the light's still on!

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Curating poems for @lamplitmag.bsky.social has been so, so interesting and instructive. It's really incredible to feel a vibe slowly emerging in our selections, and it's such a great way to learn about how poems that really hit do it...and to then realize that it's all just like, our opinion, man. 🤌🏻

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I cannot believe how much beautiful work has been submitted to @lamplitmag.bsky.social Thank you to every single person who trusted us with their work. I love being on this planet with all of you, and wow! Our work is cut out for us!! 🙏🏻🩷

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hello!👋🏻 We're Michael @snakeborn.bsky.social and Jaime @jlilley.bsky.social ! We've made many new friends lately. Funny how that works. Visit us at Lamplit.net We'll keep a light on for you. 🛋 (I couldn't resist lol) #poetry #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #shortstories #art #lamplitmag

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I love this poem a lot, and need to revisit it periodically for vitamins. ❤️

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Michael C. @snakeborn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

While I'm here, in case you missed it, @jlilley.bsky.social and I started @lamplitmag.bsky.social and we're open for subs! It's easy too! Just an email. See lamplit.net for details! #poetry #fiction #cnf #art

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's happening! We're open, people! We better see you all there. Yes you! Especially you. Lamplit.net for more information. curators: @jlilley.bsky.social @snakeborn.bsky.social #poetry #fiction #cnf #essay #lamplitmag

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

So, my poem was published in Door=Jar, so... Sharing here.

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I'm very excited to have a poem appearing in the upcoming Winter 2023 issue of Door Is A Jar!

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Good lord, I love this. Gorgeous.

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Autumn comes with astonishment.

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Jaime Lilley @jlilley.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Hey y'all, I'm new around here. Hoping it will be nicer than x-twitter. I'm a poet and lover of poems, soon to have my first piece published by Door Is A Jar in the Winter 2023 issue.

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