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Keith Woodruff

@keithwoodruff.bsky.social
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Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together. Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com

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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Emily! Hey that’s awesome 😀
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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The celebration is on
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@jameslilliefors.bsky.social nice to meet you, James and congratulations on your book. Nice hat BTW.
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow.. what could go wrong
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats Emily! I went and read the piece. Very nice.😊
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love this!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Man! I love this. I remember hearing about them but never checked ‘em out. Oh, and titles right😎
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Best of luck, Leigh!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Am honored to get a Best of the Net nomination from DMQ for my prose poem "Shoes". www.dmqreview.com/woodruffsp26 Congrats to all nominees and best of luck and thank you to the editors for selecting Shoes!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pat, big thanks for sharing this. 🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Victor, that’s the icing on what’s been a great day. Really happy to get the feedback. Thanks
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Victor, thank you very much for checking it out and glad to meet @dogthroat.com
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For Friday, a love letter to my violent friends - a reprint - is up @bulbculture.bsky.social and huge thanks to Jared for such kind words
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lovely prose poem trashcatlit.com/how-are-you-... from Olivia O'Toole
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here I am with my salt and pepper oldster beard loving this prose poem trashcatlit.com/living-well-... from @quickasaflash.bsky.social in the prose poem issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
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Prose Poetry, September 2026
We have twenty beautiful pieces in this, our first issue of prose poetry. Inspired by a very special raccoon, Jimothy, the theme was a celebration of tenacity and difference. Click on the images to…
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Besides IPAs, baseball and my dogs, prose poems are right there on the list so I am very excited to dive into the bin and check out the first ever all prose poem issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major suckage
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Laura, thank you so much for reading and the kind note😊
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@rawheadjournal.bsky.social always one of my favorite journals to dig through! New issue alive and kicking
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you love barns, dogs and remember Donna Fargo's song Funny Face from the 70s, this might be your cup of coffee. Might.
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you, Ian!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some barn, some misery some shaved dog ... check out my piece Dog as Battlefield in @turnandwork.com and deep thanks to Hugh for giving it a second life😎
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really love @dishsoapquart.bsky.social and thank you so much to @zreayellers.bsky.social for taking this cornfield sort-of-love story🌽
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great journal, great writing- check out this Best Small Fiction nomination from @emhall47.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/03/18/e...
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Emergency Alert ~ fiction by Emily Hall
The Indiana Weather Service has issued a TORNADO WARNING for Vermillion County on April 19, 1996, at 6:40 p.m. Take SHELTER IMMEDIATELY in the basement that has a pile of insulation melting, like f…
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Emily! Huge congratulations!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really like the endings tip🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it absolutely sounds like that
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jimothy inspired prose poems issue☺️
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love prose poems? Trash Cat is releasing its first prose poem issue 9/28. Looking forward to this!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thank you, Gill🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's really lovely.
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Slow burn fiction, really, really, slow, burn😎
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hi Linda, thank you so much for sharing and reading this. Means a lot🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lucienne, thank you! Really appreciate your reading and sharing cow.
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thank you, Athena☺️
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“You need a mouth to taste the salt of someone’s tears. To say I love you even to no one at all.” Man. So beautiful
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you, Tracie. Really glad you enjoyed it🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lisa, thank you for sharing this. BTW, am a big fan of barns, too.🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you, Kathryn. 🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you, JP. I’m encouraged to spend more time back at the farm 🙂
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
to write something that feels like this sounds
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De Cara a la Pared
YouTube video by Lhasa de Sela - Topic
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh, I especially love that last line Amber and am listening to Closer for the first time and watching the video.☺️
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you, Amber. Happy you liked it
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ian thank you for giving it a read. I really appreciate your note😊
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My not so spooky ghost cow story is live. 🐮 Congrats to all the storytellers.Huge thanks to @therelphian.bsky.social for doing such an amazing job showcasing writers and their work😎 and to readers @leighloveday.bsky.social and @joclark.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/the-light-is...
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The Light is the Boy
Keith Woodruff Cow does not think of herself as haunting the barn. In the loft, she drifts above the bales, watches the blue swallows loop out and in. Waits for the boy to climb the rungs and pop t…
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dear Leigh, oh wow. ☺️ Thank you for that. It means a lot.
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Got a very special book through interlibrary loan yesterday, and just love the name of the library it came from. It's only 45 minutes away but I have never heard of it. I think all libraries are a comfort but this one takes the cake
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Proud to be in the mix here. My first ever prompt story and first appearance in TCL. Congratulations to everyone and thanks to @trashcatlit.bsky.social for selecting my flash!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Zodiac killings. I lived just a bit south of San Francisco— he was my first bogeyman
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