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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“… because it defies codification and literal meanings, a viewer can have their own unique experience with it.” Beautiful asemic work from @kossworks.bsky.social in @ogre.red ogre.red/issues/2026-...

Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you, friend. I appreciate the share... ♥️

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Goodbye voidlike sky. Yes, this is a poem, but not a very good one. xo.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” Toni Morrison, from Beloved

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I knew someone in the universe was listening with giant eyes.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The penultimate issue of my literary magazine is almost here. I gave Stanchion over 6 years of my life, but it's just about time to say goodbye to the beautiful thing I started so I could be the proverbial utilitarian structure that allows the light of others to shine.

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once I saw an editor bragging that one of the stories they published for their zine got into a big anthology. They didn't mention the author or the story. Two of us asked and he ignored us. I don't send to that journal anymore. Every day, people fawn all over him. #litcommunity, #writerslife

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Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was a dream just to be published in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. To have them nominate my work for Best of the Net is almost too much to take in 😭 Thank you, lovely editors 🤗 🥰 🙏 ICYMI, linking to the piece below 👇

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your Monday Mocha.🐶🤎

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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today’s the day! I know everyone’s licking ice cream and chilling the hell out phone-free but I’m as chuffed as chips to have a book out with @stanchion.bsky.social TODAY!♥️🍦🧘🏼🧘🏽‍♀️

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David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

happy to be back in @ergot.bsky.social with a tropical gothic story set in Manaus, Brazil in the late 1980s. Part of a WIP. www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You're welcome. I hope you're celebrating somehow. Sent you an email today. Have a good night.

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congrats on your Jackleg Press position. I don't know when it happened, but good on you.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From Rolling Stone’s list (2021): The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time… #195: Patsy Cline, “Crazy” One of Willie Nelson’s best songs. youtu.be/k3Kmytu6YlE

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Crazy - Patsy Cline (1961) audio hq

YouTube video by Jaomachannel

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction

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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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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jack Spicer, from “A Diamond” A Translation for Robert Jones

A diamond
Is there
At the heart of the moon or the branches or my nakedness
And there is nothing in the universe like diamond
Nothing in the whole mind.

The poem is a seagull resting on a pier at the end of the ocean.

A dog howls at the moon
A dog howls at the branches
A dog howls at the nakedness
A dog howling with pure mind.

I ask for the poem to be as pure as a seagull’s belly.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kay Ryan, “All Your Horses”

Say when rain
cannot make
you more wet
or a certain
thought can’t
deepen and yet
you think it again:
you have lost
count. A larger
amount is
no longer a
larger amount.
There has been
a collapse; perhaps
in the night.
Like a rupture
in water (which
can’t rupture
of course). All
your horses
broken out with
all your horses.

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 04/12/2024

“We can not figure our way out of grief. We can not use information or concepts to somehow reduce our experience of pain. As the adage goes, “the only way out, is through”.” —Francis Weller

Photo of an expanse of tangled overgrowth and shrubs and bare trees under thick gray clouds with a hint of December sun peeking through the clouds.

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

Yay! I like fast acceptances too... Congrats!

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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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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review

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

@samrasnake.bsky.social thanks, friend. Have a great weekend!

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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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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. —Wendell Berry

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bob Mackie design lithograph for The Pointer Sisters

“The Pointers”, a fashion design lithograph by Bob Mackie painted by the artist

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thanks. felt so lucky to behold it!

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the strange light returned today, but I still have a shitty cell phone camera. maybe I can go out and shoot with a real camera soon.

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

so happy to have an acceptance for some asemic art (3) by @ogre.red today! I guess I will have another pub this year after all...

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks so much, Sam--and for sharing. I appreciate it!

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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a gentle reminder, BCC only considers reprints for publication! Sticking to our Glowering theme, we want to read and resurrect your literary zombies! 🧟

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm so excited and can't wait for this little book to start traveling the world. Until then, you can pre-order it either directly from Bull City Press or from Amazon, Indigo-Chapters and others! bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...

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Light Chemical Sea by Jenny Wong

by Jenny Wong 63 pages, softcover ISBN: 978-1-949344-71-4 release date: November 10, 2026* *Consolidated shipping: If an order with multiple items includes a pre-ordered item, all items will ship t…

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My new poem in the summer issue of @triquarterlymag.bsky.social with thx to the editors!

A Question of Archives
Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the archive, Derrida says.
As when I had a child atter miscarrying, 1 began to see my fathe: everywhere. The deer he'd shot in the woods the winter before he died
My mind, Decembering the snow, the sun, the cold.
A four-day-long migraine.
The strange unabsence that is also unpresence. A shadow tense: the winter trees.
Too often lately, I sleep on the bathroom floor. Hormones laced with swords. All ridding riddled with sweat and nausea and pain.
My father, crving in my sleep as we sit in a truck near an outdoor pooll Neither of us speaks or moves. Night, like memory, yields to time.
It time is our greatest currency, that I might rearrange the past as the lodgepole pines rearrange the surface of water.
ly father, crying near the woods instead. The trees' shadows, kneelin a the blood of a dees
I he lost object is not an object at all, according to Lacan.
A dead man, a miscarriage. Lost addresses. Tell me again how anxiety has no object?
How contagious our despair. The Werther Effect: the friend before me, the one after. We were only children. Unlike water, the pines. My long attachments.
Still, I don't know how to endure. I don't know how not to.
The historical truth vs. the material truth. Certain pasts will disappear within and without language, our only witness.
My father, crying in the open field of my mind. Unable to find his way home.
Adorno insists that the living rescue the dead through memory.
I am my father's murderer. I am my father's savior. I am neither
Say child in place of father.
What is a truth if not a wish
to be held
"he way my father carried himself through the world. The way he carried m when I could still be carried. The way a river carries-
I want to be held like that. Years and years ago.
That water, white-cold as it moves. The current, its currencies. Withheld from being able to stop or go back for anyone.
The way a parent moves when withholding a world that they don't want a…

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