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Max Minckler

@maxminckler.bsky.social
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Poetry peddler, book nut, recovering marketier. Poems in The Atlanta Review, Okay Donkey, Interpreter's House, Krax, Ambit, Obsessed with Pipework. NewWriters.org.uk.

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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
While Eeyore frets, and Tigger bounces, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Love this piece!
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We're excited to announce this year's judge for our annual Poetry Contest, Leila Chatti! Until the end of December, we will accept submissions for our annual Poetry Contest. For all guidelines and to submit, visit our website or follow the link in our bio. kenyonreview.org/submit/poetr...
The Kenyon Review Poetry Contest. Judge: Leila Chatti. Deadline: December 31
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm tickled to have a new poem "Rapture" in the latest issue of The Interpreter's House - check it out along with all of the other wonderful poets, and thank you to the editors! #poetry theinterpretershouse.org/minckler-84
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 02/10/2025
ICYMI: "Hot-Desking," poetry by @maxminckler.bsky.social:
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Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 26/09/2025
"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it. This desk is in a lion's mouth. This desk is made of something called wood, I think." "Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
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Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I have a new poem in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it. The entire mag is a hoot, weird and wild and wonderful and one of my absolute favorites. Check it out #poetry okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...
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Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Absolutely chuffed that one of my favorite lit mags Okay Donkey have published my poem Hot-Desking! OKD is hilarious and wonderfully off-the-wall, have a read if you fancy a chortle or two. Huge thanks to the whole editorial team! #poetry
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
One of my all-time favorites from James Tate "She looked at me as if I were insane, and then she started to undress, and so did I" #poetry
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 05/09/2025
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
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All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Today's Wobbly is all prose poems, backache, and mushrooms, mushrooms!
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My Wobbly Bicycle, 325 — Fleda Brown
My back’s been painful all summer. Finally, after MRI and x-rays, the source has been identified, cortisone injected last Thursday, and I’m feeling much better. For now at least. But still, there’s li...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2025
"To clarify, wild turkeys are not doomed, domed butterballs perfect for stuffing in late November. They are snood-­engorged gang goons focused on street domination."
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Excerpts from The Believer: Animal: Wild Turkey
FEATURES: Runs almost as fast as Usain Bolt, albeit in bursts Flies faster than most hummingbirds, albeit in bursts Gobbles, purrs, yelps, chi...
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Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
items 76. and 97. are my favorites inevitable meets surprising (...but tasteful!)
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Kate is drafting a new WIP! @vkatehutchings.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I am beyond excited to share Inkfish Mag's eco & nature writing edition which features my flash fiction THE LAST TWO! A big thank you to the editors for including my first published fiction.🥳 inkfishmag.com/the-last-two/ #shortstory #WritingCommmunity #amwriting
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'The Last Two’ by V. Kate Hutchings
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
For anyone who sometimes forgets a name and worries about it, there's a poem for that: Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins. "The name of the author is the first to go..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Forgetfulness
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of...
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Kate is drafting a new WIP! @vkatehutchings.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I just submitted my short fiction to @theoffingmag.bsky.social ! Subs open until May 1 for "writing of any length & genre which relates to, or draws on, science & the natural world." theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit #amsubmitting #amwriting #shortstory #poetry
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I was pleased as punch to place second in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 2023 poetry contest with The Fork, a serious meditation on cutlery🍴now included in a new 2025 Anthology dishing up so many amazing poets. Humbled and honored! newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is... #writing #poetrycommunity
https://newwriters.org.uk/anthology-issue-1-flipbook/#flipbook-df_8971/15/
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Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So proud to be included alongside so many talented poets! #poetry #authorcommunity
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 21/04/2025
✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. Today's prompt is (...)
Poetry prompt by Linda Black that reads: Randomly choose a book off a shelf. Open the last page - write down the last two sentences. Do the same with a second book. Choose two more books. Turn to the beginning of each and write down the first two sentences. Keep what you want, change what you want, add what you want. Acknowledge your sources.
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Webvixen @webvixen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter 🐰
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