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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like J.D. Isip! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I’m a tough critic when it comes to the grooms, especially when the men look like they know they’re attractive." Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s piece “Girls in White Dresses” was published in @forgetcool.bsky.social 🥳 buff.ly/CUKOUFf

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm so honored! The essay about the lockbox, the form I invented, is nominated for Best of the Net. This means so much!

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today on Glass! "Nothing to See Here" by Melissa Fite Johnson (@mfitejohnson.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Melissa Fite Johnson

Nothing to See Here

No sea to hear, just flat Kansas plains. Middle of somewhere,
a girl’s T-shirt once said, and I smiled as we crossed paths
in our small Midwest town. I loved that T-shirt

as much as I hate my mother’s that says Life is good,
because she doesn’t mean it, it’s just nice to say.
Like Thank God. Middle of somewhere reminded me

of my uncle the artist who once visited from Providence,
which I might write even if it weren’t true, the symbolism
too perfect. But that’s where he lived, what he gave me

while his wife and my mother — sisters — fought. To escape,
we took a drive. When I apologized for the plain plains,
believing the Kansas flyover myth, he called it

the bluest sky he’d ever seen. He went on and on about
wheat fields. I couldn’t name one beautiful thing in my life,
but he wanted to paint every abandoned barn. Something to see here.

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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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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

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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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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh man, my favorite comment is “Graywolf I love you but this is giving off hip midwest brewery vibes not Claudia Rankine wrote a masterpiece vibes” because the logo of a brewery in the hip midwest town I live in is this:

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So ridiculously excited to have two poems in the first issue of @forgetcool.bsky.social, a rad new online journal with an awesome zine feel brought to you by @mfitejohnson.bsky.social and @allisonwrites.bsky.social. Thank you so much to these fab humans for including my work! forget.cool/issue-1/

crush
it was neon lights in a strip mall, the flame of red letters
on yellow, big gulps bigger than a teenage torso

clove cigarettes stubbed out against the humid
virginia night, mosquitoes & the breathing dark

waiting to creep in against mostly empty parking lots
against the stir & sweat of all of us who couldn’t wait

for the clock to touch midnight so we could count out
our cash drawers & get back in our cars to crank music

we bought with slow-earned cash & employee discounts
to head somewhere other to basements alone

where we could keep blasting the sound of our still-forming
hearts to a friend’s house where we would smoke cigarettes

& clutch video game controllers or fumble fingers against
instruments to mirror back those same melodies that split into soul

to the backseat of a car where our mouths exhaled into the ear
& neck of another while song our only true crush surrounded us

it was belonging when you weren’t someone
who ever belonged anywhere

Image of smiling teen with long hair, a grey tee and cutoff shorts and a silver ball bell necklace.

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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The first issue of @forgetcool.bsky.social is live! I have two poems included, so check out "Ars Poetica with Lemons, Curry, and Carol Burnett" and "Triple Sonnet for My Mother as a Real Housewife" here: forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

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Two Poems – Carrigan

Two Poems by Alex Carrigan Ars Poetica with Lemons, Curry, and Carol Burnett After “Ars Poetica with a Bird, a Pay Phone, and Spock” by Leah UmanskyI am once again compelled to watch the clip of Th…

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 1 is now LIVE! forget.cool/issue-1

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This very cool new pub was nice enough to take one of my poems for their Very First Issue, featuring original poems and creative nonfiction about music, TV, movies, and more. Give them a follow and a read!

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This new journal is really really cool, y'all. And the poems are outstanding ⬇️ ⬇️

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Love this new journal and and proud to have two poems in this first issue that reference Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Willy Wonka, slumber parties, and urban legends. Will share later but read the whole issue of stellar works- you won't be disappointed!

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Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have an essay in this inaugural issue -- my first "real" essay in a super long time. I wrote about a guy I went out with who was obsessed with "Crash into Me" by Dave Matthews and thus, *I* became obsessed with "Crash into Me" by Dave Matthews.

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So excited to be part of the inaugural issue! I have two poems in it: one about Planet Earth, and one about horror movies. Happy reading!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

good lord y'all, just click any link at random and it's a banger standing ovation for this debut issue!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can't forget all these VERY COOL PIECES (and very cool editors @allisonwrites.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social!) And YOU might have forgotten about TLC's A Wedding Story, but I DID NOT and IT HAS NEVER LEFT ME! More in my essay for @forgetcool.bsky.social's 1st issue <3

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m such a fan of your work! Jill’s too ❤️

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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have two new poems in this cool, debut Fall issue, as does the fantastic @jillkitchen.bsky.social ! I’ve dreamt of being published alongside her, and at last it’s happened. With gratitude to @mfitejohnson.bsky.social for the vision and acceptance.

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the new pop culture-focused lit mag @allisonwrites.bsky.social and I started. We’re unbelievably proud of it and hope you’ll check it out!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had no idea! I adopted one of my dogs in part because he reminded me of The Poky Little Puppy!

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

LOADING... Please stand by while we finish obsessing over Issue 1. Forget Cool launches September 1. Just TWO WEEKS to go.

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh my goodness, this song! I first heard it as a kid on a Christmas episode of The Wonder Years. It got me, and it still gets me.

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

STARTS SATURDAY SO GET IN WHILE YE CAN

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What company! This means so much. Thank you again ❤️

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Some people think cars are cool, but we're here to prove that's not always the case... Remember, subs are open until Wednesday, July 15th! Send us your work! forget.cool/submissions/

A Forget Cool graphic with polaroids of Melissa and Allison with their first janky cars, proving that driving/owning a car isn't always "cool"

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Along with @marchxness.bsky.social bringing us together, we also bonded over being band nerds, specifically flutists! Check out our snazzy bow ties 👀 Apparently having bangs was also a requirement. Reminder: Subs OPEN until July 15th! forget.cool/submissions/

A Forget Cool graphic of Melissa and Allison in their middle/high school band uniforms - both wearing bow ties and sporting bangs.

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Already my new lit mag @forgetcool.bsky.social (with @allisonwrites.bsky.social, who I met through @marchxness.bsky.social) is so much fun! We’re open (through July 15) for poetry and CNF about the pop culture that has shaped you. Submit and be part of our first issue!

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We're over here surrounded by some GREAT submissions, but we're not doing it all alone! Meet our team:

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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We love this poem! Have you tried this new form? Let us know!

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