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Molly Ferguson Akin

@mollyakin.bsky.social
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Kansas transplant to coastal MA. Library director, poet and occasional essayist. HOSPICE now available. | she/her | mollyakin.com

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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A little poem in the Solstice micro edition of Identity Theory. @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/girlishly/
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Girlishly by Molly Akin - Identity Theory
Girls are. Girls were.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Delighted to have a micro in this issue.
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s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“In the early dark, / I begin the slow work / of stitching something…” Read “Needlework” and two other incredible poems by Brynn Martin in our inaugural issue today: swiftslitmag.com/brynn-martin
Black text on white background of the linked poem "Needlework"
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s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"The patterns / of distance are well established between us. Is an unread poem / a kind of broken promise?" Every time we see a new @amorak.bsky.social poem, we make sure to read it. Be sure to read his newest in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/amorak-huey
Black text on white background of the poem "Lament with Waning Crescent" by Amorak Huey, available to read at the link in the post.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Tomorrow! 1pm at the AWP bookfair. Stop by to say hi.
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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Good morning! @identitytheory.bsky.social remains open for micro subs only! Please read the guidelines and send your little weirds my way! www.identitytheory.com/about/micro-...
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Thank you for your interest in publishing your micro in Identity Theory. We thoughtfully read, consider, and discuss all submissions. Qualifying micros
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I'm headed to AWP for the first time! Looking forward to soaking up great readings and picking up a fresh stack of books. I'll be at booth #600 signing my chabook HOSPICE on Saturday at 1pm. Hope to see you there!
Multiple copies of my poetry chapbook Hospice fanned on top of a stone surface.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So delighted to have work in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social alongside poets I admire.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/02/2026
We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.
A photo collage of authors Mat Johnson, Nicola Griffith, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, and Pete Rock. It reads "Announcing our 2026 selection panel!" at the top, and has the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo at the bottom right.
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Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My newsletter’s back up & running after a little break! This month features a fantastic @susanpoet.bsky.social poem, the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social, a video poem, & more. jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com/p/february-2...
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February 2026
a great poem, announcements, & a prompt
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thrilled to have two pieces in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Excited for this debut!
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Excited to kick off 2026 with a reading at Broadside Bookshop! Join me in person on Tuesday, January 20th at 7pm. I'll be reading from my recently published chapbook Hospice and my full-length manuscript.
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 10/01/2026
Sharing this elegy for Renee Nicole Good, from Minneapolis poet Danez Smith: “The role of us poets is to witness the world…With attention as our tool and duty, we turn to grief, to love, to the natural world around us, to our own lives, and to our countries.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
postcard collage with aphorism
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
POETS: If you're not exactly a spring chicken (I consider myself a mid-to-late-summer bird) I highly recommend taking a gander (sorry, not trying to pun, it just happened) at The Stern Prize. What a lovely framework for a prize: 50 & over. I mean, it takes a half-century to unlearn some things, yes?
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So excited to hear today that I'll have some work in the first issue!!
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Don’t buy anything today. ✊ Read a book. Rest as much as you can. (Write a list of things to buy later.) #nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New journal accepting submissions
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thanks to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for picking up the first of a series of med side effect poems.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 22/11/2025
what a piece today, from Molly Akin!! "One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed." www.havehashad.com/mf5jn
November 22, 2025
Evolution
Molly Akin

One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed. I waited. One time I lost sorrow; it slipped out and was buried under sand. Finely ground shells and bits of fur. One time my ancestors came walking out of the sea. They collected the bits of rock and bone and feather and fur and fashioned me.

Now I fly with open mouth, trailing words and shouting meaning: “Look at what I lost.” Another swoop, closer to the ground now: “Look at what I found.” Now tusks curl from my mouth. I charge at memory, tossing aside its fragile weight that once pined me hollow. Now I am the one who will turn and return, slipping gently into water.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Death leaves Us homesick, who behind,
Except that it is gone
Are ignorant of it’s Concern
As if it were not born.

Through all their former Places, we
Like Individuals go
Who something lost, the seeking for
Is all that’s left them, now -
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My first Pushcart nomination! Thanks to @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for nominating "Tail" from my chapbook.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am afraid to own a Body -
I am afraid to own a Soul -
Profound - precarious Property -
Possession, not optional -

Double Estate, entailed at pleasure
Opon an unsuspecting Heir -
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 02/11/2025
an extra hour this morning! what if I fill it with a 30-60 minute spontaneous submission call?? — @aaronburch.bsky.social open now: havehashad.submittable.com/submit/1cad7...
DST morning call
it's been a minute since I did a spontaneous call

going to keep this open until 8am ET. maybe 8:30? maybe even 9?? we'll see

send me something I'll love

no limits (but for these calls I really mostly like short stuff that grabs my attention fast and hard)

💀

—aaron
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Literary Arts Fund logo
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NPR @npr.org · 28/10/2025
A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years. n.pr/3WYkn3o
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A new fund will route millions to the literary arts
A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Signed copies are off!
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
She's here! Holding my first book is both overwhelming and wonderful. Huge thanks to @janehuffman.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, and Tatiana Johnson-Boria for the generous blurbs and support. Forever grateful for Jane's guidance and editor's eye.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Started off 42 by sharing a stage w/ @janehuffman.bsky.social, @chloemartinez.bsky.social, Ellen Kombiyil, and Minal Hajratwala at Lit Youngstown. It was a soul filling birthday weekend!
Photo showing Mo
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Sharing my new (and first!) craft essay on the Brevity Blog. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/f...
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White. brevitymag.com
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Today's the last day to preorder "Hospice" before 9/26 pub date. Preorders are 15% off the list price.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
sometimes you really do write a whole poem just to give one beautiful phrase a home
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Stopped all the adulting for thirty minutes to build a fairy house with the eight year old. We especially like the kitchen sink that holds water. By far the best part of today.
Detail of a child's fairy house showing a piece of bark, a fern, hydrangeas and an oyster shell balanced on a rock as a sink.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We are thrilled that ONE BOAT by @jcbuckley.bsky.social is longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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One Boat | The Booker Prizes
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“In these poems, the reader sojourns across a defamiliarized world, acutely described with a Dickinsonian economy and cataloged, freshly, by Akin’s fine-toothed aesthetic.” Such generous words about "Hospice" from @janehuffman.bsky.social. Preorder: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...
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Hospice by Molly Akin – NWVS #186 – Finishing Line Press
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A little ocean for today
An ocean view showing multiple wave breaks in front of a blue sky
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My debut poetry collection is now available for preorder. Called "A strong, memorable debut collection!” by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social poems reckon with the intimate work of caregiving. Preorder by August 31st for a 15% discount from my publisher. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Beautiful review of @dcazdn.bsky.social latest book. I'm very much looking forward to being in conversation with David and @poetmercurio.bsky.social this evening. Sign up: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I had a lot of fun building my reading set for tonight's WTUI reading. I have an extra luxe twenty minutes to read. This micro published in @identitytheory.bsky.social will be in the mix. @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/executor-tan... Tonight at 7:30 EST: bit.ly/WTUIJul2025.
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Executor of tangible goods: A Micro Poem by Molly Akin
we invent our hauntings
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A generous gift of a close read from @poetmercurio.bsky.social. Join us tonight at 7:30pm EST.
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Michael Mercurio @poetmercurio.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Preparing for next Tuesday's What The Universe Is: @mollyakin.bsky.social and David Cazden by doing a close reading of Dave's poem "Vertigo" over on my Substack: damncurious.substack.com/p/a-close-re... Go check it out and then register for the reading! bit.ly/WTUIJul2025
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A Close Reading of David Cazden's Poem "Vertigo"
No, it has nothing to do with the U2 song of the same name. It's much, much more interesting than that.
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Molly Ferguson Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Very much looking forward to this conversation moderated by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social. Free -- register to join: bit.ly/WTUIJul2025!
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 30/06/2025
Thanks for sharing this, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!
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