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Laura Kerr @sedserio.com · 20/09/2026

the forest was a poem first

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Leslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My cute little (very little!) chapbook is officially out today! 5 flash fictions in 22 pocket-size pages. Thank you, @bullcitypress.com! Ordering info: bullcitypress.com/.../youre-a-...

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chris Abani 💙 An “ordinary” Wednesday poem for #weirdpoemwednesday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poet of an Ordinary Heartbreak

Who hasn't been tempted by the sharp edge of a knife?
An ordinary knife cutting ordinary tomatoes on an ordinary slab of wood on an ordinary Wednesday.
The knife nicks, like a bite to the soul. A reminder that what is contemplated is as real as the blood sprouting from a finger. As real as a bruised eye.
Instead turn back to the meat stewing on the stove.
Scrape pulpy red flesh into the heat and turn.
Say: even this is a prayer. Even this.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our Fall 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu and Diane Sahms, as well as works by Iain Britton, Angela Townsend, Marcia Yudkin, Kevin Grauke, Carla Schwartz, Jane Lockwood, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2026

Mircea Cartarescu, Katrina Naomi, Marion Rost, M. Anne Avera, Alina Stefanescu, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Daniel Carden Nemo, Gabriela Denise Frank, and many more...

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Flight editors saw @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social being arrested outside the Booker Prize offices and thought “that guy must really have something”

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Holy Cow! Norma Cole

HALLOWEEN 2
For Joanne Kyger

Holy Cow! Hope the
Jack O'Lantern doesn't
run for president
is what we're
all thinking
these davs

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Deaths from pregnancy are up in: sepsis, miscarriage, and even homicide. Explainable by an anti-abortion legislation (yes, even homicide - see the Turnaway Study for what happens when people don't get wanted abortions). The science of all of this is in my book:

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Virtual reading tomorrow! Two of our favorite poets Lesle Lewis & Dara Barrois/Dixon Scan the QR code to register, or DM me for a link

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For this week’s #smallpoemsunday, here’s one from BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR, a collaborative chap between myself & @darkwebtofu.bsky.social! Thanks to @diodeeditions.bsky.social for believing in these poems! Read the rest here: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Soft Machinery

Drowned lilies in a basin behind chapel doors.
The feeling of a snail crawling down the throat.

Of history, is it the metaphor or the body that dies?
The float of seasons, a widening orbit, the book older and stranger.

Standard are the ways we hurt each other, however slowly it may make us.

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jenzo duque-french @jenzo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

from the comfort book by Matt Haig, which helped save my life

For when you reach rock bottom

You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

. Friday As I get older, my clothes last longer. .

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

yeah dudes. yr man HAS A BOOK COMING OUT. I'd act like I've been here before, but I literally haven't. Many thank yous to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

me in a Chicago flag shirt sitting by Lake Michigan announcing my debut collection of poems, LAKESHORE MONK, forthcoming from River River Books

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This stunning flash from @erinvachon.bsky.social in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social was just what I needed to keep going today, and maybe it's what you need, too.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

happy #weirdpoemwednesday! ➰ feel free to share weird poems you love :) here’s one by Charles Simic~

We were so poor I had to take the place of the
bait in the mousetrap. All alone in the cellar, I could hear them pacing upstairs, tossing and turning in their beds. "These are dark and evil days," the mouse told me as he nibbled my ear. Years passed. My mother wore a cat-fur collar which she stroked until its sparks lit up the cellar.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here’s some Tyler Tilley art to make your Sunday a little better.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from Hotel Almighty. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

erasure poem using yellow colored pencil, with collage elements of a Chinese map, a pine twig, a building and an upside-down astronaut

text:
for a long time
I think about
isolated things like
neighbors
like a small
house
and the wind
somewhere
checking
how many people could there be

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kim Addonizio

Dream the Night My Brother Dies

Whichever way I turn there is a door.
I run in and out of the doors.
In one room, inconsolable weeping.
In another, a sad animal regards me.
In a third, a hole in the floor.
I lower my bucket
a long way down on its white rope.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

don't forget: periodicities @periodicities.bsky.social is perpetually seeking submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/subm...

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periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essa...

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A mind like a marooned TV

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This body that feels nothing like me

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Joanne Kyger

I have large dreams of beautiful patterns.

Clouds over Indiana
And we are under them

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 27/07/2026

"Maybe someday gardening will call to me and be just what I need," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1567 of The Slowdown. "In today’s poem, gardening is exactly what the speaker needs." Read "Assistance" by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vQcyf8

graphic featuring a portion of Abbie Kiefer's poem

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to two of our editors, Mandira Pattnaik for her newest volume, White Hot Moon, from Red Bird Chapbooks, www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/wh..., and Lucy Zhang for her latest story, “Thread Woman,” along with an interview, at Strange Pilgrims, www.strangepilgrims.com/p/thread-wom...

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White Hot Moon by Mandira Pattnaik — Red Bird Chapbooks

Hybrid: Creative Non Fiction & Poetry 32 pages 8.5” x 7” single signature with hand sewn binding Published July 2026 Mandira Pattnaik’s White Hot Moon is a collection born of the sky and the…

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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The other is an 8-week workshop that centers voice, balancing close reads of selected works and fine, granular attention to each writer's language as it suits their project. I love this class. I love teaching the sentence. Thank you! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-w...

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8-Week: Finding Voice, Then Using Voice

This workshop will zoom in to focus on the granular details of our sentences in order to find larger, zoomed-out lessons about our projects as a whole. A good sentence, in its form, language, and tone...

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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

First is a 4-week course on the first 321 pages of Infinite Jest, which I imagine you're heard of. The goal here is to introduce the novel with a clarifying and guiding eye, and get readers over the (considerable) hump of the early sections.

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4-Week: Craft Lessons from The First 321 Pages of Infinite Jest

2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s monumental, notorious, and exquisite novel about commitment, addiction, and what it means to be a self in an era of endles...

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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Heyo! I've got two classes starting this month at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and both have space. Please share liberally, if you're inclined, thank you.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today's Feature: "Parallel" by Noor Jaber from Lilac Peril #1 Read here: poems.com/poem/parallel/

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Parallel

I'm born a wound. Look how I gape.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

By far the poem that I send most often to writer friends and academic colleagues is Solmaz Sharif's "Patronage," whose ending is one of the few poems I can recite from memory. yalereview.org/article/patr...

I said what I meant
but I said it

in velvet. I said it in feathers.
And so one poet reminded me

Remember what you are to them.

Poodle, I said.

And remember what they are to you.

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Meat.

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Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Stefanie Kirby's chapbook Fruitful (Driftwood Press) and a tattered well-used 1977 Koch diagnostic recounting teaching poetry in a nursing home (including printed poems from patients) arrived yesterday from different delivery people who had no idea what glowed inside those envelopes.

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

. Tuesday evening They were warm days .

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“I have learned to take apart this American Songbook.” A poem by Cedar Sigo.

Now I'm a Woman

BY CEDAR SIGO

When you hear the knives ring
Turn the page.
I wonder why I am not
Myself of late, ridiculous glass edges
Turn back on themselves
And soon reveal
The hand of an apprentice
And godforsaken embarrassing torch,
Stormy back hallways
Out of the black and wooden theatres.
Crystal Waters plus her driver
Plus her entourage is still rolling out
Of the Sands, Atlantic City
On the soundtracks to shows
Held over at The Fairmount
She is throwing back shots
With the mafia. I have learned
To take apart this American Songbook
And very fortunately as I would take
My audience in confidence
Threads of gold fall closely together
Coming to break us off.
At the first of the shows
I sang this song
And in between I saw him in the hall,
What could I tell you?
"Someday we'll build on a hilltop high."

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Robert Kerber Collages @robertkerber.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

„Das Jahr vor der Geburt des Verbrechens (77)“ / „The year preceding the birth of the crime (77)“. July 30th 2026 paper collage w. twine on vintage book cover, ca. 18 x 11 cm. #collageart #papercollage #analogcollage #industrialmusic #industrialmusicforindustrialpeople #industrialart

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 28/07/2026

Super delighted to see this out in the world! Put a lot of heart and thought into it.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“Grains of grit in a tall sky sewing.” A poem by John Ashbery.

[A blue anchor grains of grit in a tall sky sewing]

BY JOHN ASHBERY

A blue anchor grains of grit in a tall sky sewing

I inch and only sometimes as far as the twisted pole gone in spare colors

Too late the last express passes through the dust of gardens

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

what do your poems contain? what do they not contain? what can their stomachs digest? where must they swim? how do they cry?

American Poetry
by Louis Simpson

Whatever it is, it must have
A stomach that can digest
Rubber, coal, uranium, moons, poems.

Like the shark it contains a shoe.
It must swim for miles through the desert
Uttering cries that are almost human.

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s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"soon the older men could hear waves / inside the whale’s stomach, the cadences of their mother singing" "What Was Found Inside the Whale" by @readinstead.bsky.social starts off Issue Three of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jared-beloff

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jared beloff — s w i f t s: a literary magazine

swifts literary magazine

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We are selling a bag of books except it will probably show up in a box. 5 books, 5 zines, one tote bag. Shipped inside a box. For $50. Also the books will be picked for you because why should you have to make any more decisions today! malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

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bag of books — Malarkey

A tote bag, two zines, and a selection of zines from Malarkey Books.

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"The Fall" published in Poetry Northwest

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Robert Kelly

I am slow,
my hands are far away,
the music
closer than my skin.

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

. Sunday Making a choice .

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 10/07/2026

“Days and nights melted together. I remember it rained, and I stood outside under a tree, catching runoff from leaves in my mouth.” “Winter’s Tales,” two micros by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/10/w...

This image shows two yellow pop-art style arms reaching out and colliding with an open mouth of the same style. Inside the mouth are four acid-green leaves. Sad Jack rests in a separate, upturned hand on the left side.

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The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are thrilled to announce @andrewhemmert.bsky.social as the winner of our 2026 Editor’s Prize in Poetry! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars. "Natural History" will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2027, on sale in March 2027. #flreview

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