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Porcupine Literary

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A journal by and for teachers. ​We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world. Read us: www.porcupineliterary.com

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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are in search of a social media manager for Porcupine! Email our EIC Jared Beloff at Porcupinesubmissions at Gmail if you are interested!!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We are always open for submissions!!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We are always open for submissions!!
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Come join our team!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are in search of a social media manager for Porcupine! Email our EIC Jared Beloff at Porcupinesubmissions at Gmail if you are interested!!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Check out this new poem by our EIC!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Check out this new poem by our EIC!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hey, it is our co-founder's birthday today. Show @writesloud.bsky.social a little love and visit one of her babies (our site) and share something you love. If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching! www.porcupineliterary.com/blog
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read! porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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​We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read! porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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​We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you’re in NYC and want to see an awesome reading, this is this afternoon!
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Christina M Rau The Yoga Poet @christinamrau.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Thanks to Porcupine Literary, for sharing my #poem “The Issue With The Bee.” I don’t often write about teaching, so this is a fun one. @porcupinelit.bsky.social #academia #highered #englishprofessorproblems #writingcommunity #theyogapoet #poetrycommunity www.porcupineliterary.com/post/the-iss...
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The Issue With The Bee
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations worldwide. Her collections include How We Make Amends and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Ast...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Teachers! Send us your best work about teaching. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
​We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@christinamrau.bsky.social has a wonderful new poem in Porcupine! Come read it! www.porcupineliterary.com/post/the-iss...
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The Issue With The Bee
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations worldwide. Her collections include How We Make Amends and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Ast...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Read this great new poem by JD Islip www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
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Teaching Students How to Read Online
J.D. Isip’s collections include Reluctant Prophets (Moon Tide Press, 2025), Kissing the Wound (Moon Tide Press, 2023), and Pocketing Feathers (Sadie Girl Press, 2015). He is the editor for the upcomin...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Still true! Keep sending your work!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman! www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
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Rural Teachers
Laurie King Billman is a poet and essayist. Her written work draws on her life experiences with diverse people and places, as a licensed professional counselor in schools, group homes, and on Native r...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman! www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
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Rural Teachers
Laurie King Billman is a poet and essayist. Her written work draws on her life experiences with diverse people and places, as a licensed professional counselor in schools, group homes, and on Native r...
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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Thrilled to have a new teacher poem up at this week at @porcupinelit.bsky.social. (The linebreaks are best on a non phone screen.)
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MS. MARGERY’S LAST DAY
David Rosenthal is a public school teacher in Berkeley, California. His poems and translations have appeared in Rattle, HAD, Rust & Moth, Birmingham Poetry Review, Eclectica Magazine, Teachers & Write...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
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The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary
A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
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The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary
A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!? www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
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A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer
A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer. Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Still true! Keep sending your work!
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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm Poetry Editor at @porcupinelit.bsky.social, and I just got to give someone their first acceptance! I think that's a first for me, so it's just a very exciting night all around
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
​We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Send us your work!
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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm the poetry editor of this terrific journal by and for teachers, and I'd love to read your poems.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
​We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We came back this week after a short hiatus with this amazing poem from Violeta Garcia Mendoza titled "Teaching Romeo & Juliet" www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
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Teaching Romeo & Juliet
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant from the Sustai...
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A visceral poem on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ❤️‍🔥 Poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social published this piece in @porcupinelit.bsky.social on the frustrations of teaching through censorship: buff.ly/CWNbSZc
A college classroom with empty brown chairs.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Our EIC @readinstead.bsky.social , our Poetry Editor and contributor @fklein907.bsky.social are in @asteralesjournal.bsky.social Issue 3. Go check it out: www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
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Current Issue (Jul 2025) — Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thanks to @porcupinelit.bsky.social for publishing this poem about teaching during a time when research funding is pulled, and being on the job market when people give you advice like, "don't say diversity or inclusion in your job interviews." www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
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TEACHING AT THE END
Emily M. Goldsmith (they/them) is a queer Cajun-Louisiana Creole poet originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. ...
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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I have two poems out today in @porcupinelit.bsky.social just a warning the first includes a slur. shorturl.at/2UezP
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Kid Skipping Class Calls Me Mr. Faggot
Nathan Fako (he/they) is a poet from Salt Lake City, Utah. He currently lives in Bowling Green as an MFA candidate in poetry at BGSU. He has work forthcoming in West Trade Review. @nfako.bsky.social
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This week's publication: Two poems by Nathan Fako. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/kid-ski...
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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Sorry that I missed this little cnf also dropping yesterday... I wrote this piece while I was still teaching middle school, and re-reading makes me remember what I loved about it.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Read this new CNF by @djvorreyer.bsky.social www.porcupineliterary.com/post/stuff-o...
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Stuff On My Desk or Reasons to Teach Middle School
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publi...
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Looking forward to reading your poetry submissions!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Read this new CNF by @djvorreyer.bsky.social www.porcupineliterary.com/post/stuff-o...
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Stuff On My Desk or Reasons to Teach Middle School
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publi...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Teachers! Send us your work!
Poster for Porcupine Literary's call for submissions: fiction poetry and creative nonfiction. A beautiful old drawing of a Porcupine underneath.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Teachers! Send us your work!
Poster for Porcupine Literary's call for submissions: fiction poetry and creative nonfiction. A beautiful old drawing of a Porcupine underneath.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our CNF editor @mehpoeting.bsky.social and our EIC @readinstead.bsky.social will be reading poetry and talking about religion on May 1st. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Divine Poetry Reading- Register!
Register here to attend The Divine Poetry reading and discussion, featuring Frances Klein, Jared Beloff, Matthew E. Henry, and Megan McDermott. The event will feature poetry reading, as well as in dep...
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
That's our co-founder!
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Teachers send us your work. Bonus points if it is thoughtful, nuanced, and insightful: all things MAGA hates.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Read Sally Toner's amazing work published this week! www.porcupineliterary.com/post/a-lesso...
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A Lesson for John
Sally Toner is a writer and high school English teacher who has lived in the DMV for over 25 years.
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Read Sally Toner's amazing work published this week! www.porcupineliterary.com/post/a-lesso...
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A Lesson for John
Sally Toner is a writer and high school English teacher who has lived in the DMV for over 25 years.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd. Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get! Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you. www.porcupineliterary.com
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd. Read and share the work of teachers. ♥️ 💪 www.porcupineliterary.com
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
In a couple months, @porcupinelit.bsky.social will publish one of my poems about teaching (and living) in this time. I wrote that poem in response to the National Science Foundation circulating banned words for grants in February. Keep an eye out! ✨
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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Do you want to be a part of our 3rd annual poetry NAWP open mic??? Yeah you do! Fill out the form and we'll be in touch. Share with friends and please RT! forms.gle/U6svf9vDyzqh...
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NAWP Open Mic
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