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Psaltery & Lyre

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Online literary journal publishing poetry, flash, creative nonfiction, fiction, hybrid work, and book reviews. Publishing the intersection of belief and doubt, sacred and profane. Visit us: psalteryandlyre.org

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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dear friends, We are going on hiatus for the remainder of 2026. Although this is difficult news to share, we remain full of gratitude for the writers, readers, friends, and volunteers who have made Psaltery & Lyre a beautiful, bright corner of the literary world. With gratitude, The editors
Psaltery & Lyre is on Hiatus
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"I have waited so long in gorgeous dark / for a spark that reminds me I'm alive." "Psalm Against Ruin" by @evelynberrywriter.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/04/13/p...
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Psalm Against Ruin
by Evelyn Berry
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
you are a thorn / in the foot of memory
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Plunge: this breath / I forget to notice I take" "Pastoral Care: Plunge" by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo psalteryandlyre.org/2026/04/06/p...
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Pastoral Care
by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Now they are rock and tree again, and somewhere / a hungry blaze comes for them
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Willing to fall for the trick that tells the truth, / we trick ourselves to forget." "Sonnenizio for Bill and Detail from 'Sonnenizio for Bill'" by @kavetchnik.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/30/s...
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Sonnenizio for Bill and Detail from “Sonnenizio for Bill”
by Jen Karetnick I. The Gonif                With a line from Imtiaz Dharker Willing to fall for the trick that tells…
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"In the last days, / someone will come to you selling a version of your life / that is not true but gleaming." "Logan Canyon" by Sunni Brown Wilkinson psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/23/l...
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Logan Canyon
by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"It tumbles out like a newborn calf / ready to run. All nature & instinct & slime." "Dictionary" by Grayson Mack psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/16/d...
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Dictionary
by Grayson Mack
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“Anna Rollins, in her debut memoir 'Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl,' writes about the lure of becoming a ‘more perfect woman’ through controlling her body." Alyssa Witbeck reviews "Famished" by @annajrollins.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/13/a...
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A More Perfect Woman: On Ann Rollins’ “Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl”
Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl by Ann RollinsWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2025Review by Alyssa Witbeck:: Anna Rollins, in her debut memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Grow…
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"I was reckless as a child." "Snowshoe Hare" by @lauraring.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/09/s...
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Snowshoe Hare
by Laura A. Ring I was reckless as a child.No sky too wide. Traipsedalong the ridgeline in full sun.Deer trails. Clearings. Never shiedfrom wing or foot fall.I lingeredat the fox’s musk-red burrow.…
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Three windows face into the garden, sills crowded / with stones" "If this was all we had, it would be enough" by J.I. Kleinberg psalteryandlyre.org/2026/03/02/i...
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If this was all we had, it would be enough
by J.I. Kleinberg
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"I am having dreams of Los Angeles." "Your LA Death" by MT Vallarta @itsmelktea.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/02/23/y...
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Your LA Death
by MT Vallarta                                                 CW: Suicide I …
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Adrift in that airy / lobby, rubber plants arching / overhead..." "Vague as Moths" by Katie Johntz. psalteryandlyre.org/2026/02/16/v...
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Vague as Moths
by Katie Johntz Adrift in that airylobby, rubber plants archingoverhead, I remember the soundof the news of the first illness, the firstcorrupted cells breakingoff on their own to take hold in the …
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
you imbibed everything, then nothing from me
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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Adding that lately when I'm hungry for new voices, I read: @havehashad.com @okaydonkeymag.com @oneart.bsky.social @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social @rattlepoetry.bsky.social
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“I took a nap. It seemed almost wasteful, / given the magnitude of the next day, / but tired wrapped around me like smoke” "The Day Before I Died" by @kingrobertj.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/02/09/t...
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The Day Before I Died
by Bob King I took a nap. It seemed almost wasteful,given the magnitude of the next day,but tired wrapped around me like smoke,pulling me toward the sofa that alreadyhad the perfect imprint of my b…
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"I started by pushing my breastbone past my lungs unlodging" "Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray" by Chloe Xu psalteryandlyre.org/2026/02/02/m...
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Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray
by Chloe Xu         And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast; and its kingdom was filled with darkness;        and they gnawed their tongues for pain.                   …
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
my heart curls inward / like a leaf before frost
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I don’t forgive him, not yet, / but I let their love for him stand, / a stone I don’t need to carry." "The Shadow I Keep" by @samaureli.bsky.social‬ psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/26/t...
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The Shadow I Keep
by Sam Aureli
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Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Every Monday @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social publishes an excellent poem. Every single Monday. I needed this one today.
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The Shadow I Keep
by Sam Aureli
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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A poem from my forthcoming chapbook, Pelican's Daughter (Concrete Wolf Press) is up on the Psaltery & Lyre site today. Many thanks, @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social!
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“I expected Prato would bring that same precision and authentic voice to her fiction, but what I didn’t expect was how deeply her novel-in-stories would resonate with my own obsessions about lineage, memory, and the spiral of time.” Rebecca Beardsall reviews Purgatoire by Liz Prato
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Book Review: “Purgatoireby” Liz Prato
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Search: end of life / Search: extraordinary measures / Search: airplane flights" "Search On: Dying Across the Border" by @sarahstockton.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/19/s...
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Search On: Dying Across the Border
by Sarah Stockton
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes." "My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
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My mother dreams of whiteness
by Jael Montellano
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
in contempt / of physics, undousable fires / and nonflammable men
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Jael Montellano @gathcreator.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social for the inspo! Thank you @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving it a place to live.
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"It was Baba. He walked in and sat on the edge of my bed, holding out a bowl to me. I looked down. Peeled cucumbers with salt. Cut watermelon. A bunch of grapes." "Balance" by Elaje López psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/05/b...
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Balance
by Elaje López
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“as I spill ink on the Day of Rest...” "Writing Poems in the Synagogue Bathroom" by Maya Bernstein psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/29/w...
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Writing Poems in the Synagogue Bathroom
by Maya Bernstein
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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Much gratitude to Millie Tullis and the folks who make @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for making space for this poem, which is as close to my heart as they come.
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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Another exquisite poem by Jane Zwart! #poetry
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"a Christmas cactus that outlived her mother is blooming out of season—the anniversary of my grandma’s death now all the liturgy it knows." Beautiful new & seasonally on-point @janezwart.bsky.social poem. Gonna go check on my Christmas cactus and call my mom 💕
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"In my mother’s theory of miracles / there are two columns..." "In the Lion's Mouth" by @janezwart.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/22/i...
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In the Lion’s Mouth
by Jane Zwart
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Call Us Not Weeds (short story about feminism) @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...
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Call Us Not Weeds
by Ulrica Hume
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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 16/12/2025
Millions of thanks to the fine editors who published my work in 2025! Thank you @doesithavepockets.bsky.social The Penn Review The Broken Teacup @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"Day and night, / in every room / Steve is burning" "Steve is Burning" by Renee Emerson psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/15/s...
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Steve is burning
by Renee Emerson
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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I know a lot of worthwhile work doesn't gets its due. And I know a lot of good things are less a matter of deserving than grace. That makes this mean more to me. Grateful to the reviewer, to Orison Books, and to any of y'all who decide to preorder: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
For a more accessible version: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781949039689For a more accessible version: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781949039689
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"In the yard's far corner, / a cemetery is forming." "Burying" by Sandra Fees psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/08/b...
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Burying
by Sandra Fees
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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I love this essay—and yes, there’s milkweed in Illinois, but not as much as when I was a child due to herbicides, alas.
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"You wore the cast like a psalm—" "Liturgy with a Broken Wrist" by McLord Selasi psalteryandlyre.org/2025/12/01/l...
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Liturgy with a Broken Wrist
by McLord Selasi
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles." "The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...
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The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles
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Kasey Jueds @kaseyryoen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I love this journal so much!
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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"after / or before: only the obvious blue." What a beautiful new poem by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social 😍✨️😍!
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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New poem from Kasey Jueds!
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..." "Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/17/e...
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Each Time as Suddenly
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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"when sweetened with a hint of brown sugar and the fourth chamber of my heart." Did not see that coming! Delightful.
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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Delighted to have a poem up this week in Psaltery & Lyre! Alt text for the photo appearing with the link: a close-up photo of a small wicker basket filled with a variety of wild mushrooms.
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"He told me I needed wild mushrooms / dried myself in the oven overnight." "The Chef Told Me" by @magpiedays.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/10/t...
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The Chef Told Me
by Jennifer Saunders
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"He had no doubt the mountain range along the horizon held a message" "Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/r...
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Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation
by Jack B. Bedell
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Rachel Trousdale @rvtrousdale.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
When you're writing, you come up with clever little devices and think, "I wonder if anyone will ever notice what I've done here?" Well, Sara Stoudt just reviewed my book in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, and she caught every. single. one. I'm thrilled and honored and kind of flabbergasted.
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Very grateful to have a new poem from my Ruskin series up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this morning. Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/rusk…
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Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation
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