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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This poem is in my forthcoming book with @boa-editions.bsky.social, Quintessential Earthly Activities. My thanks to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, CD Eskilson, @wendyoleson.bsky.social, & everyone at Split Lip for giving this poem such a beautiful first home.

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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🪿Silly Summer Web Series🪿 "...her altar is all zigzags & dark roast & / honey almonds..." We are so lucky today to share another spinning and dazzling piece from @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/silly-summer...

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Said it before i'll say it again the #1 rule of massachusetts is "the more you know the worse it gets"

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Let us join hands in praise of the shablam, the milkshake, for every shield of leather & tulle & fishnet.” Excerpt from "Draglesque Prayer for the Gays and Theys Backstage at the Gig" by @ritamookerjee.bsky.social from Winter 2025 Online Exclusives. buff.ly/gEbDuqK #writingcommunity #writersky

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Let's start Friday with a WIN! Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social has a poem in @alocasiamag.bsky.social's anthology 99 QUEER WRITERS ON PLANTS AND NATURE! 🌷

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social Read it here:

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West Trade Review Online Exclusives Winter 2025

West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Authentically Human.

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Departures 4 is based on the Brewer’s Choice selection for Flight 1, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social piece “Wherein the Kardashian Sisters” flight-literary.ghost.io/rita-mookerj...

Departures 4
In "Wherein the Kardashian Sisters Marvel at
their Bounty, Reach Enlightenment," Rita Mookerjee uses the Kardashians' own words to
show us a more enlightened side of fame.
Write about a celebrity of your choice (reality
TV or otherwise) at the moment they reach the afterlife.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁 WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson. ART by Eric Calloway. PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social. buff.ly/xfJzbi6

Three abstract panels like a storm erupting against a blue sky. Panel 1: broad, swooping gestures of white and pale gray.

Panel 2: dark veins streak downward like electricity.

Panel 3: a thick, explosive tangle of dark paint with flashes of red.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

One of my favorite small poems from ANMLY (@anmlymag.bsky.social) by the illustrious @ritamookerjee.bsky.social for #smallpoemsunday

ANMLY. Men by Rita Mookerjee.

Men
are the sort of people who
chisel butter from its block
and with a short, blunt knife
pummel it back and forth
across a bready path until
only its stain is left. It never
occurs to them to cut off
a clean square and heat it for
a moment, that butter melts
simply asking to be poured.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

We love ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we love this poem❤️ Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published the gorgeous piece, Self-Portrait as the Pie Crust in Heretic (2024), in @upthestaircase.bsky.social: buff.ly/L4U0jlR

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

“You are Lady Godiva. You are wearing chaps. You made a phenomenon of shaking salads” Flight 1 comes in for a landing with our Brewer’s Choice category: @ritamookerjee.bsky.social blew us away with this hybrid piece made up of lines from the Kardashians Read: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

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Flight 1

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁 WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones ART by Valerie Marshall AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti buff.ly/uOXuAsg

Technical-style drawing with an isometric view of industrial buildings on a square plot of land, surrounded by a crevasse on all sides, enmeshed with tree roots. A wonky forest with striped antelopes forms a desolate stronghold around the complex.

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Please join us in welcoming our 2025-2026 Writers in Residence. Save every date for our upcoming reading season! @taylorbyas.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @joankwonglass.bsky.social @ninasudhakar.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenWriters

Blue flyer that says Welcome! Writers in Residence 2025-2026: Allison Blevins, Taylor Byas, Joan Kwon Glass, Rita Mookerjee, Lisa Rhoades, Nina Sudhakar, Lesley Wheeler, Sunni Wilkinson. Logos at the bottom say SWWIM, The Betsy Hotel, Matwaala, and CreArte.

Flyer that says Save Every Date 2025-2026 Reading Season:

Thursday, 9/11/25, at 7:00 PM:
SWWIM x Matwaala:
Nina Sudhakar & Carolene Kurien

Thursday, 10/16/25, at 7:00 PM:
Lisa Rhoades & Yael Valencia Aldana

Thursday, 11/13/25, at 7:00 PM:
Taylor Byas & Rosa Sophia Godshall

Thursday, 12/11/25, at 7:00 PM:
Lesley Wheeler & Haya Pomrenze

Thursday, 1/8/26, at 7:00 PM:
Rita Mookerjee & Madison Whatley

Thursday, 2/12/26, at 7:00 PM:
Allison Blevins with Carolina Hospital,
Nicole Hospital-Medina, & Holly Iglesias

Thursday, 3/19/26, at 7:00 PM:
Sunni Brown Wilkinson & Elizabeth Jacobson

Thursday, 4/16/26, at 7:00 PM:
Joan Kwon Glass & Clayre Benzadón

Logos at the bottom read: SWWIM, The Betsy Hotel, Matwaala, and CreArte

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Day 13 of the #sealeychallenge August 13th- False Offering, Rita Mookerjee This collection by Flight 1 contributor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social shimmers with inventive, playful language. Read these poems out loud, you won’t regret it @jacklegpress.bsky.social

The cover of the Rita Mookerjee book False Offering

Coconut Oil
As a teen, I wish I knew I had perfect skin and spent less time shaving my thighs and the small of my back, rubbing brown sugar and extra virgin into my feet and arms while my mom shouted at me to stop wasting water.
I didn't want to peel the brown away, but I hoped for something more dazzling underneath, maybe gold or amber? I lived a life far from beaches so coconuts were rarely on my mind, but once I anointed myself with clear paste, boys would sit by me at lunch, a girl at ballet would tell me I smelled good, and so my oilwork became routine.
My vanity grew loaded with oils. All of them impart a different slick: some to lure people in with a dark sheen, some to melt yesterday's kohl from my lid, some to prime me for escape.
At night, I'd stroke my shins and knead the petals of my arches. After months in sun on hot grass and driveways, I saw myself reflected in storefronts and car windows and decided I would become a bronze idol, a gilded thistle, a living ember searing through my hair and clothes. Because of my oilwork I keep jars all around the house— in the bathroom, the kitchen, at my bedside- so I always remember how I coaxed myself from the shower and out into the day.

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

For our elusive “Brewer’s Choice” category, we knew instantly there was only one real choice. @ritamookerjee.bsky.social is a multi-hyphenate, literary powerhouse. She does standup, she does burlesque, she Emcees, she writes poetry, she teaches, we’re not sure there’s anything she DOESN’T do.

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

is anyone else categorically adverse to shows about love and dating? 👀

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ESSEJ @essejpx.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

muscle butts are so funny…all that mass and no jiggle to it. what we supposed to do with that???

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I agreed with tucker AND piers morgan this week wtaf

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

the beyoncé/buffalo soldier 📀🐎is making me so depressed. so much misinformation and glorification of settler colonialism…

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I read a book about gay people and became gay and then I read a book about straight people and became straight again and then I read a book about Australians and became Australian and then I read a book about Bigfoot and became Bigfoot. Book-banners are weak knuckleheads.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 25/06/2025

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Have a goodnight with some poetry on this ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🌙 Poetry Co-Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social has two iconic poems in @villaineralit.bsky.social‬ we know you'll love: buff.ly/98kePPd

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge says he will order Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano." When I "came back" to the lit world, it was a @rpmirabella.bsky.social essay that allowed me to reframe how I think about relationship with writing, so it's an HONOR that we get to feature him on @hexliterary.bsky.social this week.

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Volcano People by Richard Mirabella

Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano. She told us she was going to leave at the 4th of July picnic, while we sat around eating corn, our hands fatty with butter, silk in our ...

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

glad that everyone is seeing him clearly now. (this man tried to send his followers on me when I clocked him for being an exclusionary fatphobic twat)

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Megs 🤘🏻🖤 @megnev.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Borders aren’t real.

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If white people across the country started singing “Free Palestine” to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” when a little drunk this summer at their white people bars in their little polos and $70 flip flops I think the worst “journalists” in the world would actually implode

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

obvi we are used to mediocre ww being picked for everything, but losing out on a residency to a ww bragging about trips to europe and her second house being in escrow is pretty gross

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Want to spice up your reading this summer? Looking for a new literary magazine to subscribe to? We LOVE ‪redividermag.bsky.social‬ & highly recommend you check out the amazing poem by SLM Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social‬ in the latest issue!

Volume 21 and 22 of Redivider, one on top of the other, on a wood surface.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"Inside of my bun lives a dark beast / boneless daughter of Scylla and Cthulhu / when my scalp gets hot, it’s time to feed." That's the first stanza of SLM Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social's razor-sharp new poem in redividermag.bsky.social. Read the rest here: buff.ly/rlXAEB6

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Don’t miss today’s centos from @ritamookerjee.bsky.social!! villaineralit.com/2025/05/20/t...

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

We’ve got 2 stunning centos from @ritamookerjee.bsky.social on offer at Villain Era today!!! villaineralit.com/2025/05/20/t...

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

this matcha trend is driving me insane it's such a delicate flavor why the fuck would you put espresso in it or mix it with "black tea flavored cold foam" . waste of good tea leaves

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/05/2025

I’m sure people are going to find an excuse to say Cory Booker is like, so totally amazing, but they’ll be wrong

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

this time next year I will have tenure and wow y’all think I am bad now? 🤭

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

look at my bionic leg

$An x-ray of Rita’s left leg featuring a titanium rod and four screws that were inserted to treat her fractured tibia$

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

ICE came and snatched a woman in my city and her teen daughter screamed in the street before getting tackled. I can’t get her voice out of my head

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

it makes me unreasonably angry that I broke my leg sober while walking in flats

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

the NEA cuts are devastating, no doubt. but I have a different perspective about these changes. when has bureaucracy been a catalyst for good art? when has a government truly aligned itself with the creation and maintenance of art? who does the NEA serve beyond the privileged?

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 05/05/2025

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025

The message isn't "you're bad." It's "respect people." The problem is you believe being a boy is having a license to say/do anything to people without repercussions. Somehow there are men all over the world who are not experiencing a "brutal" time because they don't find respect to be difficult.

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I have a broken leg, so I decided to watch my most neglected genre: romcom. sandra bullock, channing tatum, and daniel radcliffe sounded reasonable enough for the lead roles

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it would be super cool if middle-aged men stopped sending threats in their poetry submissions 🥰

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

SO many shoutouts for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY😁Poetry reader @terivela.bsky.social and Poetry Co-Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social are in Defunkt Magazine's anthology--edited by poetry reader @littlemissbleah.bsky.social 🙌https://buff.ly/J0JdYa8

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