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Robin Turner

@robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
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Poet. Mother. Teacher. Maker. Third Culture Kid. Ambivalent Texan. Chapbooks: Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay) bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press)

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint
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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Stay together…
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Delighted to have one of my Ethan Frome erasures in the new issue of Unlost. My thanks to @unrealdalewisely.bsky.social & team. Check out the entire issue at the link in comments.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My thanks to @versedaily.bsky.social
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I have so enjoyed spending time with the beautiful new issue of Anacapa Review and am over the moon to have work included. Such amazing company here. Thank you Chryss Yost and David Starkey. anacapareview.com/robin-turner/
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Even Now Scattered across grey pavement,                    a spill of spent petals, somehow still           ghostly whole & vivid, whiteas snow. Even now, in summer,      a soft June          morning...
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
My thanks to Christine Klocek-Lim for featuring my new chapbook at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today. I'm a lucky poet. 💙
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Look for the helpers,” his mother would say to him whenever there were scary things in the news. “You will always find people who are helping.”
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A Time for Rivers | Rust & Moth
Things are pretty dark right now, America. There aren’t enough pages in the history of our journal to detail every horror taking place in the world right now, and even if there were, further broadcast...
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My thanks to the amazing Sally Rosen Kindred for her words of support for my new chapbook, Elegy with Clouds &.
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
For #smallpoemsunday, "For a Coming Extinction" by @victoriachang.bsky.social (from The Trees Witness Everything) and one from me, "Chime", first published at @oneart.bsky.social. #poetsofbluesky
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Stay tender somehow a valentine from me and @dinalrelles.bsky.social
old postcard of couple in a rowboat, surrounded by collage of red lopsided semi-circles
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Christine Klocek-Lim @chrissiemkl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
every social feed by mk zariel Editor's Note: This poem's list of online interactions feels very on point as we all move into the future while trying to maintain genuine connections. Read the rest at AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY.com #AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Praise the weirdos because if anyone can save us it will be us. —Alison Luterman
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“Praise the Broken Promise of America” by Alison Luterman
Praise deep mineral veins under rich dirt, and fossilized remains of dinosaurs turning themselves into gas for our benefit. Praise the exhausted earth, miles and miles of subsidized corn and cattle…
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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
At the end of the world all the snow angels finally get to stand up.
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Yes
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Mark Danowsky @markdanowsky.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This Erin Murphy poem in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social is a must-read www.rattle.com/insomnia-chr...
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“Insomnia Chronicles XXVI” by Erin Murphy
The night is full of insomniacs googling insomnia. Some of my friends are trying Dry January. Dryuary. Others are sober curious. There’s a mock cocktail called a Phony Negroni. It’s made with non-a…
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
True story, y'all. My thanks to the wonder that is Christine Klocek-Lim for selecting this one. Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (link in comments) has been a journal for nearly twenty years now, ten of those as a daily. That's devotion. An ongoing gift for all of us. Brava, Christine! ❤️
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
One of my favorite anthologies ever. So many beautiful poets in its pages. And how about this gorgeous cover? Perfection.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
witness it 🕯️
A World Without Children

           for the victims of every school shooting

There's no one running in the museums.
And that's just the beginning. There's no one
beautifully out of tune in the church choir, 
no one spinning on the thing that spins
in the park. See? It doesn't even have a name,
because children have to name a thing like that.
No one breathes on the window of a school
the week before winter break, writing their name
in the mist. What's a school now anyway? A place
to keep the dead. That's all. History knows that. 
It stands a mother before a ditch
and it hands her her child, and she has 
three seconds, three seconds
to say to him all she would have said in their life.
Everyone knows 
when the guns come
the children go first, as saplings bow 
to the first snows of a winter, and
silence did this. We did this. We're winter.
Come, let's walk awhile through the ruins. 
You can still hear their voices, 
in the coldness: there, in the places
they hid in—a safe-room, dark barn, a cellar, 
a closet at the back of a classroom—
wondering what sound that is, what power,
wondering where all the grownups are.

—Joseph Fasano
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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Something to look forward to in 2025, The Essential C.D. Wright.
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
New work in Arkana from the amazing Lana Litvinchuk.
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Three prose poems in Pithead Chapel's new issue. My thanks to the editors!
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@porcupinelit.bsky.social could use more CNF and Fiction submissions! Teacher-writers, send us your work in, around and about education. www.porcupineliterary.com/submissions
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Submissions | Porcupine Literary
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This piece from Jessica Cuello. Sooo good!
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Logen Cure @logencure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today is a good day to share the poem I wrote for the Praisesong for the People project created by Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! She says it’s important to give people their flowers and I agree! 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻
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Dear Dr. May,
by Logen Cure
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Two years since HAUNTED was released? Wow. Still delighted to have work included in this gorgeous antho from Porkbelly Press.
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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The two quotes I always share with poets & writers about submitting their work are: "Don't self-select" and "It's their job to say no, not yours." I believe that, more often than not, the biggest obstacle to publication is ourselves. #writinglife
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I am absolutely smitten with this Todd Dillard poem. So good.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
without tenderness, we are in hell. —Adrienne Rich * & so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay
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Karen Craigo @karenkay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm pleased to offer manuscript coaching for literary journal publication – and ready to start today, since this is something I love to do. About me: Former editor/current nonfiction editor, Mid-American Review; prose poetry editor, Pithead Chapel, series editor, Moon City Press poetry prize.
Get the Word Out: Publish in 2025

Your work isn't finished if it doesn't have an audience. Let's work together to close the loop.

Mindset work: We'll explore the question, "Why publish?"
Revision help: You'll get an editor's perspective on your work.
Packet prep: We'll strategically package and target submissions.

Introductory offer: $99 covers four hours of live coaching. And if you don't publish within six months, we'll do it again for free.
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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Postcard closes soon! Don't forget to submit! www.postcardlit.com/submit!
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I made this starter pack! I was shocked by how quickly I reached the 150 limit. I'm glad you're all here. :) go.bsky.app/7TdVB13
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Sheila Squillante @sheilasquill.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are open for our next themed issue celebrating 20 years of The Fourth River! Submissions are free for BIPOC writers until 11/22. Send us your birds! 4thriver.submittable.com/submit
Yellow and brown stylized birds sitting on branches against a light green background. Text reads “Online 2025 Issue: For the Birds, Submission Open! November 15-January 15.
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
stay tender somehow postcard collab w/@dinalrelles.bsky.social
collaged postcard with aphorism by Dina L. Relles
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Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Do I need another social media thingy in my life? Not sure. But I hear the poets are here, so.... Hello! 👋
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