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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
…and here we have it, the last 2 poems for this month by Jonathan Hayes! Thank you to @thearsonista.bsky.social & to all the contributors! Go have a read!
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
2nd to last feature is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social Thank you to Robert and all the amazing artists! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/27/l...
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Letter 49 by Robert Farrell
Of course it’s possible to fall in love in thirty seconds. It happens every time I pass through the 81st St. station on the express and see  through the window a trapeze artist or ballet …
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Good morning, Go enjoy these 2 poems by Simon Ravenscroft over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/26/p...
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Poems by Simon Ravenscroft
Lemon dose Sniff your blues away in the electric evening light Burst gold all over the sky again like every other night of late There’s not much  music in it left Give me a sky of muted grey&n…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Good morning, Please go read these gorgeous poems by Dia Babylon over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/25/p...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@danielhintz.bsky.social is live with 3 beautiful photographs / 3 micro-poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/24/p...
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poems & photography by Dan Hintz
live on SNL she rolled his head out of the wicker basket onto the buffed stage floor sun ra snake dance sun grabbed the  baby and tossed it high up into the mother’s arms Exif_JPEG_PICTU…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Another day, another great fucking excuse to read poetry at @thearsonista.bsky.social 2 by Nora Rawn burninghousepress.com/2026/02/21/2...
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2 poems by Nora Rawn
Pairs Short Program Watch the backwards inwards death spiral, technical element introduced in the 1948 Olympics, the woman hovers smoothly, levitates, you recall your last time ice skating solo, a …
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@thearsonista.bsky.social is so excited to show you some poems by Thom C. Addington! Go read!! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/22/p...
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Poems by Thom C. Addington
Sibyl of Cumae Would-be lovers will not want forever. Edging feels a satin yard of inside, but its edge penknifes— so short and straight,  the letting come (and go).   They’ll gravel…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Henry Luzatto has some gorgeous poems today at @thearsonista.bsky.social Take a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/19/p...
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Poems by Henry Luzzatto
Rubberneckin’ I passed by a church basement full of old people dancing cheek to cheek to rnb on Valentine’s Day  And all the young white single  people in the city stopped and said can yo…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some wonderful prose from Mike Barlow for your Wednesday at @thearsonista.bsky.social 🔥 burninghousepress.com/2026/02/18/t...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine's Day! Reza Jabroni gives us a sweet little fiery poem! Live at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/14/l...
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Lavender by Reza Jabrani
The half-empty bottle of lavender  pure-castile soap haunting  my shower for months  after you left, the lonesome  burning sudsy mornings  moaning, masturbating…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
LaVern Spencer McCarthy brings us a little story I couldn’t resist to share! Read it now at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/16/a...
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A Good Place To Die by LaVern Spencer McCarthy
“When are you going to do it?” Lenny asked Susan. “When am I going to do what?” she responded, laying a card carefully on the dining room table where she was playing Solitai…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Little poems are my absolute favorite! Here’s one from Jen Adams live at the @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/17/a...
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as drowned by Jen Adams
Jen Adams (she/they) is a UK-based researcher, feminist and writer.
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. Calderón, curator At the parade grounds of immolation, we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to stand up straight with a wishbone lodged in the prism of your throat, burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I am truly honored to be able to publish such wonderful artists... today we have @badbadpoet.bsky.social live on @thearsonista.bsky.social with a poem that'll leave a mark. burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Juliet Cook is live at @thearsonista.bsky.social today with 3 beautiful poems. Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
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3 poems by Juliet Cook
Sawing Through Lap dance underwater with sharks. Limbs tossed into bleeding mosh pits. Those still alive are uniform, guns, glass, hate.Won’t stop shooting,biting, spitting out splintere…
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
a beautiful poem by a.d. over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The Return by a.d.
For weeks she willed the horizon ablaze with word of triumph Smoke from her fires     sways lascivious in the mist She dresses the house for his return as a snake vestures …
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. Calderón. Love the collage banner. Hand over hand, climbing over indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear the news and various other kinds of puppeteer topographies /
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Let's keep the momentum going, shall we? Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/04/2...
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2 poems by Kent Kosack
March Indulge yourself in a final thought as the year ends: If you leave her, the road ahead opens into a midlife reckoning. No money for the cliched convertible. The trip to Japan. Holiday shrine …
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Happy Sunday! Go have look at our newest contributor @saramatson.bsky.social to this month's theme at @thearsonista.bsky.social a gorgeous poem sure to set you right for the coming week! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/08/s...
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SUMMER NEEDS by Sara Matson
<1> my suede hand warm + gloved pinning swollen fist on  either side of ur mandible + screaming until the jaw snaps (so visceral !) my wet thigh sticky (unexpected blood) i tuck my …
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Monday is drifting into Tuesday, but before it does, here's 3 poems by Laurence Lillvik LIVE on @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/09/3...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social go have a read! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …
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Miggy Angel @miggyangel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My sixth book is now available for pre order over at the Salo Press website - link below ‘Graffiti On A Burning House’ Hope you can kop a copy fam cheers xx www.salopress.com/store/graffi...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Karina Longo has 3 poems up on @thearsonista.bsky.social today! Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/02/2...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Another day, another fantastic submission! Please go read these poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social and follow @hubbsd.bsky.social while you're at it!
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Subs are open for Love & Hate February! Guest Editor @imc1209.bsky.social awaits your magic/sendsendxx
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Our very first contributor seangmeggeson.bsky.social is over at @thearsonista.bsky.social with 3 poems... Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/02/3...
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3 poems by Sean G. Meggeson
monument leaves (upon reading Pasolini’s review of the Italian translation of Osip Mandelstam) like the sun sets   in motion   a series  of actions  &nb…
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
BHP are excited to welcome Ingrid M. Calderón as the seventh BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! Ingrid’s theme for the month of February is: ___ LOVE & HATE ___ _Where does love end and hate begin?_ ___ Sendsendxx burninghousepress.com/2026/02/01/f...
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ULTRAVIOLET EDITION chosen, curated and edited by BHP’s January 2026 guest editor Kawai Shen!!! @kawaishen.bsky.social Thanks so much to everyone who sent work and made the violet dream happen! 💜 Enjoy 📕 ✨ burninghousepress.com/2026/01/31/u...
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ULTRAVIOLET: Table of Discontents
An issue replete with luscious adjectives and flights of form
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Massive gratitude & thank you to @kawaishen.bsky.social for a fantastic month curating the ULTRAVIOLET edition and to everyone who contributed work! Full edition coming soon! 💜
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In our final ULTRAVIOLET offering, courtesy of @thearsonista.bsky.social, we've two small but mighty poems featuring psychodrama and bread by Sennah Yee 🍞 burninghousepress.com/2026/01/31/t...
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Two poems 🍞🥖 by Sennah Yee
… sunny-side-up quail eggs on tiny slices of rock-hard baguette…
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
And that's a wrap! You can now explore the complete ULTRAVIOLET issue 💜 + playlist 🎵 with many thanks to all incredible contributors and @thearsonista.bsky.social for making space for such strange and wicked prose and art 🙏
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ULTRAVIOLET: Table of Discontents
An issue replete with luscious adjectives and flights of form
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For the final Friday of the ULTRAVIOLET issue at @thearsonista.bsky.social, we've an erotic horror of phantasmic beauty by Jacob Wiebe: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/30/i...
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I’ll Be With You Soon by Jacob Wiebe
Words spoken through blood-wetted lips, old words older than old stars rolling cold and heavy across the calloused skein of the sky to ends unknown, to wherever stars go, wherever they end, or so s…
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Kenneth M Cale @kennethmc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Another month, another fantastic edition of @thearsonista.bsky.social. Thanks to @kawaishen.bsky.social for including some new work from me in it: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/25/p...
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Prism 1 & 2 by Kenneth M Cale
ciphers smallupon a plinth
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We've our final historical texts for this mid-week ULTRAVIOLET offering at @thearsonista.bsky.social: excerpts from Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden and Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's Pornographia: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/28/e...
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Excerpts from The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau & Pornographia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
… life itself, the perfect composition of flesh elevated into a cathedral of fluids and organs, into a little god of misery.
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As we near the end of our ULTRAVIOLET @thearsonista.bsky.social issue, we have a bruised and tender offering from Fan Wu about death and memory 🖤 burninghousepress.com/2026/01/29/t...
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The dishes are clean, the sun is set by Fan Wu
I am going back to the beginning place before sun and sky and sea, before the slit discloses difference, before the shock of time abides…
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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thank you!! to @kawaishen.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social - love you both 😘 Thanks for publishing these shorts along with a translation of the late, great küçük İskender. ❤️
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Starting our final week of the ULTRAVIOLET issue at @thearsonista.bsky.social with a couple hyperlurid micros exploring flavours of artificiality by Stevie Aechelimi Spikes 🍒 burninghousepress.com/2026/01/26/t...
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Two micros by Stevie Aechelimi Spikes
biting the inside of my mouth i am more gum than smile, because even on theinternet i don’t know how to say no in the breathless space of a text message
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We've another visual poem today over at the ULTRAVIOLET issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social, a grungy digital collage by @kennethmc.bsky.social: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/25/p...
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Prism 1 & 2 by Kenneth M Cale
ciphers smallupon a plinth
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One day remaining to contribute your work to the light of Ultraviolet January curated by guest editor @kawaishen.bsky.social - subs close 25/01 sendsendx
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today's ULTRAVIOLET offering at @thearsonista.bsky.social is another historical deep cut, this time by Ameen Rihani. "Is it not strange that this son of Superstition and Trade can not find solace in the fact that in this Pix of Business is the Host of the Demiurgic Dollar?"
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Excerpt from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
… the Soul of a philosopher, poet and criminal. I am all three, I swear…
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Sara @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thank you to @kawaishen.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my horror short fiction about a monstrous transformation! Enjoy 😱
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Friday calls for a little levity! Experimental writing can often be quite serious but today's ULTRAVIOLET micro at @thearsonista.bsky.social is an experimental horror with a touch of humour by @sarasupernova.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/01/23/t...
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transmogrification by Sara Campos-Silvius
I will be something utterly, gloriously new…
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
An ULTRAVIOLET offering for night owls is now live on @thearsonista.bsky.social - includes a lavender latte tinged photo shoot and a defiant, grungier NSFW shoot hidden behind a cut - you have been warned burninghousepress.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Two photo shoots by Madison Rexx
Visit the post for more.
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This mid-week ULTRAVIOLET offering for @thearsonista.bsky.social is a deep cut excerpted from Sadakichi Hartmann's decadent, fin de siècle play, Christ, in which the life of the Only Begotten is blessed by... nudity and orgies ✝️✝️✝️
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Excerpt from Christ by Sadakichi Hartmann
Thought and feeling are forgotten, only the body lives!
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hint: will be publishing again with @thearsonista.bsky.social later tonight, a late night post for more mature audiences 🌙 but for now, some teasers...
Black and white photo of Madison Rexx's triangular back tattoo, the word ABRACADABRA in serif font repeated with one letter removed until there is only an "A" remaining. Above this, two thick leather collars stacked, the buckle of one lined up on top of the other.Photo by Shawn McPherson of Madison Rexx, a young woman regarding the viewer with a challenging gaze. Behind her, a purple backdrop and a plastic yellow moon.
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Only six days left to contribute to the ULTRAVIOLET edition - guest editor @kawaishen.bsky.social awaits your submissions until 25/01 sendsendx
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Only six days left to contribute to the ULTRAVIOLET edition - guest editor @kawaishen.bsky.social awaits your submissions until 25/01 sendsendx
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social _ ULTRAVIOLET Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust burninghousepress.com/2026/01/03/j...
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Today's ULTRAVIOLET offering, courtesy of @thearsonista.bsky.social, is Holy Water (Overflow), a zine-like photo-poetry collaboration by Colin Campbell Robinson & Paul Hawkins 💧 burninghousepress.com/2026/01/19/h...
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Holy Water (Overflow) by Colin Campbell Robinson and Paul Hawkins
We slip out into the night-bar, drink beyond satiety; fall in thestreet of inequality, the place we live.
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