May is a free submission month! 🚨 We're especially on the lookout for your flash, nonfiction, and book reviews. Send us your work before we reach our submission cap!

And...we're open for Issue Seven submissions! Send us your poems, your prose, your artwork...your oddballs, your beloveds, your I'm-not-sure-who-will-like-this. We want to see it all! asteralesjournal.com/submissions

Stanchion Magazine ain't gonna be around forever. The 24-hour submission window tomorrow is a chance to be a part of this thing I make, to be paid a bit, printed beautifully, and championed to the best of my ability for the duration of my time in the indie lit community. 1/2

Rapid response purchases are now open for tomorrow's 24-hour submission window. If you crave a reply within 3 days + a PDF of anything I've ever published, this might be up your crooked, moonlit street. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Just like the best songs need a few plays before their ear worm gets into your head, so decent poems benefit from a few reads. Poets and publishers rip through books far too quickly these days. Collections require time to find their readership. And a slow burner lives far longer than a sparkler...

19 poets, 19 translators, 15 languages from Amharic to Uzbek—don’t miss New Verse Review’s special translations issue edited by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social & Mary Grace Mangano, featuring translations by @bdralyuk.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @aestallings.bsky.social, and many more!

Dana Gioia

From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620 #poem #booksky #writing

'Water Babies' - an original piano piece written for World Piano Day a few years ago. Never shared here before. Also an excuse to dwell in this beautiful ocean again. A refuge from all the dis-order. 🎹 I hope it takes you where you need to be ❤️ #poetrycommunity #piano #ocean #blackandwhitefilm

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Five Different Stories About One Thing by @elizabethbaines.bsky.social, with images by Laura Scott – the 7th in our series of collaborations between writers & artists. Available from our online shop for the special price of £7 (+ p&p) till midnight: www.confingopublishing.uk

Congratulations to our 2026 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners! Their books will be included for subscribers starting with the fall issue. It was an honor to read all of this year's entries, and we can't wait to share these three with you.

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

The Spring 2026 Black River Chapbook Competition is officially open for submissions! ✨ The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers with an unpublished manuscript of poetry or prose between 16-36 pages in length. Submit your manuscript at buff.ly/Ic1JAxH

Wendy Cope, keeping it light

Theodore Roethke

Heading for the post office tomorrow to send out copies of Whatever You Do, Just Don't. Anyone up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?!

Derek Walcott passed away nine years ago today. Here's one of my favourites, from White Egrets (2010). #poetry #derekwalcott

Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time. Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

t was fun to be interviewed by Water~Stone Review about my poem "Li Po took a driving test." Check it out:

A little more time for the story you haven’t finished yet. The Hayden’s Ferry Review Fiction & Poetry Contest deadline has been extended to March 14. Winners receive publication and cash prizes from a $2,500 pool. Send us your fiction and poetry.

Happy to be able to share that my 2nd poetry collection will be available on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk for pre-order from tomorrow. The Paperback edition will be available. xx #newwriting #kindlebooks #printpublication #esotericpoetry #selfpublishingjourney

And we’re LIVE! @ballastpoetryjournal issue 4.1 OUT NOW! We are reading now for issue 4.2: OUR SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL ALWAYS FREE AND ALWAYS OPEN. www.ballastjournal.com/issue-41-tab...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :) here’s a little one I love by Laura Riding~

Our 5th annual fiction contest is open. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/15, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response). Details: buff.ly/bloycFP #writingcommunity

Respiratory virus notwithstanding, I'm so grateful that it's my first collection's official birthday. Thank you to Orison Books & this book's many, many midwives. 🤍 Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/fkmw3vWIohLJ...

FREE GIVEAWAY ALERT!! 🚨 I'm giving away TWO copies of Circulaire, my collection of love poems, this Valentine's Day! 💘 Please like and comment your favourite love poem below and I'll enter your name into the draw 💕

Submissions for our annual Editor’s Prizes are open from now until April 15, 2026! Each winner receives publication in The Florida Review and $1,000 upon publication. You can find further guidelines and submit your work on our Submittable page. #flreview

Our fifth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response). See the link below: buff.ly/UD7NDOi #writingcommunity

The current submission window for 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 will close February 12th. ✍

Happy Wednesday! The Dodge's poetry and fiction submissions are open until the end of the month! Check our submittable to submit.

Submissions for our annual Editor’s Prizes are open from now until April 15, 2026! Each winner receives publication in The Florida Review and $1,000 upon publication. You can find further guidelines and submit your work on our Submittable page. #flreview

Issues 21 & 22 are at the printer!! If you want to help keep a lit mag that pays & prints & prices fairly & ships quickly going strong (or at least, going) your pre-orders of one or both of these music-themed issues would be rad. They're fantastic. Stanchionzine.com/shop

Biggest thanks ever to Matteo Fais for translating my poem, “Now That My Mother Has Apologized," into Italian as part of an American poetry feature in Il Detonatore Magazine! This poem also appears in MORE FLOWERS, out NOW with @triohousepress.org! Check it out, friends! 💙♥️

From François Bereaud, acclaimed writer of San Diego Stories, comes a debut novel told in stories spanning eras, a story of family, of heartbreak & of grace. A Question of Family is available now from StanchionZine.com or wherever you order books. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life! In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Submissions are OPEN until midnight UK time on Sunday 8th February. atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

🔥In the Blueprint of Her Iris by Vikki C. & Robert Frede Kenter 40% off – sale extended until 2nd February🔥 "a rich experience of eco-human landscapes and otherworldly realism" - Jaclyn Piudik, The Dark Oar, Celan Translations Credit and debit card as well as PayPal accepted. Order below⬇️

🔥Announcement: 40% Off SALE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY - JAN 25th to JAN 31, 2026 Get your copy of In the Blueprint of Her Iris at a discount of 40%! Poems by Vikki C. with visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥 An offer not to be missed. @icefloepress.bsky.social ⬇️ icefloepress.net/in-the-bluepri…

Robert Hayden masterpiece:

New poem, same muse. Thank you to @anthonyframe.bsky.social for making space for this one in @glasspoetry.bsky.social, a journal I have loved for so very long. You can also listen here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html Holding the world in my heart, as well. 💙

Copy by copy, every hard-earned sale of a poetry collection is an act of trust, a contract between the poet and the reader that reaches far beyond cash. This is why I refuse to shy away from reminding you about Whatever You Do, Just Don't. Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

Today on Glass! "Found Poem Built of Endings" by Susan L. Leary (@susanlleary.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

So pleased that this poem has found a home in the wonderful Shooter Literary Magazine! ✨ 'Eulogy for my grandfather as Prospero' is part of Issue 20: Sweet Hereafter 🧙‍♂️

Who would like to buy my book today? $0.99 in ebook $3.46 in audio $4.99 in paperback 29 micropoems about family, motherhood, and chronic illness #BookSky www.amazon.com/Lift-Mask-co...

This Sunday at 1 PM Eastern, I'll be teaching an online class on the craft and magic of poetry. Everyone is welcome. Email me to register: [email protected].

What a year. This arrived today, very lovely & very cold, from Orison Books. If you want a copy of your own, you can pre-order here: Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/NR1Q8l2d3jcV...

"The failure of beauty is looking back for it. Taking soft turns at loss, the scarf covering the mouth." — 'Carousel' A new poem on "nostalgia" written for this week's TTT. Part of my WIP. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Soooo you're gonna pre-order @fbereaud.bsky.social's novel, right? The guy who champions everyone, who lifts up others & is a truly good egg in this murky indie lit world? It comes out in early Feb, but I'll be shipping pre-orders next week so you can get started on your first read of the year!

Another epiphanic miniature by the great Jane Kenyon