The poet Sally Read recited my translation of a poem by St. Teresa of Ávila in an interview last week. The poem riffs on Teresa's vision—being speared by an angel—captured by Bernini. "He pierced me with an arrow smeared with the poison of love, and my soul succumbed to be one with its Creator."

‘Since she insisted on pretending not to recognise me, I consented to play along and pretend I didn’t recognise her either.’ Fiction by Anne Serre. granta.com/madame-gandi/

Jessica Dubey reads her poem "Bad Advice" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine www.youtube.com/watch?v=82FE...

Happy birthday to Her Majesty Leontyne Price!

PROCESS/ MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)(S) series continues with Australian-based writer/artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social a suite of 10 haunting poems/paintings annotations night highway journey to overcome fear #self #poems #paintings icefloepress.net/2026/02/09/t...

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are". -W. Somerset Maugham

Good poem!

Delighted to see my poem 'The Blessing Hour' in Jarnal 4 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social ❤️ My thanks again to EIC Steph Sundermann-Zinger and team. The issue is a stunner with many writers I admire from the US and around the world. Available now: masonjarpress.com/jarnal #poetrycommunity #poetry

Go!

I have six new poems published thanks to @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social and editor @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social 💙—including a poem about the polymath René Descartes for all of us lapsed philosophers👇👇👇

Amazing poem. poems.com/poem/b-rder-...

John Singer Sargent: Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881) #art #man #male

Dennis Goza reads his poem "Ambivalent Love Song" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nKj...

Is there a new book you loved? Could you give that author the gift of a book review? Cable Street is always looking for reviews of poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary fiction. Contact our editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social via email at [email protected].

Our consulting poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social has a translation of the work of poet Rocío Cerón in the new issue of Asymptote. ❤️ www.asymptotejournal.com

Emily Sue Sloane reads her poem "Time Change" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVla...

"Against Ornament. Against Object." This is in Seoul. Gorgeous. The title is brilliant, like the title of a metaphysical English poem from the 17th century. gallerybaton.com/exhibitions/...

This is fascinating. lithub.com/how-americas...

This is such a good piece of fiction in English—AND a great German translation. The author, Eric Darton, says he likes the German version better than his original. #fiction #translation #German cablestreet.org/issue-10-tab...

I have only one Chita Rivera story, and this is it:

"Strawberry Thief" by William Morris, was created in 1883. The design was first printed that year and registered on March 12, 1883.

Wuthering Heights? Jane Eyre? Like 19th C male authors, Emily kills off a female lead, Charlotte sticks an ‘inconvenient’ woman in the attic. But decades before Middlemarch, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne slays an inconvenient man to give a woman her right to fulfilment. Radical. Transgressive

There are still a couple of places on February’s 30/30 Challenge cohort! Come and write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. It’s a wonderful place to chronicle the times in poetry - and more than ever, these times need to be chronicled... tupelopress.org/3030-applica...

periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social : #submissions (updated, periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/subm...

Muhammad Ali was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, KY.

A prophetic #poem by our co-editor Moira J. Saucer a repost for ongoing struggle #minneapolis @mjseyesopened.bsky.social People were shot by other people in the streets they hated. Policemen hurled tear gas and beat protestors with batons. Anger and cruelty reigned. icefloepress.net/loss-a-poem-...

Minutiae - Intimate / Obscure - 6.03 #synthart #synthography #art #aiart #landscape #miniature #abstract #photomanipulation #Impressionism

this seems the right week to remind that i had a poetry book out last year called Snow day (Spuyten Duyvil); you should pick up a copy, / @spuytenduyvil.bsky.social #snowday www.spuytenduyvil.net/Snow-Day.html

Minutiae - Intimate / Obscure - 7.02 #synthart #synthography #art #aiart #landscape #miniature #abstract #photomanipulation #Impressionism

Poetry editor tips for submitters: 1) Please learn to use the manual page break feature of Word and Google docs, and put each of your poems on its own page. 2) If a journal doesn't specify the font and typeface, use Times New Roman 12 point black. Always.

Thank you @vikkicwrites.bsky.social — your contributions to Cable Street have been so beautiful!

All day and every day @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social

POETS! I'm poetry editor at Cable Street, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social —please send your poetry and poetry translations my way for our Spring issue. Word doc or Google docs link, up to 6 poems. Deadline March 1. Send directly to me at: [email protected] #poetry #translation

Thrilled to have two poems titled "Self Factory" and "Girl Factory" in the new issue of the splendid @frazzledlit.bsky.social 💜 #poetry #poetrysky Read and listen on here: www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-facto...

Cy Twombly, Synopsis of a Battle, 1968, Oil based house paint, wax crayon on canvas, 68 × 81 ¾ inches (172.7 × 207.6 cm) #painting #art

#collage #acrylicpainting #Blueskyart #artistsonbluesky

Wolfgang Stiller. Hombres cerilla, 2013.

David Hockney. Lluvia, 1973.

Delighted that my poem The Inevitable has found a home in The Courtship of Winds #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Handmade pottery jar, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt

The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart

At Cable Street, we are always looking for great new poems, fiction, interviews, essays, and visual art. Let's start a conversation about your work—email @danadelibovi.bsky.social directly at [email protected]. #poetry #fiction #interviews #essays #visualart

Graceful poems by Judith Prest in Cable Street #10. #poetry cablestreet.org/issue-10-tab...

Nicely done!

Looks like I've got another trip to the post office tomorrow morning. Anyone up for making it even more worthwhile...?! 😜

Yes! This is an EVENT!

Our consulting editor @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social has a fantastic, 3-book review in Issue 10 of Cable Street. It showcases work by Jodi Lin @hellojodiii.bsky.social, David Gordon, and Lauren Francis-Sharma @laurenfsharma.bsky.social Our whole review section in this issue is packed with goodies

Always loved this triptych of NYC cameos at @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social. Happy New Year, Robert and @icefloepress.bsky.social. To poetics, art and hybridity into 2026 and beyond ✨️

Look! An interview with one of our issue 10 contributors, László Aranyi—he has so many surprising things to say about #art and #poetry and the life of the artist. Take a peek at: open.substack.com/pub/nutholep...