Delighted to be part of this issue from @illinoispress.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇮🇹❤️— I have a poem about my grandmother in it.

Ok, I did a free website. I think I am done promoting myself for the next ten years now. Yes I know it still says Canva in the link, but I refuse to pay for a website until writing actually pays me. sljohnson.my.canva.site

It’s my birthday soon—and this! Rare, non-simultaneous submission (because, my brain, and I don’t use spreadsheets, etc). 🎉🎉🎉

Yesterday, I wrote four haiku, a haibun, three tanka, a sixty-five line canzone and a sestina. Not one is good enough to publish. But that’s not why I wrote them. I wrote to feel their difficulty, to let their urgent rhythms get under my skin, to learn. Next time I write, I hope to sense their power

László Moholy-Nagy E-Bild (E Picture), 1922

Cynthia Cruz ⸻ from the iowa anthology of new american poetries (2004)

“The Lecturer” published in Laurel Review & from one of my new manuscripts.

Selfie with Young Mittens.

Check out @thesunshinelately.bsky.social in our new issue! This poem stopped us in our tracks when we read it. Also, Sunny’s new collection Lye is out now from @fernpub.bsky.social! www.asteralesjournal.com/2-6-lately-k...

A #birddivination from the strange and fierce frigate. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

I’m reading The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and I am wonderstruck. How beautifully Bachelard could articulate how art and his environment made him feel! Same for the writers he quotes. Mass media and the internet have taken that kind of sensitivity away from us. 😞

“Bilingual Jingle” @redhenpress.bsky.social

🔥 Newly released from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social🔥 "Shored Fragments: Poems in response to Eliot's The Waste Land" Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social. Ordered & excited to receive my copy! Order your copy of this beautiful collection today ❤️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragments-eliot

“How can one become a poet in spite of life?”—Gaston Bachelard

Would you like a signed copy of my book—Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila? You can get one through Main Street Books at this link. Or DM me with your info and I can sell you a signed copy directly. mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/book/9781958...

Fu Baoshi Crows in a Willow

Agree 💯

Our editor @hardygriffin.bsky.social went to Tokyo with his daughter—and we all need to read this sojourn of love and memory. #travel #essay cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Constantin Flondor Sky (Ravenna)

San Xurde volverá a celebrarse en Asturias el próximo 23 de abril editoresdeasturias.com/2026/04/16/s...

Lovely to be accepted into the Sunday Mornings At The River anthology 'For Those Who Despair' with my poem "Mythopoeia". This will be my *third outing with the press. They produce gorgeous anthologies featuring poetry of urgency to our age. My thanks to EIC Rebecca Rijsdijk ❤️ #poetrycommunity

POEM 327: "Language Only Heaven Understands" by Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social drunken wedding guests slur apologies for eating all the frosting roses with their hands the silent syllables of a skull, its unhinged jaw open like a mute and welcoming hand stonecirclereview.com/language-only

Edward Steichen, Moonlight Landscape, 1903.

L'empire des lumières (1954) by René Magritte

I’m at the Unbound Book Fest in Columbia MO and I have come down with such a bad cold, I can’t attend anything😡I get sick every time I take a little vacation.

Poets, it’s that time again. I’m poetry editor at @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social, and I am considering work for our Summer and Fall/Winter 2026 issues. Please send 4 to 5 poems in a single Word doc or Google Docs link (no PDFs, please) to [email protected] 💙📚 #poetry

And look at this one from the series—love it! cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Mark Schmidt’s incredible series of photos from the wilds of Wisconsin are in the new issue of Cable Street—do take a look because they are wonderful! #photography 📷 cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Yes! We love this set of poems!

We published an amazing translation from English to Turkish by Vuslat D. Katsanis of work by Leonard Schwartz—with a great essay on the translation process. cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Great new poems by Jyotish Gopinathan in @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social • these poems get to the very core of our sad world.

one cannot press flowers in an e-book.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. ~Jeanette Winterson

A neighbor has put a flag out in the yard that says “RADICALIZED BY BASIC DECENCY” and in this ruby-town that is some real resistance!

Cable Street recommends the 30/30 Project! And when you are done, submit 3 to 5 of your project poems to our consulting poetry editor and 30/30 alumna, Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social. You can send the poems to [email protected]. Thanks @tupelopress.bsky.social 💙📚✍️ #poetry

These recordings are great!

Fellow Nutmeggers, check this out. (I was born in Connecticut and it is my family homestead.,)

We are great fans of this poem, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social 💙

This second #DingAnSich #promptcombo contribution is Falling. It’s also from @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social (text above 👆). #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity @victoriaspires.bsky.social

Tonight! Join us for a conversation between @maxlawton.bsky.social & Sean Thor Conroe about the life and work of Italian author Antonio Moresco. The event will be held in-person at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and livestreamed on Zoom. If you want to join us online, register here: buff.ly/1OxJErP

I’ve struggled with “finding my voice” in poetry, because I keep looking to adopt someone else’s. I wrote an essay about the problem in the new issue of Cable Street. cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Some fine new poems by @joniemcintire.bsky.social in the new Cable Street—these poems are so real! cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...

Thank you - not my connection as it happens, but that of a very good friend. A wonderful coincidence, nevertheless. And your magazine has a wonderfully resonant name, redolent of courage and resistance to fascism. I am delighted to be associated with those values

Our contributor, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social , shared his family connection to the Battle of Cable Street in London, where the antifascists fought the British Union of Fascists. Our logo is a scene from a mural commemorating the skirmishes. Thanks Paul for sharing this history.👇👇👇

The new issue of Cable Street dropped last night and we are so proud of it! Great work by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social • @hardygriffin.bsky.social • @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social • @joniemcintire.bsky.social and many more. #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction 💙📚 cablestreet.org

Many thanks to @danadelibovi.bsky.social for her tender & thoughtful review of Unrivered @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social "The poet does not dissemble. She writes as a mature person, and unabashedly so. To me, this is a strength of the work." cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...