last call for submissions for our winter issue! ❄️ call & send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨

What a thrill to read the kind words about "When I Try to Verify..." in here! Thanks to @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for giving it a home, and everyone in Imani Cezanne's workshop & Boston's T4T Readings for helping to shape it. & tysm to TFR for putting this all together!

“and why             this want for permanence surround   sound my life with             backups sound out my name and   it’s almost a library” - Fiona Martinez voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/u...

two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!

“Gravity is repression, you think and try to not. You know how you will feel when you awaken. You can already feel the cold sweat coming.” - JeFF Stumpo voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“do not be afraid of your own heart beating” - Charlotte Alexander voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“What bloomed from grief / came instinct, / came wrath.” - c. rivera voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/s...

“I want to write about eternity too just like the cats probing at their breakfasts   or your two week old hands Isadora brushing my beard like sleepwalking windshield wipers” - Dylan Emmons voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...

we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨ 💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛 deadline january 1st

Have you seen/heard this one by Jenna Cardinale? That ending!

Oh hey, it's meeeee. Thanks @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for giving "potato" new life! ❤️

“it’s where most of us find ourselves after a relationship sharing space with those silver skins not fitting any better than the aluminum did her and her meal prep her and her insistence others should hide what she plans to devour” - @c-late.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...

“As a recluse / I really went / all out" - @jennacardinale.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/n...

“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.” - Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/n...

“I wanted heaven But space spat me out. I heard earth girls are easy. I’m so easy I only learned how to fight Back last week. I didn’t win. But I cured my depression By making the bed!” - Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...

so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜

Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/

“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?" - Lauren Mills voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...

“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.” - Alexa Vallejo voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...

More of the Fall issue awesomeyamazingyness over at Voice Mail Poems. Hearing this poem by Juniper Danger is chef's kiss and visceral.

“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.” - Juniper Danger voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light” - John Muro voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/b...

“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal” - Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem” voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/4...

Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!

Thanks to @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for including a poem of mine in this issue. Listen up!

🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁 ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...

last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨

one week left to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 👻

“I dreamed of a canoe, and of the two of us” - Devan Murphy voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/t...

The Urge is open for poetry and art! Deadline: Sept 22nd! engineidling.net

Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication. Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit

“But dawn, Because you hid behind the horizon torches blazed, blinding, breaking sleep and families as parents were taken from screaming kids to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands   Dawn, because you were silent, because all murmurings were silenced.” - @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social

two more weeks to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 🎃

A poem that’ll be in my forthcoming book, This Elegance, in the summer issue of @voicemailpoems.bsky.social ☕️

“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life. We’re the only Black gay men in our building, so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups. For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.” - Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...

“sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life / so you do the next best thing / and you cut your hair” - Sarena Brown voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...

we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨ voicemailpoems.org/submit 🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡

“There was happiness in 1930s Germany and at the end of Rome, too." - Jill McLaughlin voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/p...

“we talked about the final moment and how I might not make it (I did, he waited)   we talked about how a summer would never be enough time, as the days stretched out my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree” - Annie Powell Stone voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...

"Let's say, This is for me. This is because I want. This is because I exist. This is because I take up space, as much as I want, & more, & I survive despite your best efforts to tamp me down, & I will fucking wear my defiance like a punch to the gut" - Maia Brown-Jackson (@andyetpoetry.bsky.social)

“On Fridays, management makes movie popcorn to celebrate the end of the week. Why are we always so hungry? The smell of fake butter is rich. We follow it. We eat.” - Jaime Jacques voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/k...

“the olive jar says you should take only nine, yet seventeen have passed through your teeth. it is okay. it will all, one day, be okay.” - Annabelle Chen voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/g...

“Lake Berryessa, azure at our backs / the man from / Toluca slips me / lozenges from under his tongue / Spanish alive / in my mouth” - Tatiana Chaterji voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/f...

"b/c one day i will want for nothing b/c one day i will not want" - Diandra Williams voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/d...

"What song do you serve your ears the morning after your mom sends you home with a peace flower and you say goodbye in the dark because it hurts to see?" - @marissadesantis.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/b...

Excited to have a poem from This Elegance in the latest @voicemailpoems.bsky.social. Follow the link below to hear me read it as well as read and listen to the other fab poems in the summertime issue!

The Summer issue of Voicemail Poems is out and I’m over the moon to be in it! #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity

So excited to be included here!

🌊 summer issue's up! 🌊 ft. @marissadesantis.bsky.social, @paradiselaust.bsky.social, @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social, @darkwebtofu.bsky.social‬, @andyetpoetry.bsky.social‬, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...

last day to submit a poem for our summer issue! ⌛ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered 💛