My tiny little poem “metaphor” was published in issue 13 of Molecule!

“when asked why I don't play well with others” and “when asked why nothing surprises me anymore were just published in The Radical Teacher www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-...

I'm thrilled to share that HEMICRANIA has won the 2025 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club, selected by Matthew E. Henry, a phenomenal poet I have long admired. A thousand thank yous to him, NEPC, and Chestnut Review for publishing it.🤩 Congrats to the incredible finalists!!

We're so excited to announce our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology! Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!! Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org. Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link): beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Best of the Net Nomination from The Lit Nerds www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-...

Today’s featured piece from Issue 3 is @mehpoeting.bsky.social's micro, “The Quiet Part.” This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social! Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions! www.theweightjournal.com

Hey, so, for various reasons I haven't been able to do a slew of readings for my new book like one is supposed to do, which means I have a handful here still. Let me know if you want a signed copy dropped in the mail sometime this week! DM for details, Venmo, CashApp, whatever.

Want to help your elementary students level up their academic discussion skills? Try a Socratic seminar—the junior version ☺️ #ElementaryTeacher #EduSky

🎶 Everything sucks so make some books! 🎵 Everything sucks so write some books! 🎵 Things are terrible & stupid? You kinda want to cry? Submit your manuscript—give art a try! 🎵 Everything sucks so write and sub your booooooks! 🎶 [holding the smile while clearly trying to catch breath]

"Stage Proxemics," my latest creative nonfiction piece, was published by Pangyrus. www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

Up early reading submissions with my favorite assistant editor—Flight 2 is open for submissions in all genres!

The Book of Jobs #LaborDay oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) returns with a new Letter to America: "watching a production of The Tempest after a colleague asked about my relationship with white women". https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-henry-2/ #poetry #poem #politicalpoetry #race

"nothing but the reminder of how "a" tragedy is not "the" tragedy" Come for the powerhouse language, stay for the disaster with "...it is not the stones/but the child's mound" by @mehpoeting.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

I'm honored to have my poem “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" (a golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”) published in the inaugural issue of @flightlit.bsky.social. flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

Friends! Enemies! Acquaintances! Flight 1 is now live! Read our inaugural issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io

Three days until submissions open! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell your mom who doesn't understand what literary magazines are and wishes you would go to law school!

Day 24 of #thesealeychallenge with Matthew E Henry after an amazing reading at #theoldmanse in Concord. #NEPoetryClub

Poetry is such a varied genre. To show the kind of poetry we want to publish in Flight, we needed someone who had a strong voice, vivid images, and a sense of humor. But who the hell checks all those boxes? Enter @mehpoeting.bsky.social

Flight opens for submissions on August 30th, at 10am AK time (2pm Eastern) To celebrate our first sub call, the first ten submitters will get free feedback on their submissions. Check out our submission guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g... and help us out by sharing this!

Day 8 of the #sealeychallenge August 8th- The Third Renunciation, Matthew E Henry This is an all time favorite for the Flight Crew, and when we were thinking about who to solicit for Issue 1, Matthew came to mind right away

PSA: IT'S AFTER AUGUST 1ST SO YOU MISSED THOSE SUBMISSIONS YOU WERE GOING TO GET AROUND TO BEFORE AUGUST 1ST!

Byrd—49, disabled, Black—was walking home when three white men—one he thought a friend, had known his whole life—offered him a ride in a grey Ford pickup. ... “oh God! please stop!!” appears in the South Florida Poetry Journal

“the first letter of Paul to the Church of [name withheld on advice of counsel] is about the ICE detention of Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal and appears in @newversenews.bsky.social. The apostle Paul's thoughts to a Christian denomination in the US. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

NVN Thursday at Substack: Matthew E. Henry (MEH)’s #newspoem “The First Letter of Paul to the Church of [name withheld on advice of counsel].” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-thursd...

Saint Paul, imagined by Matthew E. Henry (MEH). is appalled by ICEstapo’s arrest of Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal and of the reaction of so-called Christians on social media to the arrest. MEH’s #poem is “The First Letter of Paul to the Church of [name withheld on advice of counsel].” bit.ly/3Jcsgyz

Two poems up at Cultural Daily "when asked what poets should do in response" & "when asked to read a poem for the Black History Month assembly, again" www.culturaldaily.com/matthew-e-he...

Read. This. Book. Now.

@mehpoeting.bsky.social Excited about this new piece in our July 2025 issue!

Happy to announce my six sentence work "apparently my last poem offended" was published in (you guessed it) Six Sentences sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/07/appa...

"say what you mean" by Dr. Matthew E. Henry @mehpoeting.bsky.social thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/11/s... Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age. Read/DL the entire collection here: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di... #ProtestPoetry #BIPOCPoets

“There Is No God-Damned Metaphor Here” now appears in @newworldwriting.bsky.social Ripping poetry, Sinners, the Duvalier regime in Haiti, The Cleaning Lady, and more wrapped into this small package creative nonfiction. newworldwriting.net/matthew-e-he...

This hurt my back, heart, feelings, and neck.

Age verification? My first college PC had 4MB ram.

It’s almost time for the 2025 #SealeyChallenge! 📚 Read a poetry book each day in August—why not stock up from all the Harbor Editions offerings?✨ Get your Sealey Challenge books from us: www.smallharborpublishing.com See more at: www.thesealeychallenge.com #poetry @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

"Words. Words. Words."

I've had four rejections in two genres (including a whole manuscript) in less than 24 hours, BUT I've gotten some good writing done and just learned "fuckboy" is in Microsoft Word's dictionary already, so...okay? 🤔

"when asked for help writing a satire" by Dr. Matthew E. Henry @mehpoeting.bsky.social Poem: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/04/w... Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age. Read/Download the entire collection: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

Latest Substack Update from the World of MEH matthewehenry.substack.com/p/july-2025-...

Our bestsellers for June are in, and they are stunning. It’s not a typo—there’s a tie for #5! 😍 Congratulations, authors! 1️⃣ Swallow 2️⃣ Repeat As Needed 3️⃣ Braving the Body 4️⃣ said the Frog to the scorpion 5️⃣ waveforms: a short course in piano turning 5️⃣ Eating Turtle Buy: smallharborpublishing.com

Just started The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained Everything to the Press by @mitchnobis.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Si...

Beginning of the month: let the rejections start coming in. 🎉