Barton Smock @bartonsmock.bsky.social

Instagram has officially stopped working on my iPhone 6. Twitter stopped working a long time ago, Bluesky has never worked, and now IG. My "smart" phone can take calls, send texts, check email, and listen to music. I consider it a blessing.

Last Neon Night Mic of 2025 in the books! Always grateful for this Chicago literary community

gonna go listen to some poetry, thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social then gonna go listen to some jazz guitar, thanks to @yoadrianididit.bsky.social take care of yourselves dudes

TONIGHT! Last Neon Night Mic of the year

planning a really exciting charity reading in Pilsen on Dec. 11 🤫🤐

TONIGHT! Last Neon Night Mic of the year

ex-cop pop duo fka pigs

Edward Mullany @pubgen.bsky.social

hey Chicago I won’t be reading but I’ll be here and you should too

TOMORROW NIGHT! Hope to see you 🎤 Sam Berman 🎤 Suzanne Buffam 🎤 Jacob Saenz 🎤 Sara Matson 🎤 Ruben Quesada 🎤 Christy Prahl

Joyelle McSweeney winning Jeopardy is a win for poets everywhere

Edward Mullany @pubgen.bsky.social

surrounded by hundreds of unread books while watching old episodes of The Mask: Animated Series

a prose poem from second grader Jeury Maldonado

when November hits

I just finished a draft of a new poem manny called Wool Moon.

Zachary Schomburg @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social

I made a list of weird movies & I don't know which one to watch first

I read chili poems last night with an ambient band & was runner-up in the chili cook-off Life sometimes rules 📸 @okaypompeii.bsky.social

TONIGHT I'm bringing some chili, I'm bringing some poems @lakemarkham.bsky.social / @grahamirvin.bsky.social / @apconmag.bsky.social

Barton Smock

let this be your Halloween reminder to listen to Dead Man's Bones, an album featuring Ryan Gosling singing spooky songs with a children's choir

one of our favorite writers, Barton Smock, had some moving things to say about Kiik's debut collection

four slim books you need to read 📚 The Swallowed Man (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) 📚 McGlue (@fencebooks.bsky.social) 📚 When All Our Days Are Numbered... (Big Lucks) 📚 Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

new reading announcement just dropped! @alwayscrashing.bsky.social

Greg Brownderville

one week from today last Neon Night Mic of 2025 @whistlerchicago.bsky.social

the vision ✨✍️

👀👀👀

afrofuturism... Black Romanticism... afrosurrealism... new mythologies... The Second Stop Is Jupiter should be on several syllabi across the country. (you know, imho & all... 😏)

upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social via The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023)

four novels (under 200 pages) we’re still thinking about 📚 Temporary (Coffee House Press) 📚 Boy with a Black Rooster (The Indigo Press) 📚 Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books) 📚 Light Boxes (Penguin)

for those keeping score at home, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & @martinezfjulian.bsky.social have 15 skulls while I just received my 12th let it be known: I'm coming for the 💀 throne @havehashad.com

#smallpoemsunday acceptances start pubbing today, with fave Benjamin Niespodziany!! https://www.havehashad.com/rhbk1

at the reading last night, the mic & speaker ran out of juice, so I yelled my poems next to Lake Michigan

Submitted a novel to a fox at night on Stiffkey marsh, acceptance came at dawn by hedgehog. Publication on the windblown spume of a fast tide receding into the North Sea.

how my submissions are going these days

submitted a prose poem to the pothole nearest my apartment

Liza Hudock @floodeditions.bsky.social

TONIGHT! bring a candle, bring a poem

nine word poem for #smallpoemsunday

four quick reads you need on your shelf 📚 The Hearing Trumpet (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) 📚 Potted Meat (@tarpaulinsky.bsky.social) 📚 Reinhardt’s Garden (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) 📚 The Deer (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

nine word poem for #smallpoemsunday

Dan Beachy-Quick @tupelopress.bsky.social

poems soon with: - Fairy Tale Review - swamp pink - Water Stone Review

ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one: hexliterary.com?p=2909

today's going to be beautiful

this prose poem by Liza Hudock omg @floodeditions.bsky.social