Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social

“Damn man stop interrupting me I’m trying to tell a story here! So she reappears dressed in scrubs y’know like Comet-green nurse garb” Isaac Offski’s “Natural Disasters” • Unwound is a hell of a lot of fun to read. Find it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/by-isaa...

five albums, five stories. happy holidays, kids! feat. stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Daniel O. Bailey, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."

New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters! open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

“i believe in things like ‘the universe’ hope that doesn’t turn you off” @romyewing.bsky.social returns to M7 with a self-portrait of a poem in “Nothing Better” • The Postal Service. Now playing in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/nothing...

Your Friday Five for Dec - five albums, five stories. feat. Tyler Dempsey, Naomi Skwarna, Madeeha Hashmi, D.T. Robbins, Franz Jørgen Neumann www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“Rest your head on the back of your palms, and breathe deep that rainwater earth.” Marco Visciolaccio meditates on disappointing your mother while traversing the Yalu River, bordering China and North Korea, in "You Are My Sunshine" • Gene Autry. In Volume 25! www.major7mag.com/post/you-are...

something new - your M7 Friday Five five albums, five stories (one fav!) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

This is so incredible and beautiful and sad. I love it.

Really liked the poem 'Terminal Felicity' by @cubistoctopus.bsky.social in the latest @miraclemonocle.bsky.social ... "She whispers like the wind once whispered: / In the end, / you are the end— / the lisp before the longest dusk..."

“Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.” Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/common-...

make @misternagel.bsky.social famous open.substack.com/pub/littleen...

Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit

hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..." Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.

"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."

"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."

"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak." now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by @mallorysmart.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/the-jok...

"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat." now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social ) www.major7mag.com/post/san-dim...

Reading back to get inspiration for my upcoming extracurricular at @marchrly.bsky.social and found @coriwinrock.bsky.social's essay on Hole. Rly enjoyed this! marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

Ancient Rome. I know. Boring. I thought so too until we systematically learned about each period, ruler, & I understood how much happened, how fascinating it was...NOT in some smug decline of civilization manosphere sense...but just for its own sake. BTW I was an Anthro major. So, can't use that.

During debate on a congressional stock trading ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the richest members of Congress worth an estimated $55 million, said the bill would “make it very unattractive for people to step up to the plate and run for office.”

Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)

Pleased with the latest (final?) draft of a poem I'm writing for @metmuseum.org open call for Fall 2025 issue of Metaphrastics, for ekphrastic poems on items in their Arms and Armor collection. Might even write a couple more before the Sept 15 deadline. www.metphrastics.com/submit

I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.

Awesome new poem by my friend @mariness.bsky.social

So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

human endeavor clumsily betrays humanity - from "Japan", Anthony Hecht

After yrs of thinking I'm 'not ready', 'not good enough', 'have not written enough', I decided yesterday it's time to sub out a chapbook. I've got 24 pages/poems assembled. The ones I still like after sometimes yrs of revision. What's your advice to a virgin chapbook subber?