I must be pretty bad to get unfollowed on Bluesky. Okay. So here’s this snippet from my thing at Boudin/Mcneese Review www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

Wow, reading @passagesnorth.bsky.social # 47 & came across my friend Molly Bain’s cnf piece. I know all these wonderful places. She’s a treasure & this won honorable mention for Ray Ventre Prize. Molly where are you? Go to Hannahs & call me passagesnorth.com/crashbang-a-word-problem-by-molly-bain

The Death Star of pastries

Know of any lit mags or anthologies seeking poetry about war current events?

One more bump for the cnf Substack about the magic field and the man with 3 fingers.

Thanks a bunch for checking out my new Substack bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/electric

Submissions Open We are reading all genres through April 15th. Send us your best!

On a lighter note, I’m gluing stuff. Hiding poetry behind the paint. Infusions.

Pains me to say it, but here are 2 literary ways in which Google’s AI worked: I was solicited by a library, seemingly, to include my prose poem in their upcoming book club discussion. Being not a book, but sounding like a professional request, I asked AI to verify legitimacy. AI said fake…

Might write a story just to use the name Leonard Benadryl. Not much happens.

Speaking of @tacobellquarterly.org previous post, and fake-it-til-you-make-it headlong into vulnerability, here’s my vintage 2022 Taco Butt Quarterly. Represent me.

Engaging vulnerable essay for better understanding navigation. How we slog the discomforts of life, yes, but how we may offer the consciousness of deeper consideration to those in our orbit.

Can you guess how the former owner created this faded pattern on the shed siding?

Everything I’ve ever submitted has been simultaneously overwrought and too early. So just be cool with your stuff okay

Prose poetry isnt short story. The narrative is vehicle for impression & mood; how reader leaves with question or contemplation, not conclusion. If the surface is story, it’s secondary to poetics that carried writer to its inception. All the more interesting for reader to ask “Why is this poetics?”

‘Twas brillig… until it wasn’t

Read this beautiful new piece in our Blended and Beyond genre. Artwork by our Sr. B&B Editor, @bradley-david.com ✨

Work in progress for a mixed media triptych. Pre-glue arranging stage.

Submit to jmww this week Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Subs open now til 3/15 @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it. jmww.submittable.com/submit

well, huh.

New messy Substack. Play spot-the-typos 🖤 open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Big news! Not only is Issue 20 out today, but from here on in you can create your own account on the website, where all issues will soon be available in their entirety. Some already are. Plus digital-only subscriptions at a much, much lower price! https://www.exactingclam.com/subscribe/

Send us your hybrid, experimental, blended-genre, beyond-genre, genre-defying work. Free submissions, two weeks, please read our refreshed guidelines

Repost from @mayorofla: Applications are now open for the City of Los Angeles Poet Laureate. This role calls for a visionary storyteller who can reflect Los Angeles as it is, imagine what it can become, and inspire emerging writers. Apply today www.lapl.org/los-angeles-poet-laureate-submissions

Today’s new Substack Quit Writing for Better Writing: On creative obsession and intentional reprieve open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Bumpy view of last night’s SpaceX Falcon 9 600th flight. 24 Starlink satellites launched via Vandenberg AFB. Notice rocket booster separation from below the “jellyfish” contrail which self-guides down to Spaceport drone ship off the coast of California. Interesting to watch, mindful of its villain

New pre-Valentine’s Substack Thank you kindly for taking a look. “My Favorite Nonfiction Gift” open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

New pre-Valentine’s Substack Thank you kindly for taking a look. “My Favorite Nonfiction Gift” open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Open: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Blended & Beyond, Poetry, Flash Fiction

New on Substack open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

A creative reset is release from constructs & constrictions of the production/valuation/acceptance mindset. From the sticky infection of the systemic & academic. I want to invite unmoored wildness. First, the non-doing, non-making. Observe & let it sneak up & seep in. There’s no “block” in wildness.

Blended & Beyond: Objected-Oriented Programming Giorgio Agamben’s Language and Death: The Place of Negativity by summa iru Exceprt from summa iru's genre-bending work Click here to view the full piece. PDF best viewed on a larger screen. summa iru happened when the poet came across Rilke's Book of…

My first pieces of ‘26 in the new Diagram

Book mail from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social via @asterismbooks.bsky.social Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!

Submissions Are Now Open! We are reading Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction, and Poetry now through January 15th. Send us your best!

The 'self’ that I learned through childhood to present to the world was lost… I am always aware from moment to moment that behind the mask there is nothing and that very silence is the most wonderful, the most perfect, thing there is. Marc Hamer

and by “journaling” I mean never actually journaling

Little Tokyo Los Angeles Short Story Contest

“When eating in public, choose foods that don’t fall off your utensils and do fit in your mouth. Or take a truly surprising approach.” —me

“You have to have time to feel sorry for yourself if you’re going to be a good abstract expressionist—and I think I always considered that a waste.” -Robert Rauschenberg

Tired. Will adopt “That’s what I was thinking” and “My thoughts exactly” and “I’m more interested in what you have to say”

Happening now, 10:45am PST, Monday Dec 8 #losangeles #icewatch

Thank you, Clam

What an honor to be Nine Mile. Alongside Henri Carlile! Denise Duhamel! Mine is about going to bed angry… and that’s okay.

My micro dada contribution is free here and subscribing is good too exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

Eyebrows are so weird. Two hedges planted in the forehead. Wiggling around because for some reason emotions are stationed in there. We don’t have them on our wrists, yet we talk with our hands.