What gives you purpose in life? What’s keeping you going? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

We’re now accepting blogs and columns via Subfolio. If you're a columnist, journalist, or blogger looking to get your feet wet or build out your bylines, we’d love to share your work with our monthly audience. (Editorial support included)

We’re now accepting blogs and columns via Subfolio. If you're a columnist, journalist, or blogger looking to get your feet wet or build out your bylines, we’d love to share your work with our monthly audience. (Editorial support included)

Kat Neal walks us through the aisles of a body who’s everything all at once in her latest poem, Self‑Portrait as Grocery Store 🛒 Live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Kat Neal lets the clementine-colored strangeness of the river bloom in The River Loves Martha 🍊🌊 Live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Warm sunlight and blue skies offer some consolation in the latest from Fenn Delaurenti ☀️🌷 Mourning the Child. is live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Rolled sleeves, coffee stains, a morning choreographed by loved ones. Jason Atkins‑Lawson sketches what could have been in sunlight and fabric 🍳 Worn is live now on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

The air feels a little cinematic today 🎥 What’s everyone’s plans for the weekend? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Jason Atkins-Lawson pulls us into memories of warmer weather and happier days in his latest poem, River Son 🌤️ Live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Jason Atkins‑Lawson gives us a glint, a chill, and a reminder of the things we carry long after they’re gone ✨ Cold Gold is live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Fenn Delaurenti’s Maritime Accord drags you into dark water and doesn’t let you back up for air ⚓️ Don’t miss this oceanic horror, live now on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Recognition hits in the strangest places 👀 Jim Tilley gives us that shiver of familiarity we can’t shake in his latest poem Spitting Image 🗿 Live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Cold air, bright light, and a little clarity only winter can offer ❄️ Postcards on Ice by Jim Tilley is live now, on Blue Villa Mag🔗

Pub schedule will be updated around 6pm EST.

This tells a story many of us long-married folks will relate to personally. Almost prose with line breaks, but wonderfully nevertheless a poem.

Linda Dreeben offers us a small peek into her life through her latest hermit crab 🤍🦀 Un-wedding Wedding Dress for Sale is live now, on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Who’s watching the Winter Olympics? ⛷️🥌🏂⛸️🥇 #BlueVillaAsks 💬 ❄️

Winter storm day 2 check-in ❄️ We’ve got about a foot of snow outside here. How’s everyone holding up out there? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Winter storm check-in ❄️ We’re officially holed up for the next 3 days. What’s everyone up to while we’re snowed in? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Are you afraid of death? Or what comes after? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Today is a good day to remind yourself that you’re doing the best you can.

It’s a snowy Sunday here at Blue Villa ❄️ What are you working on? 📝 #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Submissions are OPEN! 📬 If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to read your work.

Dylan Johnston’s Facade wrestles with freedom, confronts propaganda and explores moral reckoning in a world shaped by power. 📜🔥 Live now, on Blue Villa. 📖🔗

What’s the female equivalent of a “man child”? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

The cost of wanderlust, felt by those left at home… 🛩️🏙️ Fenn Delaurenti’s Here and There is now live on Blue Villa Mag 🔗

Eva Allison’s latest poetry collection traces burnout, digital exhaustion, and longing in a hyperconnected world. 📱 Live now, on Blue Villa. 📖🔗

Bring in the new year with desire interrupted, love absolute, and a touch of skyfall. 🌌 Brian Baker’s micropoetry is live now, on Blue Villa Mag. 📖

Bring in the new year with desire interrupted, love absolute, and a touch of skyfall. 🌌 Brian Baker’s micropoetry is live now, on Blue Villa Mag. 📖

Happy Holidays from our little corner of the internet literary world! ☃️🎁✨ Thank you all for reading, writing, drawing, sharing, and helping us keep art alive together another year. 🩵📖

Manuscript editing will reopen in January. We look forward to reading your work. 😊📚

Stop comparing yourself to other people. Fireworks, roses, sunsets and glaciers are all beautiful but look nothing alike. ✨

The Black Friday of yesteryear seems to be a legend of the past. Did you venture out this year? 🛍️ #BlueVillaAsks 💬

What’s the male equivalent of a manic pixie dream girl? #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Professors all over the country are being doxxed on public watch lists. In Add Junk, Brianna Thompson explores the weight of life as a target. 📖 Available now on Patreon. 🔗

They say every face you see in your dreams is someone you’ve seen before. Even for a second. Do you believe that? 👁️💭 #BlueVillaAsks 💬

When the axe entered the forest, some trees rejoiced, some trembled, some didn’t care. As the forest thinned, the trees met to decide whether to banish the axe. But most voted to let it stay. For the axe was clever, and had convinced them that because his handle was wood, he was one of them. 🪵🪓

When the axe entered the forest, some trees rejoiced, some trembled, some didn’t care. As the forest thinned, the trees met to decide whether to banish the axe. But most voted to let it stay. For the axe was clever, and had convinced them that because his handle was wood, he was one of them. 🪵🪓

Jim Tilley finds poetry in every ripple of a Cape Cod pond in Trespassers Will Be Fed to Snapping Turtles 🐢 Wry humor, sharp imagery, and of course, the perfect title. Live now on Blue Villa Mag 🔗🌊

Good morning bookworms! 🌅 What’s on your agenda this chilly October weekend?

Good morning bookworms! 🌅 What’s on your agenda this chilly October weekend?

Hot cocoa is such an underrated Fall flavor. ☕️🍫

How has Fall been treating you so far? Are you the leaf falling gracefully or the one that got stuck in someone’s windshield wiper? 🍂 #BlueVillaAsks 💬

Keep going. The plot twist hasn’t ruined everything yet.

Sometimes enlightenment is just a pickled garnish. 🍸 Amanda Rivard’s new micro poetry, featuring The Soul is out now!

Sometimes enlightenment is just a pickled garnish. 🍸 Amanda Rivard’s new micro poetry, featuring The Soul is out now!

I hope the trees show you how beautiful it is to let things go. 🍃🍂

I hope the trees show you how beautiful it is to let things go. 🍃🍂