@rebunting.bsky.social and I are excited to share Issue 7 with you!

Michael Donaghy (from his collection, Conjure, 2000) #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

We are so excited to announce that our Summer 2026 Issue is OUT NOW! You can read the new issue on our website through the link in our bio! You can also use that link to RSVP to our Zoom Launch Party on Wednesday 7/22 at 7 p.m. EST. We hope to see you there!

A little late, but just reposted 5 paintings, paired nicely with prose, that New Ohio Review selected for its latest issue.

newohioreview.org/2026/02/27/h... Artwork by Thad DeVassie

newohioreview.org/2026/02/27/m... Artwork: "PBSF Wi" by Thad DeVassie

Winner of last year's Ellis Prize in Nonfiction. Artwork: "Before Sunrise Locarno Beach" by Thad DeVassie. newohioreview.org/2026/02/23/d...

Featured Art: “Black Barn, Adjacent Land” by Thad DeVassie. newohioreview.org/2026/02/18/l...

"He knew the learning curve was steep, but the part Edgar hated the most was when Festus visited with the apple still on his head, taunting him." / THE ENTERTAINER / digital collage

I've been reading Howie Good's work for years. He keeps getting better with time. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/h...

I stand accused just like you for being born without a silver spoon. -The Verve

// HONEST WORK // . 8 × 10 acrylic on board . We're not that far removed from daily scenes like these... where hard work often goes unnoticed, doesn't stop for selfies, and is literally grinding before the rhythms of the day become noticeable to the rest of us.

waiting for good news on submission responses feels a lot like waiting for promised NFT payments

Posts with photos can be throttled down and those with links the same because everything is rigged in favor of the house so let me just say devoid of image and url that today is the final day to use code INDIE and get any Stanchion book or magazine issue free when you buy any two.

Meet Carl -- today's cloud pretending to be a headless skeleton or possibly a trilobite -- at least what's left of him

A favorite from Beth Ann Fennelly for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

It's that time. Preserve all your fingers and don't burn your neighbor's house down.

However you choose to approach this weekend, be careful, be kind, and be one of the stars that helps to straighten things out. // A SLIPPERY SLOPE // acrylic + stain on reclaimed wood

Truly, I need a personal volcan of my own. Until then, I'm gonna carry @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's in my billfold and pull it out whenever necessary, like now... and over here. This is brilliant and beautiful in so many ways.

Will be sending books to Mike very soon! Preorder today to reserve a signed copy.

Your boy got laid off today. Buy my book.

Huge congrats to everyone on the Wigleaf list this year! I always love reading everyone's stories (some again, some for the 1st time). Want a lesson in what flash/micro can do? Start here, always. wigleaf.com

This is the USMNT I feared would show up. The B team is playing like a B team.

Everything becomes past tense eventually // RURAL NOCTURNE // acrylic on paper

my goodness, i've been thinking about this strange little beauty by Kailum Graves since in wormed its way into my brain last night -- TY @flashfrog.bsky.social for sharing it with us flash-frog.com/2026/06/08/b...

Did you miss it?? Yesterday, our June Solstice micro issue went live @identitytheory.bsky.social !!! Check out these 10 magnificent shorties www.identitytheory.com/section/micro/

Wrapped up Murdoch's book, a coded fictionalization of his ME/CFS stuggle and the catalyst for his band Belle & Sebastian. And like all good B&S records, there's enough here to savor, even if it carries a bit of bloat that could've been trimmed into something that was start-to-finish excellent.

That time I paint-sketched a trio of D.C.'s famous attractions... clean & free of algae, always reflecting, wildly uncontroversial

for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from "Hotel Almighty." @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Now I must rinse / off / The power / found / in a / shady corner of / the / Republic / that’s the name of the game now, / look around / there are lions behind … / and by-God lions ahead

Donald Hall's White Apples for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The Son Voltification of a lot of new music isn't what I had on my bingo card...

Back when I knew farming and AI of another name. Grateful to the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for taking in this strange little pet.

Bob Hicok as therapist. And for $16, he threw in 100 more pages of wisdom. Quite the deal. From thr book HOLD (2019). #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

This collection by Luisa Muradyan has me asking... Why aren't we talking more about Luisa Muradyan??? 💯🔥

Finding a Ted Kooser kind of happiness should be the goal. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Clint's brief bio lands a sweet-sad truth as much as his poem does. Go read. rattle.com/meursault-ge...

Will go forward regardless but we need three or four more patrons to fund the Poetry EP series, which just goes toward paying the poets and for the cover art. malarkeybooks.com/store/poet-o...

Can't recall if 1995 was a good year or not, but it brought this no-depression era album to light and I subsequently wore it out before Wilco's "Being There" dropped in late 1996. Going backwards in the music catalog ain't all that bad.

Super stoked the buyer of this painting chose the florescent hot pink sides. It'll give off a glowing halo effect around the piece on a well-lit wall and bring out bits of pink in the sky.

I was never all that good at painting faces so I just paint over them // CERULEAN MASK // acrylic on paper

ouch... the sting of making a shortlist with your tiny manuscript but not crossing the finish line... Is getting shortlisted a false positive you'd rather not know??

Burn it down, they say. If so, might need some long matches. // BLUE-TIP MATCHES // acrylic + masking tape on paper

If Mary Oliver were here to give us her take on AI, I think she'd simply point to this poem. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Have a new piece in @100wordstory.bsky.social written in @smokelong.bsky.social's March Micro Marathon. 100wordstory.org/i-ran-into-g...

It astonishes me, this creating business, and yet each time we sit down to create - a poem, a painting, some prose - we get to be astonished all over again at what appears on the page or canvas. Something that didn't exist before sitting down emerges seemingly out of nowhere. This is the gift.

It's Friday. You made it. You deserve your flowers. (I'm harvesting a bumper crop of this variety rn) // DANDELIONS & MASON JAR // acrylic on USPS shipping box

Had no idea I needed this "hate poem" in my life. Enjoy the disdain that Despy Boutris makes clear in the latest issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/poetry/00526...

always a bizarre feeling to have written something that you're proud of/excited about and realize that it might be years before it appears in the wild, in someone else's hands, if at all

My friend-in-absurdity is a gifted writer -- his last 2 books from @xraylitmag.bsky.social & @okaydonkeymag.com are proof. But Ben also has this one-man indie press, and is dropping TWO books today. Writer-turned-publisher to champion others. YES! Support Ben & Reka & Lesle. Buy these books!

I’M ONE YEAR OLDER & MY INDIE PRESS HAS TWO MORE BOOKS OUT TODAY! A one-person operation I launched on my birthday in 2025, @pizamapress.bsky.social has been both a passion project & a learning experience. Rewarding, daunting, joyous, stressful, all of the above. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...