Sarah J. Sloat from Hotel Almighty #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

fire maps, photos, poetry, paint + ink "And All Along the Way There Have Been Flowers" (2022)

// Box of Sticky Rice // acrylic + ink on paper

A Monday kind of question: Are we trying too hard to land in the wrong journals?

Keeping in (or out of) step with @tomsnarsky.bsky.social parents' anniversary. Beth Ann Fennelly #smallpoemsunday

always love when the emotional weight of the music is reflected in the album art 🚀

#smallpoemsunday Victoria Chang

I've been submitting my stories to Salt Hill since before recorded time... with no luck. Submit sketches & paintings and they take 'em all in one fell swoop -- all six of them -- including the front & back cover! Super grateful for this. Super confused on my submitting priority...

Charles Simic #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

LAST CHANCE -- the show is almost over. Been a blast to have 30+ paintings on display at the legendary Stuart's Opera House. But all things must come to an end. If you've wanted to grab a painting, now's the time. WHIMSI-TECTURE closes tomorrow at 12pm. stuartsoperahouse.org/product-cate...

count all the small wins. the microscopic wins. the nobody even sees this wins. the I can barely call it a win wins. they are still wins. they cancel losses you can't take your eyes off of.

// ROSE-GRASS FOG // acrylic on wood panel

Show's over next week. Glad to see some work sold & would love to see more find loving homes. Great opp to snag some affordable artwork -- knowing a chunk of proceeds help fund arts programming in rural Ohio. Thanks for supporting writers/artists! stuartsoperahouse.org/product-cate...

This week I received an acceptance from a top-tier journal (at least IMO) for a piece that has been rejected 31 times over the last 4 years. A good reminder to believe in your work, even when it feels like nobody else does.

Tiny bursts of beauty. Our latest tiny chap "The Moon, My Heart" by Elena Zhang is now available in the tiny wren shop. www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

Hat tip to Tom & his prompt to showcase the beauty in brevity. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Yeah, it's been a loooong summer (but gold stars for all you parents!) // PARENTING BLACKOUT //

Film study for paint works

Kay Ryan #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The looks I'm getting for my "beach reads" are, indeed, everything I hoped for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

// Waterfall at Wit's End // . acrylic painting/collage on paper

My fun little art exhibition -- Whimsi-tecture at Stuart's Opera House -- winds down later this month, but there's still time to see it live... and grab yourself that painting you've been eyeing before someone else snags it! View and purchase online stuartsoperahouse.org/product-cate...

In between the writing, the editing, the waiting, the eventual rejection, the surprise acceptance... there is painting // ROOM w/ a VIEW (GOLDEN SETTEE) // acrylic on canvas panel

Dear Sealy Challengers, 2 signed chaps, $18. (free U.S. shipping) DM or thaddevassie.com/connect

Today is the 2 month anniversary of starting @pizamapress.bsky.social & launching our first book into the world! If you haven't grabbed a copy, now would be a great time to support a new indie press & get your hands on the weirdest poetry collection of 2025. asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

🚨 🚨 new Claire Hopple! a Claire Hopple POEM!! 🚨 🚨 "If you hold a wishbone in your own two hands and pull it you always win" https://www.havehashad.com/60917

Remember: Every time you put something new into the world you have yourself a "WORLD PREMIERE"

My friend @lobotomyrob.bsky.social needs your support rn. He's more than a great writer & creative mind w/ @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social, but also a fantastic artist. Look. Buy. Share. Reach out to him for a code this month. We gotta lift each other up! www.etsy.com/shop/robkani...

one of my grief dream poems in Ocean State Review

My friend @lobotomyrob.bsky.social needs your support rn. He's more than a great writer & creative mind w/ @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social, but also a fantastic artist. Look. Buy. Share. Reach out to him for a code this month. We gotta lift each other up! www.etsy.com/shop/robkani...

Just a field within a field for lovers of a game they choose to play. Acrylic on paper

This wknd, go to an art gallery. Visit a museum. Be curious. Take pics. Buy something small (or big). Support artists + makers. Unleash your inner artist. Can't get off the couch or phone? Perhaps take a peek at my art show of 30+ paintings. 🖤 stuartsoperahouse.org/about/galler...

I'm officially open for freelance book design work! This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. Diversifying my income with projects like these will help me put more funds into Evening House to help us grow. You can find out more at this link on my site: johnchrostek.com/design-work/

You know this -- what Michael Wheaton has done to raise the profile of CNF in 5 years is extraordinary. AUTOFOCUS is the go-to for the best CNF written today. The catalog is exceptional. And it started w/ a journal that never missed. So grateful to be in IICBH. Get this book & support the press.

Forgive me, for I have sinned. (my sins are talking about art and writing and music and beautiful things in case you wanna join me in the sinful place) thaddevassie.substack.com/p/the-gate-i...

Recent work in Rattle's summer issue and its focus on food poems

When you live in the same city as the author & wish you knew 'em personally because.... you know... art, collab, & what could've been... Still, I'm digging Maggie's cover as much as I dig her poems... & Aykut Aydogdu's art is dreamy good! Now, go pre-order @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social new book!

"Turtle Balloons" by Stephen Mirabito is great for a day of wonder in the relentless mundane. Check it out! “The census is coming up. There is a loophole to get out of any parking citation.” Art: “The Part of Dorothy’s Fever Dream that Went Untold” by Thad DeVassie

Love that @major7mag.bsky.social brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives. Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music. www.major7mag.com/post/raining...

Russell Brakefield from MY MODEST BLINDNESS @russellbrakefield.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Thanks to all @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social for accepting this story + painting about Lyle's song. Some loves never die, they morph into new forms of love. And damn how I've loved that song. farewelltransmission.net/2025/07/that...

Always a surprise & joy to make the Wigleaf longlist. Congrats to all who made it, esp. the Top 50. And thanks to @fivesouth.bsky.social for publishing "Beach Calamity"

Come visit, poke around, and consider adding a painting to an empty wall 🎨 www.thaddevassie.com

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There, fixed! 🙃 "Thank you for your submission. We got a ton of them and, frankly, we feel a bit overwhelmed. That said, we likely won't have the stamina to give it our full attention over the next six or so months. Please consider this your rejection before the rejection."

// LONELY SOUL // 20 x 24 on wood panel (inspired by track from UNKLE feat. Richard Ashcroft; and part of the exhibition "Whimsitecture" at Stuart's Opera House) stuartsoperahouse.org/product-cate...

just out here pushin' a little music-inspired art that hangs in an Opera House that happens to be hosting a really cool music festival this weekend #NMF // THE PICKER & THE ROCKER // stuartsoperahouse.org/product-cate...

Got a little gallery exhibition going on right now with brightness and fun, so to counter all that giddy glee here's the world nearly swallowed in darkness with possible proof of life in the distance // PBSF, WI // acrylic on panel

Got a little gallery exhibition going on right now with brightness and fun, so to counter all that giddy glee here's the world nearly swallowed in darkness with proof of life, maybe, in the distance // PBSF, WI // acrylic on panel

"There is not a sorrow hidden / I could solve, least of all yours. Least / of all mine." Jennifer Funk, from "Modern Love" FANTASY OF LOVING THE FANTASY