on this trans day of remembrance my poem "live" at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social feels very fitting "you have to live to hold your own failures in cupped palms, drink them up like gin and fire. to spit blood on burnt earth. to bind your chest wrong the first time."

For our Sunday morning readers: a new review of Catherine Rockwood’s DOGWITCH, by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza! ☕️☀️📚 #booksky #poetry #review @martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social

This review is worth your time, and the book it's reviewing is really, really worth your time.

"In the face of the hopelessness that marks our modern lives, Dogwitch is marked by an insistent urge to be present, perceive, and try our damnedest to save difficult, dangerous creatures anyway." I'm having trouble believing my luck in @violetagm.bsky.social's precise attention to these poems. ❤️

“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.” Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025). @martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social

New review dropping this morning! Did you know we publish poetry reviews and—we pay? $25 a review. More here: moistpoetryjournal.com/submissions/

If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social . Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...

the skyline is saying today is National Poetry Day (which like, why wouldn’t it be in April during NaPoMo?) but whatever, feels like an appropriate day to leave for my first poetry tour ALSO here’s my first pub credit, courtesy of @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social (published July of this year)

"When this hurricane comes, I am all candles, all reverence, All wafts waving lavender up the walls of each room in the house." A spiritual poem on climate change and faith, by SLM poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social ✨ In the @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/K6oKuL8

hips skyward, limbs trailing behind, shoulder ripped from socket by the drag; friction makes you burn, a reverse comet, a smoking censer chain-dragged through the sky —McKinley Johnson, with a fierce ekphrasis #SummerRiot poem to close out our summer. Wishing y’all joy, rest, resistance. ☄️

EIC Danielle just loves writing about summertime and lovesickness. So let’s share “boy crazy” just once more for the kids in the back!

This one cuts deep, to the pain I hide from my daughter, to the fear I turn away from. The Earth we actually inhabit feels as bleak as it is beautiful, lately.

Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!

Any rain big enough, anywhere, could sweep a house away. I need to reacquaint myself with the Earth I actually inhabit. —Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥 @jacquiz.bsky.social

I love this poem 💜

If you have ever been a love-hungry teenager in a rural community, you're not prepared for this poem, but sweet heavens, you need to read this poem.

my ode to suburban summers "boy crazy" is out today! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/08/19/b... many thanks to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for picking this one up! 💙💙

the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot diesel fumes & freshly mown grass & lo! how the breeze comes on like an afterglow hopelessly blue tragic —Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️

Facts ☔️ ☔️ ☔️

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

Beauty is both ways, All ways & always. —Nicholas Viglietti splashing open our final week of #SummerRiot poems! 🌴🌊

Catch up on the latest at Moist! 💦 #SummerRiot

If we’re lucky, if the water is clear enough, if the light is right […] —Andy Fogle with our #SummerRiot poem today!

imma die bout my queer niggas cause we deserve a chance to live fruitfully —Will Diggs, with two fresh #SummerRiot beauties this morning

Independent lit journals, now is the time to—oh, what was that? you have been shining? This whole time? Carry on 📚💙 @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social, @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Poetry Northwest, @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, @periodicities.bsky.social, & more!

PSA: Editor took a hiatus this last week due to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social work (💙) and migraines (😭) . Looking forward for resuming our usual poem publications this week! ☔️

Friends, this is the vibe of @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social actually. They're our person on the outside.

Day 9: “We may think Bede” by @martin65.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social. One of my particular loves is poetry that plays off of Medieval texts. After deep-diving into Laura Varnam’s work, I’ve been looking for more that scratches that itch. moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/07/02/w...

if you need some poems to read this Sunday I got new ones in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social this week moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/07/29/t...

Good Saturday morning—pour yourself a cup of coffee, and have a poem by @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social 💜☕️

Doomscroll break

So juicy! Graphic courtesy of @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ✨🌈

Hey, this is by my friend!!!

Season of salmonberry then currant raspberry thimbleberry cherry almost blackberry —Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning! @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social

Because you, too, need a moment with a tree this morning 🌳✨

“Saint of Glorious Enmity, Saint of On Sale, Saint of Lost Majesty, Saint of Your Body Has Gone Missing, Say it Ain’t So. Saint of Lingering Doubts…” — @luaz.bsky.social

omg hi this is AMAZING 😍😍😍

I’m feeling very normal about this poem

oh let's fucking GO new @kitikins.bsky.social !!

These are both great but oh man, as a fellow parent in a transracial family, that second one hits, buddy.

I've seen a few great @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social poems lately, so hey why not share my poem on there from a few years ago:

Oh dang, I wrote this!

I too, have more than one name I too, shift into the transitioning season —Kit Steitz, with our #SummerRiot 🍊 today! @kitikins.bsky.social

THE BLUEBERRIES *gasps in poetry* @thecorlew.bsky.social these are so good

I slept poorly and the coffee hasn't sunk in yet, so *inarticulate mumbling*. BUT these poems slide nicely across a drowsy brain. Please take that as a compliment, @thecorlew.bsky.social. 💖

the revolution is… …in the drag punk band hollerin on the street festival north stage in the public school fundraiser night it is song you started but only the rest of the band could finish it is a reliable bus route it is a shared box of blueberries — @thecorlew.bsky.social

it’s promote poems day for yr man bc we got a new Line Break out too but first @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social was kind enough to let me Summer Riot with them moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/07/29/t...

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HEY GOOD MORNIN HOW ARE YA HOW ABOUT SOME POEMS