"I was always making something beautiful and useless, always pressing that rock to your side of the wall, wasn’t I?" - Marissa M. Zhu voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/i...

“All things, almost, you can never have cupped long enough to hold, So love becomes a marriage, and lightening a sound, so late, so late, In one baroque spring, could have been this year or sixty-five million before, Dirt’s veins strike it rich” Vasiliki Argyris voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

my fiancé asked what i'm gonna do with my night and i said, "i don't know! the world is my oyster, i guess"

"become your one unbearable wound cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry then fall and fall until they smooth mountains" - Sophia Rosenberg voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

“Wherever we go the marshes may dry and the slick-calm ponds may grow scales of ice— they have, for centuries but so have we persisted. Soon, more than this, we will know abundance our beaks writhing with fish.” - Laura Casteel voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...

"I want to scream so I write I want to riot so I write I want to break so I write I want to burrow so I write I want to grieve so I write I want to stop so I write I want to build so I write I want to          so I write I want to               I write I want              so I write" Emma Sheinbaum

“Next month, I’m attending a wedding in a cemetery, and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.   Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave and then go dancing?” - Mary Geschwindt voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...

“I used to ride my bike to you, we lived close enough to each other it was possible for my little body to pedal itself there and back without exerting what it can’t spend what it doesn’t have, maybe still lacks" - Nicholas Bonarski (@nickb999.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...

“I’ve had enough of new names, new ways of trying to stop time” - Eléna Rivera voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/c...

“Thus it stands that Ken is a transmasculine icon / Loved and adored as a god because that’s what Barbie and Ken are, / The deities that underscore what it means to be a person, that who we are is limitless.” - L. Amariti (@lamaritiwrites.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/c...

“I love you. Please don’t read this.” - Angel Monet LoMax voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/a...

“there was always someone     day-dreaming hurtling towards the other world falling for somebody’s son grass-stained knees weaving in and out of love condemning their mother  tongue” - Gabriela González voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/a...

🪻 spring issue's up! 🪻 ft. @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, @nickb999.bsky.social, @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social, @lamaritiwrites.bsky.social, @ella-b-winters.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/s...

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last day to submit your work for our spring issue! 🪻 send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered 💙

hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social tn at fergie's pub 🎉 come hear from @kirsutherland123.bsky.social + alexa smith 🤩 open mic to follow ✨ hope to see you!

one more week to submit a poem for our spring issue 🪻 hope to hear from you 💙

two more weeks to submit! ⏳ give us a call 🩵

back to flannels + a wintry mix today but yesterday sure felt like spring

Our good friend, the wonderful poet Rocky Wilson reppin’ Voicemail Poems on a writing retreat in Florida 🥰 Happy writing to Rocky, and to all our friends around the globe 💜

three weeks left to submit ✨ send us a poem!

a modest haul, a happy reader

having a lovely time in baltimore so far 🙌 #AWP26

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“i cannot exhale love onto your fingertips, bring feeling back into your bones, without you first reaching for me” - Nix Carlson voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/t...

“On the wall are photos of President Gerald Ford, our family on vacation, and antique pictures of naked ladies.   How many naked ladies do I have to look at before I get something to eat? I ask.   I’ll think about it, she says.” - Bill Ratner (@bilorat.bsky.social)

so excited to read for @hfr.bsky.social & Be About It Press at #AWP26 next week! 😊 many thanks to Bill Lessard & @alexandranaughton.bsky.social 🙏 see you in Baltimore! 🎉

“Grafted here now, tethered to sap not my own, wrapped in evergreen and borrowed moss— the trees around me teaching what roots can do when the frost comes, how love moves through heartwood without asking permission.” - Tian Sanchez-Ballado voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/o...

“The sky moved without permission. We let the mosquitoes circle and bite our legs bloody until light. Small volumes of ourselves hung in the air around us as we ignored all the ways to start over.” - Cole Pragides voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/n...

“The afternoon of my grandmother’s funeral, / my sisters, mom, nephew, and I / decide to paint with a Bob Ross episode, hoping / to dull our grief with bright colors, to soothe / our broken spirits with his bulbous brown hair, / his velvet voice and reassurances.” - Trystan Popish

“we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, / we are so beautiful most people choose / not to see us, for fear of overwhelming / themselves” - Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/m...

“Fine, if you insist, I will go wherever you go, I will try the chicken tikka masala, I will reply to your 'mi amores', I will play your games, I will be the stud who steals you a kiss in public. I will love you the way you want to be loved." - Erick Flores Díaz voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/l...

“Unlike Blockbuster and Redbox, I, too, am here. And I’m watching you rebuild. Even though you can’t rewind, you can make another life worth watching to the credits.” - Jonathan Fletcher (@jmfletcher15.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/g...

“Taste what the tree roots know, Bend your back at lightning snaps. Submit to the murmurs of rabbit children.” - Oisín Rowe (@orowe.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/g...

“my boy told me hey / but you’re still a good / dude confession / the devil speaks / to you in your own / voice he’s no / ventriloquist” - Tim Lynch voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/f...

"Like a game of snake / an ouroboros on an old Nokia. Those invincible / bricks, where did they go? Other than swallowed / up deep inside, of course. Bit by micro-bit." - @carmenbarefield.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/d...

“but if this world is not that if heaven is hidden from sight do this as often as you do this in remembrance of...   the warm embrace of another despite the nearness of life without” - Mikey Franz voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/c...

“At the holiday party / my wife’s coworkers ask about my poetry / and I tell them oh, / it’s slice-of-life kind of stuff. / Bird on a wire kind of stuff. They ask / but what are they about?” - Joshua Lillie voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/a...

“There was so much we didn’t see, but it saw us. We shone for it. The past recognizes its imminent relatives.   It warms as it watches you and me becoming  artifacts of love.” - Rose DeMaris voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/a...

❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️ ft. @carmenbarefield.bsky.social, @arianathepoet.bsky.social, @jmfletcher15.bsky.social, @bilorat.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/w...

“I feed like falling and I fuck like falling, equalizing pressure, meant to shed a wreck of men” - Callie Jennings (@aporianautics.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/w...

“and I loved before I had the language then it came in a dialect I had to translate for myself” - Muhammad Rabih voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/u...

last call for submissions for our winter issue! ❄️ call & send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨

“and why             this want for permanence surround   sound my life with             backups sound out my name and   it’s almost a library” - Fiona Martinez voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/u...

two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!

“Gravity is repression, you think and try to not. You know how you will feel when you awaken. You can already feel the cold sweat coming.” - JeFF Stumpo voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“do not be afraid of your own heart beating” - Charlotte Alexander voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“What bloomed from grief / came instinct, / came wrath.” - c. rivera voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/s...

“I want to write about eternity too just like the cats probing at their breakfasts   or your two week old hands Isadora brushing my beard like sleepwalking windshield wipers” - Dylan Emmons voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...

we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨ 💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛 deadline january 1st