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

writing again, thank God!

Hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social again next month, and I'm so excited to feature my good friend & mentor @derrickbrown.bsky.social and the wonderful Erica Miriam Fabri 🤩 Wednesday, Dec. 10th at Fergie's Pub 🎉 Hope you can join us! It’ll be a rockin’ good time 🤘🖤

“it’s where most of us find ourselves after a relationship sharing space with those silver skins not fitting any better than the aluminum did her and her meal prep her and her insistence others should hide what she plans to devour” - @c-late.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...

“As a recluse / I really went / all out" - @jennacardinale.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/n...

“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.” - Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/n...

“I wanted heaven But space spat me out. I heard earth girls are easy. I’m so easy I only learned how to fight Back last week. I didn’t win. But I cured my depression By making the bed!” - Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...

“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?" - Lauren Mills voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...

“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.” - Alexa Vallejo voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...

“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.” - Juniper Danger voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...

“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light” - John Muro voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/b...

“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal” - Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem” voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/4...

🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁 ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...

last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨

one week left to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 👻

hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social tomorrow at Fergie's Pub! ✍️🎉 thrilled that our featured poets are Michael Joseph Walsh & Ebs Sanders 🙌 come hang 🤙 bring a poem for the open mic if you want! 🩷

Through our Pop-Up Libraries, Book Arks, and Free Book Shelves, we’ve been distributing between eight to ten thousand (!) books per month 📚✨ Due to the overwhelming demand for books, we are seeking donations to help us continue to stock our arks, shelves, and tables.

“I dreamed of a canoe, and of the two of us” - Devan Murphy voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/t...