Hello ESTONIA! ❄️ Thrilled to be published in the new issue of the wonderful AKSOLOTL! 🔗 aksolotlestonia.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/a...

Hello ESTONIA! ❄️ Thrilled to be published in the new issue of the wonderful AKSOLOTL! 🔗 aksolotlestonia.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/a...

Me in 2025:

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." (Samuel Pepys) 🎨 Mildred Anne Butler

This is marvelous and really resonates with my feelings as a mom. Thank you for sharing and congratulations on the award nominations!

A perfect New Year's gift! 💫 My prose poem "Allegory of the Lungless Poet" is accepted to be published in the Issue 48 of Unbroken Journal! www.unbrokenjournal.com/about/

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️

For #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social I'm sharing my Pushcart Prize and Editor's Choice Award nominated poem from @south85journal.bsky.social

On a cold #caturday before Midwinter, our 21st #yulefolklore tale brings us to Iceland where idle hands make food for the YULE CAT! Read the tale of dread Jólakötturinn in the link below. 🎨 IrenHorrors

Very lucky to have had poems selected for two gorgeous anthologies, both out just in time for Christmas. One poem in @blackcatpress.bsky.social's nature anthology 'The Water Knows I Love You' and two in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's annual Christmas/winter anthology. Fantastic writers in each! 👌🏼✨

Catapoetic. modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...

And I'd choose my self. Thank you, dear world, for giving me this wonderful life. 🧿

Thank you Satya and Catherine @blackcatpress.bsky.social for my contributor’s copy of this beautiful production.

“’Swounds, show me what thou’lt do: Woul’t weep? woul’t fight? woul’t fast? woul’t tear thyself? Woul’t drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? I’ll do’t. Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I.” (“Hamlet”, V.1) #shakespearesunday

Curl by Diane Seuss 🖤 #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

New poem...

"...poetry directs us by destroying daily language..." Maurice Blanchot, from Poetry and Language (tr. Charlotte Mandell)

After writing a poem on language, re-reading some Wittgenstein today.

Auditions are over, poets have been informed of which wave they'll appear in throughout 2026/27, and Christmas is just around the corner. Time to say hello to the poets who'll make up wave twenty-four of @iambapoet.com – including special guest poet @johnglenday.bsky.social. iambapoet.com/wave/24

Today's the day! The 1-year anniversary issue of SHINE Quarterly is AVAILABLE here: tinyurl.com/36hehcme Watch the launch video here: youtu.be/ADqjbsKe1YM Join #shinepoetry in supporting the: #internationalcommunity #poetrycommunity #booklaunch #stockingstuffers for #poetrylovers / #booklovers

New year's 'kokina' from my love! ♥️

Editing Soot & Boots reminded me how short fiction can cut straight to the bone. #SootAndBoots

Looking for a meaningful festive gift? Give the Gift of a Year of Poetry. 🔗 poetryarchive.org/support/gift...

We return to Germany for our 11th #yulefolklore tale, in a cold December night, when the birds suddenly fall silent. Ominous enough, since our feathered friends are often seen as messengers between our world and the next since days of old. Read the story following the link below. 🎨 Karel Zeman

Can I brazenly point out that someone might appreciate poetry for Christmas? amzn.eu/d/8GeJEBX

Wonderful news! My poem "Tabula Rasa" is accepted to be published in Aksolotl Literary Magazine of Estonia! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky aksolotlestonia.wordpress.com/acerca-de-2/...

💐The countdown is on! 💐MORE FLOWERS releases with @triohousepress.org in less than 60 days, so thank you in advance for your patience with all my little reminders, and please consider pre-ordering at the link. I am super excited to share these poems! triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...

The end of the year is a liminal time and the believe of witches abroad doing mischief is almost universal across Northern Europe in December. We meet one in our 9th #yulefolklore tale in the Bavarian Alps – and, of course, she’s up to no good! Read it following the link below. 🎨 Maéna Paillet

Thrilled that my Nature Prize shortlisted poem "Black on Black" is published in the nature poems anthology of Black Cat Poetry Press 🖤 #poetry #poetrycommunity @blackcatpress.bsky.social www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page...

Thrilled that my Nature Prize shortlisted poem "Black on Black" is published in the nature poems anthology of Black Cat Poetry Press 🖤 #poetry #poetrycommunity @blackcatpress.bsky.social www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page...

Andrea Cohen #smallpoemsunday #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Our 7th #yulefolklore tale takes us back to France today on St Nicholas Day and we’ll meet one of his ghastly companions who whip up the tension of the saint’s annual visit. This one does it literally though, what with his cruel backstory. Read it, following the link below!

Great news! Delighted to have an acceptance for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🤍 www.frazzledlit.com

⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️ Have you put The Storms Journal V on your Christmas shopping list? @eatthestorms.com ⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️ Available here 👇 eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/

“Holle-peter, as well as Hersche, Harsche, Hescheklas, Euprecht, Eupper…, is among the names given to the muffled servitor who goes about in Holle's train at the time of the winter solstice” (Grimm) 🎨 Valin Mattheis #FolkloreThursday

In 2025, I've almost 100 poems published across many countries, two Pushcart Prize, an Editor's Choice, a Spiritual Poetry Award, and Best of the Net nominations, a university conference on #catapoetics in London... This has absolutely been my year of #poetry :) Cheers to a better one! 🥂

"I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again." Anna Akhmatova

There is a Yuletide tradition in France telling of the witch La Guillaneu riding her headless fairy steed through French winter nights. But follow us to Brittany today for our 2nd #Yulefolklore tale, where La Guillaneu takes on a quite different guise! Link in the comments 🎨 Ari-Matti Toivonen

Here is my Pushcart nominated poem "And the Oscar Goes to" ⚡

"Denominator" is in Poems Revived! 🌱 Thank you David Hanlon for giving new roots to my poem. #poetry #poetrysky (Originally published in Abridged 0-100: From under the Floorboards) @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

Congrats to our 6 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Chris Jones @helenlaycock.bsky.social Maire T Robinson Jo Morrigan Black @smcnicholl.bsky.social @lenaozge.bsky.social & huge cheers to all our stars @eatthestorms.com V What a fab journey, myself & Dami couldn't be more proud of you all ⚡️🥳⚡️

Over the moon to be nominated for Pushcart Prize by @eatthestorms.com Thank you so much Damien & Rhona 💙⚡ #poetry #pushcartprize #poetrysky

The Storms issue V Pushcart Prize nominees Jo Morrigan Black @lenaozge.bsky.social 💙💙🙏🙏

Delighted that my poem "How Calliope Lost Her Tongue" is published in the Fall 2025 "Voice" issue of The Branches Journal. Print in New York City. #poetry thebranchesjournal.com

Thank you all so much for embracing our 5th Storm 🙏 Sharing just a few comments in the video below. Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉 If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here… eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...

The beautiful slick magazine, The Storms, from Dublin arrived. They paid very well for the use of images of two of my paintings. Thank goodness for organizations that support the arts. #painting #art @eatthestorms.com

"I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone." #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...

Lena River internationaltimes.it/lena-river/ Özge Lena image E. Kaspersky