There are a few days left in 2025, but here are my end of year submission numbers. I was aggressive this year, which resulted in tons of rejections, but also gave me my highest number of accepted poems in a year—47!

MOM: We just got to the airport, but we can catch a later flight. Motion sensors say you’re in my bedroom. KEVIN: I’m hiding under your bed. MOM: Your Oura ring shows your heart rate is elevated. Don’t worry—I just turned on the radiant heat in the floors.

Mate Cannabis

"The Oxen," by Thomas Hardy: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53215/...

Recently read Allison Benis White’s _The Wendys_ and really really liked it!

lol lost it at “peer review deez nuts”

My first time as a prize finalist! 🎉💕

I have another concrete poem out in Midway Journal! You can read “Holes” here: midwayjournal.com/holes/

Read my concrete poem just out in Porter House Review! porterhousereview.org/articles/the...

A milestone! 200 rejection letters so far this year! Celebrating does help! 🎉

NEW POEM #271: "The Idea of Lightning" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran (@kdawn999.bsky.social) "A crack in the crypt, that jolt against mortality, the way the iris closes in. The air is a marriage of mud and the fine fine dust that spills in with the morning." stonecirclereview.com/the-idea-of-... #Poem

My poem “Genesis 1” is featured on the latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast @viewlesswings.bsky.social Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Feeling it’s about time for my 30th re-watch. #PrideandPrejudice #Godhasbeenverygoodtous

sex is cool but have you ever dated someone who always wants to spend exactly the same amount of time as you in a museum

Wohoo! A poem accepted today after a dry spell of many weeks and some 30 rejection letters!

My “Orbital Story” published by Opol opol.space/@kimberly-gi...

Many thanks to Ghudsavar Literary Magazine for giving a home to my poem “Today Smelled Like My Childhood.” www.ghudsavar.com/poem-pages/7... 🌾

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

My weird little poem now out in @memezine.bsky.social 💙

Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for our Fall issue. Here’s a sample from Kimberly Gibson-Tran’s “Crossing I-75”. Kimberly Gibson-Tran's (@kdawn999.bsky.social) writing appears in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Baltimore Review, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

The Fall 2025 issue is live at www.holeintheheadreview.com! Here's a sampling from Shagufta Mulla's "I Am That I Am (Exodus 3:14)".

See my poem “Crossing I-75” in the Fall 2025 issue of @holeinthehead.bsky.social I don’t usually write political poems, but man, these times. www.holeintheheadreview.com/post/kimberl...

Made it to 150 magazine rejections this year so far. Trying to keep my chin up, but I have been having a dry spell for many weeks.

I’ve got a new poem just out in Clayjar Review’s “Rooted” issue. Read my poem “Home, a History” here: clayjar.review/issues/roote...

@whaleroadreview.bsky.social Do you get a lot of poems about whales in submissions? If so, does this bother you? Asking for a friend 😅🐳

Just found out @aquietroot.bsky.social featured my poem in May! 💕 aquietroot.com/2025/05/26/p...

Just read Keetje Kuipers’ collection with my poetry book club. My GR book review:

🩷 @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

My poems “Night-fires” and “Cinderella’s Hands” were just published by Arcturus Magazine. The former is about a dream set in my childhood home in Chiang Klang, Thailand. The latter is in memory of my Nana. Read them here: arcturusmag.com/2025/07/15/t...

Thrilled to see my 2nd ever published villanelle in this year’s spring issue of Reed Magazine. Also, this is, hands down, the most beautifully designed and printed lit mag 😍 @reedmagazine.bsky.social

Compelling, devastating first-hand account of a family swept up in the July 4th TX flood.

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Thank you @baltimorereview.bsky.social for the shoutout on IG ❤️ This poem about my 5-year wedding anniversary is also about our marriage counselors’ divorce. 💔 Read or listen here: baltimorereview.org/spring_2025/...

Excited to see my weird little poem in the #brainrot anthology from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social Here it is: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

This is what peek/peak/pique performance looks like.

“For these women, the personal and political are intertwined.”

vane = 💨 vein = 🩸 vain = 🪞

"One time, after I started not reading Ulysses, I got distracted by not reading The Goldfinch, which had been sitting on my bedside table for months and as far as I was concerned could continue to do so. I mean, it’s not going to not read itself."

"I learned this method from my father // who ate all fruit with a knife and bowl / and a precision that seemed almost vulgar" Gahl Liberzon, from Issue #4! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/gahl-liberzon Submissions due 6/15 publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

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"i believe poetry happens to a poet long before they ever write it." — Enzo Silon Surin

See my newly published poem “Toward” in issue 12 of @rowayat.bsky.social It’s a true story about my heroic mom and what happened after a church ski trip: rowayat.org/toward/

'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

Ahhh already hit that 100 rejections mark in 2025. Feels good. Gunning for 200 by December 🥰💀❤️

So wonderful to see my poem on page 15 of the beautiful t’ART magazine—shipped to me all the way from the UK! The theme of this issue was “break/mend.”

The zine Pandan Weekly—which circulates poems & stories from those connected to Southeast Asia—kindly republished my #nonfiction essay “Survival Instinct.” If you’d like to read or listen to my essay about sisterhood, missionaries, & Star Trek, you can here: pandanweekly.substack.com/p/survival-i...

Issue 7 of Elysium Review is live! We focus on poetryof Pleasure, Delight, Wonder, ​and Joy! www.elysiumreview.com/issue-7.html