"eating taco bell in the middle of a burger king drive thru just to feel something" in @upthestaircase.bsky.social

Came across this wonderful poem in @upthestaircase.bsky.social on my travels today. www.upthestaircase.org/james-king.h...

So honored to have my poem in Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly!!

We love ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we love this poem❤️ Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published the gorgeous piece, Self-Portrait as the Pie Crust in Heretic (2024), in @upthestaircase.bsky.social: buff.ly/L4U0jlR

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Thank you to Editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my poem - " 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' " written after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire - to appear in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. I'm honored to share these pages with so many wonderful poets and artists.

Grateful to have a new poem 'Childhood' included in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social alongside a wealth of talent! Huge thank you to EIC @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my work ❤️ upthestaircase.org/vikki-c.html (ALT TEXT included) Check out the full issue at the link in replies.

Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org

We are open for submissions of poetry and art until September 15th: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social (Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Day 2: “Last Night at Good Luck Bar” by Catherine Fletcher in @upthestaircase.bsky.social. I LOVE the “platonic love” theme of their recent issue! This poem feels so nostalgic and reminds me of nights out with my best friends. www.upthestaircase.org/catherine-fl...

I'm thrilled to have my poem "Last Night at Good Luck Bar" for my friends Jeff/ @jorgill.bsky.social & Tony in this stellar issue. Many thanks to editor April Bratten & the USQ team!

I'm honored to have a poem for my friend Jerica up today in @upthestaircase.bsky.social in their 70th issue "Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love," celebrating friendship & community. Happy this poem found a home in this special issue & in good company. Gratitude, editors, & cheers to all contributors.

Thank you to the editors for including my poem in this beautiful issue in such kindred company. ♥️ @upthestaircase.bsky.social

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live! www.upthestaircase.org

Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈 www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/

"If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead, then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical." Dream of the Moose Calf, Zeke Shomler in @upthestaircase.bsky.social www.upthestaircase.org/zeke-shomler...

Celebrate friendship and community with Up the Staircase! We are seeking poetry and art for our themed issue, Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Deadline: July 1st upthestaircase.org

We are seeking cover art submissions for our future issues! Cover art can be of any genre or discipline and must contain a *staircase* somewhere in the work (but does not have to be the focal point). Visit our guidelines for more information: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

Check out our guidelines to submit to our themed issue celebrating friendship, community, and platonic love: www.upthestaircase.org

Submissions are now open for our special issue Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Send us your work about friendship and community: www.upthestaircase.org

#upthestaircase Read the latest from @upthestaircase.bsky.social See my photo taken in Barga, Italy on the cover! #barga #italy #stonesteps

The new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly is here 👀 www.upthestaircase.org

We are bringing our themed summer issues back ✨️ We will be looking for poetry and art submissions that highlight friendship and community for our August issue. Submissions open May 1st 👀

Or this one from a couple of years ago in @upthestaircase.bsky.social (choosing these ones for you since you're an ecopoet!) www.upthestaircase.org/jill-kitchen...

Ready your poems. This summer we are bringing back our themed issues! On May 1st we will open to submissions for our Kindred Issue: Poems on Platonic Love. More details soon.

Have some poems ready for submission? Tonight is the deadline to submit for our May issue: www.upthestaircase.org

I love you as in let's face down climate catastrophe together. ❤️🐟🦐 (poem pubbed last year by the lovely folks at @upthestaircase.bsky.social) #lovepoem #poetrysky #valentines

Sharing an old poem titled 'On Valentine's Day...' on Valentine's Day though it's not 'on' Valentine's Day :) from Issue 64 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social www.upthestaircase.org/vismai-rao-i...

With just everything happening lately I completely missed this dropping, but I have new work in Up the Staircase!

I reviewed <bo(d)y rendering by A. Deshmane (@kithbooks.bsky.social) for the new edition of Up the Staircase Quarterly! This chapbook is an incisive, bold exploration of technology and the queer body. www.upthestaircase.org/body-renderi...

Issue 19 is live & it's full of Queer Southern voices! Let it be a balm for your sadness, a podium for your pride, & a middle finger to those trying to silence queer folx. We won't hush. 🏳️‍🌈 www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/

I've never held the title of 'Issue Illustrator' before!! I'm so happy to have 10 of my paintings here in Issue 68 of Up The Staircase Quarterly. What an honour! Many thanks April and @upthestaircase.bsky.social team. www.upthestaircase.org/issue-illust...

watching the sumac grow green and flame up, over and over again discovering mid-century books and wading into them like a lake — Han VanderHart Many thanks to EIC April Bratten and @upthestaircase.bsky.social for homing these two poems and supporting Larks through the years!

Love Up the Staircase -- online issues that are actually *pleasing* to navigate, plus beautiful art pairings. Check it out! (Also yay @hanvanderhart.bsky.social we are mag buddies!)

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Thank you Up The Staircase Quarterly for publishing two of my poems alongside these dreamy poets. Plus the cover art, gorgeous. Transgender Latina, by Ernesto Beckford. www.upthestaircase.org

Issue #68 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is now live! Check it out here: www.upthestaircase.org

Great publication opening soon!

I've yet to share any of my own work here but in being extremely cold & abundantly queer, here's this summery gay poem published a year ago from @upthestaircase.bsky.social & here also are some lovies to @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for being my favorite editor on the planet. ❤️

I love @upthestaircase.bsky.social so much, I think I've read the entire site like a dozen times lol. Definitely gonna check out @screendoorreview.bsky.social. Thx!

It'd be a fine time to catch up on @screendoorreview.bsky.social before issue 19 drops & my all time favorite is @upthestaircase.bsky.social. ❄️

Ready your submissions 😊 UtSQ will reopen for submissions on February 1st.

I keep returning to this gem by @thepoettree.bsky.social in @upthestaircase.bsky.social . . .Sometimes we take ourselves way too seriously, and this poem reminds me that poetry can be funny and fun. www.upthestaircase.org/tresha-faye-...

(once more with feeling, and without so many typos lol) We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists in the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series! We'll be choosing three chapbooks for publication. Thank you to the nearly 300 poets who sent in a manuscript. www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks/se...

Issue 18 was a stunner. Give it a gander! Now reading for #19! Pass it on. ;) www.screendoorreview.com/issue-18/

10 days left to submit to our February 2025 issue! We are seeking poetry and art: www.upthestaircase.org

If you enjoy excellent writing, you should be following this journal. It's consistently first rate.