Your morning Mocha.☀️🐶

My conversation with @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social is live at TBH. ❤️ Jai and his writing will change you! This notion of turning to art in times of struggle has remained a cornerstone of my own artistic vision even when everything else argues against it. -JC constancemalloy.com/2025/09/15/a...

Here's the link to the purchase page: icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

What are you doing for hope these days? If you missed it, a blog post about hope, loss, and breaking from writing: koss-works.com/instead-of-w... #writing, #hope, #gardening, #breaks, #ageofaquarius

Pleased as punch to have a new story in the latest issue of @funfunfunicular.bsky.social! Big thanks to everyone involved. The issue looks terrific.

#9 How I enjoyed this paper! (Fabriano Hot Press 300lb) * * * #Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #Watercolor #PenandInk #Bird #Patterns #Tenderness #Peace #MotherEarth #Nature #Plants #Leaves

“…she looks for a woman in the book.” This wonderful gem by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social!❤️

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c...

Firing soup bowls on this rainy day. Here are some new ones in sour apple and pink shadow. It’s soup season, friends.🍁🍏🍂🤎 #pottery

I'm pleased to have a new poem at @harpyhybrid.bsky.social - "All That Disappears" "Rivers, sunsets, mountains, highways find their end –" Special thanks to the editors. www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works...

🔥 Now available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥 IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

“How loud is the unspoken? What is missing?” Check out @kathyfish.bsky.social’s wonderful September newsletter, writing friends!🤍🤍🤍

'Resting Fox' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

September sub window: OPEN 🪟

Photography is really perception. As with all art, the objective of photography is not the duplication of visual reality, but an investigation of the outer world and its influence on the inner world.... All of my photographs are photographs of myself. - Ansel Adams

"To answer you–finches, wrens, robins & sparrows, and crows join, rustling their wings, arguing on a telephone line. A blue house cacophonous with a cook-out and all that is summer music. " from my poem "Curfew" in Boomer Lit. Link in the comments.

Your Monday Mocha.🤎🐶

Thrilled to have another microfiction in the exciting @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙏🥧 gooseberry-pie.com/glinda-was-n...

💥ANNOUNCING💥Rules of Verse--Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground Subs Open @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social on October 1st w/ Guest Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

#SundayShoutout: The first #PoeticLibretto of mine published is available as a free #flipbook. Enjoy! #Poetry #Art #FourFeathersPress anyflip.com/sdmnd/aylh

Taking a break from short poetry films to try something a little different… ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025. First episode drops October 15th! But in the meantime, a little teaser… youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs

NEW POEM #268: "We Almost Lived Somewhere Else" by Vaneeza Sohail 3 Mother of smoke, we can’t breathe so you give us rain we find laughter between sheets of anguish stonecirclereview.com/we-almost-li... #Poetry

"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches." My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

New jar in sour apple & pink shadow.🍏💛🩷🩵 #pottery

“…and I leave myself there in case I find myself.” This wonderment by Shome Dasgupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social!💙

“Perhaps we only wanted her as long as she didn’t mean grief.” This stunner by @happilander.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social! 🔥💔

Hey, I'm leading a two-hour generative writing session on Sunday, Sept. 28th through wonderful Cleaver Magazine! Would love to see you there. I have fun things planned! cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32754...

“…turning to art in times of struggle.” Oh, I really enjoyed @theburninghearth.bsky.social’s in-depth interview with @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social. Give it a read, friends!💙📚

Mocha and I are spending our morning with the moving MANNA SONGS, edited by the marvelous @dianegotauthor.bsky.social! Check it out, friends!📚💜

Your Monday Mocha.🤎🐶

Don't wait until you have a book coming out to write your acknowledgments page. It's not a bad little activity (especially in moments as fraught as this one) to remind yourself of the impact of other people (so many other people!) & institutions have had on your life.

Just finished reading the Tamil classic novel, 'Moga Mull' ('Thorn of Desire') by T. Janakiraman. It is an older woman – younger man love story. It is also a love letter to music. Loved the book. My review is here. #Janakiraman #TamilLiterature vishytheknight.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/b...

Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection! #workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites

“That’s what makes us beautiful.” This one by @melissafitz.bsky.social made me cry. So poignant, powerful, and true. 🦅❤️💔

Submissions are tentatively scheduled to open October 1st. We will be finalizing responses to outstanding submissions for the rest of September. This has been a social media post in the year 2025. It was written from a bed with no sheets. The sheets are in the laundry. They will return soon. Fresh.

ICYMI, Our 2nd issue is out now. Take a short break, dig in, and breathe with these pieces. #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Two weeks left! Send us your poetry, fiction, essays, translations before September 30. theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

weekly talk story about @lit-namjooning.bsky.social second issue and Bitter over Sweet book launch... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

“But I don’t. I don’t ever come back.” This piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is so poignant and beautiful. (Thanks for passing it along, dear @pdforan.bsky.social!)❤️

Brown & cream marbled cookie plates coming out of the kiln.🤎💛🍪 #pottery

This beauty by @susanbarryschulz.com🩷🖤

New micro out today, which began as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thank you so much!

“‘That’s a lot of me,’ I say.” Oh, this excellent flash by the wonderful @kathyfish.bsky.social! 🔥

Tomorrow! Who’s excited?

#7 * * * #Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #DrawingPractice #Watercolor #ColoredPencils #Bird #Patterns #Tenderness

Your Monday Mocha.☀️🐶🤎

“I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer.” Oh, this excellent flash by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @havehashad.com!🤍🤍

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!