My book is 5 weeks away, so today on my @owtk IG, I'm focusing on the 5th destination in Street Cats & Where to Find Them: New Orleans! Get away from Bourbon St and enter a colorful world of cared-for community cats—have a Hurricane w/ a side of cat hair! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-...

Last call for The Last Girl. 🖤 #PoetryCommunity #thelastgirl www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

Last call for The Last Girl. 💕 #poetrycommunity #thelastgirl www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

Ugh, Andrea Gibson. Gut punch. The world will miss her. 💔

High Fives to our contributors who published elsewhere recently: Sherri Alms @amandagibsonauthor.bsky.social @debbiefeit.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social @ariannasmith.bsky.social @azaykova.bsky.social Jennifer Perrine. Find out what & where: fiveminutelit.com/newsletter

Thank you @havehashad.com 🖤💀🖤

I'm so thrilled that Stanchion will make its New York City Poetry Festival debut this summer. Join Stanchion book authors & magazine contributors @theoriginalison.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social Lynne Schmidt & travis I. tate on Saturday July 12th at 5pm on The Algonquin Stage!

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: The Last Girl by M.R. Mandell On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-... In The Last Girl, M.R. Mandell’s sophomore chapbook, she tells stories of abandonment, and survival. #poetry #betrayal #sexualabuse #survival #lastgirl #abandonment #survival #hope

She’s here. Preorder, if you wish. 🖤 @finishinglinepress.bsky.social #thelastgirl #finishinglinepress #poetrycommunity

We are running low on heart breaks. Would love to see some more general subs - share a photo of an object that represents your heart break and up to 50 words. melissafloresandersonwrites.com/broken-heart...

🖤 #poetrycommunity

Launched our May heartbreaks with a beautiful piece from @mrmandell8.bsky.social. check it outnover at IG @brokenheartsliterary. General subs are open through May 15, then we're looking for music-themed pieces through the end of the month! melissafloresandersonwrites.com/broken-heart...

A NEW round of shout-outs is up on our Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @jessicapoli.bsky.social @kaicoggin.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social @kashawntaylor.bsky.social @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social

She’s rolling! My new poem in @swwim.bsky.social. 🛼 Thank you to the @swwim.bsky.social team. 💕 #poetrycommunity #rollergirl #olivianewtonjohn

Happy Birthday, Ted. Inspiring. 🖤 #tedkooser #poetryhero #workethic #poetrycommunity

New poem in @stanchion.bsky.social Thank you, Jeff. 🖤 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity www.stanchionzine.com

She sighed into the phone. “You are not having a miscarriage. Go back to bed.” —"Not My Doctor" by @mrmandell8.bsky.social in case you missed it https://www.fiveminutelit.com/not-my-doctor

For a limited time, save 20% off all in-stock Stanchion Books & Magazine Issues with code SPRINGSALE. StanchionZine.com/shop

This new press run really is beautiful! Check the print chaps from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social.

Have a dark little piece in issue 18 of @stanchionzine. Please support this awesome indie press, pre-order your copy. 🖤 #poetrycommunity #stanchionzine www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

There's a stellar new Elegant Variation from @kawalker.bsky.social coming your way at 9am ET tomorrow! Stay tuned to www.stanchionzine.com/elegantvaria... every Monday morning for fresh original poetry & prose!

This was….five months ago

Rain in LA. The city seems sad today. 😢 #loveLA #sadcity

Take a look at the Table of Contents for Stanchion Magazine Issue 18...then order a copy! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Support @stanchion.bsky.social. It’s special and Jeff is a mensch. 🖤

Nice to be back in @stanchion.bsky.social. Thank you, Jeff Bogle. 🖤

Find yourself a great group of writer friends and cool shit with them. Thanks to @mrmandell8.bsky.social who offered her place for a @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @rfpress.bsky.social reading last night, and @amymarques.bsky.social who has been my collaborator at the bookfair.

I’ll be reading too! See you all soon!

My first Ghazal. Thank you to Writers Resist. 🇺🇸💙 #poetrycommunity #werise

Friday night of AWP, 11pm, Original Tommy Burger at Beverly and Rampart. JAKE's unofficial Offsite. Be there or be square.

Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions We especially want to get more visual art, short plays, and book reviews! Send us your best today! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity

LA Friends and Visitors, please join us for the Grit and Lit at AWP offsite reading, Friday, March 28, 4-6 p.m. in West Hollywood. RSVP using the QR code, and we’ll give ya the address. Hope to see ya there! @rfpress.bsky.social @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Happy May Day! I have a poem in SWWIM May 1st. Thank you for making my day @swwim.bsky.social 🖤 #poetrycommunity

This.

Poets, we're looking a little light in subs at the moment: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Join us tomorrow night, March 6th, 2025, at 6pm ET (New York Time) in Google Meet for our Spring Contributor Reading Event featuring 10 contributors from Issue 34 Spring 2025! We hope to see you there! Here is a link to join the reading: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/articles/doo...

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

i think i remind people that they can still be playful, that they can play. they can wonder, and they can even be silly. and i never thought of this (quality? skill? temperament?) as well, anything. but maybe it is.

I mean, it’s not great that only 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices believe in the Constitution, but a win is a win.

Lynch captures LA perfectly. 🖤 #iloveLA

Carl Dean, an asphalt paver who met his future wife, Dolly Parton, outside a Nashville laundromat more than six decades ago and quietly championed her as she rose to superstardom, died on Monday. He was 82.

Reminder that JAKE’s chapbook sale is still open (and will stay open until AWP)!!! Only $3.75 for ebooks and $8.75 for physical copies. Check out some lovely chaps from Melissa Flores Anderson, Elliott Coates, Melissa Martini, and Willow P. Delp: jakethemag.square.site/shop/books/P...

Almost forgot to post here (still not used to this Blue Sky). 💙Excited to receive news that I'll be back in @stanchion.bsky.social for issue 18. Feels like going home. Thank you, Jeff! 🖤 #poetrycommunity #stanchionzine #indiepress

One of the problems America is facing has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with how we look at business and businessmen. A disturbingly large percentage of the population believes in a model where good business is ruthless business, and you need callous leaders to be successful.

Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions We especially want to get more visual art, short plays, and book reviews! Send us your best today! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity

Our Spring 2025 issue is coming soon, but there's still time to find our Winter 2024 issue in stores! Here is a link to find where Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is sold near you: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/where-to-buy #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity

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