"This is the tale of all nickers lurking in the crevices of Kodesoh, of the four àgbàyàs who took my Nokia C21 Plus and patted my back with a dagger." —Olaore Durodola-Oloto anmly.org/ap41/olaore-...

“On earth I must be LOUD pleasuredome jaws cavernous incantatory sagas fervently breaking escape velocity loquacious self-expansion.” —Noa Micaela Fields in @anmlymag.bsky.social. Read two poems for #WomensHistoryMonth: anmly.org/ap40/noa-mic...

Announcing our 2026 Best New Poets nominees! Aida Bardissi, "When Liberation Comes" anmly.org/ap41/aida-ba... * Desiree Remick, "Dreams, State Violence, Windchimes" anmly.org/ap41/desiree...

"but this assumes the museum could hold us, the lovers already clambering from our enclosures, tiptoes on scuffed wood to doors opening on dewy darkness, the forest of desire deeper than any petty diorama..." —Rebecca Hawkes anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...

"but this assumes the museum could hold us, the lovers already clambering from our enclosures, tiptoes on scuffed wood to doors opening on dewy darkness, the forest of desire deeper than any petty diorama..." —Rebecca Hawkes anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...

Announcing our 2026 Best New Poets nominees! Aida Bardissi, "When Liberation Comes" anmly.org/ap41/aida-ba... * Desiree Remick, "Dreams, State Violence, Windchimes" anmly.org/ap41/desiree...

"when the creature is smashed there is no more sound!! when we walk down the street it belongs to us again!! that night we hear music pouring out of every window!! in every language!!" —Samia Saliba anmly.org/ap41/samia-s...

read these 2 poems @ a cantonese restaurant today :) visibly drunk guy came up to me after & asked me if i could write down the poems in his notebook or give him a link to read them on lol. quite a lot of attendees were masked too which is always nice

"when the creature is smashed there is no more sound!! when we walk down the street it belongs to us again!! that night we hear music pouring out of every window!! in every language!!" —Samia Saliba anmly.org/ap41/samia-s...

"the problem has never left me not from that day to this one and neither has she for better and for worse even though I am now three years older than he ever was or will be him who I still see every time I visit the city I loved" —Nathaniel Lachenmeyer anmly.org/ap41/nathani...

“it will creep through the back door slam the front one shut it will feel gaseous and putrid thick with what nows and what ofs…” —Aida Bardissi in @anmlymag.bsky.social! Read two poems for #WomensHistoryMonth: anmly.org/ap41/aida-ba...

"the problem has never left me not from that day to this one and neither has she for better and for worse even though I am now three years older than he ever was or will be him who I still see every time I visit the city I loved" —Nathaniel Lachenmeyer anmly.org/ap41/nathani...

This month, Poets in Pajamas brings you featured readers Diana Bai Fu and Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras at 7 PM EST on Sunday, March 15th, with two 20-minute live virtual readings immediately followed by a short Q&A! Visit our website to learn more! https://poetsinpajamas.wordpress.com/

"You want me to describe my white cotton panties, tangled mass of hair. My bones..." —McLeod Logue anmly.org/ap41/mcleod-...

Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for including Aida Bardissi and Noa Micaela Fields on this list for Women's History Month!

"You want me to describe my white cotton panties, tangled mass of hair. My bones..." —McLeod Logue anmly.org/ap41/mcleod-...

Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for including Aida Bardissi and Noa Micaela Fields on this list for Women's History Month!

"I got indicted by the feds, you write to me in an Instagram message. You tell me you’re hoping for house arrest, but you’ll probably have to do some time." —Rachel Dorn anmly.org/ap41/rachel-...

“A progressive illness is like a prison sentence in that it marks a loss of freedom, the death of a future.” 😭❤️‍🩹

"I got indicted by the feds, you write to me in an Instagram message. You tell me you’re hoping for house arrest, but you’ll probably have to do some time." —Rachel Dorn anmly.org/ap41/rachel-...

"“She says you’re white trash.” “What does that mean?” said Erline. “I don’t really know,” said Annie, “but I’m not.” “Why?” “Because we eat lots of vegetables, and we don’t have a TV.”" —Nina King Sannes anmly.org/ap41/nina-ki...

"“She says you’re white trash.” “What does that mean?” said Erline. “I don’t really know,” said Annie, “but I’m not.” “Why?” “Because we eat lots of vegetables, and we don’t have a TV.”" —Nina King Sannes anmly.org/ap41/nina-ki...

"...because I hated my previous life, he kissed me under a sky so vast it looked like it was lying, his other head wouldn’t stop nodding like hell until I took it in my palms to pat it quiet..." —Ernest Ohia anmly.org/ap41/ernest-...

"...because I hated my previous life, he kissed me under a sky so vast it looked like it was lying, his other head wouldn’t stop nodding like hell until I took it in my palms to pat it quiet..." —Ernest Ohia anmly.org/ap41/ernest-...

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated -collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..." Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/03/t...

"Autism is a site of resistance, What do you fear of those who can’t conform? What do you fear of those who won’t conform? Complacency is key to fascism." —Tiezst “Tie” Taylor anmly.org/ap41/tiezst-...

"Autism is a site of resistance, What do you fear of those who can’t conform? What do you fear of those who won’t conform? Complacency is key to fascism." —Tiezst “Tie” Taylor anmly.org/ap41/tiezst-...

"Last night I was starving and decided to boil my certificates with salt. Most people live on the illusion of dead-end professionalism and degrees. I rather take the split coffee from a rotten liver & light a match across my grades." —JC Paz anmly.org/ap41/jc-paz/

Italian #SFinTranslation from @anmlymag.bsky.social anmly.org/ap25/rachel-...

"Last night I was starving and decided to boil my certificates with salt. Most people live on the illusion of dead-end professionalism and degrees. I rather take the split coffee from a rotten liver & light a match across my grades." —JC Paz anmly.org/ap41/jc-paz/

“Chessmen / Quiet / After / Revising / Illusions— / Their / Innumerable / Identities / Are / Sacrifices…” Read Nkosi Nkululeko’s “The Chessmen” in @anmlymag.bsky.social! #BlackHistoryMonth anmly.org/ap33/nkosi-n...

The first page of more new work from Asterales Issue Five poet Svetlana Litvinchuk in the new issue of @pleiadesmag.bsky.social!

"Invariably, the sun invades: there’s cause and effect and there’s a simple lusting real ludicrous idea that there is only one ideal way to be which we should all strive for." —Derek Yen anmly.org/ap41/derek-y...

Hey queens, tonight’s Poetry Nightly poem is courtesy of urs truly 🌝👉🏻👈🏻 — poetrynightly.com/2026/02/25/p...

Storytelling has always been at the heart of Indigenous culture, and this Women's History Month, we're celebrating that! 💛 @rebeccanagle.bsky.social , Dr. Minthorn, and @johnniejae.bsky.social to hear how they use their voices to uplift the Indigenous community and beyond. 3.11.26 | 11:00 AM PT

The Sundress team has helped build a list of 30 journals that exclusively undergraduate writers! If that's you, check these out! https://sundressblog.com/2026/02/23/30-undergrad-literary-journals-to-submit-to/

"in a dark movie theatre, a body is almost anonymous. more so if it’s one of the auditoriums with recliners, where a body is less likely to touch another body." TRANSMASC MARVEL GIRL from @selizabeth.bsky.social arrives April 23rd preorders are OPEN kithbooks.com/shop/p/transmascmarvel

The current submission window for 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 will close February 12th. ✍

"...I like to be squished during sex and not during sex. Let me pluck your eyebrows. When we pass mile marker 35 I get hungry for pickled okra" —E.K. Bartlett beestungmag.com/issue26/one-...

hey! i have new poems up at jagged edge! www.jaggededge.org/read/five-po...

New micro in 50-Word Stories. (Link in the comments section!)

Meet the SmokeLong Eds! Thursday March 5, 6-8pm, Old Major, free entry. Come early to get your drinks in and hang out. Can't wait to catch up. ❤️ #AWP

"...flash, much like poetry, gives us ample space for play..." t.r. san is our featured author this week. Read Kelly Pedro's interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

"Invariably, the sun invades: there’s cause and effect and there’s a simple lusting real ludicrous idea that there is only one ideal way to be which we should all strive for." —Derek Yen anmly.org/ap41/derek-y...

My poem ‘how to leave a home’ published on @underbellypress.bsky.social - if wardrobes were carousels, this suitcase is a coffin of seeds 🌱 Read this issue here as we wait for their latest release: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of... #poetry #home #loss #grief #migration #underbelly

"And I wonder if you have thought of your wife tonight. I love your wife, have even fucked her, and watched her come with your fingers still inside me. But when you say I love your little moans, I hope you mean I love you." —Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador anmly.org/ap41/sandra-...

"And I wonder if you have thought of your wife tonight. I love your wife, have even fucked her, and watched her come with your fingers still inside me. But when you say I love your little moans, I hope you mean I love you." —Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador anmly.org/ap41/sandra-...

"After my girlfriend cooks me dinner, I kiss each of her oil-drenched knuckles, caress her cheek and wipe the salt from her brow" —Merrick Sloane anmly.org/ap41/merrick...

"After my girlfriend cooks me dinner, I kiss each of her oil-drenched knuckles, caress her cheek and wipe the salt from her brow" —Merrick Sloane anmly.org/ap41/merrick...

"I was told I was born with restive demons in my blood. One morning in June, my grandma, wilting like a sinking sun, gathered my friends as oracles to the part of my body where there are afflictions." —Hassan A. Usman anmly.org/ap41/hassan-...