"We all need lights in the darkness," writes Marilyn Charles, "and, at times, we must soften our lights to find our way in the darkness." What better tool to adjust our sights on that wounded human journey through dark-country than writing and art?

“But it led me to this. It led me to putting words together…” This beautiful piece by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social!💙

Should auld acquaintance ...

@gtconway.bsky.social Did you authorize the use of your image and voice in the AI generated commentary videos posted to Youtube by Conway Media? The content seems to be all centered on Canada. It looks like the same parent company has also hijacked David Frum for another series of videos.

In old age I deploy an arsenal of ointments. Now I live the life of a slippery character.

Such a kick as way to close 2025!!! Thanks, @chillsubs.bsky.social!!!

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ~ Joseph Campbell

We were #6 on @chillsubs Best Lit Mags of 2024. And we'd love to be on the 2025 list too. Please Nominate us if you think we have made a difference. chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag.... @chillsubs Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

"Two Poems" by Mykyta Ryzhykh “When I buried you the oceans didn't move however / When I buried you it didn't rain and nothing changed / When I buried you I realized that you still hear and even breathe” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/ryzhy...

"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know." ~ Epicurus

If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social . Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...

"Without madness what is man but a healthy beast, a postponed corpse that breeds?" ~ Pessoa

"To be understood is to prostitute oneself." Fernando Pessoa

Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...

Ekphrastacy is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights Arts gallery, in conjunction with our special exhibitions, where Cleveland-area writers are invited by the Heights Poet Laureate respond to installed artworks with poems. www.heightsarts.org/open-calls/r...

Henri Rousseau

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken. ~ Virginia Woolf

happy saturday! here's a fresh new poem from Tony Gloeggler theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...

"The lively eyes that prod the contents of my clothes shuck me out of those and I go bare as a god." ~ Mallarme

Happy Fuck-It Friday!! dig into this revealing essay by Lori Jakiela theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...

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

I ought to toss out all the clocks and watches and various gadgets that keep time and live according to my own natural rhythms. Eat when hungry, sleep when tired, and show up at work whenever.

Cover reveal & pre-order link! COVER ART BY Gene McCormick. square.link/u/q9uW7L12 #poetry #art #booksky

"My eyes are ripe and whatever they desire approaches like a bride." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"Nothing can stay long, cogitates the dog, so maybe a life of fetch is not a wasted life." ~ Dean Young

In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born 🐝Thank you to the @themerseyreview.bsky.social editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze. www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...

"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." ~ H. L. Mencken

"If heaven would grant me five more years ... I might become a true painter." ~ Hokusai on his death bed.

"When I die, throw me to the wolves. I'm used to it." ~ Diogenes

"God I am cold and want to go to sleep for a long time and only wake up when the sun shines and dogs laugh." ~ Jim Harrison

"The writer should always serve as his own angleworm — and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better." ~ John Hawkes

"When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously." Carlos Fuentes

"If I can't be an ugly rumor I won't be the good time had by all." ~ Bob Kaufman

"A poet necessarily lies about everything, and the first falsehood he invents is that he is an artist." ~ Edward Dahlberg

INTERVIEWER: Why have you chosen poetry as a medium of artistic creation? CHARLES OLSON: I think I made a hell of a mistake.

“I think at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it.” —Umberto Eco