I enjoyed the unexpected reading in here from this month’s poetic voice, accompanied by a harp🪉 #PoemsAloud

Woohoo! 🥳 so pleased to have #moth featured on @paulwritespoems.bsky.social The Book Bag and to be able to let you all hear my super talented friend Annabel on harp 🪉 with voice for the opening poem of the collection! 🤩 🦋 💚

I read The Book Bag feature this morning and loved your reading with the harp. Paul also mentioned attending your launch during our writing group last week so I’ve been curious about the book ever since. It looks beautiful!

paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-... This anthology is launched today, free download, fundraising for a great cause: Medecins Sans Frontieres. Compiled & edited with skill and care by the very wonderful @paulwritespoems.bsky.social. I have two poems in here, that first appeared via #PoemsAbout... ❤️

This is an unusual, striking and important hybrid collection challenging stereotypes around mental health and the doctor patient relationship. @eleanorholmes.bsky.social - I’ve never read anything like it! It’s beautiful 🤩 💎 Available from www.ethelzine.com/moth

Calling all troubadours! An idea. Post your audio poems. Tag them #PoemsAloud so they're easy to find & share. That's the idea. 🥳 Why? #PoemsAloud syncs perfectly w/ #PoemsAbout or can stand on its own. Some poems live beyond the page. I recorded a bunch & don't know what else to do w/ them 🤷‍♀️

The latest edition of @littlethoughtspress.com is out and it’s a stunner. 🤩 Available here littlethoughtspress.com/issues Thank you Stephanie Buosi for illustrating Benny’s Bellybutton so fabulously! #poetryforkids #storiesforkids #kidlit #writingforchildren

Really excited to reading at the launch of @eleanorholmes.bsky.social immaculate new book #Moth published by @the_ethelzine in April. A fantastic lineup of poets. Full details and audience tickets here: shorturl.at/5Nm7I #poetry #poetrycommunity

This is not to be missed! @eleanorholmes.bsky.social explores the doctor-patient relationship during a psychiatric consultation, reviewer @dr-rachel-ali.bsky.social explained: “the author leaves us wondering how western medical models can ever hold any of us in all our complexity and depth”

Yay happy Ethel author @rfredekenter.bsky.social will be joining ! 🎸

What a line-up of readers for #Moth launch 🚀 readers on #internationalpoetryday Huge thanks to @carolebromley.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social for saying YES 🙌

Hey folks! The launch 🚀 night for my debut #Moth mini-book with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social is go! Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT on-line, with guest readers & Ethel founder Sara Lefsyk! Thank you to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for helping me set this up! #poetrycommunity #internationalpoetryday

In Permission Corner in my March Highly Irregular newsletter, I write about permission... not to publish. Read the rest of the post here: taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Giving a shoutout to the unwhispered! I haven’t been submitting much for a while, but I’m so looking forward to being surrounded by so many talented friends!!!

So cool to see the process of #MOTH being assembled by Sara at @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Pre-orders available here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/moth-by...

Order this right now. It’s FAB!

Gorgeous gorgeous book - you'll be wanting to pre-order this one!

Massive TY to both @taniahershman.bsky.social & @carolebromley.bsky.social for their fab endorsements and support from inception to completion of #MOTH, and to my bestie Rachel Ali, who will be hosting the on-line launch on Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT. Pre-orders: www.ethelzine.com/shop/moth-by...

Super excited to announce that #MOTH is now available to pre-order with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social … details of the on-line launch to follow! Save the date for Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT 🎉 🦋

We’re not pretending this prize is important. We’re saying it’s honest. It rewards favourites, pays poets, and exists because you helped make it. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Absolutely thrilled that my poem ‘Heavenly Bodies’ has been published in Issue 1 of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social, 2026, alongside a host of wonderful #poetry. Look out, too, for the #audio version! 🎧 #litmag #publication #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetsofbluesky

Issue 7 of The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social - I am thrilled to bits that my poem 'The arrivants' is included amidst such wonderful company, including @eleanorholmes.bsky.social, to name but one! themadridreview.com/f/issue-7-is...

This prize won’t change your life. Neither do most prizes. It rewards one editor’s favourite poems and pays them. You helped build it with us. That’s what matters. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

A5 page. 2 poems. 10pt Times New Roman. That’s the formality. Everything else? Break it. Rip up the rulebook. Burn the workshop. Write it like it matters. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

This week: #Mouths. Hunger. Confession. The place where wanting first shows itself. Write the almost-touch. The thing said too close. The heat before contact. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

For today’s #LiftToTheSky shout out to the supportive #poetry peeps here, too many to name @alanparrywriter.co.uk @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social @missyerem.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com Check them out

The effervescent @hool415.bsky.social is this week's #PromptCombo host, with the theme #Tracks. Plenty of scope for something interesting. Share your poems before 4pm Friday ☺️

To the #poetrycommunity Everyone must follow Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Not only do his poems contain some of the most intricate & uncompromising poetic language on here. He’s also a tireless advocate for the importance of poetry & promoter of other poets. Paul deserves a #lifttothesky

We’re close to closing the window. If you’ve read the call more than once, that’s your answer. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Last week bent time. This week: #FalseCrowns — borrowed authority, inherited power, praise that doesn’t fit. Who crowned you? Who benefits from you believing it? New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

A second starter pack of #Novelists on Bluesky. Please follow them and repost the pack #writingcommunity #booksky

A starter pack of people and poets associated with #prompts Please follow them and repost the pack #promptcombo #vss365 #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

As a New Year lift for people who have been kind to me on here, a thread featuring all my starter packs. First up, a starter pack of Writers Looking for an Agent. Please follow the writers here and repost the pack #booksky #writingcommunity

What causes and cures #static? @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Poetry #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky

#PoemsAbout #static @alanparrywriter.co.uk Static

Hello all poemsabout poets, HNY. For #PoemsAbout #Static here’s a very quick piece - Vignettes From the Nineties. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt.

Coming up this Friday! Don't miss this gorgeous feast of talent & creativity. Free tickets via Eventbrite: oncemorewithfeeling.eventbrite.co.uk @moette.bsky.social @benedictan.bsky.social @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social @jenferoze.bsky.social

Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's #SuperWolfMoon.

Just a reminder to get your full or half subscription for 2026! www.ethelzine.com/shop/ethel-2...

Out now! It's Time, a chronomemoir by @taniahershman.bsky.social is a beautiful book blending memoir, play and poetry, with this glorious cover by CF Sherratt and it's released today. Come and take a look on our website for more information and a few sample pages: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction

#poetry friends - I'm looking for recommendations for some handsome and recent pamphlet publications. Particularly anything handmade, beautiful, minimalist, letterpress etc #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

Let’s go! Favourite thing of the year- January Writing Hours @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social

When there are no #poemsabout or #promptcombo prompts and you need to fill the void... Wishing everyone a poetic year.

Submissions are open. Poetry that remembers. That mourns. That refuses to let go. Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Peck...peck... Heart wrenching new poetry I Hate The Sound by Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/i-hate-...

I am very excited to share that my first poetry pamphlet is being published in 2026 with @vpresslit.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....

This week's Editorial Staff Spotlight features our new Editorial Intern: Zephyr Hameem. Zephyr is a third year medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Outside of studying, Zephyr enjoys spending time with her family, writing poetry, and being out in nature.

Melon Moon, a filmpoem by me, published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk on Christmas Day! 🥳 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the wonderful #poemsabout #promptcombo poetry crowd, what a fab #poetrycommunity you all are! I've been not posting much recently, but getting back on that horse in the NY!

I enjoyed your filmpoem very much! The mother and child both make fine use of their imaginations, and the conversation between them is delightful. And the video complements the words. I especially love that toad !! ❤️✨

Merry Christmas Everyone! So excited to have my first ever solo Filmpoem published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk today for their 12 Days of Christmas #poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏