Sheldon Birnie one of my faves doing it rn. So excited to get to feature this one today and share it with you all! "Buddy walked into the lake with his shambling gait, legs struggling against the pull and push of the waves as they rolled into shore." https://www.havehashad.com/q6q46

Fantastic!

new twisty, windy, fun from Joshua Hebburn! 🌮 "I was trying to find Taco Charlie’s. I couldn’t remember it. I wanted to remember it. Taco Charlie’s existed in my childhood, with my mother and father and the golden retriever and car and ranch house..." https://www.havehashad.com/j4s05

A hopeful new one to you all.

start the new year off with this little poem of heartbreak & beauty & hope Bre D'Alessio South https://www.havehashad.com/0kwmp

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" probably being a few drinks in and posting on twitter, "I'm a little buzzed, send me a submission right now and I'll respond immediately"

end the year by going no contact with us and Daniel Krieger! "I went no contact with my dentist for urging me to get a root canal I didn’t need. I went no contact with my landlord for doubling my rent. I was starting to get the hang of this." https://www.havehashad.com/kxp5b

really grateful to have three poems up @havehashad.com today! the first one is in memory of our sweet cat Pumpernickel, who passed away early this year. we’ll always remember you tiny baby!! 💜

three new Tom Snarsky's!! here the middle one, the tiniest, the most seasonally appropriate read all three! https://www.havehashad.com/102vp

My second ☠️ won't make you cry as hard as the first one did! Probably.

a couple beautiful constellations this morn from Tracie Renee! "and even though the new house is the same square footage as the old house, the new rooms are shaped differently, hold the couch the chairs the tables in a different constellation" https://www.havehashad.com/vc8gq

Will absolutely be doomscrolling in Werner Herzog’s voice from now on

My poem "What if all doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog" was published by @havehashad.com today. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wha...

what if, indeed?!?! new from Jared Beloff https://www.havehashad.com/7k70m

another shit day in december today from Roberta Beary https://www.havehashad.com/tftp7

"I know that G.I. Joe, that Jesus, that all our stories are as real or full of shit as we want them to be...Whatever punches up the stables and mangers." Great Day-after-Christmas story from Aaron Sandberg in @havehashad.com - Check it out! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/my-...

"I want to say we’re all just action figures with articulated limbs at the mercy of a too-rough boy. I know that G.I. Joe, that Jesus, that all our stories are as real or full of shit as we want them to be..." today from Aaron Sandberg! https://www.havehashad.com/83q25

"and I can’t tell if he wants me to find it or not. But I do. And I can’t unsee it. But I keep secrets. There is nothing more holy than amending a story, creating new myths. A software update. Adapt or die. Subversion is evolution." Perfect read to unwrap day-after-Christmas @havehashad.com

Thought I didn’t have anything for the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year, but then the last @havehashad.com call sparked a new idea. Sharing in case you, too, need a few more days to trim and polish something up!

Merry Christmas from us, and Guy Cramer, and these two Santas "I recognize the Santa from a local acting troupe. In fact, he doesn’t look any different than when I saw him in The Abraham Lincoln Story, the costume’s almost the same." https://www.havehashad.com/scg2q

‘Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board.’ Ghostly and gorgeous from @madelineanthes.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🎄 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/candy

two wise worms for y'all today Steve Minnich, special for Christmas Eve! here's the first of the two. https://www.havehashad.com/pv332

"It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board." 🔥 from Madeline Anthes https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto

final beauty from Heaps' "after Oppen" call, from Tess Matukonis: "3 I cannot feel my hands covered in honey until I try to wipe the honey off. Death reverberates in the tank, a drowned sparrow with a twisted neck. Is she a prophecy or result?" https://www.havehashad.com/zg9z1

got some new-new Sam Berman as a special treat for you all today! "I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room. At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles. Where everyone’s nice. Kind. Offering water. Extending gentleness. But they can’t help." https://www.havehashad.com/ebzq5

small banger of an "after George Oppen" poem today from Michael Farfel https://www.havehashad.com/iu57y

continue to be awed by the pieces from Sam Heaps' "after George Oppen" call! today from Daniel Fraser: "6. Noon. The light lets the shadows go for a time. The event as ordinary stops us everywhere from wonder." https://www.havehashad.com/7pn4x

wrapped this up this morning. between the two calls, 300 submissions, 25 acceptances. onward toward 2026 and new beginnings!

at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first. www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...

hot tips for catching our submission windows: have less of a life, be more online, sleep less, have fewer friends, probably just generally have more problems

this should probably be all our New Year's resolutions tbh

a lot of submissions having this guy energy, and I'm really here for it

2nd call came and went! 11 minutes.

Submitting to today's @havehashad.com call made me realize how desperately I need to organize my desktop. The panic I had looking for a document labeled "three poems???"

Submitted!! My heart pounds so much in the 5 minutes leading up to @havehashad.com submission calls, like my very life depends on making it in!

9th times the charm! Finally got my 💀 today from @havehashad.com after submitting since 2021!!

this is open again in ~30 minutes (7pm ET), for another 150 submissions (if you submitted this morning, please leave this for others, thx!) havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...

lotta therapists appearing in these submissions

Earned my 3rd skull today! @havehashad.com

Chills! I think this is my favorite @landrewhuffman.bsky.social story to date…

seems like a good first date test to us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is gorgeous.

don't miss today's t.r. san!! "[iii] -bleeding, the pagescreen is red from squiggles, micro-soft hums… do you hear the ripples, numerous, small as you read? there is life & are bodies, far as your eyes decide to take you" https://www.havehashad.com/r8vx2

that's it! 89 minutes. good job, team. heading into the rejection fields now. we'll open again this evening (7pm ET). imagine, with the heads up, it'll go quite a bit faster. see you then! (but none of the SAME of you)

one problem with these pop-up calls is the writers who catch them are almost entirely you terminally online weirdos and so everything is good

hacked into the @chillsubs.bsky.social database and auto-rejecting anyone who nominated for their best lit mag awards and didn't include us

we always fill fast, but these spontaneous pop-up calls always go take a little longer. a little over half full!

crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...

tired: "male loneliness epidemic" wired: "A gaping skeletal sense of loneliness"

hey! shit! horror! I got two new poems out -- responding to Oppen: THERE IS NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS