A poem about grappling with stroke, memory, and language. Born today inside the bus, after 5 months of silence and 4 days post-hospitalization. Shaky, rusty like the pipes in my brain. But coping. Trying. #poetry #poems

From the bottom of my heart: Thank you, Kristin ❤️🫂

It's been a really tough week of a stroke-induced hospitalization. This cheered me up. Thank you for sharing @readalittlepoem.bsky.social ❤️

JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.

This is so heartwarming. Thank you, whoever you are, dear reader💕

Grateful to share that my daughter's artwork, "Hand in hand", is the cover art for @nimblewitlit.bsky.social's new issue, "Trustworthy"💕 Many thanks to the editors for giving her & other young artists' voices space in this lit mag. Read & support young talents! epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Wouldn't have happened if these people didn't have faith in our work. Thank you @epistemiclit.bsky.social. and congratulations to all the winners of The @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Awards!

"I think I understand Why Bebo peeled gently now I wish I understood What love was, then" Beautiful❤️

‘Another sleepless night’ in Gaza City as Israel intensifies assault, and Doha summit condemns Israel for Qatar strike

As a fellow '90s teen, this piece gave such lovely and sad chills. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social captured how this album felt so perfectly.

So cool. Thank you for the nomination @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🫶🏽❤️

I have a new(ish) poem out now on @epistemiclit.bsky.social 's latest issue, "Nostalgia". It's about ADHD-sidequesting on old friendships and love. Hope you have a read of everyone's fantastic pieces! Much thanks to the amazing editors at Epistemic Literary for including my work here❤️

Humbled by this BOTN nomination by the lovely ladies at @epistemiclit.bsky.social ❤️ Thank you for your faith in and support of everyone's work. You guys are the best! Wishing everyone the best of luck🫶🏽

Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza.

What I like about poets is most of y'all like astrology.

I'm writing poems and doing submissions again after a long, dry creative spell (mostly the meds' doing). It makes me incredibly happy, excited, and reinvigorated.

ICYMI

A repost can go a long way.

One of the worst things social media has done to humans is make us excessively reactive. Without pausing, without taking time to rethink words (ours or another's), without considering going into a "green zone" first before acting, often we jump into assumptions and harsh judgments. 1/2

DYK we’re on goodreads??? Add us to your “want to read” list to help spread the word, and drop a rating or review if you’ve read Volume 1! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I read the interview first, then the piece but any order is soul searing.

Issue 5: #Resistance is OUT NOW. It’s a stunning issue, maybe our best yet. Read, share, #Resist! epistemiclit.com/current-issue/

Thank you so much, Jared and L.M., for the space to share about a vulnerable piece. ♥️

Friends, army, gazers-at-wildflowers, The @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team want to talk, and connect, and gaze deeply at your em-dashes!! Come along on Fri 16 May 8pm EST and ask us anything ahead of our subs opening in June! Registration linky-loo: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A reminder that Pablo Neruda is a rapist. He confessed to it in his memoir, released posthumously in 1974. A Tamil cleaning lady when he was a diplomat. See the power dynamics & how he abused them? Even people in Chile are outraged that the government canceled the plan to name an airport after him.

During an exam today, my 12-year-old had to answer this question: "Why is it hard to be truthful in this society?" She answered, "Because when you tell the truth, instead of getting supported, everyone judges you for it." Baby girl's spewing FACTS.💯

Friends, it’s #AWP25 time. I’ll be at @thetwinbill.bsky.social table (T1109). We’ll have print issues of the journal and an amazing anthology from @406press.bsky.social. I’ll have copies of San Diego Stories (signing Th 2 pm, Fri 11 am) & the latest collection from Matthew Johnson. Come say hi!

It's World Poetry Day, and I'm remembering how poetry saves me, the way my daughter does every day. This is one of the first poems I wrote after a decade-long pause from poetry. Never published, always turned down. Sharing bec today is about light: of words, of new life. Happy World Poetry Day🪶❤️✨

Thrilled to be the featured creative for North Bay Poetics where I will be reading and chatting about my chapbook, poetry films, and other upcoming projects. Special guests include: @pamyve.bsky.social David Crews @trivarnahariharan.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Comment/DM for link!

Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.

Happy Women's Day, ladies❤️ Something from two years back (edited only a bit. Exhausted, slush brain.)

Yeah, so we're doing an Asia-Pac timing friendly meet and read series. Everyone is welcome regardless of where you live - borders are bogus. Thurs Feb 13 7pm Melb time. Some AWESOME people have registered. I might sing Waltzing Matilda. Don't miss out! Zoom reg link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Insane what is happening in the social media sphere today. Exhausting. One can't help but miss the good old MySpace days.

Having a depressive episode for the first time since I got diagnosed and began meds for bipolar in October. I was manic a week ago. The signs and symptoms are much less in intensity (thank valproic), but to experience it again - wow. Didn't realize it was this tiring because it was my normal before.

These ladies have been beyond supportive of me and their contribs and I can't tell you how much I appreciate them as a journal. Speaking of, they are open to works from kids right now for their children-focused mag, @whirligiglit.bsky.social ! Submit to them! They're open till the 31st!

Vulture's bombshell piece on Neil Gaiman's rapes and SAsnis paywalled, but you can access a non-paywall version here: archive.is/W1arC Also: Fuck Neil Gaiman.

Please consider helping!

Do you write for kids? Do you have kids who write? Just five days until our very first sub window opens — fiction, poetry, and illustrations on the theme “Take a Stand” We’re happy to answer any questions and are so excited to see what you all come up with!

I hate it that social media force us to be loud and talk nonstop to be heard; for our work to be discoverable by algorithms. I used to be like that unmedicated. But I am no longer that. And because I don't wanna compromise, it seems I cannot claim equal space. Loud doesn't equate meaning .

I can no longer see writer-friends over at Twitter, but I can't see a lot here too. Anyone of you on Threads?

The best writing advice I received recently was "You have to separate yourself from your material. Once it's out there, you let it go. It's never wasted. Nothing is wasted." I missed a contest deadline yesterday. I was annoyed and sad about it. Then I remembered that advice. (1/2)

Broke my phone's LCD screen for the second time in 2 weeks, pulsatile tinnitus in my left ear (which Dr. Google says could be arterial disorder or a tumor, but let's wait for a real doctor ofc😆), flu incoming & work+manuscript due in 2 days. When it rains, it does pour, eh?😆

Excited for this brand new literary venture from @epistemiclit.bsky.social, created for youth!

"may you open your eyes to water/ water waving forever/ and may you in your innocence/ sail through this to that" Another lovely poem to open the New Year by Lucille Clifton (the other one, "i am running into a new year", is also gorgeous & a fave). Thanks to Chandra Persaud for sharing this beaut❤️

Much love for the support! Please do read on the other works in this issue. It's quite a unique collection!

Today feels like a good day to write a 100-word story. There are now only 6 daisies, 3 petunias & 35 bluebells until the deadline for the #WelkinMini (or 6 days, 3 hours & 35 minutes if you like a more conventional approach to timekeeping): www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Write because what you are doing is just having fun. Everything else requires some kind of planetary alignment that is out of your control and confounds us all and that's why we're huddled here together in a corner of the internet. Hello, I am a Literary writer

Another unique collection from The Hooghly Review! Happy to share space with familiar names & friends in the writing community including @shikhaslamba @twitnikki @ronita_c @pleomorphic2 @artijain28! Thank you @fbereaud.bsky.social @tejaswineerc.bsky.social @ankitrajojha.bsky.social! What a gift💕

Love this poignant piece by @nikkirivera.bsky.social in the latest Murals issue. "I'm so sad or unhappy I stopped combing my hair since our last coffee together. We couldn't be each other's "ride or die" anymore." Mine was "since our last mango shake together". Man.