Join us next week for NAWP's incredible November reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social! Hit the RSVP link! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!! @icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven" Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice" @gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618" Malik Thompson "*" Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited" CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

“I am singing sadly to the barn.” A poem by Matthew Zapruder.

Georges Braque, Still Life with Fruits and Stringed Instrument.

Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

Fun poem by @kelliagodon.bsky.social starting with the title and all the way through “your gurgling stanzas, your lyric sigh.” #poetry

Charles Wright, with a word of warning

Releasing two books through @pizamapress.bsky.social in 2026 One is a surrealist semi-autobiographical ekphrastic fever dream One is a meditation and reflection on the strange mundanity of life Both are packed with prose poems

The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.

My very first time having poems in The Malahat Review! Pictured here is "Desert Fauna," which features some horses and a rather oblique allegory. Not pictured is "Grape," which I wrote when I was thinking a lot about how I hate the way grapes are used on social media these days...

Check out my poem "Ars Poetica: Lace" in @havehashad.com!

a hazy darkness—yet the moon, Denise Levertov, “Alchemy”

Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch! Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter! Nov. 19, 7pm AST Email [email protected] for the Zoom link!

Today's Featured Poem: "The Bear" by @amiewhittemore.bsky.social from Nest of Matches published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-bear/

Still reading for issue 4. A little behind on submissions so bear with me as I catch up. Keep submitting! Maybe buy a copy of issue 2 or 3? www.postcardlit.com

Eva Heisler

1 WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER! SPREAD THE WORD! Don't miss "I Am Here: Affirmation As Resistance" with the incredible Gabriel Ramirez, a virtual writing workshop where we can speak back to what has made us feel small, invisible & impossible. Tickets start at $30. Learn more: bit.ly/4q8DipU #Poetry #Poets

Elizabeth Robinson

happy birthday Sylvia Plath 🎈

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

it’s cold listen mother and think of me now - Tristan Tzara turning to address his mother in Romania, in the poem titled "Circus"

Pressing Matters by Caroline Giles Banks #poetry #haiku #senryu

Joanna Klink ♥️

A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

'All our own fires too, will someday go out.' From Stephanie Burt's poem 'Eclipse' published in PN Review 285, our latest edition. Subscribe to read more:⬇️ www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap41

What is a Poem? (what she did with “these few blocks…”) #poetry by Ruth Stone

Whit Griffin, from “The Universal Lyre”

Ranjit Hoskote

Arthur Sze, from “The Redshifting Web”

quite happy to have artwork in the recent summer issue of Chouette Literary! just got my copy in the mail! check out chouetteliterary.ca!

approach of the magician // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, october 2025 #collageart #paper #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist #foundphoto

Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙

Ellen Bryant Voigt. 💔

"In this movie, Jesus and my mother are at a bar drinking mojitos." God, we are SO stoked to have @ezhang77.bsky.social back in hex this week with another surreal one-two punch! Elena is such a master of dream-like imagery infused with the human, and always surprising. Two new, up now on the site!

OMG! Thanks @djvorreyer.bsky.social & Rachel Bunting for incl my poem, "Reading @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social's Turn Around, BRXGHT XYXS" While Listening to Tori Amos' Cover of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" During the Total Solar Eclipse" in the new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/23fn5cp6

Submissions for poetry and prose open tomorrow!

A totally loaded issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social is out!!!

Muriel Rukeyser

Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review! porterhousereview.org/articles/ski...

Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!

A favorite.

TWO today from Stefanie Kirby!! Here's the first. Click through for a bonus! https://www.havehashad.com/4nmfe

"Tell us what heights precede this shell of a miracle." 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 by @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social in the new @sixthfinch.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a new poem out in the newest issue of Sixth Finch! ✨

New poem in Sixth Finch—many thanks to Rob MacDonald and the good folks there.