A look at the long, illustrious literary history of a city by the sea themadridreview.com/f/beruit-a-l... ##beruit #lebanon #history

I received some lovely poetry news yesterday & it has made my heart sing. I am walking in Chestnut Wood, Essex feeling thankful.🙏🏼 Wishing good things to all. 🤍 The below haiku was first published in The Lothlorien Poetry Journal. #haiku #NewBeginnings #NewChapter #Gratitude

I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity

A FOREST🪾 The Cure 🎵 Seventeen Seconds Released 08.04.1980 #nowplaying #TheCure #vinylcommunity #LostInAForest youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?...

Scott Kahn — For Matthew, Spring Moon (pigment print on paper, 2020)

A FOREST🪾 The Cure 🎵 Seventeen Seconds Released 08.04.1980 #nowplaying #TheCure #vinylcommunity #LostInAForest youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?...

Eight Years, Ten Months, Two Days. Stoked to brag about 20,000 retail copies of Alien Buddha Press books sold. Thank you to EVERYBODY who helped us get there.

Sixpence None the Richer Melody of You Divine Discontent 2002 #LeighNash #SixpenceNoneTheRicher #vocals youtu.be/fDY-_hij8nA?...

open.substack.com/pub/themadri... #iran #Persian #Persia #Iran #poetry #history #culture

Cry Baby Cry The Beatles 1968 🎵 What's your favorite weird Beatles track? I like this dark twist of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' & how it mutates into an eerie ghost tale towards the end. 👻 #CryBabyCry #HiddenGem #TheWhiteAlbum #TheBeatles #60s youtu.be/8Zeyej5bfZE?...

Excited to learn that I have two pieces accepted for #TheAlienBuddha'sGotBeef - a future anthology about vendettas, grudges, rivalries, feuds & revenge. Looking forward to reading this when it lands. 🖤 #AlienBuddhaPress #NewAnthology #anthologies #NewWriting

While writing #Chasms, I found myself thinking about the significance of #names & conflicts of integrity V societal pressure. I wrote 'Names' after #TheCrucible by Arthur Miller which is a play that I think about all the time. It feels apt for any & every political time. 🩶 youtu.be/1GsixD1yafk?...

I pay tribute to Hart Crane in Sourav Sarkar's "Great American Poets" anthology, which is now available! a.co/d/0cFANTpy 2 new poems (Monday in Detroit, Amish Hollywood) are included in "The Alien Buddha's Got Beef" anthology, dropping soon! @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

Excited to learn that I have two pieces accepted for #TheAlienBuddha'sGotBeef - a future anthology about vendettas, grudges, rivalries, feuds & revenge. Looking forward to reading this when it lands. 🖤 #AlienBuddhaPress #NewAnthology #anthologies #NewWriting

Special Haibun Feature in Alien Buddha Zine 90 (September Edition) Alien Buddha Press is now accepting submissions for a special Haibun Feature in Alien Buddha Zine 90! We are seeking haibun of all themes and subjects.

We’ll have a full review of #Moth this weekend to mark its launch this Sunday. A beautifully hand-stitched debut from Dr Eleanor Holmes, it blends poetry and prose with clinical precision and lyrical power. Intimate, unsettling and luminous. @eleanorholmes.bsky.social ##newpoetry #handmade

Here's my #poem for today, Day 14 of #NaPoWriMo! merrildsmith.org/2026/04/14/n...

Via Calgary's 'Sprawl' publication: "Kate Bowler wrote in the Globe & Mail last weekend. “Joy lives on the detours,” she wrote. “It lives in the places where we let ourselves be interrupted, where we choose delight over duty...”

Ten years since I tweeted the aphorism I still want carved into my tombstone: 'If you can't make peace with it, make art of it.'

Really thrilled to have 3 poems featured in the new edition of Lemon Pip magazine. Many thanks to editor Lottie Begg @lemonjellypress.bsky.social 🙂🍋 heyzine.com/flip-book/f1...

Today I’m sharing this piece from #UnwhisperedLegacy by the phenomenal @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social This is ‘Train’ Unwhispered Legacy can be downloaded at shorturl.at/OL5Lc where you can also make an optional donation to @msf.ca #poetry #poets_community

This Friday at Secret Kingdoms #football #art #crime www.thesecretkingdoms.net/agenda/event...

While writing #Chasms, I found myself thinking about the significance of #names & conflicts of integrity V societal pressure. I wrote 'Names' after #TheCrucible by Arthur Miller which is a play that I think about all the time. It feels apt for any & every political time. 🩶 youtu.be/1GsixD1yafk?...

Good morning! It's Monday, and I'm musing! This is my weekly post with a #Poem, #photos, and commentary on the past week. merrildsmith.org/2026/04/13/m...

I spent this winter experimenting with audio recordings for many of my earlier poems. It was during the last weeks & days of my dad's life. When I look back at these poems now, they seem quaint, but I'm glad I have them. They captured a time in my own life never to be repeated. Here is 'Eventide.' ❤️

#TheMadridReview #TopLitMag #BestLitMag #Don'tWait

#mustread #newbooks #kidlit #fresh

Have recently managed to secure a space for our stanza to regularly perform! 🩶 #HarlowCircleofPoetry #OpenMic #thesundayslowdown So appreciate ALL the poets who came along to read & support! Excited about the potential of what we can create together. #NewOpenMicSpace #Harlow #PoetryCommunity

Proud of both my little babies, they each represent different milestones in my writing life. My initial focus was to explore the #liminality in human experience, next, I explored my own #intersections 🖤 @hedgehogpress.co.uk 🤎 @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 💚 #amwriting #lovepoetry #spilledink

16 days until deadline Fiction: Up to 10,000 words (all genres) Poetry: Up to 10 standard manuscript pages Theme: Revenge, vendettas, grudges, feuds, rivalries, etc [email protected]

Fiona Apple 🖤 Pale September Tidal 1996 'Pale September, I wore the time like a dress that year The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin' #fionaapple #tidal #churchofapple #lyrics youtu.be/GKmjKbAInkU?...

You Didn't Try To Call Me (b.1901) Utica, Macomb County Michigan. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #digitalart #lightroom #oldbuildings #houses #victorian #queenanne #clouds #cloudy #sky #gloomy #suburban #village #utica #macomb #michigan

Happy #Zappaday 🔆 🎷☂️ Little Umbrellas Hot Rats 1969 #Saturday #SaturdayVibes #Zappa #FrankZappa youtu.be/yR_ypEXdJQc?...

Happy #Zappaday 🔆 🎷☂️ Little Umbrellas Hot Rats 1969 #Saturday #SaturdayVibes #Zappa #FrankZappa youtu.be/yR_ypEXdJQc?...

Highly recommend all these Alien Buddhas! Burnt Offerings by @daniellec.bsky.social Dreamescapes by Jorge Lopez Llorente Creeping Legends by Bhaumik Jayanta One Week One Span of Human Life by @ings4words.bsky.social #mustread #writingcommunity #bookaholic @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 🛸

In the western sky the sun’s barely visible behind dirty-fleece cloud, just the faintest white suggestion of a ragged cotton-wool bud. The air’s a chill, forbidding distillate, grey, attar of gravel, scented with menace, almost as if it’ll snow. It won’t. But it should. December interlude, in April

🚀Launch Night🚀 Friday 1st May 7pm 🎟️ Tickets: shorturl.at/wHqzy Join me and a stellar lineup of poets as we celebrate the launch of Unwhispered Legacy

Proud of both my little babies, they each represent different milestones in my writing life. My initial focus was to explore the #liminality in human experience, next, I explored my own #intersections 🖤 @hedgehogpress.co.uk 🤎 @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 💚 #amwriting #lovepoetry #spilledink

'I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.' 💙 #theshawshankredemption #favoritelines #moviequotes #words youtu.be/zRBl0GPBm4o?...

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Paying it forward by reposting book publication news, great reviews, nominations & awards, poetry readings & book signings, and work in magazines, journals & anthologies. Also see: @writingcommunity.bsky.social @literarycommunity.bsky.social @literarybulletin.bsky.social @literaryreport.bsky.social

Thank you for your very kind words. Much appreciated! With all the challenges facing the writing community I think the only way to thrive going forward is to work together and support each other. Thankfully I see more and more good folks stepping up to do that every day.

#PoemsAloud 🌿 Still experimenting with this one... here's the latest version. Poem in Amethyst Review, Feb 2021.

Another amazing poem from the Poems for Protest anthology, this one by Christos Constantine: #poetry #PoemsforProtest #ChristosConstantine

Thanks to those who support us long after they publish us! This is a cool thing to do.🖤 @madridlitmag.bsky.social @seventhquarrypress.bsky.social @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @northernjim.bsky.social @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

You're on Fire (b.~1890's?) Williamston, Ingham County Michigan. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #digitalart #lightroom #architecture #oldbuildings #victorian #italianate #houses #trees #village #williamston #ingham #michigan

One from last year - the great British novelist Jim Crace interviewed #writers #writing #writerslife #writinglift themadridreview.substack.com/p/i-only-wan...

Fresh #inthepost ! Amish Alchemy by James Schwartz @queeraspoetry.bsky.social and Maedwe by Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social Looking forward to reading these over Spring. 💚 #springreads #highlyrecommended #poetrycommunity

All three of my @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social poems have a certain #DingAnSich dimension. I’ll record them all this week. Here’s the first. Langdale Pikes @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity