Until the end of June, I’m selling my poetry collection for $10 with free shipping. It has gay poems, depression poems, climate poems, and other things you love. DM if interested.

🍊Letter from the Editor🍊 Hello! March 2025 marks three years of Apricot Press, so I just wanted to say a huge thank you to every contributor and reader who has got the press to this point. It really does mean so much ❤️ (1/2) apricotpress.co.uk/2025/03/29/t...

Issue 38 features work by @jpdancingbear.bsky.social @devminor.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social and many more wonderful writers! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38/

Finally got my hands on this lovely anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social which features a couple of mine. I particularly enjoyed ‘Parking’ by Devon Neal, ‘Hymn for a Sunday Morning’ by @taylorfthiel.bsky.social and @Tamiko_Dooley’s ‘Omission’

throwback to the time @havehashad.com gave me half a skull

Louise Glück

From Ellen Bass's book, Mules of Love. #poem #poetry #ellenbass #books #writing

Would rather run a litmag for free than run the world into the ground for a trillion dollars.

Always a thrill to submit to a @havehashad.com call, but even more thrilling to get a skull! Here’s my poem “Wrong Song”!

Please take a look at our poetry anthology on Hope (just posted) Extremely grateful if anyone was to buy and leave a review! #poetry

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Signs" by Devon Neal (@devminor.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/signs/

From @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social's book, How to Maintain Eye Contact: bookshop.org/a/862/978163... #poem #poetry #robertwoodlynn #books #writing

Two of my poems have found a home with @thesunlightpress.bsky.social, including “Deep Water”. Read them both here! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/02/04/p...

Check out Devon Neal, our Wednesday poet, and his poems, "How Much Longer" and "Deep Water." bit.ly/3EjYsxC

Alberto Ríos

Czeslaw Milosz "I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder."

One of the finest poems by Larkin:

NEW POEM #204: "How to write about autumn" by Jan Hassmann "Write about autumn, but not the trees trembling. Write about the strays born with the first fog, pleading why, why, why this world? Write about biding." stonecirclereview.com/how-to-write... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image…

This poem: it's by Matthew Buckley Smith, from his book Midlife -

From Wendy Cope's book, If I Don't Know. #poem #poetry #wendycope #books #authors

NEW POEM #203: "persephone's descent" by Eugenia Pozas "and for weeks after i was gone the hounds barked at nothing, and he would sit in his quiet office, eyes searching for me in all the hollows. now spring has closed its mouth shut." stonecirclereview.com/persephones-... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

My friends at Chaotic Merge aren’t on Bluesky yet (that I’ve seen), but they’ve been wonderful to work with while publishing my poem “What’s That Bug Called” in their new issue. Read below! chaoticmergemagazine.com

Amazon and other chain book stores care only about the bottom line and profits. If you don't have a reputable independent book store in your town, please order from here. Also, Jeff Bezos is a super scumfuck, so never give a single cent to Amazon for anything ever.

From Catherine Barnett's book, Human Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #catherinebarnett #authors #books

This helps soothe the soul right now. #poetry #hope #nature #resist #bluecrew #teamjustice

James Merrill:

"the bank insists my blues are safe with them." From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold. #poem #poetry #joséolivarez #books #writers

was remembering this Nin Andrews poem yesterday in BAP 2001 edited by Robert Hass, and how as a teenager mainly fed the likes of Neruda and Frost and cummings and Hughes I... didn't know poems could *do* this. Online poetry back then was mainly message boards. My poetry exposure was my book store.

amazing, absolutely engrossing new short today from Emily Roth "You’ll tell everyone it was mutual. You’ll tell everyone it was the best thing that ever happened to you. You’ll tell Greg and Brian you’re not sad; actually, you’re ecstatic." https://www.havehashad.com/kk97l

Today, I'm reading ~ Hayden Carruth —Swept When we say I miss you what we mean is I'm filled with dread.

Thanks to everyone on Bluesky for giving us such a gracious welcome. A great way to celebrate our milestone of 700 followers would be to send us some pieces for your open call! Thanks to everyone who has followed, read, and submitted to our magazine. #opencall #litmag

This is a beautiful tribute.

shout out to pizza

If you want to stop the doomscrolling, I really do recommend Pat Finnerty's What Makes This Song Stink videos. And watching them in order makes it even funnier bc you get to watch the lore grow.

Bad Bunny's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' is a wise, purposeful, and textured love letter to Puerto Rico’s indigenous and homegrown musical styles as well as a direct treatise for its cultural and environmental preservation.

Hey everyone, if you got an extra dollar or two, please consider backing Exposed Bone's new volume! They are amazingly nice people and Vol. 1 was so incredible. (Yes I do have a bone in that pile, sue me, it was still a fantastic mag!). I can't wait to see what they have planned in this issue.

Such a haunting last line. From Robert Bly's Morning Poems. #poem #robertbly #writing #poetry #books

Our featured piece for today from issue 4 is 'I Haven't Seen A White Christmas Since The Year Of My Parents' Divorce' by Devon Neal! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. We're currently open for submissions. #poetry #litmag

From Matthew Gellman's book, Beforelight: bookshop.org/a/862/978196... #poem #matthewgellman #poetry #books #writing

One of the best uses of extended metaphor I've ever read. From Dave Harris's book, Patricide. #poem #poetry #daveharris #writing #books

From Brenna Twohy's book, Swallowtail: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poem #brennatwohy #poetry #books

Thinking about this poem this morning. Near misses, scraping by, bouncing back, and the big warm whatever comes next. (Fifty Words Aritten About the Arctic Bowhead Whale After Learning They Can Live Up to Two Hundred Years by Nate DeMio)

Ending 2024 by rereading Mary Oliver

Best wishes for our poetry community in 2025!

Re: 2024 stats. Wrote. Submitted. Did well until May. Things got hard: new baby, no sleep, work stress, relationship stress. Really struggled creating. The poems are still there, in the corners of my eyes like ghosts. In 2025 I’ll try listening to them instead of turning to look.

The bulk of my creative efforts in 2024 went into long form projects (podcast, tv pilot & novel), only one of which is available now (Woodbine podcast!), but I also published a poem this year and feel very tenderly about it. www.eavesdropmagazine.ca/issue-2/kell...

From Hayan Charara's book These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: bookshop.org/a/862/978157... #poem #poetry #hayancharara #books #writing

Lucille Clifton, always.