“The kitchen will be hot—so will you, a-flash, perspiration on your lip. [Tenderness takes a while.]" @elinorann.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

"Place meat inside while flour drifts around you [like a ghost]. Seal and rotate gently in your hands [hear the sighs]" Wonderful interplay between recipe and bracketed asides in this hybrid piece from @elinorann.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

Feast on RUBY Issue Six featuring delectable and piquant writing by Sudha Balagopal, Allison Field Bell, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Joefel Bolo @tcboudreau.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner & @elinorann.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-... #foodwriting #flashfiction

🩵 @whittlemicropress.bsky.social

🧵It is with sadness that I am parting ways with ELJ Editions. I did my best to help right what many had warned me was a sinking ship, and I have succeeded in getting three beautiful books out into the world through the Redacted Books Series.

Thank you, @introvert27.bsky.social, for the re-post❣️

I'm excited to be able to share that my poem "Sestina (A Ghost Story)," published originally in Northwest Review, was awarded an honorable mention in the Winning Writers Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024💫 🔗 in comments. #poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #NaPoMo

Thank you, @softlywild.bsky.social, for the re-post❣️

Thank you, @greenkari.bsky.social, for the re-post❣️

Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social, for the re-post❣️💞

Thrilled to be on this list & for my first full-length poetry manuscript MEUSE! Thank you Madville Publishing & judge @allisonpoet.bsky.social 💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity

Thank you, @chellechampagne.bsky.social, for the repost❣️💚

@susurrusmag.bsky.social 💚💚💚

Thank you, @majda.bsky.social, for the repost 💞

Grateful for 🌼 & poetry, readers & kind publishers. National Poetry Month. Wild violets that provide food & nectar for fritillary butterfly caterpillars & 🐝 So much is cruel, but much is beautiful 💚 thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing this one in 2023 #NaPoMo #poetry #poetrymatters

It's here! It's NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! Celebrate with River Heron by receiving a free prompt a day delivered to your inbox. Link in profile.

Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social for the repost❣️💞

Thank you @romanaiorga.bsky.social for the repost❣️💞

Thank you @taimi.bsky.social for the re-post (& for reading!) 💞

Send us your poems! ✨You may also receive a free writing prompt accompanied by a photo each day in April for Na-Po-Mo-25 (National Poetry Month) from @riverheronreview.bsky.social via sign-up on the website. 🔗 www.riverheronreview.com 💫 #poetry #poetrysubmissions #poetrycommunity #NaPoMo

Thank you @kossworks.bsky.social for the re-post! 💞

HBD to Anna Atkins, English botanist & photographer. #BOTD 1799. Do check out her beautiful cyanotypes 💙

The hellebores are blooming around our pond. The 1st anniversary of my mother’s death nears in April. By then, the lilies of the valley rhizome-descendents also from her years-ago garden may waft sweetness from their tiny, white flower-bells 🌱 @riverheronreview.bsky.social 🤍 #poetry

These two poems in @terrainorg.bsky.social by William Ward Butler!

We're ready to read! Are you ready to submit? See you in Submittable. Links in profile.

Many thanks to Harbor Review — I’m honored that my manuscript, STILL LIFE IS MOVABLE, was longlisted & named a finalist (top 4!) for the 2024 Washburn Prize 💛 Congratulations to winner Gail Griffin! 💫 #poetry #poetrycommunity

Thank you, @coastalpoet.bsky.social, for reading & for the re-post 💚

Dear friends, you are. 💞 #poetry #poetrycommunity #lovepoems

Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social, for the re-post & for reading! 💚🥰

Thank you, @melostrom.bsky.social, for reading & for the re-post! 🥰

Pleased & honored to have my artist statement & 2 poems featured this week at PLANT-HUMAN QUARTERLY 💚 #poetry #eco-poetry #poetrycommunity #plants #flowers otherwisecollective.com/walker-issue...

I’m so grateful to @riverheronreview.bsky.social for including this still-tender poem of mine in this amazing issue 💚🌱🌸 You’ll also find work by @amgraue.bsky.social among other fine poets 💫 www.riverheronreview.com/issue-81

a bird singing in a vast field with nothing to hold onto Basho

I saved this image a while ago but didn’t expect to deploy it so soon. Every damn day. Practically every hour …

“I’ve exhausted my cruelty. / I’ve arrived at myself again.” Jenny George:

OK, so here they are: the best 400 poetry mags according to 9 years of Best American Poetry, Best of the Net & Pushcart - would you have guessed #1? brechtdepoortere.com

2024: thank you #poetrycommunity & editors @agnimagazine.bsky.social @nimrodjournal.bsky.social @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social &&& others 💫 #poetry is light 🕯️

Happy Solstice! 🕯️I’m delighted to have two poems in issue 15 of PLANT-HUMAN QUARTERLY alongside so many fine poets ✨ otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

#solstice “place of caught breath” ~ here’s to trying to be still & pay attention

A male humpback whale set a record by swimming more than 8,000 miles from South America to Africa and traversing at least three oceans — most likely in search of a mate, researchers said.

I’m 59, and this news is sweet indeed. Don’t give up, writers. This chap will be my debut creative book publication. Many thanks to editor Hayley Mitchell Haugen for selecting my work and to Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! Stay tuned for more about FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS …

Happy news! Honored to be on this list. Good luck to the finalists, & thank you, Nine Syllables Press, for this honor ✨

Remembering Ruth Stone (1915-2011) 🤍 I return to this poem again & again; we should all pay attention #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Never seen this particular feeling/anxiety described so perfectly. From Cynthia Marie Hoffman's (@cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social) book, Exploding Head: bookshop.org/a/862/978089... #poem #poetry #authors #books #cynthiamariehoffman

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

Happy to see so many new people migrating here. We put together a little starter pack of BH friends and family for those trying to build up their lit community quickly (will keep adding to this later today) go.bsky.app/2Y8moNK

Hi, Poets! (& thank you, Amorak!)

I’m here & over the 🌙 to see my ekphrastic pantoum out in the world AND in the 100th issue of AGNI alongside work by luminaries such as Heidi Seaborn, JP Grasser, Timothy Liu, Paisley Rekdal & @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social &&& 💛 #poetry #ekphrastic #ekphrasticpoetry #poetrycommunity

As we await the thaw … here’s my poem about dirt, roots, & other earthy/ly matters in the winter issue of THE PENN REVIEW 💚Read more here: www.pennreview.org#/no-73/

This poem by @romanaiorga.bsky.social in @theshorepoetry.bsky.social took my breath