"It was Sunday when the twins drove into town and saw it, the damnable statue, which was so wide as to plug the underpass, and which they likened to their mother, who on the necessity of marriage had become quite immovable." Today on ergot.: 'Photopsia' @ckliu.com www.ergot.press/authors/C.K....

Today's poem is a set of instructions, a story, and a reminder that we are the storytellers and that is an incredible thing. Ali Trotta brings us "When Death Comes, Look to The Tower." Go on, don't look away:

100% #BookSky

"A fragment of the night, kicking, kicking, at the gnawing teeth of the earth." -Henry Dumas, from "Fon" Dumas' short #fiction is incredible. Available for borrow on Internet Archive (shorturl.at/zDWbn) and in this cool edition from Coffee House Press (shorturl.at/FD5Xk). #shortstories

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The Marbled Sigh: Issue 5 - Pop Culture Poems Zoom Reading will be on Sunday, May 24th at 2pm EST. Scan the QR code or use the link below to register for a *free* ticket. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-marble... #themarbledsigh #poetry #poetrycommunity #emergingpoets #poem #poems #poet #poets

"Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Kahlil Gibran Juan Brufal (Argentina) - "Blue House"

Thrilled to have 3 #poems featured in the 23rd issue of Spirit Lake Review! "From Two Pound Pumpkin under Tractor Wheel": "Cornstalks sway in a scarlet sunset, the earliest of the year. An old barn shivers with cold. Somewhere, someone is burning dead leaves." Read the issue: shorturl.at/evMZD

"The sound pierces the wind... It resounds like notes of thunder made by children instead of gods... There is silence...the silence of an empty lung about to breathe in... A moanful resonance, a bluish sound, a wail off the lips of a wet night, sweeps over them..." -Henry Dumas, from "Echo Tree"

'Rooks' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator based in a little cottage near the sea in Wales #Womensart

If you need to go somewhere and not spend any money, please visit your local library. Library crawls are awesome. Every library is its own little world.

"Since my mother’s fall, nearly every day she’s asking me to take her to the sound bath again. She holds her injured arm up for me to see. This bruising down her side needs to be mitigated." Today on ergot.: 'Along the Tether' by @jonmcconn.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Jon_...

Chains of light race over my stricken city. Glittering web spun by the white widow spider. I see this wild arena where we are harnessed by alien electric shadows. -Henry Dumas, from "The Zebra Goes Wild Where the Sidewalk Ends" #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers shorturl.at/LbpgM

"This is writer who would not devastate us so if she did not have remarkable formal chops." —Cate Marvin, 2025 Patricia Grodd Judge. Read this year's winning poem in our latest issue here: kenyonreview.org/piece/tiger-...

#HIP #indiebooks #mysteryauthor #novels #patreoncreator #theauthorspen

Sometimes, I listen to the birds... the dead in dreams are never dead, and yes, it is their aliveness that is reassuring, their going on even as they leave us here. Just now the shadow of wings, and a far-off child’s voice shouting Hey, Mom. -Maxine Scates, from "Flyway" shorturl.at/WchwK

From "April's Haunting Lullaby," a moving #poem by Avilasha Bhowmik in @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social, a dark #litmag for #middlegrade and #youngadult readers. The dead were too, once: Flesh. Warmth. A mother's first graveyard. Something. ... To become is an act of undoing. tinyurl.com/3hf48p8m

This makes my brain hurt in a good way. And there's more! Check out 10-tentacled antenna's TENET series. #hybridpoetry #abstractpoetry www.readbethh.org/tenet

With the rigor and excitement of a residential experience, our Summer Online Workshop is a week-long synchronous, generative workshop. Young Writers find community and explore new possibilities in their work. Apply by April 13: kenyonreview.org/event/young-...

Wonderful #poem today courtesy of Rhyme Share #Poetry Club.

Little Crow Ink on paper 8x10 #art #birds #nature #sciart

Today we released our April issue featuring six brand new stories from @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @davidfarrow5734.bsky.social @levato.bsky.social @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world and Sam E. Sutin #flashfiction Ebook copies available via our website: flashfictiononline.com

we are very pleased to announce that our doors will be open for submissions next week for some exclusive substack issues to be published later this year. have a look on our longer caption over on IG for more info about what we are looking for. Next week we will return with the how.

Check out these three cool erasure #poems by Melissa Eleftherion in @villaineralit.bsky.social, drawn from the text of Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews! Here's a sample: Why I sound a morning soft The wind scraped crevices We sin g a death villaineralit.com/2026/03/17/t...

The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. --Philip Larkin, from "The Mower" #poetry #kindness #mortality www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48423/...

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #Monday

It has arrived! I am extremely honored to be in the Best of 2025 Amazing Stories anthology. Amazing Stories has been around for a century now. amazingstories.com/amazing-stor...

Issue 14 of Molecule: A Tiny #LitMag is live! Thank you to all the amazingly talented #writers and #artists who contributed. We hope you enjoy some of the best bite-size #art, #fiction, #poetry, interviews, and book reviews out there: moleculetinylitmag.art.blog

"When your frame becomes frail, Your love remains fierce." --from Benjamin Ta, "Bà nội" #poetry #immigrantstories @emberjournal.org read.emberjournal.org/benjamin-ta/...

Congratulations to our four Nebula Award finalists: @wtalabi.com, @somtoihezue.bsky.social, @hhpak.bsky.social, and @thomasha.bsky.social! Links to their stories in thread. Full list of finalists here: locusmag.com/2026/03/2025...

Forgetting at the End of the Century | Sara Hovda | Frozen Sea - Issue Eleven

Congrats to the winners of the International Lawrence Durrell Society's 2025 White Mice #Poetry Competition! There are some incredible #poems this year, especially in narrative poetry: shorturl.at/m0gos #poetrycontest #poetrysky

what I really need to say is that it rained all night and morning, and the drops were a percussion on the trees, and after the sun rose, I saw an insect land on the railing and take shelter, and a bird drank from a leaf. --Pádraig Ó Tuama, from “Our Lady of the Garden” shorturl.at/OVyeh #poetry

City nights #oilpainting #art

"God I just want to talk" by Arro Mandell delivers beauty, terror—and that ending! We will be revisiting this one again and again. Read and listen to it in our latest issue: kenyonreview.org/piece/god-i-...

Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long. Send us your best today! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #litmag #indiepress #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #artcommunity www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions

Great recent #flashfiction by Thao Vu in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2026/02/06/j... #shortstories #litmags #love

"And whenever you come to me, we take off down the same backroads with you in the driver’s seat, and it feels right, this tightening of life." --m.s. RedCherries, from "the end cannot be me" tinyurl.com/bp8ua7ve #poetry #memory

"The most American disease is the dis- ease of self-obsession." --Sadia Hassan, from Anti-Elegy tinyurl.com/9mvm69uj #poetry #poemaday #poetrysky

'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt

thoughtful, melancholy, serene 🤍🕊️ . . #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Ocean #Clouds #Oregon

Another small painting from my solo exhibition going on right now at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. One of a group of 4" square paintings. On view through the 21st. lemieuxgalleries.com "Uncertainty" Acrylic on canvas 4" x 4" #art #painting #surrealism #bats #nature #contemporaryart

"What's Done is Done" by ZZ Packer today is an incredible story told with precise and and tempered prose. Read it in our latest issue at the link: kenyonreview.org/piece/whats-...

I've been into old #horror and #scifi anthologies lately. Only one episode survives of the 1968 BBC series "Late Night Horror," which was canceled after six episodes because audiences complained about the graphic content. Here is "The Corpse Can't Play." tinyurl.com/y47dk4fx #vintagehorror

RIP Uncle Floyd. shorturl.at/lPDel

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse artsfuse.org/323260/weekl... #poetry #salem #salemarts

Wrote a book? Cool, now write the next one. Out on sub? Write the next one. Won an award? Write the next one. Didn’t even get nominated? Write the next one. Querying agents? Write the next one. Waiting for pub day? Write the next one. Always be writing the next one.

Be great to see this happen. www.kickstarter.com/projects/slo...