Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. -Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" #poetry #poetrysky

"I am a descendent of stillness and sailors still in motion, a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song." -Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez) shorturl.at/wgSWQ #poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry

if only we could live like the wildflowers, blooms of all sizes and colors sharing the soil of one field #micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️

Many thanks to Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing five of my Scifaiku in the August print edition of Scifaikuest! This is the last of the five. Visit markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #micropoetry #haiku #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #scifaiku

"My mother dries figs with her blue-veined hands. My mother smiles at walnuts as though time in the heart never started." --Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright) #poetry #poetrylovers

a darkness in which all articles are indefinite will we know ourselves by our shadows our own words #TankaThursday (dark) #vss365 (article)

"When the prison door bangs shut behind your back-- that's when you think about #freedom." --Tomica Bajsić #poetry #activism

“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.” —Sylvia Plath #poetry #September #autumn

the leaves’ sleepy veins wilt golden with rust autumn’s copper blood #haiku #whistpr

Mary Oliver talks about paying attention... Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment... #poetry #poemoftheday

BIOPHILIA is almost there! Wednesday September 3! We’ll be sharing our cover on that day as well along with so much other incredible poetry, essay and visual art. #poetrycommunity

Amazing, moving set of four #poems by Teri Vela in @villaineralit.bsky.social: shorturl.at/tMJvS #poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature

Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.

Should be a great reading - tune in virtually if you're not in northeastern MA (link at bottom of flyer). #poetry #poetryreading #openmic #writing

A reminder for future generations….please don’t let this kind of music die out.

Check out "After Winter," a stunning poem by Katherine Gaffney in the Summer 2025 issue of @bluestemmag.bsky.social: #poetry #writing shorturl.at/xEL70

On the road In a toad Route will not load #dada #dailypoem #poemoftheday #poem #poetry #writing

'Plums' by Caroline Smith Cover art: 'Frozen Oranges' by Denisa Popa

Great piece of liminal flash by @victorianations.bsky.social out today in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social: shorturl.at/0x9W6 #horror #flashfiction #horrorlit

Poetry's strength lies in its imaginative language, which empowers readers to step into different shoes, fostering both creative thought and a more expansive understanding of the world. #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

Good reading for anyone who gets tired of recycled, referential content: "this book is basically Nancy Drew meets Van Helsing," or "you'll love this series - it's just like Stranger Things!" #books #reading #libraries shorturl.at/HqKyT

I will never be done with the rhyming of the seas and the trees #poetry

New Review! I enjoyed this weird & wonderful collection of horror. Peek inside for my Top 10 stories from Weird Tales to Haunt Your Reptilian Brain - edited by Stephen Rhoades @stephenrhoades.bsky.social & pubbed by Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social. robinknabel.squarespace.com/review-blog/...

'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923. #GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

Thus and Thus by Henri Barbusse (1929). The kind of unprepossessing book the is often overlooked in a secondhand setting but is, in fact, a brilliant collection of stories by the author of one of the standout novels of WW1 (and many WW1 stories in this collection).

A quick haiku in response to today's #PoemsAbout prompt #BlackSky. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

A 2023 report by the National Endowment for the Arts found that nearly 28% of readers under 30 read poetry regularly, up from 21% in 2020. Poetry resonates particularly with Gen Z and Millennials, with women representing about 60% of the overall readership. #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

Ok, take a deep breath. The long awaited horror anthology Weird Tales to Haunt Your Reptilian Brain just slithered out of its dark hole and is now among us. We will all survive if you just read the weird stories. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6414WM1 @authorstephenrhoades @burialbooks @maciejkamuda_art

'What did one atom say to the other?' by Sidrah Akhtar Cover art by Kelli Lage

An illustrated #horrorpoetry anthology? That's something you don't see much these days (at least I don't), and here's a goodie: GATHERED HERE TODAY, from @gravesidepress.bsky.social. (Bias alert: I've got a poem in here). Reviewers, PM me for an e-copy! #poetry #horror #speculativepoetry

"Pretend They Never Came" (collage), Frank Moth, 2020 #scifi #ufo #vintagescifi

Excited to have my speculative children's poem "Ufology" featured in @emberjournal.org! #speculativepoetry #scifipoetry #kidlit #poetry shorturl.at/TNH1D

🛸🛸 happy friday, perhaps a story is what you need? 🛸🛸 have a sip of this from @xavilawrites.bsky.social www.annareser.com/ns-a-tall-gl...

#rodserling #twilightzone #writing #writingadvice

Here’s a fun spooky read! 20 short stories written by 20 authors all using a National Park, National Monument or a National Historic Park as the setting! Campfire reading anyone?! 🪵 @fleurbradley.bsky.social @allymalinenko.bsky.social @kimventrella.bsky.social @owlhollowpress.bsky.social #bookposse

"I Let in a Bug" - cool horror poem by Nicholas Alti. #horror #poetry #horrorpoetry #speculativepoetry shorturl.at/mmsDk

By Ellis Rosen in the New Yorker. #scifi #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #dystopia

'And Again' by Uma Phatak Cover art: ‘Into the Woods’ by Denisa Popa

The trick is to get your word count in today. Or get your editing in today. Or get your writing business stuff done today. Or plot a different novel today. Or check your contracts today. Or do critiques for your crit group today. It's all forward movement. Do the things. #writingcommunity #booksky

#writing #haiku #vss365 #micropoetry #俳句 #nexa Hologram flickers Just as the final star gives up Scans the empty code

It's a grand idea to set yourself short-term and long-term author goals. A short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future. The near future can mean today, this week, month, or year. A long-term goal is something you want to achieve in the future. That can mean in 6 months or more.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. —Robert Louis Stevenson #AuthorStrategy

"No one will be admitted while the pendulum is swinging..." #horror #vintagehorror #barbarasteele #vincentprice

Excited for my story "It Stares Back" to appear in the Rooted issue of @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social, a spooky poetry/fiction zine specifically for MG and YA readers. Check out all their amazing issues here for free! shorturl.at/4Bqcg #horror #horrorfiction #mghorror #yahorror

Possession 1981 is legendary horror film that goes beyond a standard scare film. Here is our tribute to all that it is.. "Flesh of Madness". #Metalcore #postpunk #music #emo #metalsky #horror

Can't believe I missed World #Dracula Day on the 26th! Here is the image that started it all for me one #Halloween night in the 90s... #horror #vampires

...of course loss is the great lesson. But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness ... and what are you going to do-- what can you do about it-- deep, blue night? --Mary Oliver, "Poppies" #poetry #happiness #grief

Still haunting 11 years later: tinyurl.com/4e2z33h5 #southerngothic #folk #contemporaryfolk

"Every dusk, / the longing. Every daybreak the loss." --Vievee Francis, "The #Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears" tinyurl.com/2rj4v45f #poetry