I appreciate that Duolingo thinks I need to learn this sentence. They're not wrong. 🤣

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Issue Six Subs are now open! While you prep your submissions, enjoy @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social's work in Issue Five!

This week in the poetry blogs with @shawnalemay.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social 1/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/01/poet...

My pufferfish poem is in some fantastic company at Poets for Science. Thanks to David Hassler for including me! I started writing this poem at a Driftwood Creative Arts Series event, so thanks also to Aliah Fabros for the inspiring playlist! poetsforscience.org/how-wonderfu...

Our Staff Celebration Reading yesterday was a bright spot in a dark time. Thanks to all who read and attended! You can join us asynchronously and watch the reading here: youtu.be/XpFWjI12gXE?...

In 2026 poetry is resistance, hope. Read this by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/at-the-bir...

Thank you for sharing it with us!

This week, the lovely new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social published my poem I wrote for my dear friend Devon. ❤️ This poem contains a few of my favorite things, and it feels especially meaningful that editors Donna Vorreyer and Rachel Bunting wanted to share it. www.asteralesjournal.com/2-5-manning-...

I'm so looking forward to this reading on Saturday. I hope to see your faces on Zoom! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/.../regi.../...

Issue Five is now live with words from @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social, Katie Kim, @aprilist.bsky.social Svetlana Litvinchuk, @creakyvoice.bsky.social, Amanda Lee, & Stephen Energia Gifford Bell. Art from @sjane.bsky.social and @titaniayellow.bsky.social! asteralesjournal.com/currentissue

As part of our continued 10-year anniversary celebrations, please join us on Saturday, January 24, for a special Zoom reading featuring the staff of Whale Road Review! WRR Staff Celebration Reading When: Jan 24, 2026 09:00 AM Pacific Time Register in advance: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

And our nominees for Best Small Fictions are... www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

Here's the original story for your perusal: www.whaleroadreview.com/maakestad/ Thanks again to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social and @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for publishing this one.

I made it to Christmas morning! #whamageddon

This 10-year anniversary reading for Whale Road Review was amazing! I spent most of the time teared up (in the best way). <3

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

Happy anniversary to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! And many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social! And much admiration to my issue-buddies! And boundless love to the man & sons with whom I live & who keep teaching me things!

My journal is 10 years old! ❤️🎉 I hope you enjoy our new winter issue!

And we're open again! Send us work for our Summer and Fall issues! www.whaleroadreview.com/submission-g...

Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading! Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time Register in advance: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hello, friends! In case you'd like to vote for us and/or some of your other favorite lit mags, here's the link for this year's Chill Subs awards. Voting ends on Dec. 7. :) www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Coming soon: Our 10th anniversary winter issue and our December reading period!

We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com

Happy book release day to my dear friend Kelly Foster Lundquist! Her new book, Beard, is an impossibly beautiful memoir, full of humor, food, pop culture references, and so much compassion for her ex-husband and her past self. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Just listened to this super late last night. It’s so lovely. I might need to get new poetry books soon… 🐠

I just need everyone to know that today my awestruck 14yo son called me the God of Tetris. 😁🚀

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

❤️❤️❤️ to see people still engaging with Jesus Merch is the most exciting, thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social!!!

If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :) youtu.be/HsodIXXqGwU?...

I haven't made a Poetry Rev video in a while (it's been an absurd year), but here's a new one with Jesus Merch by Megan McDermott! youtube.com/shorts/yI5pB...

I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net! You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."

We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com We can’t wait to read your work!! #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit

Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

This is gonna be fun! @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social @grantclauser.bsky.social @jdisip.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @claudiasavage.bsky.social @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online

@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 's chapbook How to Play. @amorak.bsky.social's Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade: www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...

Day 23 of the #sealeychallenge August 23rd- How to Play, Katie Manning This chapbook by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social from features poems inspired by games of childhood, a perfect nostalgia for the end of summer

So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @andotheritems.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more. Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

Please make a writer’s day and send a little something (or a lot) using the Tip the Author links below many of the bios. As ever, thank you for reading! @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-39-sum...

In pedagogy, Jen Hirt brings us a timely and much-needed example of modeling the writing process rather than integrating AI. www.whaleroadreview.com/hirt/

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :) imagejournal.org/2025-the-gle...

Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire": www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/poet...

Very funny podcast on the topic of bad poetry. 💙 I needed this humor today! #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poem @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social