We're closing out the day, the week, the sneak peek at issue number 89 with a poetry party. A kind of end-of-the-world type poetry party. Seems fitting these days. This is from "Supplication" by Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social and you need to read it on Sunday!

A Gay Hammer Poem | Stephen Kim @skimperil.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine

Contributor features from ballast 3.3! Here’s Stephen K. Kim with “Notification” @skimperil.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/stephen-k-kim #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #StephenKKim

Thrilled to have a poem in this volume! Many thanks to the editors @ballastjournal.bsky.social!

Thank you @cilloyd.bsky.social, Jack Westmore, and Luís Costa for my first poet interview in the Seaford Review! www.seafordreview.com/p/meet-the-p... #queerpoet #newpoet

Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection, ca. 1970s. When I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!

Are prose poems allowed for #smallpoemsunday? Posting one of mine published earlier this year with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social CW: grief #poetsofbluesky #poetry #newpoet #chappellroan #mathclass

But I was hungry! From The Adventures of Nip and Tuck: Just Cats. By Elizabeth Francis and illustrated by Barbara Roe Hicklin, 1959.

Many thanks to @narioli.bsky.social and Thimble Lit Mag for publishing "When Ruth Recounted How" in Volume 7.4 -- this will be the first time I'll see one of my poems in print! #queerpoem #aapiwriting #newpoet

Thank you to editors @cilloyd.bsky.social, Jack Westmore, and Luís Costa for publishing my poem "Elegy for Joe" in Vol 2 of the Seaford Review! Thrilled my work is included alongside such incredible poems. www.seafordreview.com/p/issue-two #poetry #queerpoem #elegy #newpoet

Sun roasted potato. 🥔 Photo from my collection, 1954.

Thank you @neologismpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem this weekend! www.neologismpoetry.com/February-202... #poem #poetry #newpoet #writers #thundercloud #catpoem

“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

increasingly i like to describe the writing i love most as “soulful.” full of seeking. full of reaching for another’s hand. techniques of verbal restraint or seeming coldness serve always an underlying vulnerability and warmth and tenderness (or a deep longing for these)

3 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!! SUMMER SERIES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HERE: ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...

to hold, to gentle, to warm, to carry, to tend, to hold and hold

new piece out on in the palisades review! first attempt at flash creative nonfiction (or is it supposed to be called flash memoir?)

new poem out in ghost city review! thank you @ghostcitypress.bsky.social ghostcitypress.com/poetry0125/2...

2024 was the year I started writing in earnest, and my only new year's resolution for 2025 is to continue writing. Grateful to have work forthcoming in a few places, including @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

What matters to me even more than the shapeliness and the dance of language is what the poem discovers deeper down… I respond most to what is found out about the heart and spirit, what we can hear through the language. —Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”

This one's a bit late, but posting my first published poem ever! Thank you so much @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

My first published microfiction! Thank you so much @acdclitmag.bsky.social