#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #TheLook. Don't explain the moment. Show it. A raised eyebrow. A lingering stare. A look that lands like a bruise. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #TheLook starts Friday. The look across a room. The look from family. The look that gave you away. The look you never forgot. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

#LiftToTheSky invites you to practice gratitude out loud. Who are you thankful for in this space?

Last week's poets brought it. Pride month continues with #PoemsAbout #TheLook. Recognition. Attraction. Judgment. One glance can change everything. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight. Write what only happens after midnight. The confession. The hookup. The argument. The walk home. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight starts Friday. Give us drag queens, lonely diners, missed connections, wet pavement, empty streets, dawn. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

Today is about lifting, not ranking. It’s #LiftToTheSky Monday.

Last week's poets brought it. Pride month continues with #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight. Neon. Hunger. Missed trains. Wrong turns. The city after permission expires. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #WrongBody is live. Post through Thursday. We favour vivid imagery, queer voices, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and poems that avoid cliché. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

This is wonderful news!

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #WrongBody. Less explanation. More image. The crossed-out name. The changing room mirror. The body as battleground. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #WrongBody starts Friday. Write identity, transformation, discomfort, liberation—or something entirely different. Surprise us. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

Use #LiftToTheSky to amplify the writers and presses building something real.

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Pride month continues. This week: #PoemsAbout #WrongBody. Write the disconnect. The body inherited, desired, rejected, escaped. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, and work that avoids cliché. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

It’s #LiftToTheSky. If someone’s work has stayed with you, let them know — publicly.

Submissions close today. This was never about volume. It was about truth. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

Closing soon. Thank you to those who trusted us with their truth. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky

Last days. If it’s yours, it belongs here. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

#PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

No distance. No delay. Send it. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #WritingCommunity

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight. If you have to stretch for it—don’t. Keep it honest or leave it.

If you’ve been holding it back, now is the time. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

We are still reading. We are still listening. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky

#PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight starts Friday. No reaching. No borrowing. No performance.

Final week approaching. If it matters, send it. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry thebrokenspine.co.uk...

#LiftToTheSky Monday is active now. Scroll less. Recommend more.

You don’t need permission if it’s yours to tell. You need honesty. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Not every story is yours. #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight — write only what you can stand behind.

This is not about being right. It’s about being real. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

Not clever. Not polished. True. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #Writing

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

If you’ve lost to war, this space is yours. If you carry it, this space is yours. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness. Don’t perform it. Just hold it there. Let it speak.

Write what remains. Not what was announced. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky

If your poem protects the reader, it’s not for this. #DoveCry demands honesty. #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry #Poetry

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness starts Friday. Stay close to it. No distance. No softening.

We are not asking you to explain war. We are asking you to show what it did. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #WritersOfBluesky

For #LiftToTheSky, share the work you’d still recommend if no one noticed you did.

This is about voice — not volume. Quiet truth carries further than noise. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry

To witness is to carry. #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness — write what you cannot unsee.

No borrowed grief. No second-hand pain. Only what you carry. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #PoetryCommunity

War leaves marks that don’t fade. Write from that place. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry #AmWriting