She’s a girl, // not born but imagined. Imagination, I say-- / Another word for God." "Another Daughter Poem" by Lisa Dordal. psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/22/a...

Just in case tomorrow really is the day the other shoe finally drops, here is one of my Rapture-trauma poems. "Angel Triptych" appeared in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social almost exactly two years ago.

"and again, i’m digging / for the hand // around my neck" "fossil fuel" by Sunny Dizon psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/15/f...

Goodness, I just read this poem and it gutted, no flowered me. "Like us, thin-skinned and tender, they are quick to bruise, quick to droop and fail. My dad, my dad is failing quickly, drooping, bruised." A mini masterclass in line breaks and repetition!

"I get on my knees every Sunday not to repent but to get close to other beings, to feel connected to them, knees and hands in the dirt, the world bending all around me. " "Church Windows" by Brandi Handley @brandihandley24.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/08/c...

This poem really got to me…irises and all. @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social publishes something wonderful every Monday.

"Here in my fragile house— / a little rain, a little wind, / a little unearned blessing—" "Tivkah" by Anne Myles psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/01/t...

"The cathedrals of the iris don’t last– / in this they are like us, thin-skinned and tender." "An Untended Field" by Lisa Rhoades psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/25/a...

“Andrews’s faith here is not the sort that cuddles you and tucks you into bed, but rather the sort that keeps you awake at night, working out your salvation with fear and trembling.” Stephen A Allen reviews "The Hours" by Matthew J Andrews psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/22/b...

"‘whatever human hands take up with love is holy.’ I want to believe that. And in part I do." "Seferis wrote" by @martin65.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/18/s...

Day 4: “Temple of Hephaestus” by @poetbex.bsky.social in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social. This poem is so immersive and such a joy to read aloud. psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/21/t...

Independent lit journals, now is the time to—oh, what was that? you have been shining? This whole time? Carry on 📚💙 @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social, @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Poetry Northwest, @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, @periodicities.bsky.social, & more!

"Today she watches cloud cover ease off, / scuffs bits of blossom with the edge of her shoe." "Bonded" by Annette Sisson psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/11/b...

Read Rebekah Wolman’s review of @rachelsedelman.bsky.social’s Dear Memphis in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social here: psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/25/b... Find your copy here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Dear-M...

ICYMI: My poem 'Temple of Hephaestus' was published last month by the super @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social 🏛️

"Nothing could have prepared Galilee for the amount of bones in this room." "Fossils in the Garden" by Sophia Alapati @wisdomofthesea.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/04/f...

My poem "Please Hang Up & Try Again" in the the latest issue of @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

This winding almost but never deadend of a poem, this infinite loop.

So excited to read this new review of @rachelsedelman.bsky.social’s Dear Memphis—a must read for those interested in a poetics of the environment, history, and a Jewish family living in the South…📚💙

"All I’m saying is, I could not say, I could not see whose mouth it was carrying me." "Please Hang Up & Try Again" by @johnpauldavis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/28/p... Art: "New Song" by Sarah J. Sloat

Super excited to have a new poem in the wonderful @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social! ‘The Temple of Hephaestus’ was inspired by a trip to Athens a couple of years ago 🏛️

“Edelman treats weighty subjects and complex emotions with masterful nuance, using questions and the comments of others to fill in the dotted outlines and white spaces between the mostly short, often staggered lines of these spare, resonant, abstraction-free poems." Rebekah Wolman on "Dear Memphis"

"This is a shrine for the god of making things" "Temple of Hephaestus" by @poetbex.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/21/t...

SUBS CLOSE TOMORROW! July 15! All genres, always free. Read all about it: psalteryandlyre.org/submissions

“For hours, the girl stares at the stitch she’ll never knit.” "On Beginnings" by skwinsto.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/14/o...

Subs Close in 3 Days! July 15, 2025 All genres Always free Details at psalteryandlyre.org/submissions

Online, so many choices: free poems in your inbox from Poem-a-day poets.org/poem-a-day and Poetry Daily poems.com for ex... I also enjoy being on the mailing list for @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social

Submissions close in 1 week! July 15, 2025. All Genres. Always free! Psalteryandlyre.org/submissions

"elated / to be & finally" "clean break" by Maggie Rue Hess psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/07/c...

Where to get published | Opportunities for Writers & Artists including @diabolicalplots.com @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social katelouisepoetry.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/w... #SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #Writers #New #LitMags #Poetry #Fiction #Art

Submissions Close in 2 Weeks! July 15, 2025 All genres Always free psalteryandlyre.org/submissions

"The fat raccoon arrives early this a.m., / feet crunching leaves like glass shards / as it searches for slices of day- / old pizza I threw out an hour ago." "Fantasia" by Ace Boggess psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/30/f...

I was preparing (that is, drinking coffee) before cleaning my house this morning, and I read this beauty. So perfect for me right now, from @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

"Just before the leaving, before the final letting go, how a space grows holy—a brilliance you hadn’t known could arrive to an ordinary life."

"In a small house, the tide of objects / is driven by you." "Interior with collection of tie tacks" by @jeanneobbard.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/23/i...

"... Even the tiny / puddle at his feet held reflections— / of clouds, of mountain peaks, of / pigeons flying overhead. ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/09/r...

Shout out to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and Stacy Boe Miller for our coversation about poetry and life. Read it here! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...

Proofs have arrived 💙 so, delighted to say I have a poem forthcoming from v. beloved @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social later this summer.

“Four days after the election, I take a yellow basket into the thicket of Cordwood Landing.” “Sea Glass, Yellow Basket” by abigailmyers.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/16/s...

Very grateful to everyone at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing one of my new Ruskin poems. Always knocked out to have something up at this fantastic journal! 🙌🏻 https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/09/ruskin-and-the-puddle-of-water/

"Collecting Little Found Things": A Conversation Between Jory Mickelson & Stacy Boe Miller psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...

"He could never remember a time when he did not love the sheen of light on water." "Ruskin and the Puddle of Water" by @jackbedell.bsky.social

I remember when this one came across my reader's desk. I'm no less enamoured of it now than I was then.

"turn deity, blessing the humble / and the corrupt with color—" "This is the time of the year when the trees" by @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/02/t...

C'mon folks. Make me work for my money.

"turn deity, blessing the humble / and the corrupt with color—" "This is the time of the year when the trees" by @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/02/t...

We are open for submissions! All genres, always free! June 1-July 15! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

We are open for submissions! All genres, always free! June 1-July 15! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

"What makes some political poems last while others feel more like edifying sermons that I will soon forget?... James Cherry's ‘Between Chance and Mercy’ came in to answer my question." @whitlynnrioross.bsky.social reviews "Between Chance and Mercy" by James E. Cherry