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𝙊𝙆❟ 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 '𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙪𝙮'
25 days ago
Study for Ice Storm, Maine | Jamie Wyeth
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Kate Louise Powell
25 days ago
maybe my favourite fox portrait I've ever drawn, plus some more flora and fauna of Scotland 🧡🦊🐰 red foxes and mountain hares, an orange tip butterfly, harebells and trailing azalea 🌷🐇🏴
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Lucy Jones, contemporary artist living and working in Edinburgh New Town, painting and drawing the surrounding Georgian Architecture
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Zoë’s Studio
25 days ago
Painting finished - rabbits amongst plant foliage Watercolour on 300gsm cold pressed Arches paper
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Georgina Kent
25 days ago
This is a painting of a long-tailed tit, arguably the cutest bird we have in the UK. They’re very small, fluffy with long tails, and fly around in little flocks. They’re a regular in my garden and always make me smile 😊
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Chiara Di Lello
25 days ago
Happy Valentine's Day / Captain Cook got cooked day. Good day to reshare this absolutely true love poem featuring smoked fish and climate change.
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Chiara Di Lello
It sounds like bickering but I realize it’s not: the couple shuffles just ahead of us toward the seafood department one gesturing from captain’s seat behind the cart’s handlebar and one leaning...
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Vikki C.
26 days ago
Portrait of Mourning (February 2026) B/w Valentine's 🖤🤍
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Kelli Dianne Rule
about 1 month ago
Issue 72 (!) of
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is now available...a lovingly curated gem of original poetry and art. Featuring my winter gardening poem (below) alongside an illustration by Ukrainian artist Josephine Florens. Get lost in the pale, poetic rebirth of winter at
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'February' by Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bag paper as here
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
about 1 month ago
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
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Kelli Dianne Rule
about 1 month ago
Featuring my poem "The tomatoes had gone" alongside "Rooster of Peace" by Ukranian artist Josephine Florens.
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
about 1 month ago
Issue #72 has dropped over at
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❄️ New poetry by Oliver Brooks, Emma Bolden, Kelli Dianne Rule, Alex Turissini, Angelique Zobitz, Meia Geddes, Angie Macri, Nicole Dufalla, Anya Kirshbaum, Aditi Bhattacharjee, Pamela Manche Pearce, and Natalie Zhang.
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
a journal of poetry and art
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E.B. Schnepp
2 months ago
"eating taco bell in the middle of a burger king drive thru just to feel something" in
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Carrie Chappell
4 months ago
Thank you to Editor
@aprilmbratten.bsky.social
for selecting my poem - " 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' " written after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire - to appear in Issue 71 of
@upthestaircase.bsky.social
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Vikki C.
4 months ago
Grateful to have a new poem 'Childhood' included in Issue 71 of
@upthestaircase.bsky.social
alongside a wealth of talent! Huge thank you to EIC
@aprilmbratten.bsky.social
for selecting my work ❤️
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(ALT TEXT included) Check out the full issue at the link in replies.
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
4 months ago
Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at
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Rabih Alameddine
7 months ago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
7 months ago
We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!
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I've got 3 new poems in this sparkling issue ✨️ Thanks so much to the editors for including my work 😊 You are a bright spot in a dark world.
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Vismai Rao
9 months ago
"If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead, then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical." Dream of the Moose Calf, Zeke Shomler in
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If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead, then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical. If...
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Lee Madgwick
9 months ago
Plight (2020) Oil and acrylic on canvas
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Btw I have brand new poems, plural, coming out soon 👀😌
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Taco Bell Quarterly
9 months ago
Taco Bell makes you gay. Happy Pride!
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Emma Bolden
9 months ago
i just — like i don’t trust myself to work after taking a benadryl, and this guy slice and diced our entire fucking government after taking enough drugs to launch his brain into space. what the fuck is even happening
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Taco Bell Quarterly
9 months ago
It's just words and you're just meat and nothing actually matters. Now go write your book.
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artnau
11 months ago
Companions (diptych), 2001 by Kiki Smith
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Screen Door Review
10 months ago
Psssssst! We're getting our June/Pride issue together & are still reading subs PLUS we've opened up submissions for cover art. Show us what you have! We pay $40 for cover art & believe in showcasing the brilliance of queer southerners. :)
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Screen Door Review is a triannual literary magazine that publishes poetry and flash fiction authored by individuals belonging to the southern queer (lgbtq) community of the United States. The purpose ...
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I "lost" poetry for a number of years but it is steadily making its way back to me. I haven't felt this inspired in ages. And yes, I have actually been writing.
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10 months ago
Chilean artist Livia Marin, teapot from the ´Nomad Patterns´ series (2012)
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
10 months ago
Celebrate friendship and community with Up the Staircase! We are seeking poetry and art for our themed issue, Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Deadline: July 1st
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
10 months ago
We are seeking cover art submissions for our future issues! Cover art can be of any genre or discipline and must contain a *staircase* somewhere in the work (but does not have to be the focal point). Visit our guidelines for more information:
www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
a journal of poetry and art
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Moved my bi bunnies banner over to this app and it's starting to feel more cozy 🥰
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
10 months ago
Submissions are now open for our special issue Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Send us your work about friendship and community:
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
10 months ago
The new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly is here 👀
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Working on the next issue of UtSQ 🥰
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
12 months ago
Ready your poems. This summer we are bringing back our themed issues! On May 1st we will open to submissions for our Kindred Issue: Poems on Platonic Love. More details soon.
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
12 months ago
Have some poems ready for submission? Tonight is the deadline to submit for our May issue:
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Vismai Rao
about 1 year ago
Sharing an old poem titled 'On Valentine's Day...' on Valentine's Day though it's not 'on' Valentine's Day :) from Issue 64 of
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Anna Laura Reeve
about 1 year ago
It's a gorgeous day. Feeling gratitude for a lot of things today, really expensive and hopeful. I used to draw the eight of swords alllllll the time. Less and less, as I change my life. Thanks Cincinnati Review
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about 1 year ago
Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman
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E.B. Schnepp
about 1 year ago
With just everything happening lately I completely missed this dropping, but I have new work in Up the Staircase!
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Dr. Han VanderHart
about 1 year ago
blue of the sky without violence blue dust on the grapes on the vine blue mist on the pond’s dark face —Han VanderHart one of three new poems in the new
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💙 read the full issue here:
www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/
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Screen Door Review
about 1 year ago
Issue 19 is live & it's full of Queer Southern voices! Let it be a balm for your sadness, a podium for your pride, & a middle finger to those trying to silence queer folx. We won't hush. 🏳️🌈
www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/
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Issue 19
Cover Art by Mathew Yates Han VanderHart- Poem for Split Home and Pleasure- Brief Catalog of Blue- Animal Boundaries Faune Vita- Salt Dustin Brookshire- Poem In Which I Never Had Low Self-Esteem- D…
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Eleanor Ball
about 1 year ago
I reviewed <bo(d)y rendering by A. Deshmane (
@kithbooks.bsky.social
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Hobo Camp Review
about 1 year ago
Check out Up the Staircase Quarterly!
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Kelly Gray
about 1 year ago
Thank you Up The Staircase Quarterly for publishing two of my poems alongside these dreamy poets. Plus the cover art, gorgeous. Transgender Latina, by Ernesto Beckford.
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Up the Staircase Quarterly
about 1 year ago
Issue #68 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is now live! Check it out here:
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