Delighted to celebrate the holiday season with a brand new poetry acceptance!

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I work with many young trans and queer people, and they have my whole heart. A large part of my work right now is validating queer teenagers, telling them that they deserve to take up space, that they deserve a full, long life. I wish the rest of the cis-world felt the same. Step up your allyship.

Today I am overwhelmed by the paper, stacks and stacks, an almost manuscript, printed out almost poems, poem lines, prose paragraphs, class notes, favorite poems of others. I was not paying attention when organization of the creative mind was being taught.

The collage work of @susanbarryschulz.com graces two different pieces in Issue 4 accompanying work by @jillkitchen.bsky.social and Sean Cho. www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...

Very excited to have the poem of the day over at @swwim.bsky.social . It's a new ars poetica from my manuscript in progress of ars poeticas. I hope you enjoy it. It is a winter poem. It owes a debt to @mariapopova.bsky.social and her beautiful book: Universe in Verse www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

Trying this again without a typo! So delighted to have this podcast out in the world. The Fall for the Book podcast team is a delight, and the entire fall series is worth your time!

In my brick heart of American hearts, something moves to the edge, is built beneath a field of foxglove. —Jennifer Martelli #poetry 📚💜

Assembling a holiday wishlist... what books are on your list this year, and what is your favorite independent bookstore?

Has loss or change or time made you rethink how you define yourself? Then you or someone you know might like Unrivered. Get yours at the link in bio or from your indie bookstore at bookshop.org/p/books/unri... (I also have some at home that I can sign & mail (US only). DM for that option.)

Don't forget...submissions for Issue Five are open until December 15. Particulary looking for more prose (F or CNF or hybrid) and more visual art! Send us some things, will you? asteralesjournal.com/submissions

Hey, a friendly reminder to all of you writers out there who aren't on any end of year lists or nominated for anything or winning awards... Lots of us are out here reading and loving what you make, are instructed and impacted by it. Keep doing what you do.

you're so right jimmy eat world even at 25 you've gotta start sometime (i',m in my 30s)

This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚

Chloe Alberta reads from her flash piece RENAISSANCE featured in our NOVEMBER ISSUE. ✨ You can find the whole piece right here! buff.ly/OjkvGSN

Read these two poems by Allison Blevins and travel through both the universe and the body, both mysterious and mostly out of our control. asteralesjournal.com/1-4-blevins-sq…

Deep gratitude for my press and for my pressmates.

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild: Coyote Black bear Gray wolf Moose Bobcat

We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6

My whole life is this and it’s amazing

"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels, which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed, an open mouth." This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social

Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees! Writers in Residence 2026-27 Erika Meitner Bleah Patterson Dorsía Smith Silva Patricia Smith @rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social

When a journal says please send again, do keep trying. I have now gotten eight acceptances this way.

So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!

Somedays it helps to know that someone decided to build this in their backyard.

Have you ever noticed a submission packet switch from In Progress to Accepted without any acceptance message?

And ... drum roll... the book is now available for pre-order! lilypoetryreview.blog/perforated-b...

Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...

On this day in 1983, U2 released the live album “Under a Blood Red Sky”

we can't wait to devour your words!

It's Give Miami Day! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard.

Congrats to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on her well -deserved National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder. Long live the Queen!

It’s on! Give Miami Day starts tomorrow—but early giving is already open. Please consider donating to @swwim.bsky.social to help us continue our programming for supporting women and raising their voices in Miami and the world beyond it. www.givemiamiday.org/organization...

I really hope none of you have a swan in your basement. At least, not involuntarily. Voluntarily is probably bad in this case too, though, so yeah, I wish you all swan-free basements.

We have entered the cologne phase of the middle school years. Send help.

"you start to wake at three a.m. to the sound of a man’s scream in one ear. you think it must be the stress of / work weaving nightmares until your man tells you he wakes that way, too, and often." Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social has a poem in Boudin 🎉: buff.ly/ah2kp9n

We love ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we love this poem❤️ Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published the gorgeous piece, Self-Portrait as the Pie Crust in Heretic (2024), in @upthestaircase.bsky.social: buff.ly/L4U0jlR

Tonight! Register now! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

I love a Saturday issue drop because we can stay in our pajamas, drink coffee, and READ all morning! I hope you LOVE this spectacular NEW ISSUE of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social as much as I do. Thank you to our contributors & staff for all the work & love that went into making this issue shine! 💫

Need more SLM? We have fam interviews, accomplishment roundups, and more!! It's all on our blog 💋 LIP SERVICE 💋 buff.ly/wDdoCsb

TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages. @taylorbyas.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries

Hanging out with my friends.

One of the most transformative moments I had as a writer was listening to a podcast years ago in which the editor in chief of Smokelong, Christopher Allen, talked about the day the guy who'd submitted 152 times to Smokelong had his piece accepted and how the whole staff celebrated. Suddenly (1/??)

It’s my birthday today. [Cue 8-bit Super Mario fireworks.] 🎆👾 I would love if you donated to The Sameer Project.

You can tell this is someone who has never had a menstrual cramp

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Oh what wonderful news to wake up to ❤️❤️❤️

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Working on another piece that can't decide if it would like to be a prose poem or micro-flash... do I let editors decide?