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?

M. Cynthia Cheung ♥️ from COMMON DISASTER (Acre Books) I absolutely love this poem! @acrebooks.bsky.social

I’ve started reading @susanlleary.bsky.social's Dressing the Bear, and it’s nothing short of miraculous. “Have we not all been crushed by what shelters us? By a sun hauled from the sky & collapsed into rubies, my brother carrying the wreck of it in his hands.”

“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.” bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social

In case you missed my Brooklyn ghost poem on Halloween, here is "after-midnight umbra" from Boudin's Ticking Clock Issue:

In case you missed my Brooklyn ghost poem on Halloween, here is "after-midnight umbra" from Boudin's Ticking Clock Issue:

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Happy Birthday, @majda.bsky.social !!

This is how I found out @majda.bsky.social and I share a birthday. Happy birthday, badass poet! 🎂📚🥳

It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...

DC friends! Come write with me tomorrow morning! We have a nice big group signed up, and we'll have snacks and coffee and laughs and a couple of hours of community. No prerequisites, no expectations. Just ✍️ and ♥️. 2 for 1 tix! Link in the comments. www.eventbrite.com/e/write-now-...

It's a great day to announce Split Lip's nominees for the first ever MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARDS! Congratulations @theoceanisgay.bsky.social @poonaikaari.bsky.social @sfeycreates.bsky.social @maxpasakorn.bsky.social & MORE!

"You can also save someone’s life by loving them, by just being with them so they’re not alone." - @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in the intro to this beautiful and gutting poem about friendship by @jennymolberg.bsky.social

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025! @miamibookfair.bsky.social From “No Explosions” by Naomi Shihab Nye #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poem #WomenPoets #Inclusive #NoExplosions #NaomiShihabNye #ThursdayPoem #MiamiBookFair2025 #MiamiReads

Full moon in DC:

"I have left my body many times. Once I misplaced myself inside my mother’s voice. She was peeling a carrot with a small knife, the blade so thin it sang against the curling skin." Contributor and poetry reader @andhow.bsky.social has a new poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social ❤️: buff.ly/yTTHHpD

NAWP has an awesome one coming up on November 17th www.eventbrite.com/e/1927099559...

I'm in love with long and moody guitar intros. Shatter by Liz Phair. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vb...

i would like to save daylight and nightdark and all the hours really, i would like to save them all

Split Lip exists because of our all-consuming, kind-of-embarrassing love for storytelling (in all its forms). BTW: we're currently open for free submissions! ✨ buff.ly/ooRuxPx

Let's begin ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a poem 💕 Contributor Jill Kitchen published a nostalgic poem in asteralesjournal.bsky.social. Find it here: buff.ly/ysScGZO

“all i knew was hunger and to follow the beat of footsteps ahead of me.”

NYC go vote today!!!

Today’s the day! Send us your darlings, now through December 15! ❤️

Thank you @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for how beautifully you support your contributors! I am forever grateful to be a part of the fam.

I am really into the whole idea of a tree being both deciduous and conifer and actually published a poem in Harvard Review last year about the larch.

a twilight colorado mountainscape with moon, a few years back.

Every Dia de Los Muertos, Florence Project social workers organize an Ofrenda in our Phoenix and Tucson offices. This year, our staff gathered to honor clients and people detained who have passed while in immigration detention, and a beloved colleague who we lost in 2024.

In case you missed my ghosty poem yesterday in Boudin's Ticking Clock issue, the day after Halloween is a great day to continue your spooky reads! www.mcneese.edu/thereview/af...

👻🎃👻 This year my forehead is going as Samuel Beckett

Excited to have a ghosty Halloween poem up today with Boudin, the spicy online cousin of the McNeese Review. In case you need a spooky read, give their “Boo”din: The Ticking Clock issue a read! www.mcneese.edu/thereview/af...

What do you need? You need to know about this amazing @notatawp.bsky.social reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social next month! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

What holds you together on days when absolutely every part of life is going wrong? (Not just the whole having moved a family across the country for a "stable" government job.)

I shared some upcoming news in my occasional email. If you're not on my list, let me know if you'd like to be added! mailchi.mp/b5c4d13d3f2b...

I feel as if the brutal realism of the current landscape basically demands weird fiction. This stuff is too much to process it directly on a day-to-day basis. It must be filtered through the weirdest lens until it resembles something like life, like hope or sanity.

Ceiling Ian MacKaye sees all, knows all.

It must be almost Halloween because my watch is haunted, waking me up with middle of the night timer alarms that I didn't set.

Thank you to Beth Ann Fennelly for this, in Poetry magazine.

My day job is working at a women's shelter in DC, and many of our clients are on SNAP. If you're local and can support these women so they can stay fed, the info is here: www.instagram.com/p/DQU7kh3CbKg/ We need grocery store gift cards and shelf-stable food donations!

I love @agnimagazine.bsky.social so it’s a dream to be in here! Available at most bookstores, like a lit journal should be. My gratitude to the editors 🧿

Is anyone here an expert on creating the middle school fluffy hair look? My 13 year old is at a loss and seems to have tried most combs, brushes, and hair products! It really is tough to be a teen.

"my mom the microbiologist"

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Technically, this is a book of spells.

all i knew was hunger and to follow the beat of footsteps ahead of me

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

From a fun q&a about my new book: If you could only describe your novel in five words, what would they be? Creepy, atmospheric, and weirdly fun. What can readers expect? Readers can expect a feminist fable about violence, paranoia, and perfumery. thenerddaily.com/eman-quotah-...

This is phenomenal.

This guy had to pause in the tree with his load of snacks after tossing unacceptable acorns onto cars on the street below all day.