HAPPY APRIL! 🧅🧅 Today, submissions for our flash fiction contest have closed. Watch the website for the announcement of the longlist. Also, ISSUE THREE: BLOOM is here! You can read all the stories and poems now using the link below. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.thebloominonion.com/issue-three-...

Just in case you’re trying to decide between Uber and Lyft

Winter is ending, and today marks the first day of meteorological Spring - here is my offer of something peaceful for the timeline racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

For #Smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social here is (are?) Ten Lines, by N. W. Lea:

a lava lamp is great if you want something beautiful to happen in about 2 hours' time

[comforting you as you puke into a storm drain] this is exactly why i started my newsletter

Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog

While you studied the blade I studied a smooth stone

far off lands near me

late night

unnecessary ceremony // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, february 2026 #collage #abstraction #queerart

feat fetish

are you the guy that keeps making fake shit look real and real shit look fake??

chlorophyllibuster

asking people on the street if i can speak with their dog

collecting brown paper bags for a new nest

I’m spreading a picnic blanket throughout the city!

I eat as much pumpkin as a senior dog

A lapse in the ordinary devotions.

"I am learning how to be weakness leaving the body. I am licking citric atlas critic acid off my fingers. Every day is keep doing my tasks keep reminding and head down. Nobody minds the back kept slant until straight again." —Cavar anmly.org/ap41/sarah-c...

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

DOWNSIDE: infuriated UPSIDE: eyes turned periwinkle

Woe, mug wall of disassociation upon ye

A fantastic blurb from Kayla E (Precious Rubbish) for the final book in our @sfwa.org grant series: "There's a Party in the Free Zone" is a little miracle of a book. Ink-smudged one-panel poems and pocket fables that land like a voicemail from your subconscious: funny, tender, and a little haunted.

Frankenstein is the story of a STEM dad whose son majors in the humanities

Winter is full of grainy moments

Cladonia lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Asking trees how to love strange positions

feeling seen

Stationary store? Uh, yeah, I hope it is!

OPEN SUBS for e(i8: Collage! We're inviting YOU to remix much of our archive! We want your cut-ups, golden shovels, frankenpoems, etc! See guidelines for details/limitations: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #indielit #litmag #callforsubs #opensubs #artcommunity

December's immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood. — Zinaida Gippius

Submission period PROCESS /MARGINALIA / OTHER WOR(L)D(S) closes Sun. Nov. 30th at midnight Pacific Time. If you are working on a hybrid or have pieces unpublished & remarkable in form & content w/at least 2 elements of: #text, #image, #video, #sound #art #hybrid send to: [email protected]

got a music rec recently that described the group as "very vibes-forward" and I thought he meant charismatic but it turns out to be a vibraphone player

This is what I’ve been doing with my 52 books challenge! 3 sentences is very doable for me.

Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿

In heaven you get to ride a train through spruce in the wintertime

Sébastien Luc Butler

reading @kategreenstreet.bsky.social on the bus

*patting you on the back* You were born a ghost

🍁"A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" by Sean Cho. A 🍁"The Vampire Wife" by Sara Moore Wagner 🍁"Changing Channels" by Susan Shea 🍁"Backseat Driver" by @earlgreysnail.bsky.social Nonfiction 🍁"Uninvited" by @mauraf.bsky.social

Cloud over past generations, 1991 by Bronwyn Bancroft, Indigenous Australian printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

New summer issue Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

Some days you’ve got to be the lady on the bus with a fuck ton of hangers

I so love the poems of Michael Bazzett tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Tickets are AVAILABLE NOW for our next deep-dive, Writing With Hope: Staying Motivated to Write When the World Is On Fire! Head over to weeknightwriters.com/2025/08/19/w... or read this thread to find out more about this event & how you can attend - and get a 50% discount on your ticket 1/7

🪿ART🪿 Art + Photog editor @eric-enbom.com was immediately 😍 for Ashley’s piece. As she says, it’s “an environmentalist collage based around a dry humor, Looney Tunes-esque gun and raccoon icons in a forest mesh.”  THE JITTERBUG by @earlgreysnail.bsky.social sillygoosepress.com/issue-five/t...

Flight 2 is open for submissions! We’ve already received a flood of poetry, but please send us your best (of every/any/no genre) Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

birds cracking open seeds 10 hr loop