Imagine if empire cared about life as much as it cares about death and destruction. Late capitalism's prophet is Schumpeter; its guru is Heinlein; its soul is cyborg-tweaking.

Slight delay on the 10th Anniversary issue. It's our biggest in 10 years, so there's a lot to put together. But it will be worth it. In the meantime, subs open in two hours yaaaaay.

My poem "wilderness survival," originally published by @petrichorlit.bsky.social, was one of the inaugural winners of the Monarch Queer Literary Award. That means it is now available to read in the @monarch.gay anthology. So incredibly grateful 💕 Read the anthology here: monarch.gay/monarch-2026/

The Hudson Looks Different, another Joan Mitchell ekphrastic published in @petrichorlit.bsky.social a couple years ago (thanks again editors, and for the nomination)! petrichormag.com/21-koss/ #ekphrasticpoem, #ekphrastic, #poem, #poetry, #art, #painting, #joanmitchel, #womeninart, #womenpainters

One more week to submit to this!

this is what you do when you not only want to attack the present, but also want to kill the future of an entire people.

first appeared in petrichor no. 10's Gallery (2019) petrichormag.com/10-the-galle...

One of mine in @bruisermag.com #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was executed by a U.S. federal agent while trying to protect a woman. That’s the headline.

Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.

Stills from an incredible new video poem from Sarah Kwan: "Songbird - The Story of Medusa." Find the full work in the new issue of petrichor. petrichormag.com/29-sarah-kwan/

@brennawomer.bsky.social has a new free digital chap in petrichor 29, Dear Mom, in which erasure is the content of the letter. petrichormag.com/current-issue/

One of mine in @petrichorlit.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I have a new chapbook "Nostalghia" out in the latest issue of @petrichorlit.bsky.social Thanks to Seth, Caleb and Amanda for featuring it along side some other great chaps and a whole host of fine poems. You can find it here: petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/

Two pieces from petrichor included! And a great masthead that would've been nominated if they were eligible! :D Here's to many years of this new anthology.

so strange to bookpost in times like these™. but my debut poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis, coming out with @nupress.bsky.social in two months! it's about embodied and enminded noncompliance w/ institutional medicine, disorderly eating, being trans, all the usual Cavar fare. Buy it here:

if you live outside of MN, please pass this around.

I’m glad to have new poetry at @petrichorlit.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors. #poetry #dadaism #soundpoetry #surrealism #experimentalpoetry

Thank you so much to editor Seth Copeland of @petrichorlit.bsky.social for accepting a trio of verses for no. 29, Vol. 6 of Pebbles (which is also the name of a great series of 1960's freakbeat/garage-rock)! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...

My hybrid chapbook DEAR MOM is out now from @petrichorlit.bsky.social ☔️📖 You can read it here 👉🏽 petrichormag.com/wp-content/u... Thanks to Seth & the whole Petrichor team, to the mags that published excerpts, to the generous blurbers, and to you for any time spent with the project 🙏🏼🙏🏽

Happy to have two small poems in the beautiful new volume of @petrichorlit.bsky.social! Here’s one: petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...

And so: petrichor #29 is here for you. hey neat. petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/

I would avoid treating Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) as property of Denmark where possible. The majority of Greenland's population are Inuit and the national feeling was already in favour of increased independence from Denmark; being threatened by the United States does not mean that has gone away

nat is an absolute force for queer poetry - please consider lending a hand.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Issue 05 is here! ⚡️⚡️⚡️we’re thrilled to share our stunning Sagittarius www.cobra-milk.com/issue-05.html dive in to the poetry, prose, hybrid, visual art & music. Cover art: Jackie Milad @jackiemilad.bsky.social

The Willamette. I have a deeply complicated relationship with the river but it is home. If you want to read a poem about it, @petrichorlit.bsky.social published this weird one: petrichormag.com/26-haley-bos...

EIC in November: Mmmmph idk if we're gonna have much work in Pebbles vol. 6 EIC in January: Uh is this the biggest volume of Pebbles yet See y'all in six days.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Minneapolis.

The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

It's open! Our own Seth is a guest-editor alongside some very cool people. Can't wait to see what you've got!

Just put together a test page for a videopoem we're very excited to premiere next month. Issue 29 is gonna give y'all plenty to dig into ahead of the 10th Anniversary edition in April.

Mate Cannabis

It’s that time of year again. One of my favorites. Originally published by @petrichorlit.bsky.social

Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41

Celebrating ten years of Foglifter and a decade of LGBTQ+ artists who’ve graced our covers. 💫🌈

Aaaaand that's a wrap on our submissions portals for 2025. We are simultaneously putting together petrichor 29 (including Pebbles vol. 6) and petrichor 30, our 10th Anniversary issue. Expect cool things in '26. Here's a picture of that boat that was stuck on the sand in Milwaukee, 2/12/25.

As it snows in Milwaukee, we're open till November's end for Pebbles vol. 6. Poems of 1-5 lines (from monoku to tanka) and/or visuals (haiga, etc.) are all welcome till Sunday night. Pebbles 6 will be published as part of petrichor 29 in January. (poems about snow are welcome but not required)

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry @haymarketbooks.org #poetry

Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.

General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).

Subs close Saturday night! Here! At petrichor! Thunder in the night forever.

petrichor is open for another 2 weeks for general submissions and microwork for Pebbles vol. 6.

Passages, a new asemic series from Annalisa Retico. View all six in the new issue of petrichor. petrichormag.com/28-annalisa-...

from "Hummingbird, or, In Loving Memory of the Young Woman Whose Life I Took," a powerful tribute from Choiselle Joseph. Read the full poem in the new issue of petrichor. petrichormag.com/28-choiselle...

Thank you, @brushwithseth.bsky.social, for giving my Icarus erasures a home in the latest @petrichorlit.bsky.social. Another wonderful issue y’all should check out!

a new poem about one of my/our names in @petrichorlit.bsky.social :) petrichormag.com/28-sarah-cavar