another personal rejection from @chestnutreview.bsky.social. they are my white whale

issue 2 of M E N A C E is coming together and it's FIRE

#poemoftheday is "O, Sadness Immaculate" by Jay Hopler www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/o-sadness-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is the stunning "How to Live" by Todd Dillard "Two parakeets on my shoulders. They'll fly away if I move. So I move. I love flight." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/how-to-liv... #poetry

#poemoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "The Mare" in LUNA LUNA "I’m back here, in the slow. Grief howls in like an animal, then stills. Huffing. Uncertain of forms and environs. Time becomes impassable..." www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Baltimore Pride Abecedarian" by Yasmine Bolden from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "Bless the homegirl whose purse pockets naloxone, water, and grandma candies." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/baltimore-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Lost Glass" by Grady Chambers from @parisreview.bsky.social "Driving through a tunnel, approaching its end: a small circle of the world growing larger." #poetry

#poemoftheday is "When All the Books Are Gone" by Jessy Randall from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social rattle.com/when-all-the... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Chrysalis" by Beverley Sylvester in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "It is hard to learn the complications of personhood, to learn no one is perfect, to learn that before we can grow we must wrap ourselves into darkness and dissolve." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/chrysalis-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "War Villanelle" by Shannan Mann "We did think them human before our bombs engraved their eyes." #poetry

#poemoftheday "queer poetry" by gray davidson carroll "If you have to send us a heartbreak poem, make sure it includes a pronoun and not just a feeling" #poem

just sent out an acceptance for a piece i'm SO excited about

BIG news -- my first ever chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press! Please consider supporting it. It's only $10 and features amazing original art by @volapardus.bsky.social bottlecap.press/products/ith... #poetry #art #smallpress #books #writing #chapbook #diy #zine #writingcommunity

#poemoftheday is "On Children" by Khalil Gibran "Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness" www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/on-childre... #poetry

#poetryoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "be here to mother me at the end of the world" in the latest issue of @luckyjefferson.com "Weather-green, that book, the cover, like chutney, or the slick mint sari for a wedding I won’t have." luckyjefferson.com/fissure/ #poetry

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.” —Ernest Hemingway https://theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway

Accurate.

#poetryoftheday is "Don't Tell Anyone" by Tony Hoagland "that the truest, most intimate pleasure you can sometimes find is the wet kiss of your own pain." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetry

#poemoftheday is this heavy-hitter by David Berman (of Silver Jews fame), from his collection Actual Air: "Imagining Defeat" #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Phone Sex" by Shannan Mann "I kiss missing you I wish I had more body parts to take pictures for you" #poetry

one day the chestnut review will accept a piece of my writing 😂😅

Love this essay in Bloodletter, "Dark Academia for Dark Times" by @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social "...the pleasure of horror lies in the catharsis of seeing the unpleasant truth revealed for what it is." bloodlettermag.com/dark-academi...

#poemoftheday is this one by Richard Siken, "FLEVATO" "I was late and trying to think diagonally, up and around the corners. I wasn’t used to it. I grew up in a flat land where there was no descending." #poetry fourwayreview.com/flevato-by-r...

Newest issue of Four Way Review is up! Featuring poetry by Richard Siken, fiction by Katherine Vondy, and more fourwayreview.com/issue-33/ #fiction #poetry

why is no one calling it "cheat gpt"

#poemoftheday is "The Suitor" by Jane Kenyon "turning all at once, like a school of fish" #poetry

Today's #poemoftheday is "Old Basketball Hoop" by Paul Hostovsky, in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "a metal net that went KA-CHING, a sound so rich and gratifying, whenever we scored a basket" www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/old-basket... #poetry

#poemoftheday is the "The Roses" by Mary Oliver #poetry

#poemoftheday is this gorgeous "Notes on Transylvania" by Heather Chapman "The castle, nervous at night, its chimney tightened to a throat, wailing like a child struggling against a nightmare." bloodlettermag.com/notes-on-tra... #poetry

love this one

#poemoftheday is this one from Alyssandra Tobin "I used to love men who rotted me In other cases I loved men who never woke up." #poetry

so long with no acceptances, then suddenly 2 acceptances from 2 great mags! sometimes it's like that

#poemoftheday is this new one by Michaella Sangiolo about the malaise of corporate work "i know blood is made of cells floating in darkness and the cells have little personalities little jobs a corporation oxidizing pumping towards oblivion" www.dreamboybook.club/michaella-sa... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Second Story" by Elizabeth Spires from @parisreview.bsky.social "just as you're sure the house might betray you, accommodating shadows in your absence, sure that the room only pretends to be your room" #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Stormchaser" by JeFF Stumpo from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social rattle.com/stormchaser-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Nothing Is Too Small to Not Be Wondered About" by the incomparable Mary Oliver #poetry

#poemoftheday is this "Strange Ode" by Susan Browne "I tried to chuckle, but it sounded like a chicken bone was stabbing my larynx." rattle.com/strange-ode-... #poetry

#poemoftheday "David Berman Was Alive and Living in Chicago" by Meghan Harrison. RIP David Berman #poetry

#poemoftheday "In Praise of Pyrex" by Paige Gilchrist from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social "The week we returned home after my young daughter’s surgery they began to appear..." rattle.com/in-praise-of... #poetry

#poemoftheday is the amazing "Things for which I have not ascertained your consent" by @rblemberg.bsky.social "I was taught that the dead are ghosts, the dead are dybbuks that cling to the living to be purified by virtue—but I think it’s in reverse" psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Let Me Be a Boy, Not a Threat" by Michael Emerald in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social onlypoems.substack.com/p/let-me-be-... #poetry

love this one

#poemoftheday is "All the Aphrodisiacs" by Cathy Park Hong www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53603/... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "God's Mouth" by Jim Harrison #poetry

New poem up in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/i-wor... #poetry

#poemoftheday "Megan Married Herself" by Caroline Bird "She'd sent out invitations and everything: her name written twice with "&" in the middle..." #poetry

#poemoftheday is this one by Yena Sharma Purmasir, "Protection Spell," from her amazing collection VIRAHA #poetry

#poemoftheday, "A Single Woman's Bedroom" by Yi Lei, translated by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi. in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "Should life be guarded or gambled? Lodged in a vault or flung to the wind?" onlypoems.substack.com/p/a-single-w... #poetry

"Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”"