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For All The Right Reasons! #OpenMic #Poetry #PoemsAbout @brokenspinearts.bsky.social shorturl.at/jPHSj bsky.app/profile/brok...

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Hey! Um, it's a month until NAWP! Are you ready to NOT be at AWP? Go follow @notatawp.bsky.social. We are planning three events, yes three! 1. A panel discussion (application form to be sent soon) 2 Annual open mic 3 Happy Hour Zoom Forget FOMO and come NAWP with us.

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“Starless, what’s inside the heart and also / the land […]” Let me read you a sonnet from Larks tonight…

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This week the spotlight's on @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and her moving fiction piece "Camping." On self-care, Allison writes, "I think self-care is less about the action, more about the intention." How we love this! Read her work here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning

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An alternative moon poem, with Europa as muse 🌘 "NASA says Europa generates enough oxygen a day to keep a million humans breathing" In some other world, we are all refugees... #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

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A space has become available on my Glorious Words course in April. If anyone would like the spot, please let me know. Details below 👇

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#PreOrderNow "John LaPine has created the kind of essay narrator you want to go have a late-night adventure with. Each essay is its own deeply-felt world. I loved being along for the ride.”—Krys Malcolm Belc https://buff.ly/3WF5SSp AN UNSTABLE CONTAINER by John LaPine coming in July!

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keep those micro subs coming! you’ve got one week left—SUBS CLOSE MARCH 3RD 🖤🩶🤍 @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/about/micro-...

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Thank you, Evan, for pairing a line from “Poem in Which I Keyword Search ‘My Brother’” w/ your photography. Here is that poem in full, 1st pubbed in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social & also in DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.bsky.social). In Indy, there is a Brian Place nearby, too. A beautiful world. 💙

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Join us!! (Maybe preorder my book or get a special AWP copy and enter my ukulele giveaway 😍😍😍)

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By request: It’s my honor. My dialysis days were some of my hardest and I met so many amazing people of all ages. One of the single most formative experiences of my life. This story is a little bit me, a little of who I almost was, a little of the people I loved and lost. ✨ 💙 🩸

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"But would we burn the bridge that forsakes the way back to Eden?" Revisiting this hybrid collaboration 'The Art of Minor Incarnations' in the latest issue of @harpyhybrid.bsky.social. My poem with stunning art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social🪷 Full Alt text in images below. #poetrycommunity #hybrid

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Release day!!! 🥳 This is a dream I’ve had since I was ten years old, or even younger. My book is not just a document on my computer, but a finished product that’s actually for sale. That’s truly incredible to me. I’m so grateful to everyone who’s preordered it, read it, & posted about it.

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New micro out today thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the amazing authors I am sharing this issue with 🤩 and read Paradise City here ⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/paradise-city/

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New story today in @fictivedream.bsky.social. 🍋🍋🍋

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My brother’s poetry collection THE BEAR WRESTLER is coming out soon, and he’s holding his book launch at The Stone Circle Theater in Queens on Saturday, March 22, at 7:00. If you happen to live in the NYC area and are free that night, please consider attending! This will be a fun event!💜📚

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Rodd Whelpley shares his poem ‘Divination’ today, some poets that have been inspiring him lately, his thoughts on poetry and music and when he feels a poem is finished. Don’t miss this thoughtful interview. Thanks Rodd! pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

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Moss Puppy Magazine is still open for submissions for our eighth issue, Amberfields! We accept submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art. More at buff.ly/4bIRRt0

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Please join us for the zoom launch of Coolest American Stories 2025 on February 28 at 8 pm EST. Readers include Lee Martin, Mathieu Callier, Demond Blake, Francine Witte, and Ed McManis. Q&A with editor Mark Wish. Please register here for zoom link. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I'm honored to have my tiny story, "Beforemath," up at the wonderful Milk Candy Review, one of my favorite lit mags. Gratitude to Cathy Ulrich for giving it so much love and a perfect home. 💙🧿💙🪬💙 milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/02/20/b...

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My eyes burn from searching the black and white stripes of the city pool floor for neon sticks swaying in the aqua mirage of chlorine. —"Seven Years Old" by Kelsey Blair in case you missed it https://www.fiveminutelit.com/seven-years-old

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“We tried to contain them in cribs and playpens, but they slipped out of our grasp like memory.” Love creativity and heart in this new piece by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

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Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social ! I am honored to have my #watercolor accompany the beautiful piece of flash fiction by @ezhang77.bsky.social

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Great folklore workshop last night from Karen @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social and Folkheart Press folkheartpressblog.blogspot.com. Lovely to be able to reshare my ekphrastic folk poem, from Karen's folkart series:

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It was a memorable #WritingWorkshop! We explored many aspects of #Folklore which we wove into 4 #PoetryGames, starting with a look at #LunarLore and this warm-up activity. #poetry #Folktales #FoodLore #Proverbs and more. bsky.app/profile/marc...

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I'll be in #Livorno next month, talking at the #SanPatrizioLivornoFestival @italishmagazine.bsky.social about Margaret King (Mitchelstown 1773-Pisa 1835), feminist, educator, novelist, medical student in the ex-cinema Aurora. Full details to follow.

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Do dreams and decadence last forever? Submit #poems by Feb. 28 for #BeautifulLittleFools Details: shorturl.at/xipDH @brokenspinearts.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/brok...

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tanka weekly challenge February 20, 2024 this week’s prompt: dream write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #poetry #tanka resources to develop your practice: Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

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Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful @kimchinquee.bsky.social. Enjoy. Flashboulevard.wordpress.com

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weekly talk story about AWP, community, not writing and @smokelong.bsky.social's March Micro Marathon... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

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earth itself baking animals out of holes. Tree roots flaming calderas, a thousand degrees beneath the soil. Rabbits, snakes, foxes, coyotes, streaming down over tops of my boots, boots that had gone unmelted already four tours of the Middle East. @elissafield.bsky.social @psmokejournal.bsky.social

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You know the best way to deal with imposter syndrome/writers' block? 1. Punch it in the face (hurts a bit, but) 2. Rifle through your scraps drawer and find things that spark other things 3. Do collabs with amazing writers 4. Slubmit (have been busy doing this today, submittable is all dark blue)

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Publications & books found here: amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com

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Thank you @megpokrass.bsky.social for Prompts of Resilience. Thank you to these wonderful winners: @johnsheirer.bsky.social & Rory Perkins & Honorable Mentions, including @louellalester.bsky.social pokrassprompts.substack.com/i/157452337/...

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Yay! My flash piece, The Shape of a Winner, won first prize in a Bath Flash Fiction Festival comp last month. Thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for organizing & @scooterwriter.bsky.social for judging. @flashficfestuk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mrdmxkdf

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Hi friends: My novel comes out in August and I need help promoting it. Would anyone like to take a copy to your favorite indie bookshop and ask if they'd consider recommending it on the Indie Next List? You can post here or private message, and thank you in advance. #SFWP

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I don't know if this #wordsunsaid offering to the @brokenspinearts.bsky.social community is strictly about love (though arguably, it should have been), but here's my take on talk silenced, from Release Two of @subruria.com ...

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