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HAPPY FOLLOW FRIDAY!!! Looking for somewhere to submit? These places have subs open: @strangehorizons.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @oneart.bsky.social @phoebejournal.bsky.social @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @rejectionlit.bsky.social

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Life Sentence" by Life Sentence #TBT stonecirclereview.com/life-sentence/

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "To Someday Whisper" by Mitchell Nobis (@mitchnobis.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/to-someday-w...

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In case anyone missed it, or is for some reason avoiding it…

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Do you want to be a part of our 3rd annual poetry NAWP open mic??? Yeah you do! Fill out the form and we'll be in touch. Share with friends and please RT! forms.gle/U6svf9vDyzqh...

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NEW POEM #210: "New Wherester, Maine" by Matt Stefon (@mattstefonpoems.bsky.social) "Red sky in the morning behind all those clouds. The Shakers sleeping on the trembling hill, hopefully warmer than the thousand-odd trees" stonecirclereview.com/new-whereste... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #NewPoem

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"Thrilled with yesterday's book mail: Katie Manning's Hereverent and Han VanderHart's Larks. Both are Stone Circle contributors, making these arrivals even more special. Can't wait to dive in! Links with more information below⬇️ @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

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NEW POEM #209: "Fire in the Grain" by JLM Morton ( @jlmmorton.bsky.social) "The walls are playing with light, just before twilight, colour of ripe wheat at Lughnasadh, the space between shadows, dog alert for the fox on the road." stonecirclereview.com/fire-in-the-... #Poem #PoetryCommunity

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"In this time of lean harvest, just for a moment, the quiet song of us beats in the wisteria, lambent leaves on the ceiling." from "Fire in the Grain," a great poem by JLM Morton at Stone Circle Review. @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @jlmmorton.bsky.social stonecirclereview.com/fire-in-the-...

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My poem "On Caring" @stonecirclereview.bsky.social stonecirclereview.com/on-caring/

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Name Me, River" by Jessie Lynn McMains (@rustbeltjessie.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Sisyphus’ Unnamed Wife Vacuums Deserts for Minimum Wage" by Alison Hurwitz stonecirclereview.com/sisyphus-unn...

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This epic poem by the amazing @amandamwrites.bsky.social❤️

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NEW POEM #208: "Reading Joan Didion in the Condo in Red River" by Angela Janda (@angelajanda.bsky.social) "at Chapter 17 the recognition was a full circle, was an egg in my mouth, how in all the years since the divorce I’d never grieved it, not properly" stonecirclereview.com/reading-joan...

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NEW POEM #207: "The Aching Heel Eyed Righteous" by Josh Gaydos (@jgwrites22.bsky.social) "Knowing the ache in her chest won’t wholly heal the mother instead watches spokes spin the cul de sac, her children laugh out the airy road, pedaling snowmelt " stonecirclereview.com/the-aching-h... #Poem

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I don't often write love poems but, for Valentine's day, here's one that appeared in Pandemic Love & Other Affinities – The Anthology from IceFloe Press back in 2022.

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "The Mushroom Effect" by Drew Pisarra (@mistermysterio.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/the-mushroom...

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Crème Fraîche" by Colby Meeks (@babysbbreath.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/creme-fraiche/

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Stone Circle completes its second orbit around the sun today! 🌍✨ Thanks to all the contributors, visitors, and social media sharers for joining us on the journey. Stone Circle couldn't exist without your generosity and support. And we're just getting started! #anniversary #poetry #poetrycommunity

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In case you missed it this morning...

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NEW POEM #206: "You're So Quiet" by Jimmy O’Hara "I am the spider weaving myth into the fold; the furtive mirage never further than ten feet; the shadow crawling into your mouth by night, considering you eight different ways as I lunge" stonecirclereview.com/youre-so-qui... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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NEW POEM #205: "The Haruspex and the Bell Tower" by Amanda McLeod (@amandamwrites.bsky.social) What I cannot know, cannot control, pulls at me, an undercurrent For which I have no stomach. Guesses flow from my lips Like dirges, funereal attempts to rest the past stonecirclereview.com/the-haruspex/

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Signs" by Devon Neal (@devminor.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/signs/

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Blind Date" by Tina Kelley (@tinakelley) stonecirclereview.com/blind-date/

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NEW POEM #204: "How to write about autumn" by Jan Hassmann "Write about autumn, but not the trees trembling. Write about the strays born with the first fog, pleading why, why, why this world? Write about biding." stonecirclereview.com/how-to-write... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

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"I’ve mistaken the specks and threads floating in my old eyes for crows against storm clouds." Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

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Peach Delphine and her partner Diana Goodwin have started a GoFundMe to help cover unexpected medical expenses for their adopted dog Molly. You can find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/mollys-med...

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NEW POEM #203: "persephone's descent" by Eugenia Pozas "and for weeks after i was gone the hounds barked at nothing, and he would sit in his quiet office, eyes searching for me in all the hollows. now spring has closed its mouth shut." stonecirclereview.com/persephones-... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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I implore you, take a brief moment to read this beautiful poem stonecirclereview.com/persephones-...

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "On the Separation of Conjoined Twins" by Ranee Zaporski #Tbt stonecirclereview.com/on-the-separ...

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Grateful to have found this posted by poet Sara Letourneau and to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for first publishing it in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Plain Sailing" by Ariya Bandy (@storyofariya.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/plain-sailing/

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This poem came out of an experimental poetry course I took a couple of years ago. I am incredibly pleased and grateful that it found a home at Stone Circle. 💖

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I'm grateful to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for giving my poem 'Swan Lake,' a wonderful forever home in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social . Check out some other great poems there, as well. stonecirclereview.com/swan-lake/

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NEW POEM #202: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social) "It predicted questions: What / is language when we look at the sky? / A flock of swallows lacing depths of blue with a new / form of divination" stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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NEW POEM #201: "Swan Lake" by T. R. Poulson (@trpoulson.bsky.social) "Did you see her dance with the wild prince in stained light, hair side-swept on her scarred back, as immaculate satin curved in waves to hold her..." stonecirclereview.com/swan-lake/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

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I wrote this it’s true

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In case you missed it, Stone Circle Review published its 200th poem last weekend and they are all well worth reading. Our index page lists every one them, has a search function, and is filterable. There's also a random poem link if you're feeling lucky. stonecirclereview.com/index/

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "the end for now" by Jay Délise #TBT stonecirclereview.com/the-end-for-...

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Amber" by Shauna Friesen stonecirclereview.com/amber/

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NEW POEM #200: "Night Mid Night" by John Simmons "listening to shells telling the most dreadful stories from far away, oceans away, borne on tides and surging seas under a gunmetal moon, where the heavy missiles are booming, where pistol cracks are nothing" stonecirclereview.com/night-mid-ni...

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My surreal ekphrastic climate poem "The Flooded Grave" was published today at @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Thank you @leepottspoet.bsky.social stonecirclereview.com/the-flooded-...

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NEW POEM #199: "The Flooded Grave" by Jared Beloff (@readinstead.bsky.social) "Only when one of them held a small urchin up to his eyes, its bright pins pink between thumb and filthy fingers did they stop" stonecirclereview.com/the-flooded-... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Summoned" by Kathryn Knight Sonntag (@KnightSonntag) #Tbt stonecirclereview.com/summoned/

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Eden" by Chris Bullard (@ChrisBu20496680) stonecirclereview.com/eden/

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NEW POEM #198: "The Years of Girl Cheese Sandwiches" by Meia Geddes "Overflowing harvests given to us in the heavy seasons. Those were the days of Asian pears when I came to know a new kind of sweetness. Of girl cheese sandwiches because mom didn’t correct me" stonecirclereview.com/the-years-of/

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'Birdflap, dogbark, ruffle, rustle, roosting and cooing' 'Unbelievable ghostspeed' 🌃 Anyone else miss a parent? Published last year with @stonecirclereview.bsky.social stonecirclereview.com/ghostspeed

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I have a new poem up in the wonderful Stone Circle Review!

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