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Writer & musician | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press)| THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press) | Nominations: Pushcart, BotN, Orison Best Spiritual Literature | Contributing editor: The Winged Moon Magazine linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
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“By candlelight, a catastrophe of ochre hope.” A poem by Lucie Brock-Broido

Mary Helen Callier 💙 “…and this is like falling in love.” from WHEN THE HORSES (Alice James Books)

'The Eve of You' – a poem from my Silver Branch feature at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Grateful to be writer of the month with this special showcase of imagist poems and short prose. Take a read of the full feature here: blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

‘the choir of a pearl, a pulse - a chance, too rare’ Our Silver Branch writer of the month - @vikkicwrites.bsky.social - a stunning feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

A beautiful textured long #poem by Jaclyn Piudik; we published it at Ice Floe as part of our Cassandra/Chorale series. A living archive! Jaclyn and myself are starting work on a forthcoming collaborative #poetry/visual🎸#art project to be published at Ice Floe Press autumn 2025. Watch for it!

A new edition guest edited by @jenferoze.bsky.social out on August bank holiday! #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #instapoetry

For #smallpoemsunday and @TomSnarsky.bsky.social, I'm sharing a short poem from my @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Silverbranch feature which runs throughout the month of June. 'A Brief Deconstruction of Poetics' ❤️ #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1?s=09

I was reading this gorgeous poem 'At Times My Body Leans Toward Loss' by @kelliagodon.bsky.social in @poetrysociety.org - winner of the Lyric Poetry Award, 2019. Just stunning ❤️ poetrysociety.org/award-winner... #poetrycommunity #poetry

Will be ordering my copy of this beautiful issue. SHINE Quarterly, Issue 3 is available now. Grateful to be included among the 28 writers from around the globe. Beautiful launch video too Thank you @samanthaterrell.bsky.social ❤️ #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry

Will be ordering my copy of this beautiful issue. SHINE Quarterly, Issue 3 is available now. Grateful to be included among the 28 writers from around the globe. Beautiful launch video too Thank you @samanthaterrell.bsky.social ❤️ #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry

TODAY'S the day -- SHINE Quarterly, Issue 3 is available worldwide on Amazon marketplace. I hope you'll read these 28 talented writers! To hear a sample, watch the launch video here: tinyurl.com/shinei3l #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #booklovers #writingcommunity #poetsofsky

✨️ The Winged Moon is open for submissions to our Biophilia call. Please take a read of the tiles below to get a good idea of what we're looking for. We're seeking bold, experimental writing and art that interrogates the shared landscape (literal and metaphorical) between self and nature 🌿✨️

This is so cool! 😎 Ty @jacobschepers.bsky.social & @ballastjournal.bsky.social

A form of love all touch is and what does not touch something? Diane di Prima

@vikkicwrites.bsky.social — great as usual!

"Gander’s lines signpost paths of affirmation whilst also pointing to precarious and challenging terrain. Spaces of inquiry into paradox, aging and our labour towards revelation." My review of 'Mojave Ghost' (New Directions Publishing) by Forrest Gander. Please take a read 🙏🔥 #poetrycommunity

More from Forrest Gander's 'Mojave Ghost' (@ndbooks.bsky.social) ❤️ I'm very much taken by the poet's close observation of minutiae amid the vastness. How an entire scene juxtaposes life and death—of human, bird, insect, amphibian, light..love—so effortlessly. #poetrycommunity #poetry #ecopoetry

This one from Traci Brimhall’s LOVE PRODIGAL—an incredible collection and an incredible poem. “Accept me.”

"Rain sliding off the statues of a lost era" A poem 'Sundial' – from my @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 Please take a read ❤️ #poetry #poetrycommunity

"Rain sliding off the statues of a lost era" A poem 'Sundial' – from my @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 Please take a read ❤️ #poetry #poetrycommunity

‘rain sliding off the statues of a lost era’ Vikki C @vikkicwrites.bsky.social ‘Sundial’ from her #SilverBranch feature - writer of the month on this project. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

We are waiting for your experimental daring poetry, essays and art. We pay 20 euro per contributor this time. Have a look at these tiles and our website to get a snapshot of what we are holding our greening hands open for wingedmoon.com/submit

We are open! We have received beautiful poems so far, send more! And your art, and essay proposals. Submissions read by myself, @victoriaspires.bsky.social, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and our EIC @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social

A new poem 'Field of Antiquity'. Thinking about genius loci (spirit of place)...how it persists, in spite of us ❤️ #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ecopoetics

A new poem 'Field of Antiquity'. Thinking about genius loci (spirit of place)...how it persists, in spite of us ❤️ #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ecopoetics

✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎 Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work. Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️ #PoetryCommunity

“The book opened / like a future or a grave.” —Traci Brimhall, “The End of Girlhood” in LOVE PRODIGAL (Copper Canyon Press)

I find it a little squirmy to list to recordings of my own voice, but if you don't have anything against my voice, you're welcome to listen to me read "All my life I was a bride married to amazement" over at Poetry: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Delighted to share my poem 'X-Ray (Berlin Hologram)' from the latest @ballastjournal.bsky.social One of two pieces I have in the journal; the other a poem dialogue with Venya Gushchin '...Night. A drawn & quartered revery.' (c) 2025. www.ballastjournal.com/robert-frede...

The Winged Moon is now OPEN for submissions until 2/7. Read about our 'Biophilia' theme and guidelines at the link in the post below, and send us your very best work! We're looking forward to your wonderful creations! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #submissioncall

We are OPEN for submissions until 2/7 to read our theme and guidelines and submit your writing and art, read wingedmoon.com/submit

NEW POEM #238: "Boar’s Head Gospel" by Logan Garner (@logangarnerpoetry.bsky.social) "I am whiskered now, like a boar, bristling grays coming on. Like them I am bereft of that notion of prayer. As they went silent so have I gone From hymns and chants." stonecirclereview.com/boars-head-g... #Poem

Jean Toomer

✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎 Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work. Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️ #PoetryCommunity

The #SilverBranch series writer of the month for June. 💎 ❤️‍🔥 London born @vikkicwrites.bsky.social with a suite of romantic, oblique, bittersweet poems. We’ll be sharing this creative’s distinctive work throughout the month. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

"Seeing the other in the closing of a woman’s parasol, in a blank sail gliding bright along the straits of refuge." 'Your Name A Sermon I Count On' from the current issue (19) of The Inflectionist Review 🖤 #ecopoetry #ecospiritual #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity

There are only 8 days left to submit to the 5th Storm, so here is a look back at our Pushcart Prize nominations, so far. The Storms is a printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art produced in Ireland with international contributors. eatthestorms.com/2025/05/31/a...

Imagine water otherwise – Robert Macfarlane (who is one of the deepest, most generous thinkers and most beautiful writers of our time) on the personhood of rivers and what makes something alive www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/30/r...

Just 2 days till the doors open to the Biophilia call! Looking forward to reading your wonderful creations along with @victoriaspires.bsky.social & @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social. Take a read of the submissions page and get those subs ready 🔥 #writingcommunity