Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read our returning contributor Travis Flatt's (@travisflatt.bsky.social) delightful story, "Cadillacs on the Moon," which was originally published in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social and which later won second place in The SmokeLong Workshop Prize 2025. 🔗👇

We resume tomorrow with two new pieces, but until then, don't forget to have a read of our recent contributor Daniel Bailey's (@dnlbly.bsky.social) uppercase poems in New York Tyrant. 🔗👇

"The part of me / that would have once been your enemy / now ceases to be / Even its children now live in my stomach / where I feed them my bad thoughts" Don't miss Daniel Bailey's (@dnlbly.bsky.social) wonderful poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

"[A]rms bent at his sides, biceps bulged with flexing, like handles of a human trophy, his skin glistening with sweat, drops catching light [...]" Travis Flatt (@travisflatt.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a breathless, brilliant micro. 🔗👇

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our beloved contributor Will Musgrove's (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) wonderful micro, "Laugh Track," in The Cincinnati Review. 🔗👇

We return tomorrow with two new publications, but until then, have a read of our recent contributor Brighton Grace's brilliant poems in Soft Union. 🔗👇

"Just before / I was / Going to / Persuade myself to switch / Off in order to succeed in sleeping, / It found my eyes [...]" The first batch of Brighton Grace's timely, kinetic, political poems are up and going in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

"I was living life backwards. A rewinding tape. Today was yesterday, yesterday the day before that, and so on." The brilliant Will Musgrove (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) Musgrove is back in The Bulb Region today with a fun, mind-bending story. 🔗👇

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Tracie Renee's (@tracierenee.bsky.social) heart-wrenching form-poem, "Our Last Walk," in @havehashad.com. 🔗 ⬇️

We return tomorrow with two new posts, but until then, have a read of our recent contributor John Pinto's (@johnwespinto.bsky.social) wonderful story, "Gadgets," in Sarka. 🔗 ⬇️

Thank you @bulbregion.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving a home to this trio of poems about #libraries. This is my 27th year in public libraries. These are three stories I can't forget.

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 6d ago

"In the library’s parking garage, I found a poem / shaped like a woman / slumped over the front seat of her SUV / with gray hair / shrouding death-dull eyes" Tracie Renee (@tracierenee.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three vivid, weird, wondrous memories from the library archives. 🔗⬇️

Beautiful poems by my all time favorite other TracIE writer @tracierenee.bsky.social I’ll be thinking about the library all day. 🫶🏼🙌🏽✨

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 6d ago

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Our beloved contributor aka house favorite Mike Andrelczyk (@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social) has a new novel out in the world, and this is your chance to purchase one of the remaining signed copies. Pick one up from Malarkey Books: malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...

Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk — Malarkey

July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. I loved  Submarines  fo...

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Mike Andrelczyk@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social · 7d ago

There’s like ~15 signed copies of Submarines left. Grab an ice cold one tonight. malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...

"In the library’s parking garage, I found a poem / shaped like a woman / slumped over the front seat of her SUV / with gray hair / shrouding death-dull eyes" Tracie Renee (@tracierenee.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three vivid, weird, wondrous memories from the library archives. 🔗⬇️

"Red-eyed cicadas coated the car. Cheery people ate them on the news. 'These guys will be,' the cheery ones would say, 'the shrimp of the new millennium,' [...]" Don't miss John Pinto's (@johnwespinto.bsky.social) splendid runaway story, "My New Wife," in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 ⬇️

Ahead of tomorrow's new edition, have a read of our returning contributor Calvin Cummings' hell of a story, "Johnny Lifeline," in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social. 🔗 ⬇️

We return tomorrow with two new pieces, but until then, make sure to read our recent contributor Casey Garfield's wonderful poem, "a story about a boy whose arms are tentacles," in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. 🔗 ⬇️

"Every poem is a love poem. Every poem is about a deer on the side of the road." Don't miss Casey Garfield's wonderful poems in The Bulb Region. 🔗 ⬇️

"He thought he should write it down, what he was dreaming, but he was dreaming, and when he woke up, he forgot everything but the need to remember what had happened in the dream." The legend Calvin Cummings returns to The Bulb Region with two brilliant micros. 🔗 ⬇️

"In small youth, I tended to overshare. / I believed doing so would endear meto strangers." The house favorite Angie Kang returns to The Bulb Region with another gut-punch comic. 🔗 ⬇️

"Was I capable of faith? / Was such childlike devotion / desirable? Could I let / my vigilance off its leash, / even for a few minutes?" Don't miss Leah Mueller's wonderful poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 ⬇️

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our returning contributor aka house favorite Mallory Smart's (@mallorysmart.bsky.social) delightfully bonkers piece, "I'll Be Right Back," published last year in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social 🔗 ⬇️

We return tomorrow with two great publications, but until then, have a read at these three amazing poems by our recent contributor Colin Gee (@colinmgee.bsky.social), published in High Horse. 🔗 ⬇️

"The first time my wife brought Glenn Close into bed, I didn’t say anything." The wonderful Mallory Smart (@mallorysmart.bsky.social) is back in The Bulb Region today with an absurdist domestic horror about...Glenn Close. 🔗 ⬇️

"some say brothers murdered a priest in Oh Eight pilgrims in white manta bone beads twin braids" Don't miss Colin Gee's (@colinmgee.bsky.social) deliciously feverish poem, "Bedzy and Beguidy," in The Bulb Region today. 🔗⬇️

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, have a read at our recent contributor Yavuz Altun's playful marital allegory, "The Game," in The Nifty Lit. 🔗 ⬇️

We continue tomorrow with two killer pieces, but before then, make time to read these poems from our recent contributor Hannah van Binsbergen's (@hannahvanbins.bsky.social) first book, Kwaad gesternte (“Unlucky Star”), available on Poetry International in English translation. 🔗 ⬇️

"We have to travel thru our English." The Dutch writer Hannah van Binsbergen (@hannahvanbins.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three interconnected poems about language. You'll find out more about Hannah's writing in the coming weeks, in conversation with @tomsnarsky.bsky.social. 🔗 ⬇️

"We hugged goodbye. Holding my older body was unsettling. It was like gazing at the stars on a clear summer night [...]" The Turkish writer & journalist Yavuz Altun is in The Bulb Region today with a post-apocalyptic, existentialist story. 🔗 ⬇️

Before tomorrow's new edition, stop what you're doing and have a read at our recent contributor Noah Powers' (@noahpowers.bsky.social) wonderful poem, "Chaser for the Dark," published in Don't Submit 🔗⬇️