Cable Street
@cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social
An international, online literary journal fostering exchange across cultures, languages, and genres. https://cablestreet.org
Hey Poets of Bluesky! Our fall issue comes out in November 2026. We have a slate of great poems lined up. You can still send poems, but please know they will be considered for 2027, since 2026 is full up. Submit 4-6 poems to our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social at dana.cablestreet@gmail.com.
La echo de menos ❤️
La semana que viene arranca la #FeriaDeBienvenida de la USAL 🎉✨ Comenzamos el lunes por todo lo alto en Salamanca y continuaremos la ruta en Béjar, Zamora y Ávila. 📍 Conoce todos los servicios, asociaciones, actividades deportivas y colectivos que forman nuestra comunidad. 🧑🎓 👉 bienvenida.usal.es
Decided to check out Duolingo. What exactly is the point of this app locking people out of more learning until they pass a quiz? Like, what theory of language pedagogy is THAT?
Happening now at Human Formation in the Digital Age: Dr. Mariele Courtois on “To Build a Human Heart: Hope for Designing Technologies toward Genuinely Human Ends”. lyceum.institute/new...
These Hopper painting of people by windows…there are emotions we can’t even name.💙
Edward Hopper “Morning Sun” Oil on Canvas
Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle series continues @thejayestofzees.bsky.social art @rfredekenter.bsky.social All this autumn new features Check it out @roseknapp.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social @ashpoet.bsky.social @suzi00.bsky.social
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
Ecstatic to be part of this David Lynch anthology edited by John Wall Barger and forthcoming from @lsupress.bsky.social 🫀 lsupress.org/978080718850...
Fix Your Hearts or Die!
What happens when you ask contemporary poets to look into the cracked mirror of David Lynch’s work? Fix Your Hearts or Die! is an exuberant, eccentric coll...
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Swooning.
La Monte Young / The Theatre of Eternal Music (featuring John Cale on Viola) The Fire Is A Mirror (Live in New York City, December 1963) #LaMonteYoung #JohnCale La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbgx...
I just learned that wonderful children’s and YA author Jane Yolen passed away in June. She was a big part of my life when my kids were young. Rest in peace. 💙📚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Yo...
Jane Yolen - Wikipedia
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I have a translation in the premier issue of Light Study journal—“The Breath” by Alaíde Foppa (1914-1980). Foppa is a Guatemalan/Mexican poet of great elegance, who among other works wrote a great series of poems, Elogio de mi cuerpo, from which the translated poem is taken.
Alaíde Foppa
Translated by Dana Delibovi The Breath I don’t know wherethe wind that carries mearises. Or thethe sigh that consoles me,or the airthat steadily lifts my breastand holds aloftmy invisible flight.I …
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“Night is the planet’s self-portrait as shadow / in time, / a locus minus brightness, / a sight who turns away from the sun.” Self-Portrait with Shadows and Turgenev + 1 by @alinaetc.bsky.social in @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social cablestreet.org/issue-12-tab...
Alina Stefanescu - Cable Street
Self-Portrait with Shadows and Turgenev The novelist binds his love-crimes to the lightning’s penumbra. I study his syntax in light of my ownshadow, the umbra invented by the extending ...
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sneak peak at a piece by Lydia Davis we'll be reading/discussing in my "The Art of Brevity" workshop this weekend.. still time to sign up last minute, lmk...
Walking in Columbia, Missouri—one of our favorite places. A vape shop is really just a head shop for this century.
This short lyric essay by Andrea Jackson, an attorney and author, is amazing—a tale of a most interesting life. The title really gets to us: “If She Died or Something.”
If She Died or Something - Cable Street
Essay by Andrea Jackson She was a charming woman… intelligent, a chemist in a time when women didn’t go in for the sciences. She told me about the three European war orphans she had raised, how they h...
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social always changes your perspective on things—and her poetry in this issue of Cable Street will open your mind, and surprise you with Ivan Turgenev 💙📚 cablestreet.org/issue-12-tab...
last week to sign up! starts Saturday, Sept. 5th..
This essay on Phillis Wheatley by Jenine Holmes is so sharp—you know the poet in a new way by the end of it. In Cable Street’s Summer issue. #poetry #creativenonfiction #history
The Miseducation of Phillis Wheatley - Cable Street
Essay by Jenine Holmes The world reshapes itself for a gifted child… …allowing their supernational talents to alter the trajectory of their lives. The story of Amadus Mozart, the boy genius of the mus...
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Oh the sheer delight of two poems by @uhume.bsky.social in Cable Street, right here: 👇🏻👇🏽👇🏾 cablestreet.org/issue-12-tab...
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #DOOR Dolly Parton was loved by so many worldwide. Be like Dolly, spread love, not hate. 💕
Choir Africa’s beautiful farewell to “Mama Dolly.” Music really does have no borders. 🩷🕊️ #SheShed