one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint
Robin Turner
@robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
Poet. Mother. Teacher. Maker. Third Culture Kid. Ambivalent Texan. Chapbooks: Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay) bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press)
Delighted to have one of my Ethan Frome erasures in the new issue of Unlost. My thanks to @unrealdalewisely.bsky.social & team. Check out the entire issue at the link in comments.
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP
I have so enjoyed spending time with the beautiful new issue of Anacapa Review and am over the moon to have work included. Such amazing company here. Thank you Chryss Yost and David Starkey. anacapareview.com/robin-turner/
Robin Turner
Even Now Scattered across grey pavement, a spill of spent petals, somehow still ghostly whole & vivid, whiteas snow. Even now, in summer, a soft June morning...
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My thanks to Christine Klocek-Lim for featuring my new chapbook at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today. I'm a lucky poet. 💙
Christine Klocek-Lim@chrissiemkl.bsky.social · 2y agoSaturday book feature — Elegy with Clouds & by Robin Turner Flight by Robin Turner from Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books 2025)
“Look for the helpers,” his mother would say to him whenever there were scary things in the news. “You will always find people who are helping.”
A Time for Rivers | Rust & Moth
Things are pretty dark right now, America. There aren’t enough pages in the history of our journal to detail every horror taking place in the world right now, and even if there were, further broadcast...
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My thanks to the amazing Sally Rosen Kindred for her words of support for my new chapbook, Elegy with Clouds &.
For #smallpoemsunday, "For a Coming Extinction" by @victoriachang.bsky.social (from The Trees Witness Everything) and one from me, "Chime", first published at @oneart.bsky.social. #poetsofbluesky
every social feed by mk zariel Editor's Note: This poem's list of online interactions feels very on point as we all move into the future while trying to maintain genuine connections. Read the rest at AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY.com #AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY
a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
Praise the weirdos because if anyone can save us it will be us. —Alison Luterman
“Praise the Broken Promise of America” by Alison Luterman
Praise deep mineral veins under rich dirt, and fossilized remains of dinosaurs turning themselves into gas for our benefit. Praise the exhausted earth, miles and miles of subsidized corn and cattle…
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At the end of the world all the snow angels finally get to stand up.
This Erin Murphy poem in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social is a must-read www.rattle.com/insomnia-chr...
“Insomnia Chronicles XXVI” by Erin Murphy
The night is full of insomniacs googling insomnia. Some of my friends are trying Dry January. Dryuary. Others are sober curious. There’s a mock cocktail called a Phony Negroni. It’s made with non-a…
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True story, y'all. My thanks to the wonder that is Christine Klocek-Lim for selecting this one. Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (link in comments) has been a journal for nearly twenty years now, ten of those as a daily. That's devotion. An ongoing gift for all of us. Brava, Christine! ❤️
One of my favorite anthologies ever. So many beautiful poets in its pages. And how about this gorgeous cover? Perfection.
Porkbelly Press@porkbellypress.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy printversary to our #anthology BRAMBLE & THORN. #limitededition https://buff.ly/40XoVKG "Don’t worry if she seems hungry; she’s always hungry; she has her mind already made, blade sharpened to meet the wolf’s heart." #anthology #sharp #fiercegirls #feminist #witchy #spooky #survival
Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
Something to look forward to in 2025, The Essential C.D. Wright.
New work in Arkana from the amazing Lana Litvinchuk.
Svetlana@forestfarmer.bsky.social · 2y agoNew poem recently published in Arkana. I’m a big fan of the growing trend of audio accompanying poems in lit mags. It’s like a mini poetry reading experience without leaving home. arkanamag.org/2024/12/04/y...
Three prose poems in Pithead Chapel's new issue. My thanks to the editors!
Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 2y agoOur December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2024/12/01/v... Words: MICHELLE ROSS JAMES KEITH SMITH ANNE LOUISE PEPPER ANDREW ROE JOSHUA VIGIL @lucywilde.bksy.social JEFFREY HERMANN @ccrussell.bsky.social @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social Cover: LAURIE HOLLMAN
@porcupinelit.bsky.social could use more CNF and Fiction submissions! Teacher-writers, send us your work in, around and about education. www.porcupineliterary.com/submissions
Submissions | Porcupine Literary
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Today is a good day to share the poem I wrote for the Praisesong for the People project created by Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! She says it’s important to give people their flowers and I agree! 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻
Dear Dr. May,
by Logen Cure
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Two years since HAUNTED was released? Wow. Still delighted to have work included in this gorgeous antho from Porkbelly Press.
Porkbelly Press@porkbellypress.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy printversary to the limited edition HAUNTED #anthology, featuring the work of 22 poets. About things persistently present, things that occupy the mind and refuse to let go, from language to memory to specter. https://buff.ly/3ZbO03k #readmore #haunting #ghost #memory #death
The two quotes I always share with poets & writers about submitting their work are: "Don't self-select" and "It's their job to say no, not yours." I believe that, more often than not, the biggest obstacle to publication is ourselves. #writinglife
I am absolutely smitten with this Todd Dillard poem. So good.
Todd Dillard@toddedillard.bsky.social · 2y agoone of two new poems in @ex-puritan.bsky.social today among so many, many friends! "...she says a poem where nothing impossible happens in it, just the truth, and I say OK and put her in this poem and she sprouts forty two robin wings down her neck and back and legs..."
