Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26) https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
Do you have a full length poetry manuscript looking for a home. @animalheartpress.bsky.social is open for subs until October 31st. Guidelines at animalheartpress.net
7 days left to submit for Human Capital, issue no. 9 from MIDLVLMAG. Subs close 11:59pm PST 10/31/26 Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF. We pay $25 USD per accepted piece Read full details at midlvlmag.com/submissionguide
ICYMI T Guzman gave me the review of a lifetime!
T Guzman@tguzman.bsky.social · 2w ago"irl is a ride with the windows rolled down. 265 A/C and humidity and sweat. Down roads—gravel and rough—to parking lots and laundromats. Places open all night, and god knows when we will come home." My review of @dehm000.bsky.social's chapbook irl. www.tguzmanwrites.com/new-blog/202...
Last day of Latinx heritage month so if you want to support a chicanx and like ghosts, have I got a chapbook for you! 👻🇲🇽👻🇲🇽 bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
Ghost Mom
This is a story about a mom who isn't exactly alive and a young adult who isn't exactly living. This is a story about grieving while being static, about living without being alive, about existing in a...
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"mother, say sycamore, foxglove, princess, a purple candelabra in springtime we keep circling back to these scenes of our loss" Read @dehm000.bsky.social's beautiful poem, "baby blues," in our Sept/Oct issue:
baby blues
there is no getting over thisthe cats keep on disappearing into the night& my small hands can’t holdyour brown coat floating downthe aisles of Woolworth’s downtownmother, say sycamore, foxglove, princ...
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@the-engine-idling.bsky.social, ISSUE #10: A DAY IN THE LIFE, ... feat. My new #experimental prose- #poetry & visual #art piece, ‘red sofa. (—nausea).’ *now available in #print: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLZKGPWK —with love & thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. #writing #writingcommunity
I am hemorrhaging money running Stanchion right now. If anyone would like a phenomenal book or magazine issue (or a handful of them) please consider buying something. I've seriously published some remarkable work.
red sofa. (—nausea). *—very pleased to have a new #experimental prose- #poetry & visual #art piece published with @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, Issue #10: A DAY IN THE LIFE. —with love & thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. *now live... www.engineidling.net/current #writing #writingcommunity
It's Latinx heritage month and you can get my chapbook, GHOST MOM, from @bookshop.org or @stanchion.bsky.social. Just saying. 👻 bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 4w agoHaving trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
My poem "waxrabbit" has been published in Corvus Review: Dread and Disquiet, Oct 2026. Page 47! img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/61...
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Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · last mo.Why do we want what we want? Is it important that what we want be good for us? And why does what we want turn out in the end to be Bobby McGee? Danielle McMahon explores these questions via “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin. @dehm000.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/me-and-...
Why do we want what we want? Is it important that what we want be good for us? And why does what we want turn out in the end to be Bobby McGee? Danielle McMahon explores these questions via “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin. @dehm000.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/me-and-...
"Me and Bobby McGee" • Janis Joplin (by Danielle McMahon)
I'd like to study you in stillness
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i like it best when i don't really know what i'm writing and it just kinda makes itself
Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...
Maybe There is Nothing That I Can Do
Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…
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Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · last mo.Our very first prose poetry issue is NOW LIVE 🦝 Twenty absolute stunners for you to savour. Huge thanks to Jude Potts @judepickledplum.bsky.social for her reading assistance. We'll start highlighting these beauts soon. For now, grab a brew and lose yourself 💜 trashcatlit.com/prose-poetry... 1/2
I've got a nomination for BOTN for my frankenpoem from @genrepunkmag.bsky.social ! Thanks Audrey! genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t... This was a mashup b/t a book on psychology and a book on carving/serving meats, both from the 1800s.
Summer rain storms, radios and windows rolled down. Waiting for the response after a message is sent late into the night. IRL by @dehm000.bsky.social is brilliant and I cannot recommend it enough. Seriously, go read some sample poems! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Tap into Poetry@tapintopoetry.bsky.social · last mo.Check out some sample poems from irl, by Danielle McMahon via the link below 📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/i... #poetry #poem #poet
Check out some sample poems from irl, by Danielle McMahon via the link below 📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/i... #poetry #poem #poet
I'll be @ the Pgh Scribble House Lit Fest, parked @ an author's table on Nov 21st
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
Congrats to @spencerfleury.bsky.social on the publication of his novel THE SHITBIRD! Get it from Stanchion (physical copy or PDF) or order it from wherever you dig buying books online, @bookshop.org for example. Print: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... PDF: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
The Shitbird PDF | Stanchion
The Shitbird is the story of Colin McAllister, a seaman in the US Coast Guard, and a poor fit for the role at best. He’s an outsider, a stoner with a bad attitude and a smart mouth, a combo that often...
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My depressing mother poem "baby blues" is in the Sept/Oct 26 issue of @literarymama.bsky.social ! literarymama.com/articles/dep...
baby blue
there is no getting over thisthe cats keep on disappearing into the night& my small hands can’t holdyour brown coat floating downthe aisles of Woolworth’s downtownmother, say sycamore, foxglove, princ...
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Today's the day, Fall Cohort! Thirty West is thrilled to publish this 4-person chapbook project, filled with so much poetry and fiction that you will be thankful for their writing. Preorders are open now. Limited-edition saddle-stitched or classic staples. Mega thread below.
It's the final stretch! We've been posting the types of work we'd like to see for slips slips #3 ("Distractions") - but, if it's not clear, we're open to whatever you have in mind. The deadline is the end of the month: August 31. Visit slipsslips.net for full info. What will you distract us with???
