Stefanie Kirby
@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
My cute little (very little!) chapbook is officially out today! 5 flash fictions in 22 pocket-size pages. Thank you, @bullcitypress.com! Ordering info: bullcitypress.com/.../youre-a-...
Our Fall 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu and Diane Sahms, as well as works by Iain Britton, Angela Townsend, Marcia Yudkin, Kevin Grauke, Carla Schwartz, Jane Lockwood, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱
The Flight editors saw @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social being arrested outside the Booker Prize offices and thought “that guy must really have something”
Michael Grant Smith@michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 5d agoMy story-thing "Disemployment Guidelines" is live now, thanks to @flightlit.bsky.social. I hope you'll take a look, even though the piece was banned by the Pulitzer committee for "gross and repeated affronts to literature" & "please stop following us home." flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-gran...
Deaths from pregnancy are up in: sepsis, miscarriage, and even homicide. Explainable by an anti-abortion legislation (yes, even homicide - see the Turnaway Study for what happens when people don't get wanted abortions). The science of all of this is in my book:
Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End
A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...
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Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3w agoAbortion bans are killing women.
Virtual reading tomorrow! Two of our favorite poets Lesle Lewis & Dara Barrois/Dixon Scan the QR code to register, or DM me for a link
For this week’s #smallpoemsunday, here’s one from BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR, a collaborative chap between myself & @darkwebtofu.bsky.social! Thanks to @diodeeditions.bsky.social for believing in these poems! Read the rest here: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
from the comfort book by Matt Haig, which helped save my life
New work in the world from the always incredible @thejayestofzees.bsky.social with @icefloepress.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026)@icefloepress.bsky.social · 3w agoOur Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle project welcomes: non-binary queer poet Joshua Zeitler, author of chapbook Bliss Road (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025) & in Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, The Shore, elsewhere. thejayestofzees.bsky.social art: @rfredekenter.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2026/09/09/t...
yeah dudes. yr man HAS A BOOK COMING OUT. I'd act like I've been here before, but I literally haven't. Many thank yous to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
This stunning flash from @erinvachon.bsky.social in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social was just what I needed to keep going today, and maybe it's what you need, too.
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉@erinvachon.bsky.social · last mo.I’ve got a new flash in this month’s @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, a true story that reads stranger than fiction. Thanks a million to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for loving this, because I truly love Pithead Chapel. ✨🖤
happy #weirdpoemwednesday! ➰ feel free to share weird poems you love :) here’s one by Charles Simic~
Here’s some Tyler Tilley art to make your Sunday a little better.
don't forget: periodicities @periodicities.bsky.social is perpetually seeking submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/subm...
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periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essa...
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"Maybe someday gardening will call to me and be just what I need," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1567 of The Slowdown. "In today’s poem, gardening is exactly what the speaker needs." Read "Assistance" by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vQcyf8
Congratulations to two of our editors, Mandira Pattnaik for her newest volume, White Hot Moon, from Red Bird Chapbooks, www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/wh..., and Lucy Zhang for her latest story, “Thread Woman,” along with an interview, at Strange Pilgrims, www.strangepilgrims.com/p/thread-wom...
White Hot Moon by Mandira Pattnaik — Red Bird Chapbooks
Hybrid: Creative Non Fiction & Poetry 32 pages 8.5” x 7” single signature with hand sewn binding Published July 2026 Mandira Pattnaik’s White Hot Moon is a collection born of the sky and the…
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The other is an 8-week workshop that centers voice, balancing close reads of selected works and fine, granular attention to each writer's language as it suits their project. I love this class. I love teaching the sentence. Thank you! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-w...
8-Week: Finding Voice, Then Using Voice
This workshop will zoom in to focus on the granular details of our sentences in order to find larger, zoomed-out lessons about our projects as a whole. A good sentence, in its form, language, and tone...
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