Katie Manning
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Poet, parent, professor. Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Hi, all! Please send some longform work to my grad students' journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social by October 15. They'd especially love to see more nonfiction submissions! lastsyllablelit.com/submit
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Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!
Join us for our Fall Reading Celebration this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. Pacific! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Send my grad students your longform poetry and prose! Check out the open genre guidelines too! lastsyllablelit.com/submit
Submit | Last Syllable Literary Journal
lastsyllablelit.com
Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!
Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!
Thanks to @charlesjensen.bsky.social and @villaineralit.bsky.social for publishing a few of my purity culture poems today! villaineralit.com/2026/09/25/f...
Four Poems by Katie Manning
Ode to Purity Culture Bless the kids who couldn’t sleep over at their unmarried aunt’s house because she was living in sin. Bless the aunt and uncle.Bless the fancy promise rings and the parents wh…
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Katie Manning was supposed to say "no" to sex but "yes" to any guy with a gun who asked if they were Christians, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
My poem "The Body Ever After" appears in this tender Fall issue of Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Much gratitude to Editor @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & all at WRR
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
My poem on lineage, (mis)translation and memory, "In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish" was published today in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Big thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/beloff-2/
In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish
which makes sense because I had to look upthe word on Google, yiddish for lineage. My phone knows what I’m looking for,listens to fragments of conversations, is definitely reading my emailsto Eddy …
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I’m so happy to share that my prose poem “Snow Monkey” is out now in the latest issue of Whale Road Review!! ❄️🐒❄️ A huge thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & the editors at WRR for giving my poem such a great home!! 💙
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
Happiness is releasing a fall issue of Whale Road Review on a Saturday morning in September while sipping an iced chai latte. ☺️❤️🍂
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
A bookcase holds its breath, moths interrogate a porch light, & more with @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @sbpoet.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/09/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 36
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Last Grace Day! Our new post-publication Last Syllable Book Awards include a $1k prize, travel to San Diego, and a spot in the Visiting Writers Series at PLNU. It's judged by first-year grad students, so they get to pick who they learn from next year, and they're so excited. 😊
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Last call for the Last Syllable Book Awards! Send my grad students your books published in 2024-2026, and you might just win a prize with money and a trip to San Diego for a spot in our Visiting Writers Series! lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards
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I had such a lovely time talking with David J. Bauman for his In Three Poems podcast! This episode features two of my poems, a poem by Sally Rosen Kindred, and lots of shoutouts to birds and poets. www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
Two poets kissing! @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social and I talk about both good and bad when it comes to our poetry heroes. Frankly, we also talk a lot about Birds. Listen to this episode, available now on all your favorite podcast platforms, including YouTube, and at inthreepoems.com.
My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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The World Cup should employ a team of commentator Historians who describe the historical relations and tensions between the two countries over the course of the match.
I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.
So grateful to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for including me in the gorgeous & moving summer reading on Saturday. It was such a stunning gathering of voices, I laughed, wept, & was lifted up out of constant overwhelm into a beautiful, connected heartshape of voices.
This was a stunningly beautiful reading! I still can't believe people send us such amazing work.
Our Summer Celebration Reading this morning was amazing! You can watch it on our YouTube page now. youtu.be/YdI5ARRVkjc?...
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
"I mean, how would you even manage to complete everyday gang activities like leaping and twirling if you aren't classically trained in ballet? Everybody knows a cornerstone of organized street crime is frolicking down your turf like you're Ginger Rogers."
We’re Sorry, You Can’t Join Our Street Gang Because You Don’t Know Ballet
“I mean, how would you even manage to complete everyday gang activities like leaping and twirling if you aren’t classically trained in ballet? Everybody know...
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Thrilled to have a poem in this latest issue! Thank you to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for this heroic editorial effort.
Our Summer 2026 issue is filled with work that moves between the whimsical and the all-too-real with a strong undercurrent of awareness and attention that can make even a toad or a tampon seem sacred. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-43-sum...
New summer issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! 🎉
Our Summer 2026 issue is filled with work that moves between the whimsical and the all-too-real with a strong undercurrent of awareness and attention that can make even a toad or a tampon seem sacred. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-43-sum...
I'm a couple days late, but I want to wish a happy 28-month anniversary to my December 2023 poetry submission to The New Yorker. 😂💀
I just fell into one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second is never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. The third is never start making cookies until you've made eye contact with all of the ingredients.
a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .
ALT: a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .
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