Dominique Ahkong
@domkeykong.bsky.social
AZ-based slow poet. Co-edits @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social dominiqueahkong.com
Thank you @triohousepress.org for the opportunity to reflect on MORE FLOWERS and, of course, the sincerest, most heartfelt gratitude to Lili Gourley for asking the smartest questions that helped me see the poems anew! Check out the interview, friends! 🌸🌼🌺 tinyurl.com/n4uavefb
FULL INTERVIEW: Fragility Is Their Strength
An interview with Susan Leary by Lili Gourley
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Trio House Press@triohousepress.org · 9mo agoMore Flowers by @susanlleary.bsky.social releases in just two months! Read Lili Gourley’s interview with Susan about the book, her writing process, and more! open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
Beautiful to have a new poem in the PRECARIOUS Issue of Cordite Poetry Review: cordite.org.au/poetry/preca... Tx to Editor Andy Jackson. From his editorial: ‘The poems needed to themselves be teetering, staggering, bedridden or exposed.’ #CripLit
praise poem for these girls i was
who rake the floor with want clawing wood with blunt nails asking for rest in bold italicised underlined, cursing subsequent void vomiting false diagnoses in each day, a new house of panic a prayer…
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“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air” — Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Honored to have two poems chosen by @bunkong.bsky.social for Cultural Daily. “The Young Man on the Train” was written during a 26-day pilgrimage through India in 2014. “The Mountain and the Monk” is a persona poem. www.culturaldaily.com/johnny-cordo...
Johnny Cordova: Two Poems - Cultural Daily
Two poems by Johnny Cordova: "This mountain has gotten inside me. / I hear it rumbling through my hollow bones. / It rises in me like a dark sun..."
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Take a peek at our summer issue! Read "Nocturne" by Christian J. Collier, a poem selected by the editors as the Winner of the Shō Poetry Prize. shopoetryjournal.com/christian-j-...
I forgot to post the poems because I've been streaming for 17 days straight lol.
New poem online! “Symptoms of Ghosts” by Aldo Amparán (@skygoneout.bsky.social) is forthcoming in our summer issue, Shō No. 7, and was selected by the editors as the runner-up for the Shō Poetry Prize. Read the poem (with audio by the poet) here: shopoetryjournal.com/aldo-amparan/
New poem online! “Doubt” by Nina C. Peláez (@ninacpelaez.bsky.social) is forthcoming in our summer issue, Shō No. 7, and was selected by the editors as the runner-up for the Sita Martin Prize. Read the poem (with audio by the poet) here: shopoetryjournal.com/doubt-nina-c...
Coming soon: Shō No. 7 | Summer 2025 ✨ Cover art: “Interim” by Tanya Rastogi (@tanyarastogiart). Our summer issue features 67 poems by 48 poets, whose names are listed below. Preorder Shō No. 7 at: tinyurl.com/shono7 Issues will ship in July.
k. iver SLEEPING BEAUTY www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162612...
Sleeping Beauty
A ballet mistress says relevé always as command: lift onto the toe using only the heel. You enter the stage as Lilac Fairy & fairies make critical things happen, though underneath your tulle brushing ...
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Happy and honored to receive my first Pushcart Prize nomination! Thank you, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're delighted to announce our nominees for The Pushcart Prize and Best Spiritual Literature 2024! Congratulations to all of these extraordinary writers whose work appears in issues 21.1 and 21.2 (forthcoming)!
One of the many nasty things Evil Melon did to the old place was make Tweetdeck a premium feature. Fortunately, Bluesky has a third-party app, @deck.blue, that duplicates Tweetdeck perfectly. It really helps me keep on top of my SCR and personal account at the same time. deck.blue
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Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout
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I’ve actually written what I hope is a useful post—take what is helpful to you in your creative submission practice, leave what is not 💜
On Rejection and Dwelling in Possibility
Iris Murdoch—you know I love her—said that a bad review was about as interesting as whether it is raining in Patagonia. I tend to think about rejections this way.
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This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.
I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende
Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.
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Loving this issue (no. 4) of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social and happy to have a poem alongside so many fine ones! With thanks to @johnnycordova.bsky.social & @domkeykong.bsky.social #poetry
Reading issue 4 of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, loving poem after poem—& thrilled to sing among them! Here's "In case they run your license plate," featuring teeth, dogs, & bordercrossings. Much luv to @johnnycordova.bsky.social & @domkeykong.bsky.social for welcoming my voice into the fold 💙
![CARLOS A. PITTELLA
In case they run your license plate
Once I broke my front tooth
out of a poem & still have the chip
to show—not a great poem but it tasted
like bone it was real I remember
the pain & the scar-tissue
of writing it that became my face.
There goes the poet with the broken tooth
they say while I laugh poking my smile
through the jagged window whistling a beat.
I tell this as a descendant of biting
accumulators who turned on his kin
& is now ostracized for lightness
sudden ballerino reminding all
must pass. I dance the crosswalk
most days feeling the traffic police
looking for my plate before they realize
these are thighs occupying jeans the same
I grew & grew against the fabric of walking
till the border between Macedonia & Greece
—a semi another semi myself.
The immigration officer smiled
when smoke exhausted a backpacker
taking the last steps to the service window:
he stamped my passport but neglected
to mention the dogs the army dogs
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How to say “the truth has finally been revealed” in various languages: 5. The cat is out of the bag (English) 4. The bunny is out of the hat (Czech) 3. The pigeon falls out of your mouth (Romanian) 2. The turtle’s feet have appeared (Taiwanese) 1. Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve (Dutch)
If you’re at the Brooklyn Book Festival tomorrow, look for Shō in the Literary Marketplace! The good folks at CLMP (Tables 316/317) will be giving away free copies of our revival issue, along with other goodies from other publishers founded/led by or championing writing by PoC ♥️ Go early!
Always happy to receive poems that mention durian (Though not so keen on durian downers)
Holy carp holy carp—two of my poems were just accepted at a dream journal and it makes me want to accept poems for @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social!
