David Elliot Eisenstat
@eisenstat.bsky.social
Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.
🔥 Announcement: Due to a lonely inbox, 🥲 we've decided to EXTEND the blog post and media reviews (for our Substack) submission window to October 16th, by 11:59 pm PST! Our first blog post drops tomorrow! Make sure you subscribe (it's free) to @ flarelitmagnewsletter! 🧵 (1/2)
We're excited to announce the winners of our inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize as chosen by @toddedillard.bsky.social! Congratulations to 1st place winner Zoe Berger, 2nd place winner Chiwenite Onyekwelu, and 3rd place winner Emily Portillo! Read the winning poems: variantlit.com/2026-variant...
The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize Winner’s Announced
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And congratulations to our Honorable Mentions: “Two Poems about the Men in my Family” – Bhavya Bhagtani “Market Price” – Bethany Bruno “Things that aren’t” – Jen Hallaman “SNATCH” – Suzanne Richardson “Oliver chooses the mite” – Jane Zwart
Baby's first Substack newsletter! I hope you'll subscribe for free to It's Not You, It's Media and share it everywhere, because I need your help to get media literacy tools and media activism strategies to folks who need them. Image from my graphic novel. Words: me. Illustrations: Gideon Kendall.
Media Literacy and Media Activism:
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In the dark of the early morning, a new issue rises! The August 2026 issue of Defenestration has rubbed the sleep out of its eyes and is ready for you to read. Check out all the free #fiction and #poetry we have for you this month: bit.ly/4hKid3g #DefenestrationMagazine
Friends, Submissions to “Elementary Penguin: A journal of Words, Wordplay, Poetry, and Puzzles” are now open! Details here: anthonyetherin.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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This is the first part of my poem in the new issue of Trampoline Poetry (@trampolinepoetry.bsky.social). Thanks to Justin Lacour for publishing it. You can read the rest of it (as well as excellent poems by Joshua C. Pipkins and Jason Ryberg) here www.trampolinepoetry.com
“We got kicked out of karaoke for booing the Cake version of ‘I Will Survive’” by Susan Kolon "you LOL after I drive an hour // to a new friend who cancels, / sad smiley when a guy grabs my purse // at Chevron. I invite you to drink Zin / on the beach, you miss the plane."
“We got kicked out of karaoke for booing the Cake version of ‘I Will Survive’” by Susan Kolon
you LOL after I drive an hour // to a new friend who cancels, / sad smiley when a guy grabs my purse // at Chevron. I invite you to drink Zin on the beach, you miss the plane.
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South Broadway Press has an open call for submissions to our Autumn 2026 Online Edition! We will be selecting our five Best of the Net nominations from poems selected for this call! southbroadwaypress.org/call-for-sub...
Call For Poetry Submissions: Autumn 2026 Online Edition
Image: Algozhy South Broadway Press has an open call for poetry for our autumn 2026 edition. There is no theme for the autumn edition. Please send us your best poems. South Broadway Press loves to …
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"As a kid I walked backwards from the glass until a thumb could cover every shark in Camden." Check out "Octopus Years" by Jason Zhang variantlit.com/octopus-years/
Octopus Years
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"there is nothing to understand from the center of an ocean. just confusion. just endlessness. just distant horizons and skylines." from "ocean nocturne" by Chimezie Umeoka variantlit.com/ocean-noctur...
ocean nocturne
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Send us your work!!! We've got an enthusiastic faculty editor & reading team ~ all work comes from the queue ~ we nominate for prizes ~ $100 for 1 published piece Subs open through 8/1 south85journal.com
"I’d build a cathedral to touching, all pinnacles and arcs." In today's miCRo, Lyn Li Che reminds us of how we can be surrounded by others and still be lonely. Link in thread.
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards
"nightly departure into the dreaming water made of wave forms oscillating in to the body’s container..." In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.
Hi, I have a poem in the newest issue of @variantlit.bsky.social about acceptance and womanhood and my MFA program. variantlit.com/issue-twenty...
The ducks in this poem were witnessed at sunrise in Palatka which I was visiting for a poetry conference. It's exciting to see them fly out into the world 🦆 #newpoems #poems #poetry #floridapoets #Florida #Floridawriters #waterpoems #familypoems #poetrysky
Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · 4mo agoFrom issue 23, read "The St. John’s River" by Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social
Getting some gorgeous submissions...but where is yours? Please send us your heartbreaking, hilarious, harrowing, honestly human-made poetry, flash, fiction, and nonfiction. Our reading period is open until June 30th. We can't wait to read your work! leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/
Submit – LEON Literary Review
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So honored and overjoyed to share the beautiful “Exposure” by the phenomenal David Ryan. Read it here: variantlit.com/exposure/
Exposure
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What do you need right now? Maybe you need my odd new poem about Jane Goodall’s Hologram in @variantlit.bsky.social's new Summer Issue... variantlit.com/jane-goodall/
I’ve got a new poem in the latest issue of @variantlit.bsky.social! variantlit.com/the-garden-o...
The Garden of Hands
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New Variant poetry! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed helping curate it.
Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · 4mo agoIssue 23 has new poetry from Christa Fairbrother, @christafairbrother.bsky.social, Sara Hovda, Lyn Li Che, Daniel Lurie, Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social, Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social, Paul Potts, Jessica Popeski, Ann DeVilbiss, Ashley Varela, Chimezie Umeoka, and Jason Zhang
Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...
Ghost in the Rain: Stories, by Matthew Jakubowski
Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In these 12 microfictions and flash stories, Matthew Jakubowski traces a terrain of otherworldly-ness populated by lost ghosts, haunted lovers, immo...
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This is such a generous, lovely review from a writer whose work I admire @jonathanin2k.bsky.social! Thank you for spending time with my book and thanks Jeff @stanchion.bsky.social for publishing this.
Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis week's Elegant Variation is a gorgeous book review of a gorgeous book, @suzyeynon.bsky.social's Terrestrial (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), by @jonathanin2k.bsky.social. www.stanchionzine.com/post/best-ne...
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Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · 5mo agoVariant Literature is excited to announce the inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize! Winners will receive a cash prize and be published online in a special Variant Poetry Prize folio, with an introduction from guest judge @toddedillard.bsky.social. Subs open May 15! variantlit.com/announcing-t...
