The picture doesn't really do it justice, but this Nero d'Avola is an incredible color #wine #winemaking #Harvest2026
Samuel Day Wharton
@fakeourway.bsky.social
(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics Sacramento CA
Y'all I just sent out an old-fashioned postal poetry submission! With SASE & everything!
A lake, I told my mother, with water that stays put.
sarah 🥀@sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 2d agoI have a zuihitsu poem in the amazing Four Way Review today! Would love if you read it 💖
Trying to pray with poet Franz Wright Empty Cathedral There's this pew at the back that's been waiting for you all your life, like your death bed.
More Issue 8 goodness with AJ Wright's reflection on the self and emptiness " I Go Scarecrow" www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-wright-d...
Albariño in today... That puts us almost halfway through our harvest list, in just a little over 2 weeks! 😬
Say, friends—here are about 84 literary journals opening for submissions in September. Some are open now or will close soon in August or September. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well.
Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.
Sanctuary by Juan Pablo Mobili in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/08/17/s...
Sanctuary by Juan Pablo Mobili
Sanctuary My grandmother cultivated roses, they kept each other company when my grandfather was away attending to his business and his mistress. She never cut a single one of them, no desire for tr…
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The weirdest thing to me about treating books as a resource for words is that it presumes if your computer learns enough words, it will learn ideas, but the apparatus to distinguish one idea from another is not based on statistical probability, it is based on culture and time.
404 Media@404media.co · 2d agoSCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's #smallpoemsunday this gem from Mark Leidner's new book Elegy for Pangaea
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote or small poems you love by other poets :) here’s a small found poem by me, title borrowed from a local thoroughfare~
Reading The Dog Stars right now &, gotta say, I'm a sucker for a main character who's a poet...
for #smallpoemsunday, "(a little voice...)" The confetti is punched mostly from a reproduction of one of Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower paintings. This is the 1st piece in "Hotel Almighty." Also here is García Lorca's "The Little Mute Boy," who is looking for his voice. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
This stanza from Alice Notley's White Phosphorus...
My favorite weather is pants-with-flip-flops weather
Almost just poured the spouse's boiling tea water into my full cup of coffee... How's your day going?