I'm still on hiatus, but I wanted to congratulate all of you who got into Wigleaf Top 50 or made the finalist list. Do something nice for yourselves!
Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
@kossworks.bsky.social
Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist '25, BSF '20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Website: https://koss-works.com Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Received this beautiful book by Elinor Ann Walker from Sheila-Na-Gig (hot off the press) today. Honored to blurb it. It's gorgeous and complex--about life cycles and also grief. Get your copy here: sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-... #poetry, #publishingday, #poetrybook, #poems
Joni Mitchell, “Urge for Going” A devastatingly powerful song. youtu.be/ZvSvTRhAJxg
Joni Mitchell - Urge For Going
YouTube video by Christian Davies
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National Poetry Month: Prompt 29, from Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social #poetry #NaPoMo
National Poetry Month: Prompt 29, from Susan L. Leary
Working in the spirit of Krysten Hill’s “Nothing,” write a poem built around a single word. This can be a word you love or are in awe of, one that challenges or eludes you, one you fear or find com…
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In this interview in the literary journal Parentheses, @susanlleary.bsky.social explores the process of writing through and about grief in her poetry collection, Dressing the Bear: www.parenthesesjournal.com/interviews-f...
It feels like this today. I wish I could find this drawing. It was on a watercolor block that seems to have slipped into the lost sock void.
This painting, called Landscape with Rain, was created by the influential Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1913.
weekly ukulele video🥰❤️ I’m Alive by Electric Light Orchestra youtu.be/XnOGgGkLYiM
weekly ukulele video (May 4, 2026) I’m Alive by Electric Light Orchestra
YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
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These assholes are so evil: www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/h...
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families | CNN
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social and @samrasnake.bsky.social !!! Hope you're having a good week!
“pleasure is best when *simple/unfettered*” @kossworks.bsky.social in @petrichorlit.bsky.social petrichormag.com/30-koss/
#30 – Koss – petrichor
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Yosa Buson In seasonal rain along a nameless river fear too has no name [Tr. Sam Hamill] Art: Painting, Landscape in Light Colors, by Yosa Buson
![Yosa Buson
In seasonal rain
along a nameless river
fear too has no name
[Tr. Sam Hamill]
Art: Painting, Landscape in Light Colors, by Yosa Buson](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreie3rzlqeackxgomkgscsycktv5q34wrrjtj27qqvxkqrmvejs3d24)
A painting from when I was young and angry... whereas now I am less young, but still angry. Detroit years... #painting, #oilpainting, #expressionism
Happy to be on this list. The titles are amazing! A few are their own tiny stories.
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 3mo agoCongratulations to the authors on Gooseberry Pie’s longlist for our annual writing competition. Ok to celebrate but please don’t identify the title of your story online. Shortlist will be posted by end of April. gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...
And here it is, my happy news I mentioned. Mapless is close to my heart for many reasons and I am SO pleased it is going to find its way into the world, and (I hope) into your hands! ❤️
SHINE Poetry@shinepoetry.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉CONGRATULATIONS goes to Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social), whose 'Mapless' was selected as SHINE's "Come As You Are" book prize winner! It was an honor to read the many wonderful manuscripts -- thanks & love to all who participated! #bookprize #booksky #shinepoetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
weekly talk story about @adroitjournal.bsky.social... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
I'm in The Adroit Journal!! — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
I am so honored to finally be in The Adroit Journal and with a micro!! I’m so excited to share this piece with you all… and there’s a recording too so I hope you take the time to listen! COUPONS THE...
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On this platform, people I don't know follow me and people i've known for years don't follow me back often. i have to think maybe people don't check their notifications, but... thanks for the follows. i'm very grateful!
I have a mini Q&A feature up at Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social today alongside my poem "Portrait of the Heart In Love, At World's End" which appears in the current Anniversary Issue 5.1 ❤️ You can read the feature here: www.instagram.com/p/DXeZhzVFCI... Thank you to EIC Erin Bedford 🙏
FISH KNOCKING ON A DOOR: I read an amazing flash or micro a while back. Ecofiction, with a fish knocking on a door, needing help, and the person repeatedly slamming the door. Does anybody have a link to that story or know the title?
My poem “Appomattox” (inspired by the shipwreck off of Atwater Beach in Milwaukee) was published in @petrichorlit.bsky.social today!!! Thanks so much for including me in this issue.
#crime, #collection, #writing, #debut, go @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social !!😊
Nathan Pettigrew@nathanpettigrew.bsky.social · 11mo agoCheers, Bluesky! Very proud to share that my Debut Crime Collection TALES FROM TERREBONNE is being published in 2026, courtesy of Rock and a Hard Place! Thank You Everyone on here who’s supported my writing! Thank You @robdsmith.bsky.social and the @rhppress.bsky.social Team for the dream come true!
Pleased to be in @petrichorlit.bsky.social's 10th anniversary issue with a gratitude poem. Grateful to Seth and Caleb and the entire staff. Here's a link to my work, but check out the whole issue as it's stellar. #poems petrichormag.com/30-koss/
Thank you, @samrasnake.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, @rodmannix.bsky.social !!!💙