Lisa Zerkle
@lisazerkle.bsky.social
Poet•Editor•Reader •MFA from Warren Wilson •Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly •Podcaster on PBQ Slush Pile •Editor at Iron Oak Editions https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
“Better find my pound of flesh the world owes me.” Excerpt from Jordan Bailey’s “Hip Hop Contrapuntal for Dummies.” It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read Jordan’s full poem at the link below: buff.ly/ftlQG5p #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry
I’m stoked to have a poem among the “Exhibition of Strange Offerings” in Unbroken #50. Huge thanks to Ken Chau, Katherine DiBella Seluja, Tom Fugalli, Tina Carlson, and Dale Wisely. Lots of excellent work in this issue. Check it out at www.theunjournals.com/unbroken50
My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...
The Odyssey
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...
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Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details at the link below: buff.ly/voVEsN8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Thrilled to have a poem in this latest issue! Thank you to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for this heroic editorial effort.
Whale Road Review@whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur 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...
Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/qhzDbs4 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Congratulations to JENNIFER CHANG, whose collection AN AUTHENTIC LIFE is the winner of the 2026 Kingsley Tufts Award! AN AUTHENTIC LIFE was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/3WHsRwV
Episode 154, Danse Macabre, is live! Join us as we explore haunting imagery, lyrical tension, and the power of stillness in two unforgettable poems by Zachary Kluckman. Find out more about Zachary: zacharykluckman.org
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
The brilliant, as ever, Kathy Nelson! Farewell with Potato Blight and Moose by Kathy Nelson oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/12/f...
Farewell with Potato Blight and Moose by Kathy Nelson
Farewell with Potato Blight and Moose I’m no good at saying goodbye. Not to the water aerobics ladies bobbing in that cool blue—I give a vague wave to no one in particular, hoisting myself up the l…
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Back from AWP and back at the table! We’re diving into poems by Jane Zwart where memory loops, history lingers, and even words like “hypotenuse” somehow work. It’s all about finding that sweet spot between sentiment and sentimental. Welcome spring and cheers to having Eric Baker at the table!
We’re bringing back an encore episode, Collective Effervescence, where we dive into poems by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social , who’ll be reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book the weekend after this episode drops. Info about festival : vahumanities.cventevents.com/event/bookfe...
Border Patrol left Charlotte. The damage stayed behind www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...
Border Patrol left Charlotte. The damage stayed behind
The Border Patrol's enforcement surge in Charlotte, N.C. lasted just about a week. Residents picking up the pieces in its aftermath say doing so is going to take a lot longer than that.
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Today is double feature day on the One Poem Only podcast. I’m thrilled to have two poems read by the magical Maggie Devers. Maybe give a listen as you’re cooking for Thanksgiving? These poems were also featured as Poetry in Plain Sight broadsides. #booksky player.captivate.fm/episode/aaa5...
My Son in the Sea by Lisa Zerkle
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.” “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to @susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Submit — Susurrus
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Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press
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I’m thrilled my poem “High Sierra Incantation” is featured over at Glass Poetry today. Huge thanks to Tony for his generosity. #booksky #poetrysky
Glass Poetry Press@glasspoetry.bsky.social · 11mo agoToday on Glass! "High Sierra Incantation" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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"as we walk past neat green lawns. Bless you, I say, clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures who do not respond is an echo of something earned, of time spent teaching." "I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)
I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes — Susurrus
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Huge thanks to @susurrus editors CJ, Maddie, & Michelle for launching this poem into the world alongside such fine company. And check out that gorgeous cover!
What a delight to return to Kelly Hoffer’s debut “Undershore.” It’s unlike any collection I’ve read—a unique and creative elegy that hits hard. If you’re looking for your next Sealey Challenge read, reach out to Lightscatter Press and add this one to your stack. #poetrysky #booksky
