This stunning flash from @erinvachon.bsky.social in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social was just what I needed to keep going today, and maybe it's what you need, too.

Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉@erinvachon.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ve got a new flash in this month’s @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, a true story that reads stranger than fiction. Thanks a million to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for loving this, because I truly love Pithead Chapel. ✨🖤

happy #weirdpoemwednesday! ➰ feel free to share weird poems you love :) here’s one by Charles Simic~

LAST DAY!! www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...

Here’s some Tyler Tilley art to make your Sunday a little better.

for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from Hotel Almighty. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Alberto Rios.

Kay Ryan

Kim Addonizio

don't forget: periodicities @periodicities.bsky.social is perpetually seeking submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/subm...

submissions (updated,

periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essa...

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A mind like a marooned TV

This body that feels nothing like me

Joanne Kyger

"Maybe someday gardening will call to me and be just what I need," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1567 of The Slowdown. "In today’s poem, gardening is exactly what the speaker needs." Read "Assistance" by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vQcyf8

Congratulations to two of our editors, Mandira Pattnaik for her newest volume, White Hot Moon, from Red Bird Chapbooks, www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/wh..., and Lucy Zhang for her latest story, “Thread Woman,” along with an interview, at Strange Pilgrims, www.strangepilgrims.com/p/thread-wom...

White Hot Moon by Mandira Pattnaik — Red Bird Chapbooks

Hybrid: Creative Non Fiction & Poetry 32 pages 8.5” x 7” single signature with hand sewn binding Published July 2026 Mandira Pattnaik’s White Hot Moon is a collection born of the sky and the…

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The other is an 8-week workshop that centers voice, balancing close reads of selected works and fine, granular attention to each writer's language as it suits their project. I love this class. I love teaching the sentence. Thank you! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-w...

8-Week: Finding Voice, Then Using Voice

This workshop will zoom in to focus on the granular details of our sentences in order to find larger, zoomed-out lessons about our projects as a whole. A good sentence, in its form, language, and tone...

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First is a 4-week course on the first 321 pages of Infinite Jest, which I imagine you're heard of. The goal here is to introduce the novel with a clarifying and guiding eye, and get readers over the (considerable) hump of the early sections.

4-Week: Craft Lessons from The First 321 Pages of Infinite Jest

2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s monumental, notorious, and exquisite novel about commitment, addiction, and what it means to be a self in an era of endles...

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Heyo! I've got two classes starting this month at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and both have space. Please share liberally, if you're inclined, thank you.

Sabrina Orah Mark @dorothyproject.bsky.social

Today's Feature: "Parallel" by Noor Jaber from Lilac Peril #1 Read here: poems.com/poem/parallel/

Parallel

I'm born a wound. Look how I gape.

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By far the poem that I send most often to writer friends and academic colleagues is Solmaz Sharif's "Patronage," whose ending is one of the few poems I can recite from memory. yalereview.org/article/patr...

Stefanie Kirby's chapbook Fruitful (Driftwood Press) and a tattered well-used 1977 Koch diagnostic recounting teaching poetry in a nursing home (including printed poems from patients) arrived yesterday from different delivery people who had no idea what glowed inside those envelopes.

. Tuesday evening They were warm days .

Poetry News → www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/car... #PoetryNews #PoetrySky

Short Conversations with Poets: Carolina Ebeid

“Early in my life I learned something intricate and subtle about the interplay of time and place, which shaped the kind of poet I’d become.”

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“I have learned to take apart this American Songbook.” A poem by Cedar Sigo.

„Das Jahr vor der Geburt des Verbrechens (77)“ / „The year preceding the birth of the crime (77)“. July 30th 2026 paper collage w. twine on vintage book cover, ca. 18 x 11 cm. #collageart #papercollage #analogcollage #industrialmusic #industrialmusicforindustrialpeople #industrialart

Super delighted to see this out in the world! Put a lot of heart and thought into it.

Sundress Publications@sundresspub.bsky.social · last mo.

We are thrilled to announce the release of our third and final Craft Chap of 2026, Sense: On Madness and Translation by Mordecai Martin! Download your copy for free today on our website http://www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/#2026

“Grains of grit in a tall sky sewing.” A poem by John Ashbery.

what do your poems contain? what do they not contain? what can their stomachs digest? where must they swim? how do they cry?

"soon the older men could hear waves / inside the whale’s stomach, the cadences of their mother singing" "What Was Found Inside the Whale" by @readinstead.bsky.social starts off Issue Three of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jared-beloff

jared beloff — s w i f t s: a literary magazine

swifts literary magazine

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We are selling a bag of books except it will probably show up in a box. 5 books, 5 zines, one tote bag. Shipped inside a box. For $50. Also the books will be picked for you because why should you have to make any more decisions today! malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

bag of books — Malarkey

A tote bag, two zines, and a selection of zines from Malarkey Books.

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