Hello @jenthorne.bsky.social and all! Here's my #promptcombo #stand. A work in progress. Keep going back and forth between prose poem and stanzas.
Scott McConnaha
@smcconnaha.bsky.social
Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer. www.scottmcconnaha.com
Grateful to have been selected for this. Looking forward to working with the WFOP calendar team! I know I'm following some pretty impressive past editors. www.wfop.org #poetry #poets
@rfsmith.bsky.social I manged to get it sort of how I wanted it, so here is my second offering for #RealPeople 🙏 #PromptCombo #Poetry
Contributor copy of the Spring '26 issue of Bramble Lit Mag arrive today. Happy to have my poem "Unmoved" among so many other great pieces. www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-...
Thrilled to have my poem "America 253" featured on The New Verse News. Thanks @jamespenha.bsky.social! newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/06/amer...
AMERICA 253
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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Thanks, Paul for this week's #promptcombo #NothingMakesSenseNowadays. Here's my contribution. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Happy Monday. Here's my #home #promptcombo contribution. Did a little tweaking of this one from its original publication in The Avocet last fall. Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social!
Proud to have a poem in the latest issue of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/theyv... #poetry #poem #poetsofbluesky
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
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Reading all of these #naturehasweapons #promptcombo contributions this morning in the context of today being #EarthDay has been quite enjoyable and inspiring. Thank you all for sharing your art!
Honored to have been a guest on the Wisconsin Writers Association Midwest Writers Room podcast during National Poetry Month to discuss my book and my journey to poetry. #nationalpoetrymonth #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity youtu.be/aVyI03pBUGA?...
Season 4, Ep 8 - Scott McConnaha
YouTube video by Midwest Writers Room
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Very kind of you to do this, @rodmannix.bsky.social. Thank you! #writingcommunity
Hey #WritingCommunity! With all the chaotic world events dominating headlines, you may have missed the recent releases by these authors. Check ‘em out! @fionawriter.bsky.social @glawackus.bsky.social @coreypoetry.bsky.social @danilabotha.bsky.social @smcconnaha.bsky.social @mquigley1963.bsky.social
Here's my #visions #PromptCombo. Inspired by the movie Burnt by the Sun. Thanks, @rfsmith.bsky.social!
Here's my #poemsabout #inbloom. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This just appeared in America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...
Thanks for this week's #Nothing #PromptCombo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social! My poem here appeared in the Winter '25 issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social.
Recently discovered the online journal Dissident Voice. They publish a handful of social justice-themed poems each Sunday. Here's one of mine from last week. dissidentvoice.org/2026/03/haun... #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Haunted - Dissident Voice
DNA connects me to centuries of selkies, kelpies and banshees answering for the wrongs done to or by those who knew the stories of their past with an intimacy we don’t imagine today. I’ve never believ...
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Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for hosting this week's #PromptCombo #Powerless. Here's a fairly literal response which turns a little gloomy at the end. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity in due course
I've never posted twice in one week to #promptcombo, but I think this one fits the theme of #powerless and the times we live in. @rfsmith.bsky.social
Morning, Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and the rest of the crew, thanks for this week’s #PromptCombo #powerless This was what came to mind and as you can tell I’ve not spent any time working on it. #poetrycommunity #poetry
Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week’s #promptcombo #powerless. Here’s one about the powerlessness that comes with an aging body.