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Michael C.

@snakeborn.bsky.social

(cm ellis) writer. pest. co-curator at Lamp Lit (subs open) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Responsible for this: https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can you believe it? We made it to a year! In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors over the next several weeks. 🥳🥂 What are you waiting for? Subs open now! #poetry #fiction #essay #art #submisionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are open until April 30th 2026 for our Spring issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net. . We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨Now Announcing our NEW.....Readers' Choice Award!🚨 ANYONE can vote for their favorite piece in our 8th Issue! Just fill out this Google Form: forms.gle/LmpkUbKhkfY9... Deadline June 1st. Most votes wins! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indielit #litmag #indiepublishing #readingcommunity

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

from Mallory Ann Caloca's : Corn Snake Maze See it in our Winter 2026 issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Spring 2026 are open!! #poetry #prose #art #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are open until April 30th 2026 for our Spring issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net We are also on ChillSubs! . We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🛋️ Hello Friends! 🛋️ We wanted to give y'all a peak on what our side has looked like and let you know your work is getting eyes! Boy howdy! We're getting to work! #poetry #prose #fiction #creativenonfiction #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Continuing our Fall 2025 features! from Victoria Roskams ( @vroskams.bsky.social : Pierrot disparu Read the full piece in our Fall 2025 issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Spring 2026 are open!!! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 5mo ago

we've got new stickers for issue 9 submitters

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Continuing our Fall 2025 features! from Abel Saldana: Skyscrapers Read the full piece in our Fall 2025 issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Spring 2026 are open!!! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

from Jessie Atkin's ( @jessieatkin.bsky.social ) : Read the full piece in our Winter 2026 issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Spring 2026 opens Today!!! #poetry #fiction #prose

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are now open until April 30th 2026 for our Spring issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net. Link in bio! . We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.3 Winter 2026 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️ Contributors in the thread!

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🛋️Winter '25 Subs are Closed!🛋️ Thank you all! Submissions for this issue have been nothing short of breathtaking! We've got work to do! See you soon! #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎆 Happy New Year! 🎆 This is the final call for Winter Submissions! We close January 8th! We're accepting poetry, fiction, other prose, and ART! Full guidelines at LampLit.net. 🕯️We can't wait to see you!🕯️ #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🕯️Happy Holidays from Lamp Lit!🕯️ May the nights be warm and the hearts be bright. #happyholıdays #poetry #fiction #essay #art #lamplitmag

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 8mo ago

SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE! But what's the deal? Remix our works! Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP #writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th for our Winter issue! 🛋️ We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. (Seriously we NEED more Art!) Full guidelines at LampLit.net. We can't wait to see you! #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

from Ewen Glass's ( @ewenglass.bsky.social ): The one who sees inside you * Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

from Elisheva Fox's ( @elisheva.fox ): Blessing for a queer dating app. Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue! We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Full guidelines at LampLit.net. We're also listed on ChillSubs! We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

from Todd Dillard's ( @toddedillard.bsky.social ): The Lampshade Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue! . We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Please see full guidelines at LampLit.net. . We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

from Darren C. Demaree's ( @darrencdemaree.bsky.social ): All All #21 Read the full piece, and another from this beautiful series by Darren in our latest issue, at www.lampLit.net Submissions for our Winter 2026 are open now! #poetry #prose #lamplitmag

Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue! We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Full guidelines at LampLit.net We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 9mo ago

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough! PAGE 5: “Tenfold” poem i wrote this poem using words donated by 22 people who were contributing to these projects for their first time! credits in thread! get the collection as a free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

black square image with black border has page from a digital book at center. book page is white with black text. poem title “Tenfold” is at top left. page number 5 appears at bottom center. all remaining contents of book page are in two columns, separated by a vertical center line. text reads as follows:

Tenfold

What's unfair is that a bulwark has been
built and built too high: no climb to sit
within stillness on top, between two

wars. This bricolage of aged brick
and outdated mistakes has crafted
a too-steady divide. Tintinnabulation

tolls in the form of tsk, tsk from the cool,
hounding mouths of onlooking hordes
on both sides. To be in the middle rouses

unexpected fury. An inchoate stirring
of sound rises in crescendo, sings a swarm
like cicada. There is stark, night-dark

penury inside the illicit pockets
of apathy. A cacophony of cattywampus
disagreement and the buzzsaw droning

of insects become an agglomerate. Fight-
to-fight defies real, oneiric forecasting
of beautiful futures. Shouting schadenfreude

seems appropriate while the sanguine
purr of a kitten irks nerves. Sense goes
missing like the ease of katabasis; could

have shaken hands and called it a day.
What's fair is that there is sometimes
a sunrise or sunset the color of the belly

of an oriole. Maybe it's lurking
inquisitively in a mist of mysticism
fraught with the weight of an under-

lying schism. But it might be in a painting
of beach swells waving their Atlantic
greetings from Narragansett. It could be

from a comic book blaring a good evening
outlined with winking of the moon's
horizon over gold-shocked iris- star-

bursting "POW!" while the retina sleeps.
The possibilities are wide as eyes peering
from any angle of the aquarium glass.

K Weber

Morgan Marion Carey - bulwark
Evelyn Anne Clausen - stillness
Julie Luepke - bricolage
Centa Therese - tintinnabulation
Meesh Montoya - inchoate
Keti Shea - cicada
Alan Parry - night
Anthony Robinson - penury
Christian Garduno - …

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Page 5 has the first poem of this collection! “Tenfold” is a donated words poem i/we wrote in 2024 that includes words from new contributors! 22 people were involved! this was their first time contributing and some returned to take part in the “& DAYLIGHT” section of this project!

as i began to work with these words & crafted lines, a theme of divide began to take shape; the mindful versus the uncaring especially. the final stanzas turn toward hope and the hope that hope can prevail.

so many challenging words in this poem! get the free PDF of this collection at tinyurl.com/2025daylight or via the link in my bio

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thanks again to all word contributors!
Morgan Marion Carey - bulwark
Evelyn Anne Clausen - stillness
Julie Luepke - bricolage
Centa Therese - tintinnabulation
Meesh Montoya - inchoate
Keti Shea - cicada
Alan Parry - night
Anthony Robinson - penury
Christian Garduno - illicit
S. Salazar - cacophony
Callie, Bug & Boo (kitties!) - cattywampus (via Carla Marchal)
Victoria Spires - agglomerate
Zach Spruce - oneiric
Ted Jackins - schadenfreude
Pratibha Kelapure- sanguine cm ellis - katabasis
Resignation Records - fair
Kristin Lueke - oriole
Zahra Shahrambakht - mysticism
Oswald Perez - Narragansett
Renee Gilmore - retina
Benjamin Niespodziany - aquarium

Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

The Lampshade
At the gates of heaven they said
let's review: six snails eaten, but
no burning buildings entered
to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box.
You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more
you saw and never touched, never thought to touch.
And yet, you spent most of your life working
on this one species of looking.
You'd see a wooden door and make a face
from its knots and whorls. You'd find
a dead cardinal and would wonder
if the dead forget the color red first.
Mostly we were impressed with this hat
you made one night out of a lampshade.
Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost
his voice. After finishing his bedtime,
you turned to go, and he told you to stay.
We liked how he pulled an imaginary
string dangling out of your nose.
How you shut your eyes afterwards
and lay perfectly motionless beside him.
For years your son believed
light is something you become.
It's waiting, there, under your skin.

Dustin Brookshire (he/him)@dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue. I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!! #poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry

Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue. So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here: lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...

Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!