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T. E. Niemi

@teniemi.bsky.social

Poems (https://bottlecap.press/products/atnight), screenplays (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4661531/) and stories.

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~ Alison Peace@irishali13.bsky.social · 21h ago

Poem for Monday 10.5.26 Used Book ~ Julie Kane —What luck-an open bookstore up ahead as rain lashed awnings over Royal Street,/to find, the blue-on-cream, familiar backbone of my chapbook, Its cover is very slightly coffee-stained. I read the name inside: The man I thought would love me till I died.

Used Book What luck-an open bookstore up ahead as rain lashed awnings over Royal Street, and then to find the books were secondhand, with one whole wall assigned to poetry; and then, as if that wasn't luck enough, to find, between Jarrell and Weldon Kees, the blue-on-cream, familiar backbone of my chapbook, out of print since '83-its cover very slightly coffee-stained, but aging (all in all) no worse than flesh through all those cycles of the seasons since its publication by a London press. Then, out of luck, I read the name inside: The man I thought would love me till I died. -Julie Kane
Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · 2d ago

Poetry publishers will tell you 99% of sales occur within three months of a collection's launch. That's why I'm stunned to find that sales of Whatever You Do, Just Don't have gone through the roof this year, all thanks to Bluesky. Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

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Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · last wk.

No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!

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Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new batch of books has now reached me and they're all itching to find a reader, clamouring for me to slip them into an envelope and post them off, ready to be devoured. Would you like to lend them a helping hand?! 😜 If so, just drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

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The Madrid Review@madridlitmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lawrence on his parents and how he didn't even read one of his own books... #writing #readers #taos #dhlawrence #blogpost #writer #writers themadridreview.com/f/d-h-lawren...

D. H. Lawrence on his Publishers, his Parents and his Books

To mark D. H. Lawrence’s birthday yesterday, we here reproduce one of his most entertaining and least-known pieces of writing: a short, surprisingly personal foreword to a bibliography of his own book...

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Shō Poetry Journal@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Still looking for more work for our winter issue—Submissions close August 31 at 11:59pm PT! shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Sho Poetry Journal Submission Manager

Shō Poetry Journal is an Arizona-based biannual print journal revived in 2023 after a twenty-year hibernation. We publish an eclectic array of poetry by a diverse range of poets and release online aud...

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Shō Poetry Journal@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are open for poetry submissions until August 31! Submit up to 5 poems, no theme. We respond in 30 days or less. Submissions are open to international poets. Payment is 1 print contributor copy. US-based contributors are also considered for two editors' prizes. shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Cover art preview of a painting by Nara Allsop based on Hananah Zaheer's poem “War”—black text reads Shō Poetry Journal • An Arizona-based print journal • Open for Submissions • Submit up to 5 poems • We respond in 30 days or less • Closes August 31 @ 11:59pm PT • shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"...there’s something about the intensity of flash, the canvas it creates for inventiveness, that’s endlessly compelling to me." Kate Horsley, 2026 SmokeLong Workshop Prize winner, is our featured author this week. Read Sudha Balagopal's interview with the author. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Kate Horsley - SmokeLong Quarterly

In your title, I found the word altar fascinating. Did you see the salon as an altar or did your title naturally evolve from the related words like saint, temple and worship in your story? I always st...

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Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I need to sell books. You want to buy books. Use code INDIE to get any 1 book or magazine issue free when you buy any 2. Now through Monday. Celebrate independence by shopping sooooo small and indie it's actually ridiculous. Please & thank you 🖤🤍 StanchionZine.com/shop

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Timothy Green@timothygreen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In collecting Poems for Katie, it was astonishing to see how much the poems knew before I did. I was sad for so long, deeply but so quietly even I couldn't hear it. This one became the cover image.

The Giant Who Had No Heart Inside His Body by Timothy Green after Asbjørnsen and Moe didn’t know where to hide it. It was a big heart, after all, as huge as a Cadillac, as loud as a kick drum, and where do you hide such a thing? He tried the barn, wrapped in layers of aluminum foil and linen, hung on a hook from the highest beam—but still the field mice found it. He woke that night to the tickle of their tiny feet inside the huge hollow of his chest. His own laughter chased him through the darkness until he lifted the barn roof and scared them off. Next, he tried the bottom of the lake, sunk with stones to the deepest part. The surface rippled softly with every beat of the mighty heart, but the sound was muffled and the fish well-fed. For a while, it worked— until the cellophane began to leak, and the hole inside him filled with water, a well overflowing, and he wept for days. When the hungry princess arrived, it was raining. He noticed her bright umbrella. Eat, he said, having no other choice, his voice rolling down from the clouds. And so she ate, slice by slice, bite by painful bite for a year, until no one anymore might find it.
T. E. Niemi@teniemi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have a few extra copies of my debut poetry chapbook. If anyone in the continental U.S. would like a complimentary copy, message me your address and I'll do my best to mail it soon. Also, if anyone has a chapbook they'd like to swap for mine, I'm game.

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Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're 2 months away from the 1st birthday of my book Street Cats & Where to Find Them. An offer: if you order a copy (from Amazon, where it's cheapest, or buy it anywhere) & send me proof of purchase, I'll send you an issue of Stanchion Magazine for FREE. Deal? Please & thank you! amzn.to/4b5i2eu

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