…and here we have it, the last 2 poems for this month by Jonathan Hayes! Thank you to @thearsonista.bsky.social & to all the contributors! Go have a read!
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2nd to last feature is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social Thank you to Robert and all the amazing artists! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/27/l...
Letter 49 by Robert Farrell
Of course it’s possible to fall in love in thirty seconds. It happens every time I pass through the 81st St. station on the express and see through the window a trapeze artist or ballet …
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Good morning, Go enjoy these 2 poems by Simon Ravenscroft over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/26/p...
Poems by Simon Ravenscroft
Lemon dose Sniff your blues away in the electric evening light Burst gold all over the sky again like every other night of late There’s not much music in it left Give me a sky of muted grey&n…
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Good morning, Please go read these gorgeous poems by Dia Babylon over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/25/p...
@danielhintz.bsky.social is live with 3 beautiful photographs / 3 micro-poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/24/p...
poems & photography by Dan Hintz
live on SNL she rolled his head out of the wicker basket onto the buffed stage floor sun ra snake dance sun grabbed the baby and tossed it high up into the mother’s arms Exif_JPEG_PICTU…
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Another day, another great fucking excuse to read poetry at @thearsonista.bsky.social 2 by Nora Rawn burninghousepress.com/2026/02/21/2...
2 poems by Nora Rawn
Pairs Short Program Watch the backwards inwards death spiral, technical element introduced in the 1948 Olympics, the woman hovers smoothly, levitates, you recall your last time ice skating solo, a …
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@thearsonista.bsky.social is so excited to show you some poems by Thom C. Addington! Go read!! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/22/p...
Poems by Thom C. Addington
Sibyl of Cumae Would-be lovers will not want forever. Edging feels a satin yard of inside, but its edge penknifes— so short and straight, the letting come (and go). They’ll gravel…
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Henry Luzatto has some gorgeous poems today at @thearsonista.bsky.social Take a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/19/p...
Poems by Henry Luzzatto
Rubberneckin’ I passed by a church basement full of old people dancing cheek to cheek to rnb on Valentine’s Day And all the young white single people in the city stopped and said can yo…
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Some wonderful prose from Mike Barlow for your Wednesday at @thearsonista.bsky.social 🔥 burninghousepress.com/2026/02/18/t...
Happy Valentine's Day! Reza Jabroni gives us a sweet little fiery poem! Live at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/14/l...
Lavender by Reza Jabrani
The half-empty bottle of lavender pure-castile soap haunting my shower for months after you left, the lonesome burning sudsy mornings moaning, masturbating…
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LaVern Spencer McCarthy brings us a little story I couldn’t resist to share! Read it now at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/16/a...
A Good Place To Die by LaVern Spencer McCarthy
“When are you going to do it?” Lenny asked Susan. “When am I going to do what?” she responded, laying a card carefully on the dining room table where she was playing Solitai…
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Little poems are my absolute favorite! Here’s one from Jen Adams live at the @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/17/a...
as drowned by Jen Adams
Jen Adams (she/they) is a UK-based researcher, feminist and writer.
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My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. Calderón, curator At the parade grounds of immolation, we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to stand up straight with a wishbone lodged in the prism of your throat, burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement feed-back loops …
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A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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I am truly honored to be able to publish such wonderful artists... today we have @badbadpoet.bsky.social live on @thearsonista.bsky.social with a poem that'll leave a mark. burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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Juliet Cook is live at @thearsonista.bsky.social today with 3 beautiful poems. Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
3 poems by Juliet Cook
Sawing Through Lap dance underwater with sharks. Limbs tossed into bleeding mosh pits. Those still alive are uniform, guns, glass, hate.Won’t stop shooting,biting, spitting out splintere…
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a beautiful poem by a.d. over at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/13/t...
The Return by a.d.
For weeks she willed the horizon ablaze with word of triumph Smoke from her fires sways lascivious in the mist She dresses the house for his return as a snake vestures …
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I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. Calderón. Love the collage banner. Hand over hand, climbing over indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear the news and various other kinds of puppeteer topographies /
imc1209.bsky.social@imc1209.bsky.social · 6mo ago@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social go have a read! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
Let's keep the momentum going, shall we? Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/04/2...
2 poems by Kent Kosack
March Indulge yourself in a final thought as the year ends: If you leave her, the road ahead opens into a midlife reckoning. No money for the cliched convertible. The trip to Japan. Holiday shrine …
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Happy Sunday! Go have look at our newest contributor @saramatson.bsky.social to this month's theme at @thearsonista.bsky.social a gorgeous poem sure to set you right for the coming week! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/08/s...
SUMMER NEEDS by Sara Matson
<1> my suede hand warm + gloved pinning swollen fist on either side of ur mandible + screaming until the jaw snaps (so visceral !) my wet thigh sticky (unexpected blood) i tuck my …
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Monday is drifting into Tuesday, but before it does, here's 3 poems by Laurence Lillvik LIVE on @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/09/3...
@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social go have a read! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement feed-back loops …
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My sixth book is now available for pre order over at the Salo Press website - link below ‘Graffiti On A Burning House’ Hope you can kop a copy fam cheers xx www.salopress.com/store/graffi...
Karina Longo has 3 poems up on @thearsonista.bsky.social today! Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/02/2...
Another day, another fantastic submission! Please go read these poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social and follow @hubbsd.bsky.social while you're at it!
Subs are open for Love & Hate February! Guest Editor @imc1209.bsky.social awaits your magic/sendsendxx
Burning House Press@thearsonista.bsky.social · 7mo agoBHP are excited to welcome Ingrid M. Calderón as the seventh BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! Ingrid’s theme for the month of February is: ___ LOVE & HATE ___ _Where does love end and hate begin?_ ___ Sendsendxx burninghousepress.com/2026/02/01/f...
Our very first contributor seangmeggeson.bsky.social is over at @thearsonista.bsky.social with 3 poems... Go have a look! burninghousepress.com/2026/02/02/3...
3 poems by Sean G. Meggeson
monument leaves (upon reading Pasolini’s review of the Italian translation of Osip Mandelstam) like the sun sets in motion a series of actions &nb…
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BHP are excited to welcome Ingrid M. Calderón as the seventh BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! Ingrid’s theme for the month of February is: ___ LOVE & HATE ___ _Where does love end and hate begin?_ ___ Sendsendxx burninghousepress.com/2026/02/01/f...
ULTRAVIOLET EDITION chosen, curated and edited by BHP’s January 2026 guest editor Kawai Shen!!! @kawaishen.bsky.social Thanks so much to everyone who sent work and made the violet dream happen! 💜 Enjoy 📕 ✨ burninghousepress.com/2026/01/31/u...
ULTRAVIOLET: Table of Discontents
An issue replete with luscious adjectives and flights of form
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Massive gratitude & thank you to @kawaishen.bsky.social for a fantastic month curating the ULTRAVIOLET edition and to everyone who contributed work! Full edition coming soon! 💜
Kawai Shen@kawaishen.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnd that's a wrap! You can now explore the complete ULTRAVIOLET issue 💜 + playlist 🎵 with many thanks to all incredible contributors and @thearsonista.bsky.social for making space for such strange and wicked prose and art 🙏