Two forthcoming books. One is set in Cardiff and London, the other in Syria. The authors are different, the setting & themes are really different. They have just two overlaps: they both are queer books, they both have the same exact cover.

Where do I pitch this strange essay? 😭

My favorite poet Emily Skaja dropping knowledge & 50 ways to end a poem for Literary Hub this morning✨Somebody should hire her to teach at a summer writing workshop. Just saying!

lithub.com/50-ways-to-end…

Joy Sullivan, wrecked.

Thank you Jet Fuel Review for nominating my poem 'Self Portrait As A Survivalist' for 2024 Best New Poets.

Our always fee-free general submission window closes in just a few days: April 15. Send us your prose, poetry, and hybrid work! We reopen October 1.

Frank Gaspar, from “Late Rapturous”.

“who would think there was life inside?” 💚

go go go!!

'You can’t recreate the first taste of an orange. Which is not just sunshine, bright and radiant, bursting in a mouth but the shock of it and the moment just before the peel, the seal is broken.'

Read a new prose #poem by Joel Peckham:
bodyliterature.com/2024/04/09/joe… #prosepoem #poetry

*read this*

'God, let me be
weightless, like clouds themselves
once they shed,
the thing they are made up of.'

wow wow wow 🤍 LOVE this

thank you 🥺

SUBMISSIONS CALL:

We are open for submissions of full-length poetry collections (40+ pages).

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Include a short biography, brief synopsis, & poetic influences.
Subject: Poetry collection Submission - [Name], [Title]

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'Love is a staircase in a meadow whose shadow tells the time.'

will erickson 🦥🐧 w/ two Joy Odes in Poetry Daily!! 🌳🎶🍅🌱🔪✨

poems.com/poem/two-poems…

SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our themed issue until 5/31!

This issue explores the body as a site of memory. We are interested in how, over time, our flesh becomes a recollection of triumph and trauma.

Submit at thejournal.submittable.com/submit or follow the link in our bio.

Issue 3.1 is here & it’s full of beautiful, moving work. Thanks to the talented artists who are part of this issue. We would be so happy if you would check it out & share it widely!

cover photo, ‘Heading to Work.’ by Jim Provenzano

pinholepoetry.ca/issue-3-1/

Which venues should I be considering for reviews of and essays on SFF – science-fiction, fantasy, and horror? So many places don't want to venture into genre fiction and it becomes very disheartening.

“I can’t possibly protect my heart from this world.”

—Kellam Ayres, “Backyard” in IN THE CATHEDRAL OF MY UNDOING 💙