In case you missed it, submissions for our first 2021 issue are now open! Send your poems, fiction, CNF, or photos our way for issue no. IX, blizzard—as always, be sure to follow the guidelines so your work can be considered! 🌨 buff.ly/2ZSWbDm

“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.” Today’s #PoemOfTheWeek is “Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/st…

With limited access to physical books due to the pandemic, artists Abortion is moral and Tracy Honn were inspired to create Quarantine Public Library, a growing collection of one-sheet artists’ books that can be printed and assembled at home: at.pw.org/QuarantineLibr…

“I looked into his eyes [...] the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a little [...] like the tipping of an object toward the light.” #PoemOfTheWeek poets.org/poem/fish-2

It’s #WonderfulWordWednesday, for which we have DILATORY, meaning “tending or intended to cause delay.” For example, when I’m trying to do work but my dog is being particularly adorable in the hopes of pats, she may not be intentionally dilatory, but that sure is the effect!

Last week we had our biannual meeting to decide what we’ll be publishing in the Fall issue! Now onto editing...

Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is INVETERATE, meaning “firmly- and long-established.” For example, elves and orcs are inveterate in the fantasy genre thanks in large part to “The Lord of the Rings” and other such famous fantasy. Can you think of other inveterate tropes?

"Humans, too, give off a visible light—science proves this. But I’m surprised we don’t walk around on fire, what, with the collective lint of our past. Are we always excavating?" #PoemOfTheWeek: "This too shall pass” by Kirsten Shu-Ying Chen, @Heron_Tree. herontree.com/wp-content/upl…

Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is OBSEQUIOUS, meaning “marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.” In fiction, obsequious brings to mind those characters that fall over themselves in authority. Can you think of examples?

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The new dawn blooms as we free it / For there is always light, / if only we're brave enough to see it / If only we're brave enough to be it.” Today’s #PoemOfTheWeek: “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman. youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055i…

Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is INIMICAL, meaning “unfriendly, hostile.” Can you name some inimical characters?

Today’s #PoemofTheWeek: "Rat Ode, performed by Elizabeth Acevedo. youtu.be/2-c3y3pYZ1g

Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is OBSEQUIOUS, meaning “marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.” In fiction (and in life), obsequious brings to mind those characters that fall over themselves in authority. Can you think of examples?

Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is ACERBIC: sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in temper, mood, or tone

#PoemOfTheWeek: “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. “The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.” poetryfoundation.org/poems/51002/sp…

#WordOfTheWeek: Floccinaucinihilipilification (FLOX•in•oh•SIN•ee•HILLY•pilly•fi•KAY•shun) (say that five times fast!)- The act of estimating something as unimportant or worthless. This is the longest non-technical word in the English language.