This knockout Esther Sadoff poem in the Bubbler! freestatereview.com/2024/05/21/ser…

Sending us stories or poems set in The New Yorker font highly increases your chance of making us vomit.

"The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.” Edwin Arlington Robinson

I love interviews like this one when the ques and ans don't feel automatic therumpus.net/2024/06/05/liv…

Dream a Little Dream open.substack.com/pub/galileopre…

Andrea Cohen:

"The story, it’s already been going on without you. The whole “Once upon a time” thing, “She was born in wherever”—who gives a … ? When you drop into something where the characters already exist, that’s when things get interesting." theparisreview.org/interviews/831…

Peep our latest blog in the link below to see which lit mags, journals and contests are accepting submissions this season. telltellpoetry.com/tell-tell-poet… 🏆 Best Indie Book Award™ Lanesboro Arts Al Purdy AFA Awesome Foundation Lines + Stars Kelsay Books 2Leaf Press Free State Review / Galileo Press

The Womb House Books bricks-and-mortar store features the carefully curated, women-focused vintage titles that are the Etsy shop's bread and butter, plus frontlist books. Owner Jessica Ferris is doing it all on her own—and loving every minute. buff.ly/4bchbpL

what a writer must write in order to write is not what a reader must read in order to feel engaged

"I want to be seen, but I don't want to be watched." (Julia Wendell)

I love a story that could be titled in so many different ways: Black Mushrooms, God's Piss, Forest Weirdos, or this one, Dog in a Field by Jessica Bonder fictivedream.com/2024/06/28/dog…

Plot points are not plot

A short essay on the great 2024 Danish film, "The Promised Land." freestatereview.com/2024/08/12/god… Published in Free State Review / Galileo Press

LOL sounds like a lit mag-- "In February 1977, Sex Pistols' manager McLaren announced that Glen Matlock had been "thrown out of the band" because "he liked the Beatles", and that he had been replaced by Sid Vicious."

Please join me, tommy wyatt blake and Dr. Raye // WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN out now! for the September installment of ELJ Editions’s Be Well Reading Series! We’ll be celebrating survival. 💙eventbrite.com/e/the-be-well-…

Two questions: What makes a poem a poem? And, what makes a dog a dog. Answer: the wolf.

pretty cool editor note and oh gosh Sophie Gauthier's poem

When someone begins a revelation by saying "Full disclosure:..." I become generally suspicious it's only a partial one.

Sam Schmidt reviews Evelyn, Your Girlfriend's Favorite Poet's Grief Slut in the Bubbler freestatereview.com/2024/09/01/rev…