V.C. Myers

I went from asking myself 'is this 1st draft good or just new?' to 'is this 4th draft good or just long?'

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.

My So-Called Life

further proof that Rosebud is on her own, much higher level of poetry. wow...

Issue 129 — RogueAgent Welcome to Rogue Agent, a journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.

Velvet, claws, and a piano… RA 129 is here! Featuring poetry by: Shanan Ballam, Jessica Dubey. Anne Duncan, Jennifer E. Hudgens, Rebecca Hurtado, Judy Kaber, Michael J. Kolb, Suzanne Langlois, Xiaoly Li, and Annie Przypyszny // rogueagentjournal.com/issue129

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Ten years of narrative medicine practice meets poetry exploring home, illness, grief, & what medical charts can't capture. FEVERDREAM (Redhawk, 2026) explores illness, grief, and healing. Contact me for e-ARCs or to discuss readings/lectures. Pub date & other details to follow soon! #book

someone please tell Lannie Stabile there are references to dogs named Zeus on Bluesky & we miss her

Volume 14, Issue 12 COVER ART BY deems ortega   FICTION A Bestiary of Immortal Creatures by J. Condra Smith The Great Miss Valentina Speaks by Rebecca Turkewitz Mr. Palm Beach by Will Willoughby Awe by Nick Rees …

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...

Words:
J. CONDRA SMITH
@rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social
@willwilloughby.bsky.social
NICK REES GARDNER
MAX LIN
JASON FRALEY

Cover art:
DEEMS ORTEGA

Wow! I saw Vic twice & both times were mesmerizing

Bands I've seen multiple times:

Tori Amos
Buddy Guy
Vic Chesnutt
Vienna Teng
Joan Baez
Anais Mitchell
Amy Correia
Holly Cole
Joan Osborne
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill

& many more

Joke's on you, I don't need to see Hamnet because I already cried over him dying in Upstart Crow.

Rows of angled, mirrored surfaces frame a distant landscape of hills

Wildlings! Submissions for @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social's MIRROR issue close on November 30th. Don't miss out. Send us your poetry, your art. The time to reflect is NOW!
feralpoetry.net/submissions/

Seagulls sitting in sunshine on the rail of a dock. In the background, a footbridge spans the river Mondego in Coimbra, Portugal

A bright day here in Coimbra and the seagulls are chilling

5 animals I've seen in the wild:

Snakes (black, water & copperhead)
Deer (whitetail)
Fox (red)
Ravens
Bats

I could go on. Abundant wildlife is the best part of Appalachia.

You saw TLC at their peak?! So jealous.

I saw Dylan & Ani, too. She was awesome, him not so much.

I saw him twice & both times he was astounding

Aw! I saw John Mayer w/ @justchelle.bsky.social before he hit it big. She's always been the best concert companion.

5 concerts I've been to:

Patti Smith
Tori Amos
Buddy Guy
Vic Chesnutt
Odetta

coffee, cats, books, music, Stranger Things, saying no thanks to social invitations. one of the best days ever.

as usual not celebrating anything except not having to go to work & it's wonderful

Yes! I will imagine it narrated by Werner Herzog

Whales/environmental: Feral, Channel Magazine, The Hopper, The Shore

no idea about Chatbot, unless it's trying to communicate w/ the whales (which would be awesome)

my childhood role model! that was what I called my 1st car

this could be a 3Elements Literary Review prompt...

Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.

Will be doing a newspaper article on books I'm looking forward to that are coming out in 2026.

Anything you want to recommend to me, bookish friends?

revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.

newspaper pamphlet for a school book fair

toddler handed this to me and I inhaled it like I was at bed bath and beyond buying candles

what in the Scholastic fantastic is this? young me would've died from joy

love Ed Harcourt's new album, Orphic. Especially the songs "O' Gentle Death" & "Mercurial." Hints of Elliot Smith & The Church.