Audrey Howitt

All of Blue Sky will be automatically on the list.

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

in the fading light
of a cold winter's day
geese flying south

across the valley
smoke drifts in the early mist
and windows light

and children call
their final games played out
in the gathering night

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

Working Love I fell for you in work amid the photocopier’s paparazzi-flashing, had no control over seating so, between floors giddy elevator conversations snatched. Once, outside, during a fire evacuation test I stood by you, aware my ruddy-face was so obviously smouldering. Hold the note you gave me for supposed help on an urgently demanded spinning-hamster-wheel type task, just a rather economical: ‘Thank you v v much’ but I imagined that first word unexpectedly promoted and H.R. formally introducing its shyest new replacement: Love. Since that day to my certain knowledge you’ve never used ‘v v’ again… though I make sure those twanging Cupid arrowheads are near daily kept still in play.

@rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
@victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo this week.Use the #promptcombo and post me @hool415.bsky.social for the theme of #workinglove Anything on love, work or a mix of both! All welcome till 5pm Friday!!

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist. Ansari details how private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group are “making billions” as detainees are denied water, medical care, and dignity. “What happens inside these for-profit prisons is how the world sees us now,” she warns — so “authoritarian regimes can point to America and say democracy is a façade.” Via @CrookedMedia (Crooked Con November 6-7, 2025) @yassaminansari | @TVietor08 | @brhodes

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...

"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.

*If all goes by the regular schedule

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

"Gift" link.
Absolutely horrific.
"They said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear gassed until they passed out.
They said they were punished in a dark room called the island, where they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours."

Tonight was a very bad night.

And finally, the FICTION ranking includes 270 magazines - and this is the top 20:

The NON-FICTION ranking includes 350 magazines - here is the top 20:

The FLASH FICTION ranking includes 280 magazines - here is the top 20:

The POETRY ranking includes 450 magazines - here is the top 20:

The OVERALL ranking includes 750 journals - here is the top 20:

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

bottom feeder
the season’s last mosquito
finds a cheek
#SenryuSunday #senryu

Wire by Paul Nash, 1918. It depicts a desolate and shattered landscape from the First World War with a dense web of barbed wire dominating the foreground. The scene includes broken trees, shell holes filled with water, and sharp-edged pieces of corrugated iron and concrete. In the distance, columns of mud suggest exploding shells, and a few soldiers are visible.

‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.

next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn’s early my country ’tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language e. e. cummings

next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language
e. e. cummings
#poetry #writer

Narrowing dozens of powerful poems down to 6 #Pushcart nominations was no easy task. Every poem in the collection was worthy. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/10/26/p...

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The rainy sky the other night 🌙 🌧

That moment
when acceptance
stays,

folds itself
into your being,
no longer

wavering.

The back-
and-forth-ness,
the dissonance,
gone.

They fed the dark
and then wondered
why the dark -

ever hungry -

swallowed
them
whole.

#BlueSkyRelay #TheyFedTheDark #poem #poetry #grief #photography

Loved this Rachel! What a wonderful write!

Honored to have a new #poem, “Notes Toward an Autopsy of a Republic,” in the November issue of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, published alongside such amazing work from @julielmoore23.bsky.social, David Lee, Jim Tilley, and more. Great fiction and editorial too! mobiusmagazine.com/index.html

Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.

“Record of #Dissent” features 44 #poems of #protest, resistance, and hope in response to the rising authoritarianism of the #Trump era in America. On sale now for $9–or of course you can read it for free online:
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Nick is at the #TexasBookFest in #Austin with free copies of “Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age” to give away. Say hi if you see him!

淋しさの霧へにじむや鴫の声 [太無] loneliness spreading through the fog— sandpiper's cry Taimu (d. 1774?) [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Taimu #era:1700s #kigo:autumn #kigo:sandpiper ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku form, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

A painting titled "Beneath This Place" by artist Hannah Willow. It depicts a badger emerging from its burrow, which is glowing with golden light and stars. The scene is set at night under a full moon, with a starry sky and rolling hills in the background. A small cottage with a lit window is visible in the distance.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Hannah Willow

Photo of Japanese maple tree with orange leaves in fall against blue sky. Text: Variant Lit open all November for poetry and prose. Free subs. We pay $10.

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