Aubri Kaufman

thank you so, so much!

just happy to be here 🥰

Call for general submissions, black text on white background with pink bubble letters.

Open for general subs through September 13th (which is also our dear @terrilinndavis.bsky.social’s bday so give her something good to read)!

www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions

how annoying that i’m never on here so my whole presence is just me reposting my own work. here’s a post where i say something different, like i think you’re all really hot and talented. mwah.

You’re gonna want to read this one!

🥹💛

THANK YOU

thanks so much. shaggy dog justice!

Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...

"When I told people about this fear, they’d laugh and I’d laugh and I’d say, “I know, I know” and I’d do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and we’d move on."

We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱

poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...

adore you 💛

This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!

🥺 thank you my friend. honored to be in @poolpartymag.com 💛

lol, i’ll take it.

🥺 thank you endlessly

Aubri (seemingly) reached into my brain, pulled out a bunch of my favorite things, and made an incredible story of them. I would lose it all at the Space Casino.

🥹 tysm my friend

Space Casino “Eight of swords.” I can’t tell if the dealer recognizes the unlikelihood of the pull. It keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Eight of swords, eight of swords, eight of swords.  A woman, bound ...

Space Casino by Aubri Kaufman

maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/

Space Casino “Eight of swords.” I can’t tell if the dealer recognizes the unlikelihood of the pull. It keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Eight of swords, eight of swords, eight of swords.  A woman, bound ...

i never post here but maybe i should? idk. idk anything. anyway here’s space casino!

maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/

oh, i’ve got longings and i am ready to give them to the birds. 🫡

i’m obviously not writing about birds enough

@terrilinndavis.bsky.social this is what the “and just like, so many fucking birds” poem has been waiting for

👀 be still my little collaborative heart

okay well now i’m obviously gonna write about turkeys too

@terrilinndavis.bsky.social has a series of stunning turkey-centric poems and i feel like there’s something happening here. turkeys are having a moment.

proud teacher aaron is one of my favorite aaron forms

🤍🤍🤍

Words With Friends I can purchase words by category: The Human Body, Sexology, Expressions.

@aubrirose.bsky.social might’ve scrolled past ‘imbrue’, but you shouldn’t scroll past her piece, “Words with Friends”:

jakethemag.com/words-with-f...

GENERATIONAL GERMINATION - Farewell Transmission By Aubri Kaufman Every time my three-year-old falls down, he tells me he “crumpled,” like, “I crumpled, mama,” and I hold back a laugh because I’m not sure where he learned the word. From me, I suppos...

Great piece from @aubrirose.bsky.social in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/gene...

tysm!

graphic depicting ufos, a pop art woman on the phone, and outer space. the text reads, “close encounters. open 3/15-4/30. Icebreakers wants your almost, maybes. your brushes with the otherworldly. your longings. send us your poetry, cnf, fiction, art, etc. that explores your interpretation of close encounters. aliens not required (though we do love them).

TOMORROW 💕🛸