mk in the garden 🌷

secured tickets for Frankenstein!!!

sneak peek at “cobble” — a new micro publication launching at @smallpublishers.bsky.social next weekend. very much a rock paper scissors situation. thank you @essencepress.bsky.social for cutting these paper stone poèmes. 2nd image is a cobble of coral fossil from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire

still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️

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On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...

spoke with leila chatti about her new collection for @adimagazine.bsky.social 💙

THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS DONIKA KELLY poems in front of red and pink roses

OH MY GOD—best gift to myself!!! I totally forgot I had preordered Donika Kelly’s new book from @prairielights.com ❤️❤️❤️

Amazing surprise. Hurrah, hurrah for me!!!

seconding Julie Doxsee!!!

Session 8: Fall 2025 "To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous and self paced poetry workshop by mail. Session 8 includes 5 poems by 5 writers, and 30 total prompts. Registration is open from October 12th until October 26th...

featured poets:

Molly Brodak
Leila Chatti
Brandon Som
Chen Chen
Mary Szybist

register here: forms.gle/DL5WUrJgYNCd...

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail.

registration (in thread) for the eighth session is open 10/12 thru 10/26!

Optional donation of $5-10

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dear father, safe at present by Jay Besemer - Steel Incisors description

previously, on jay's bluesky:

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'to light a candle' is a poetry workshop by mail 💌 the EIGHTH session is opening tomorrow! registration closes October 26 (maybe earlier if it fills up quickly.)

this session includes one of my favorite poets ever (can you guess who?)

plz share <3

"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

a woman is singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her Alt: Tori Amos singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

Hey hey hey!

We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October.

Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

"Ya know what? FUCK YOU."

*unMuds your Kip*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

set a boundary with a coworker please clap

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

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Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany [1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being&hellip;

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Neocities Create and surf awesome websites for free.

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

neocities.org/browse

ok i finished the first draft of the session 8 workshop :) time for proofreading!

appreciate you! and sorry i didn't get a chance to rly comment on your first poem!

called out for talking too much about Leila Chatti today..

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

"But it’s hard. I am not a spokesperson. Every trauma is different, but we must realize, also, there are commonalities. You are never in [total] solitude." The incomprable Neige Sinno breaks down her process today in the @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

If you dream about work they should have to pay you

me AND alex !!!

omg lame!! i hope the 2nd move goes better

i got a poem accepted for something really cool :)

i could die today and live again — Summer Farah — Game Over Books I could die today and live again is inspired by the realm of The Legend of Zelda . Giving voice to non-player characters and blurring the boundaries of game-world and real-world, Summer Farah’s poem...

To all my poets and Legend of Zelda lovers, if you want a book of poetry that breathes LoZ, consider "I could die today and live again" by @summ.bsky.social

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A child’s drawing, with the words “the chicken went hiking with the wrong stuff. He had an umbrella, his tablet, a wire, and ten packs of cigarettes”

Step aside, Moby Dick, a new best first line of literature just dropped

11 years with husband in a few days :)