April Michelle Bratten

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!

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Thank you 🤧🤧

SDR and UtSQ sitting in a tree...

I've got 3 new poems in this sparkling issue ✨️

Thanks so much to the editors for including my work 😊 You are a bright spot in a dark world.

Zeke Shomler If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead, then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed   with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical. If...

"If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead,
then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed

with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July
berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical."

Dream of the Moose Calf, Zeke Shomler in @upthestaircase.bsky.social
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A large fishing trawler lodged atop a tall iceberg. Graffiti covers the hull of the boat. Gulls gather above.

Plight (2020)
Oil and acrylic on canvas

Btw I have brand new poems, plural, coming out soon 👀😌

😏

Taco Bell makes you gay. Happy Pride!

Up the Staircase Quarterly a journal of poetry and art

Up the Staircase

www.upthestaircase.org 😊

i just — like i don’t trust myself to work after taking a benadryl, and this guy slice and diced our entire fucking government after taking enough drugs to launch his brain into space. what the fuck is even happening

It's just words and you're just meat and nothing actually matters. Now go write your book.

Companions (diptych), 2001 by Kiki Smith

Screen Door Review Submission Manager Screen Door Review is a triannual literary magazine that publishes poetry and flash fiction authored by individuals belonging to the southern queer (lgbtq) community of the United States. The purpose ...

Psssssst! We're getting our June/Pride issue together & are still reading subs PLUS we've opened up submissions for cover art. Show us what you have! We pay $40 for cover art & believe in showcasing the brilliance of queer southerners. :)

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Thank you! It feels like a dormant part of me has come back to life. 🥰

I "lost" poetry for a number of years but it is steadily making its way back to me. I haven't felt this inspired in ages. And yes, I have actually been writing.

Chilean artist Livia Marin, teapot from the ´Nomad Patterns´ series (2012) #womensart

Celebrate friendship and community with Up the Staircase!

We are seeking poetry and art for our themed issue, Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love.

Deadline: July 1st

upthestaircase.org

Up the Staircase Quarterly a journal of poetry and art

We are seeking cover art submissions for our future issues!

Cover art can be of any genre or discipline and must contain a *staircase* somewhere in the work (but does not have to be the focal point).

Visit our guidelines for more information: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

Moved my bi bunnies banner over to this app and it's starting to feel more cozy 🥰

a husky dog is looking at the camera with the words `` everybody has that one friend . '' ALT: a husky dog is looking at the camera with the words `` everybody has that one friend . ''

Submissions are now open for our special issue Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Send us your work about friendship and community:

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The new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly is here 👀 www.upthestaircase.org

Working on the next issue of UtSQ 🥰

Ready your poems. This summer we are bringing back our themed issues! On May 1st we will open to submissions for our Kindred Issue: Poems on Platonic Love.

More details soon.

Up the Staircase Quarterly a journal of poetry and art

Have some poems ready for submission? Tonight is the deadline to submit for our May issue:

www.upthestaircase.org

Sharing an old poem titled 'On Valentine's Day...' on Valentine's Day though it's not 'on' Valentine's Day :)

from Issue 64 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social
www.upthestaircase.org/vismai-rao-i...

It's a gorgeous day. Feeling gratitude for a lot of things today, really expensive and hopeful. I used to draw the eight of swords alllllll the time. Less and less, as I change my life. Thanks Cincinnati Review

Print in blues and white of a rural scene with a heron standing in the foreground, left, on the bank of a still river or lake, across the river is a line of bare trees with bird's nests on the bank and bushes reflected in the water, another heron in silhouette flies, top right

Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt

With just everything happening lately I completely missed this dropping, but I have new work in Up the Staircase!