Cam Whelr

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January/Feb we keep the cold/ the ICE away.

2026 Yearlong WIP: Distill an important memory from each month into a tiny documentarian tableau in an upcycled Altoid tin using surplus textiles & other found/thrifted items. #wip #create #alteredaltoid #tinybook #upcycle

@mdwstscribbler.bsky.social reading The Jewel for Justin Hamm this morning. And pleased as peaches to display his original painting, Kitchen Angel. #art #poetry #heartsurgery

60+ Small Tasks to Defend the Right to Read: Book Censorship News, January 9, 2026 No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.

It's 2026, and we're now well into the fifth year of book bans nationwide.

What can you do? There are *many* things you can do.

Here are 60+ small tasks to defend the right to read in your backyard and to help in the efforts nationwide.

No one saves us except us.

bookriot.com/how-to-defen...

The Electricity of Every Living Thing - Katherine May; Wintering - Katherine May; The Company of Owls - @pollyrowena.bsky.social and George: A Magpie Memoir - Frieda Hughes

(Thread of three skeets for #BookSky 💙📚 - work up from this tagged one!)

The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure By Elizabeth Zaleski February 24, 2026 Now available for pre-order! Whether failing to restrain herself from trying to find greater meaning in roadkill, or to convince her dad that psychedelic mushroo...

A great essay collection keeps you engaged on 3 levels at once: unique dissections that offer a new perspective on a given topic, yourself, and humanity at large.

The Trouble with Loving Poets is full of these moments, offering unflinching, modern looks at dog ownership, linguistics, HPV, and more.

Renee Good’s Time at Old Dominion Included an Award-Winning Poem

Renee Good’s Time at Old Dominion Included an Award-Winning Poem www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Thank you so much!!

Thank you soooo much, my dear!!

Besos!!

Thrilled & so delighted!!!

Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! 🙏🏻

Thank you so much!!

🔥 Beginning our new Ice Floe series PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S) with a stunning hybrid exploring the fluctuating states & margins of identity & illness.

"Departure i am trying to render" – a Video Poem by @camwhelr.bsky.social

Immerse & also read her powerful artist statement on process💫

Departure i am trying to render – a Video Poem by Cam Whelr Artist Statement – Cam Whelr In creating this digital collage, I endeavor to render my poem “Body Surfing” as an urgent, sensorial, and impressionistic plunge into my embodied rea…

I'm BEYOND thrilled to have my video collage poem up today @IceFloePress: Thank you to Robert Frede Kenter, the most encouraging editor EVER, who accepted & chose to use my work to launch Ice Floe's newest project: Process / Marginalia / Other Wor(l)d(s): icefloepress.net/process-marg... ✅ it out!!

William Stafford

Really really want to read your fiction. This is a great opportunity to have your wintry story in print. Here's some insider knowledge, Christmas books sell well and fiction outsells poetry. This is a no-brainier. Submit today! #WritingCommunity

Sunday Share: Synaptic Spark—Poetry Unbound & Ilya Kaminsky Today, two loves converging

New Substack: @camwhelr | Lucent Splinter

A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa – Exploring Tulsa’s Food Scene in a Poem by Jay Rafferty - The Broken Spine Tulsa is a city that feeds the soul as much as the stomach, and Irish poet Jay Rafferty has captured its essence in this sumptuous prose poem. More than mere

Discover Tulsa like never before 🍔🍺 Dive into @jayrafferty.bsky.social's evocative prose poem, A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa, capturing the soul of the city through its eateries. Read it here: shorturl.at/O7hLU #Poetry #Foodies

Fraser MacDonald · Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...

‘There’s the power of good writing and the power to deem writing good; these are different things with distinct geography (elsewhere needn’t be so far away: Edinburgh-based Canongate is an ingredient in Shepherd’s revival).’

@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"I’m reading Ephesians. It’s so good. I think. I haven’t had time to read it, but it feels important. Blaise Pascal says there's an empty space in the human heart that only God can fill. That is so true. I agree. I underline." - James W. Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Consider this:

Comprehensive:

'semantics' by Ally Fowler

Cover art: ‘Stuck to You’ by Shannon Wallace

Superpresent is seeking submissions on any aspect of the theme Movement. We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, performance art, videos, sound art, asemic writing, and visual art of all kinds. Subsmission deadline is 3/1 #callforsubmissions #movement
#callforwriting
#callforart

Use the link in our bio to submit your poems and get a response in ONE WEEK! Those selected get published in our annual anthology. #callforsubmissions

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit to us. And also thanks to those supporters who have shared our call for submissions!
We are excited about the "Spring Warmer" and are looking forward to pulling it together.
#callforsubmissions #writingcommunity

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Thanks for the submissions today! Sent out two acceptances!

We need more art! Artists, please submit today!

#writing #fiction #art #literature #magazine #journal
#callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters

Want to submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology? Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions

Taking a Stand on the Beachhead of Love An Open Letter:

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