Natalie Dalea

What if you started your blog and just blasted it on all your socials and aggressively self promo?

The good news 😎😁🕶️🤏🏽 of Jesus Christ 🤗🙏🏽 who died for our sins and rose again 😇💜 who makes all things new 🤩🕊️ who loves you and wants to be with you 🫂🥰 good news 🗣️💜

Poem text reads: C. T. SALAZAR Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory horse heart hyena heart swan spine silver fish shin -ing in black water yes timber wolf tooth yes pity the ark with its belly full of glow ing tongues touch the lion's paw only while it sleeps the red -tailed hawk with jewels for eyes swallows the field mouse and the mouse was the only proof the field existed what else will be forgotten the hawk will starve soon we will starve soon the dogs will howl like a god learning the word for light and nothing will howl back

I love this poem.
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Me imitating Margery Kempe imitating a nun

It is finished. John 19:30

Hello. I have decided I am actually good at social media. This post slaps. I am too critical of my talents and depriving the world of good words.

I am only 51 pages in and haven't flipped it upside down but @joseolivarez.bsky.social's Promises of Gold slaps and YES this is a Twitter duplicate post but I need everyone to know how good this book is and I need José Olivarez to know how much I love this book

Memoir recommendations from Chicana writers? Latina writers too, but I would really like to read more from Mexican-American women.

Even with these healthy things I'm just exhausted. I don't know if it's just the sheer amount of intellectual work I'm doing with class, thesis, and grading, or what. I'm curious if anyone else has felt this or has tips (even really basic tips)?

I have a supportive advisor and group of peers. I'm in therapy. I was running three times a week but that fell off in October when my thesis draft was due. I have activities and friends outside of school that bring me joy. I have regular spiritual practices. -

Did anyone else feel this in their MFA or ever just get into periods of this? It's not depression. It just feels like cognitive exhaustion from the amount of thinking I'm doing. I'm trying to figure out what to do about it because I would really like to read again.

New question for writers. I'm struggling to read more than a page in a book and to write more than 100 words at a time. I love reading my classmates' work and giving them feedback, but after workshop I have to sleep for twelve hours. I can't tell if I'm just tired or if it's something else. -

It sure makes the practical realities of living on precarious grants and stipends in various gross apartments with a job that requires intense focus very difficult.

Any other writers really sensitive to sound? As in, it doesn't matter how quiet the decibels are, you can FEEL the sound in your body?

I think it's helpful that here, the feed is all people you choose to follow, vs. algorithmed posts. And if it's mostly people you know or feel comfortable engaging with, there can be more space to help keep each other moderated?

Ada Limón, more like Ada LiMOM

We close for submissions on poetry & fiction November 1st—send us your beautiful weirdness before Wednesday using this link: pinchjournal.submittable.com/submit

X is the kiss and O is the hug because the O is like someone wrapping their arms around you, and I guess the X is the kiss because it's like lips scrunched up?

Post exclusive to bluesky members - mere minutes ago a mouse just darted behind my fridge and I am not well about this

I think my job on this earth is convincing people to become English majors

I am not funny online, so I am only on social media to know when lit mags are opening submissions and when they have published cool things. But I cannot find the lit mags as easily on this website. So now I am mostly here to share fun encounters with bugs.

Hello. For my third post I will tell you that I think the spider I reported on in my second post hitched a ride with me to Wal-Mart and got blown away on the highway. We all mourn the coat-of-arm spider's loss. Please respect our privacy in this trying time. Thank you.

Hello. For my second post, I will tell you about a spider I saw today. It had a huge bulbous butt, and on its black plastic belly it carried a tiny white cross, like a spider coat of arms. It made a spiderweb the size of my head on my back porch. Thank you.

Hello. For my first post, I will tell you about the death's head cockroach. The death's head cockroach has the scientific name Blaberus craniifer. Blaberus craniifer means "head carrier." This is because the death's head cockroach looks like it has a tiny skull on the back of its head. Thank you.