Spark to Flame

Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this next issue 😎

air after midnight now & i am instituting the freight train over lombard street shut the fuck up challenge & it's not an attack on trains but actually in defense of a silent night, soundtracked only by tires across slick pavement & an errant thrush. it's been months since i heard a whistle sound through the stark chill of midnight air & i swear this tree had leaves the last time i looked but here we are now, in the waxing-days of january staring at pockets of orangegrey between shadows of branches. i will always bemoan july's humid advances but never stop to consider the right now of it all—the way chills lurch up unsuspecting spine, regardless of the weight of my jacket. the black-iced patches of uneven brick sidewalk. the way a sound, any sound, cuts the sky in the first hours of a new year, ecstatic at all the streets it may roam unencumbered. i keep a stock of blades to cut the sky beneath my tongue / shaped like every sound that was rejected by my kin

huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬

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October 27th - Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk preorder

Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.

Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.

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couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision

Less than 10 days to get your collaborative poems and/or sparks in, for consideration in our Issue Six!!

Come be part of this next issue 🔥
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Spark to Flame’s Best of the Net Nominations 2026. From issue four: “here in the dreaming” by Ashley Varela (Flame) and mk zariel (Spark). From issue five: “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark); and “fire” by nat raum and D.W. Baker.

Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!

It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for @s2fjournal.bsky.social - definitely somewhere I recommend looking into.

#poetry #litjournal #collaboration

Thank you Michael!

Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼

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Need a wild tale of the underworld set to an epic soundtrack? Queue up Underworld’s Born Slippy and open the latest issue of Gone Lawn.

It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.

Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)

Yes yes yes 🔥

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Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️

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Spark to Flame A Journal of Collaborative Poetry

Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.

What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎

Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!

#poetry #writingcommunity

www.s2fjournal.com/submit/

Thank you for taking part in this! 💕

This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing

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A wonderful concept… this #poetry publication publishes collaboration #poems. “Spark” poet and “Flame” poet.

Worth your time to read. #poetry

Thank you for reading and sharing 💕

Photo of hands cupping a sappling

Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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Photo of sea

“Draught” by @giadapesce.bsky.social (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.

“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”

Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

Photo under the surface of the ocean

“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and @giadapesce.bsky.social (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.

Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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A photo of a white ceramic heart, shattered.

“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?”

Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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Image of white bed sheets

The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak.bsky.social (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!

Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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Image of person in mask

Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody.bsky.social (Flame) and @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social (Spark):

“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#writingcommunity 📝

Photo of a silhouette at dusk near ocean

“The radio songs all distilled the same sweetsick shit / about the shaky meatblood heart.”

The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.

Check it out, page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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A photo of the earth with the right side engulfed in flame.

“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…”

“fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns.

Check it out, page 7: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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This will be my third public reading in as many years. I plan to share a mix of old and new favorites before returning to my regularly scheduled avoidance of the camera. Would love to see you there

I'm so grateful to @s2fjournal.bsky.social for including my poem in their newest issue ~ I'm also indebted to @savfvofragments.bsky.social for providing the foundation upon which this poem is built. Never would have tried to write about mushrooms otherwise, I think.

#poetry #mushrooms #writing