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🧵 Woman with Tulips (2021) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan [1]

Pointillistic Venetian Blinds Pointillistic Venetian Blinds [Martin, Joshua, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Pointillistic Venetian Blinds

Why not treat yourself to my collection Pointillistic Venetian Blinds from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social. Words break away and cascade through your wide awake consciousness.

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Lullabys by John Crouse out now! We here at C22 are proud to bring to you Lullabys by John Crouse, the latest in our Open Editions series of chapbooks. Lullabies as hummed-along-to ditties of spoken parts the eyes have, spoke them…

Check out Lullabys by John Crouse from C22 Open Editions. Lullabies as hummed-along-to ditties of spoken parts the eyes have. Read for free or buy in print!

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Coming Up Soon in Contributors' Corner Three Poems by Howie Good

Cease and join us on Tuesday, August 19th for some prose poetry by Howie Good.

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#litseries #prosepoetry #genredefyingliterature

My thoughts wander
into oil spills.
I hope I can free them
this time.
It's so exhausting
cleaning up
after these existential #pranks
but I'll come out
a rose someday
instead of yellow grass.

#vss365

shoutout to exhausted and disheveled women. i love you exhausted and disheveled women

Launch of Poet Town | Hastings Book Fest Hastings Book Festival is delighted to launch Poet Town: The Poetry of Hastings & Thereabouts – it promises to be a magical evening

I'm really looking forward to the launch of an anthology I have three poems in. If you are anywhere near Hastings, do come, and do say hello!

#poetry #WritingCommunity #writers #writing #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky #readapoem #BookSky

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Dropping This Weekend!!!!!

Cease and Caesura Lit will be back shortly with our Contributors' Corner series. We have about three more features on poetry and one feature on a short fiction piece.

Our plan after that is to take a break from features and to focus on our revision series.

#literaryupdates #litseries #comingsoon

Chronic illness poem.

Continuation of poem.

Continuation of poem. Final slide.

Chronic pain poem by Dickinson. Poem 372 of hers.

There will never be a poem on pain and chronic illness quite like Dickinson’s poem 372. It might be my favorite. It’s so potent and matches the feeling as if it were the very blister the pain came from. I feel as though I’ve lived the language of it.

#chronicillnesspoem #dickinsonreferences

‘There’s a Doll Thumping in My Chest’

‘I spend a long time soothing her to sleep’

‘trust me she cries easily’

👶 ❤️‍🔥

From @suefinch.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature, a hard-hitting poem.

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#poetry #writing

The weekend is here, so have lots of fun! But... 😉

Today's #Specprompts for your inspiration is 'trouble'.

Interpret that how you wish, and use the hashtag so I can find your work!

Next #Specprompts about 12pm BST tomorrow.

#specpo #speculative #FlashFiction #poetry #poet #UK&IrelandSpecPoets

Title
“Abiquiu Spirit”

Size
12" x 16" x 1.5"

Media
Acrylic Paint

Format
Original Painting: Colorful abstract black, white, pink, purple, red, turquoise acrylic painting. Free shipping within the continental United States. International shipping available.

I have sadly been hit by the lay off bug.

Currently seeking any Freelance, Contract, or Full Time work!

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New Publisher Listing: Winter Papers New publisher listing for: Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

New publisher listing for: Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

Problems with the label of intelligence.

Never Silent: A Conversation with Nicole Graev Lipson In Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays (Chronicle Prism, 2025), Nicole Graev Lipson shares stories about the complexities of motherhood. As she adjusts to this new identity, Lip...

"I’ve always seen the world through a feminist lens, but [becoming a mother] did intensify all of these concerns. Suddenly, they weren’t just theoretical or academic."

Isabella Fusani interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays:

Metaphor Then the point comes When language decides To start strangling itself On its leash, make a break for it Or to turn on you— No longer the mournful Appearing, intelligent And silent being who guided you In a dark world.

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“When language decides…”
—Franz Wright

#poetry #poems #poem

Congratulations 🎉

Re-opening: Spare Parts Literary Magazine Spare Parts Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/spare-parts-literary-magazine-35447 #amwriting

Spare Parts Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

I haven’t had time to watch the film discussed, so I won’t weigh in. But I loved Fantastic Mr. Fox so much I am okay with Wes Andersen not always meeting my expectations. I am not a person who generally has favorites. But nothing matches Fantastic Mr. Fox in terms of quirky, offbeat work.

Three little goblins in green robes carry a baby basket that is filled with fire.

A woman, in silhouette, crosses the plains, fleeing from a small white spooky home. There are pink trees around the home.

A figure in a straight jacket sprouts sunflowers where their head should be.

Multiple pink cats heads float below a manhole cover from a sewer. The manhole cover is sprouting ostrich feathers. The feathers all have a flouting eye in them. This is my weirdest book and the image is a great illustration of that weirdness.

My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu.

They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone.

Just look at these things!

They’re in bookstores now.

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Poetry by Andrew Cox today on the site:

“Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.”

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twilight breaks—
a fox’s cry stabs the dusk
night splits open

#Photograph - Stockcake.com

the infernal plight of nearly every african descendant borne through capitalist enslavement into the western diaspora.

“August, you’re just an erotic hallucination, just so much feverishly produced kazoo music, are you serious?—this large oven impersonating night, this exhaustion mutilated to resemble passion, the bogus moon of tenderness and magic you hold out to each prisoner like a cup of light?” —Denis Johnson

Lamentation (after Murray Edmond, to be counted on the fingers) That night a new blush Reddened the near white sand dunes. Endless burning bush.

From ‘Sing Song’ (2003)
—Anne Kennedy

#PoetryAotearoa #poetry #newzealand #booksky

Both incredibly important communities, so I hear you there. 💖 Thank you for the kind comment and the follow.

"Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies. Corporate grandiosity / couldn’t claim us. Our manager was one rabid man afraid of wet places, trained to gain from every grand / opening..."

—Erin Vachon

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