shareen k. murayama

"If we die, know that we are content and steadfast, and convey on our behalf that we are people of truth."

Crickets ~ by Suzanne Hicks What if you lived in Elko, Nevada? What if this was the summer when a swarm of Mormon crickets invaded the town? What if they engulfed your house, clinging to the clapboard, blacking out the windows s...

Another wonderful anaphora #FlashFiction, this one repeating a powerful "what if". The swarm of emotions in this piece by @suzannehicks.bsky.social is breath-taking:

Mom, can I ask you a question ~ by Thao Votang Which finger was it that I should use to measure water for rice? Was it up to three quarters of one segment of my ring finger? Not my left ring finger though, not the finger I will tie myself to a man...

This #FlashFiction from @votang.bsky.social unspools through its succession of questions in such an interesting way, building in insistence from beginning to end and exploring so much in such a small space. Great piece!

#SubmissionCall from the wonderful @lunatejournal.bsky.social

Louise Glück Stories, poems, essays, and interviews from The Paris Review by Louise Glück

"She feels it, as though the last bit of linen had frozen in her hands. / She looks at her hands—how old they are. It’s not the beginning, it’s the end."

The Paris Review has unlocked Louise Glück's poems in their archive.

RIP Louise Glück. My favorite poet, someone whose work was incredibly influential on my own. I have spent years—joyously—trying to pin down the command of voice that Glück wielded effortlessly.

Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels Award Ceremony for Palestinian Author Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.

Come on

Thanks for posting this!! Gonna buy her book now.

Without paywall: archive.ph/SBdH9

Also, what the fuck?

white & grey cat asleep w/ book (Ophelia by V.C. McCabe)

Luna helping me practice for my Ophelia book launch reading. Hopefully the audience won't fall asleep like she did.

Mashed potatoes, y'all.

Just finished two full days of student meetings with detailed essay notes. From morning to late afternoon, both days.

My brain right now.

Come write with me! Two essay drafts in two hours, $50, plus 2 BIPOC scholarships available! This December!

www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/w...

It’s Friday, the war is still going on and ugh 🤬😭. I hope you don’t mind me in this little corner of the world acknowledging how privileged and happy I am to find my writer friends here. Home again. 💕

Heartbreaking, hand-wringing, but so glad she has an observant and involved papa. 🥰

Reminder that our submissions are open! You still have time, so cook up some creativity as we head into fall 🍁❤️ You can find more submission info on our website, and check out the wonderful works we have published in the past :)

Ophelia by V.C. McCabe Book TrailerOn Sale, Print & eBook, October 17, 2023Pre-order: femmesalvebooks.net/ophelia-by-vc-mccabeV.C. McCabe Official Site: vcmc... Ophelia by V.C. McCabe Book Trailer

Happy Friday, wildlings 🙂 A special treat from @vcmccabe.bsky.social to get your weekend off to the best start.
And don't forget that if you preorder Ophelia before 10/17 you'll get 10% off the cover price!
femmesalvebooks.net/ophelia-by-v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeA...

Really, really need a novel reader for our submission reading period. Any takers? Please email @ elj.editions@gmail.com

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Gettysburg Review is the global literary magazine that put Gettysburg College on the map. Every year tuition goes up, and somehow the college has enough money to build and remodel parts of campus, but...

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“With a daughter
who has questions. Am I Jewish? Without answers.
Would Hitler come for us? Without wanting answers.”

Love how your daughter shows up in your poems! ❤️

Self Portrait as an Order at the Delicatessen by Jared Beloff after Chen Chen With a side of pickles. Without a Bar Mitzvah. With a Mother and Father. With one matzoh ball or two? With chocolate babka and gelt. Without friends to haggle over winning...

My new poem "Self Portrait as an Order at the Delicatessen" was published yesterday. I hope you like it.

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sel...

My favorite @readinstead.bsky.social poems: "The Feral Pigs of Chernobyl are Glowing"; "Watching Time Lapse Videos w/ My Daughter"; "Bar Mitzvah"; "Ariadne Slept"; "Experiments w/ the Perception of Time"; "Still Life w/ Flowers, Shells, a Shark’s Head, & Petrifications"; "That Would Keep You"...

😍😍😍

Barren Magazine - Issue 22 - Glass Horizons after Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin Chardin pulls our eyes to its translucent skin announcing its wound, pink and gap

A @readinstead.bsky.social appreciation thread. Back when I was a poetry co-editor for Barren Magazine, I fell in love w/ an anonymously submitted ekphrastic poem called "The Ray." Once I found out it was by poet Jared Beloff, I devoured every poem of his I could find...
barrenmagazine.com/the-ray/

Check this out! Hannah is a gem!

👋 Hannah!!!

Thank you, Matt!!! 🍑

Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own

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Poem of the month: Oil Music by Gboyega Odubanjo Each month the Guardian’s Review section chooses a poem or poet to highlight

A strong voice gone. #poetry

Submit General Submissions | Special Calls | Pitches | Prizes General Submissions for the Print Journal Now Accepting Submissions via Submittable! General submissions for the print journal will be accepte…

Special call to submissions of African writing judged by Chris Abani.

“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much”

—Eudora Welty