“i cannot exhale love onto your fingertips,
bring feeling back into your bones,
without you first reaching for me”
- Nix Carlson
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/t...
“i cannot exhale love onto your fingertips,
bring feeling back into your bones,
without you first reaching for me”
- Nix Carlson
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/t...
“On the wall are photos
of President Gerald Ford,
our family on vacation,
and antique pictures of naked ladies.
How many naked ladies do I have to look at
before I get something to eat? I ask.
I’ll think about it, she says.”
- Bill Ratner (@bilorat.bsky.social)
so excited to read for @hfr.bsky.social & Be About It Press at #AWP26 next week! 😊 many thanks to Bill Lessard & @alexandranaughton.bsky.social 🙏 see you in Baltimore! 🎉
23.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Grafted here now,
tethered to sap not my own,
wrapped in evergreen and borrowed moss—
the trees around me
teaching what roots can do when the frost comes,
how love moves through heartwood
without asking permission.”
- Tian Sanchez-Ballado
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/o...
“The sky moved without permission.
We let the mosquitoes circle
and bite our legs bloody until light.
Small volumes of ourselves
hung in the air around us
as we ignored all the ways to start over.”
- Cole Pragides
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/n...
“The afternoon of my grandmother’s funeral, / my sisters, mom, nephew, and I / decide to paint with a Bob Ross episode, hoping / to dull our grief with bright colors, to soothe / our broken spirits with his bulbous brown hair, / his velvet voice and reassurances.”
- Trystan Popish
“we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, / we are so beautiful most people choose / not to see us, for fear of overwhelming / themselves”
- Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/m...
“Fine, if you insist, I will go wherever you go, I will try the chicken tikka masala, I will reply to your 'mi amores', I will play your games, I will be the stud who steals you a kiss in public. I will love you the way you want to be loved."
- Erick Flores Díaz
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/l...
“Unlike Blockbuster and Redbox, I, too, am here. And I’m watching you rebuild. Even though you can’t rewind, you can make another life worth watching to the credits.”
- Jonathan Fletcher (@jmfletcher15.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/g...
“Taste what the tree
roots know, Bend your
back at lightning snaps.
Submit to the murmurs
of rabbit children.”
- Oisín Rowe (@orowe.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/g...
“my boy told me hey / but you’re still a good / dude confession / the devil speaks / to you in your own / voice he’s no / ventriloquist”
- Tim Lynch
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/f...
"Like a game of snake / an ouroboros on an old Nokia. Those invincible / bricks, where did they go? Other than swallowed / up deep inside, of course. Bit by micro-bit."
- @carmenbarefield.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/d...
“but if this world is not that
if heaven is hidden from sight
do this as often as you do this
in remembrance of...
the warm embrace of another
despite the nearness of life without”
- Mikey Franz
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/c...
“At the holiday party / my wife’s coworkers ask about my poetry / and I tell them oh, / it’s slice-of-life kind of stuff. / Bird on a wire kind of stuff. They ask / but what are they about?”
- Joshua Lillie
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/a...
“There was so much we didn’t see, but it saw us. We shone for it. The past recognizes its imminent relatives.
It warms as it watches
you and me becoming
artifacts of love.”
- Rose DeMaris
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/a...
❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️
ft. @carmenbarefield.bsky.social, @arianathepoet.bsky.social, @jmfletcher15.bsky.social, @bilorat.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/w...
“I feed
like falling and I fuck like falling,
equalizing pressure,
meant to shed a wreck of men”
- Callie Jennings (@aporianautics.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/w...
“and I loved before
I had the language
then it came in a dialect
I had to translate for myself”
- Muhammad Rabih
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/u...
last call for submissions for our winter issue! ❄️
call & send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
“and why
this want
for permanence surround
sound my life with
backups
sound out my name and
it’s almost a library”
- Fiona Martinez
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/u...
two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!
18.12.2025 14:20 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
“Gravity is repression, you think and try to not. You know how you will feel when you awaken. You can already feel the cold sweat coming.”
- JeFF Stumpo
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...
“do not be afraid of your own heart beating”
- Charlotte Alexander
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/t...
“What bloomed from grief / came instinct, / came wrath.”
- c. rivera
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/s...
“I want to write about eternity too
just like the cats
probing at their breakfasts
or your two week old hands Isadora
brushing my beard like sleepwalking
windshield wipers”
- Dylan Emmons
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...
we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨
💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛
deadline january 1st
writing again, thank God!
21.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social again next month, and I'm so excited to feature my good friend & mentor @derrickbrown.bsky.social and the wonderful Erica Miriam Fabri 🤩 Wednesday, Dec. 10th at Fergie's Pub 🎉 Hope you can join us! It’ll be a rockin’ good time 🤘🖤
20.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”
- @c-late.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...
“As a recluse / I really went / all out"
- @jennacardinale.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/n...