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Love the quiet beauty of these poems from Jenna Wysong Filbrun, the perfect brief read to center you on a busy morning in this spinning world.

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Regardless of whether you write or not, please consider visiting their store or, if you aren't local, visiting your own local brick and mortar bookstores.

This journal and store do so much good work to keep the arts thriving in our region, and Ben, the editor and store manager, couldn't be more welcoming. Best of all for any fellow Florida writers, the magazine pays contributors in bookstore credit!

Excited to have a short story in the most recent issue of Magazine1, a publication from Southwest Florida's own Bookstore1 Sarasota.

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A River for Ophelia by Danny Daw "I do not know whether she’s held there gently"

On this Valentine’s Day, hold your loved one close and take a second to read this tender and devastatingly beautiful poem by Danny Daw.

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A Decade Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Tumblr View print mode Copy embed code Add this poem to an anthology Load audio player Amy Lowell 1874 – 1925 When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished.

I adore how Amy Lowell’s poem “A Decade,” builds on and deepens the visceral intensity of earlier love poems, like “Aubade.” One of my favorites, especially as I continue to advance decades.

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I'm giving away TWO copies of Circulaire, my collection of love poems, this Valentine's Day! 💘

Please like and comment your favourite love poem below and I'll enter your name into the draw 💕

A live picture of me right now… 🤦‍♂️

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APA Style: All book, article, and website titles use sentence-style formatting, not headline style like everyone else.

Me: Why?

APA: Because we can, that’s why

Me: Weird but okay, I guess.

APA smiling and suppressing a laugh: Except for academic journals, they use headline style. 🤣 🤪

Me: 😡

Black text on a journal page next to orange flowers: call for submissions The Offing’s Poetry department is seeking new works! Submissions open Thursday January 29th!

The Offing’s Poetry department is open for submissions today! ✨

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I don’t understand what they are doing at all. Even hiring Daboll would have set the team in a new, potentially more-positive direction. What was the point of anything here—other than to get someone in who will parrot the GM?

Things are bad…

Submission Guidelines SUBMISSIONS OPEN January 31, 2026. Send all work to theorangeroselitmag@gmail.com Issue 5 Theme: Love You; Miss You The Orange Rose was originally inspired by our EIC’s cats, Biscotti and Ros…

The journal is great and growing, the editor is so dedicated and welcoming, and they have another submission window opening at the end of the month: theorangeroselitmag.com/submission-g...

It focuses on a weekend awaiting MRI results during my previous mysterious health ailment (the occurrences of which have become something of a 3-year ritual for me).

“Vantage” by Scott Ortolano “The results will be back on Monday. Your questions will have to wait until then.” I shook my head and gazed down at the too-clean tile floor, but the white-coated assistant’s distracted eyes never…

Excited to have “Vantage,” a work of flash creative nonfiction, in the most recent edition of @orangeroseli (theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/01/19/v...).

In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.

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The NFL will take 11 minutes to review a six-yard reception in the fourth quarter of a 25-point game. The NFL will not, however, review a franchise-changin play in overtime of the Divisional Round.

Both things can be and are true. It isn’t one or the other 🤷‍♂️

That is a reason they lost, definitely. But if the Cooks pass is ruled a catch or Hardman catches the pass before, they win. It all matters.

Submission now open for our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 (spring/summer 2026) 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞!

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Give us something different! Give us the feels! Make us cry. Make us laugh. Make us chew on the lasting lines of love.

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Without the injury, they are almost certainly in the playoffs. Terrible luck. He should have been kept on the sidelines for his longterm health after the first injury. Hints of RG3’s injury experience here.

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I have no read on the playoffs this year. The Bills could win the Super Bowl or get knocked out in round 1, and I won’t be surprised.

Part of me will never stop believing in Losman 😂

Or something and then just botching it up badly (thinking of Darnold here)