Adrian Dallas Frandle

(the text of the body of the poem moves up and down with every word like little ripples) Crystallography at its nadir, cold saps moisture from snow until it’s light enough to be swept back up into air. eddies sparkle gold blue pink, effervesce unlikely tints we must have once called magic. schools closed for cold and protest. the big news of the day: history is screaming, literally screaming, and the men who know insist that you can’t hear.

Can't wait for this chance to meet across oceans in the air, somewhere in language, with these writers. Registration is free and below.

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when I was young, I wanted to be a mall I became a mall when the revolution came, I opened a store sold all the words the revolution needed blood, irony, agony and all the other words even these

Gary Barwin

@garybarwin.bsky.social

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A young white man in a kitchen with light yellow cabinets holding a red book. The cover says "DEAR DEAR REUBEN GELLEY NEWMAN {poems}" and has a musical symbol, the f-hole of a cello. He's wearing a green sweater and jewelry.

The poet // the proof

My "Gelley galley" from @triohousepress.org looks so so good

Preorders open now, or lmk if you want an ARC :)

To be fair, who else could get the scoop on his mom?

digital quick sketch of a lesser scaup, bobbing in water suggested by a thin line; the scaups head is black with a golden eye and blue/gray bill, its back is mottled black and white, rendered in dot fill; its tail is black. the work is signed "sp."

saw some lesser scaups on the Long Island Sound today!

#birds #birding

book cover of THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION A DOCUMENTED PICTORIAL CHECKLIST OF THE SE WORLD-CONCEPTS/THEMES/BOOKS/MAGS/COMICS/FILMS/TV/RADIO/ ART/FANDOM/CULIS/ PERSONAL COMMENTARIES BY THE GREATEST NAMES IN SF WRITING... EDITED BY BRIAN ASH it features a sci fi drawing a space ship in the shapes of vast A and Z.

An open book with encyclopedia format, featuring various black and white and color entries under the heading “Time and Nth Dimensions”

this book absolutely rips

(support your local library to find gems like this!)

CALL FOR READERS in yellow, on an abstract multicolored background. The question: Want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next multigenre and/or chapbook? The details: Readers are compensated. 25% of our submission fee is divided among readers. They also receive a free copy of your team's chosen book. Reading period runs April 1 through June 1. Applications are due February 6. Apply at splitlippress.submittable.com

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!

More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

Sending in the final edits for my upcoming chapbook with Gasher Press!

Still can't believe I won their 2025 prize

Uncle Time, out in October

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2011%252F12%252F08.html

I love him.

PER DIEM Spherically wondrous sunbeam dwelling in the mansion of the pine of chastity, today we bought an ice pack for Mildred's injured foot. Luminous shadow in the plumflower chamber, Edna quit her job yesterday, got drunk, stayed drunk, behaved like a defective monster collapsing in the mansion of self-pity. Meanwhile, the great sea of compassion rolled in, rolled out, rolled in. And the blue mountain of itself remains, and the blind shampooers never tire of their work.

James Tate

you should keep in touch and bounce these ideas off her.

“and parenthood without realizing it.” (???)

Excellent! Congratulations!

6 more days!

Laughing to Keep from Crying: A Generative Writing Workshop on Humor with Ben Niespodziany February 20- 22, 2026 About the Course The comedian and TV show host Milton Berle once said, “Laughter is an instant vacation.” Now more than ever, we could all use a good laugh. An escape from the doom scrolling, from the news cycles, from the terrors outside our windows. In this highly generative writing workshop (my fourth with Bending Genres, if you know, you know), we’ll be discussing the many ways to include humor in poetry, prose poetry, microfiction, and flash fiction. Tips and tricks to help you incorporate humor into any type of literary medium. From Matthew Olzmann’s mantra of “Start with a joke, end with a prayer” to the conceptual narrative humor of Zachary Schomburg and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi to the more laugh-out-loud humor of Russell Edson and Jack Handey and Jennifer L. Knox. Other authors we’ll be reading include Mark Leidner, Rachel B. Glaser, Richard Brautigan, John Maradik, and S.E. Smith. With an excessive amount of examples, we’ll also feature an excessive amount of writing prompts. Enough prompts for you to choose to work on and share over the weekend with plenty of extras to take home with you (virtually) after the workshop is over. We’ll be laughing, chuckling, cackling, howling, and roaring away. Who knows, we might even invite a chortle or two. Modern life can be stressful and overwhelming, and in this weekend workshop, we’ll offer an escape from reality for a little bit, looking at ways to use your imagination and disconnect as well as ways to turn your stressors and anxieties into something funny and expressive on the page. It’ll be a safe and welcoming space to be goofy and silly for a little while. Anything can happen. Pack your Groucho glasses. Bring a Slinky. We’re going to have fun.

Leading a generative writing workshop next month on humor. Hoping it will provide some much-needed lightness.

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page of digital pencil sketches in deep red of various body parts including a torso with head turned upward, two arms in different flexing positions, and two feet in different flexing positions; a detail on three toes. the background is a soft pink. sketch notes in cursive read: "the trunk, the (underlined) cage of the trunk," and "wedging & interlocking the masses of arm & shoulder."

anatomy sketches, wedging and interlocking...🦶

YouTube video by Bob The Drag Queen The MAGA-fication of Nicki Minaj | A Bob the Drag Queen Cultural Investigation

“It’s not policy, it’s resentment.”

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Space Junk Things cross your path like the fireflies you once dreamed of collecting in a jar: Memories come at you like space junk. My sister, Peg, remembers that our mother made us get short haircuts when we were kids because it was easier to take care of. All I know is that when my hair is cut short it's chaotic. I remember the humiliation of the high school yearbook picture with the parted hair all poofed up on one side. And that, only because the picture showed up at the bottom of a box forty years later. Thought is an afterthought. (A BOX OF PHOTOGRAPHS ONCE TAKEN; SISTER TALK OVER DECADES

Lauren Berlant & Kathleen Stewart, from “The Hundreds”

#smallpoemsunday
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digital illustration of a vintage missed call slip (circa 1980s). it reads "To: (script) Mary... (type) While You Were Out (script) looking at your phone you missed..." Below is a box with "(type) Return Call X" and below that, where one would expect to see notes appears a sketch of a hawk, a turkey and a cormorant about to eat a jumping fish. Below a bounding box is fading type "Form 47-BQR".

Mary, while you were out...

Confronting the suspect, police use lethal force against a disorderly mountain lion trespassing in a private yard.

A bird flew across the border and when it came to rest, was suspected of being an alien and possibly a spy.

We keep heating up, so if we’re about to reach our melting point, this could be the tip of the iceberg that brings us to a boil.

As you have forgotten, so one day might you remember how to be wild and bewildered, to be wilder and be wilderness?

for this #smallpoemsunday, snowy & heavy, I’d like to share these four tanka from Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed

“To plow or to be plowed”

digital illustration of a mottled piece of reddish paper with dull red pencil illustrations of hawks in roost and in flight, notes around these movements include: "Hawk log...9:32AM sighted in sumac grove....9:54AM flew west...10:01AM flew West to East....10:52AM flew East to West...12:59PM flew West to East landed in cherry." The work is signed "sp."

close up on a digital illustration on mottled reddish paper of a perched hawk, above his head is written in cursive: "hawk log." The work is signed "sp."

hawk log! ✏️🦅
#birds #birding

Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Short Story, Long submissions open one more week. They close midnight, next Saturday!

Longer stories (~3k-8k words), every other week, accompanied by an interview with the author the following week, and every story paired with original art commissioned for the story. (Writer & Artist paid $150)

in the basement of a large building, surrounded by folders of old paper and bits of memory... how did you start your day?

My Minkowski space needs dusting.

My chihuahua:

Noli me tangere!

Poetry and sci-fi exchange techniques so that if your story needs help, put in a horse, bird, or deer; if your poetry needs help, make it about time travel and retcon it into being good.

Robert Bly (1962)