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Thanks to @unearthedjournal.bsky.social for including this poem in their "Nourish" issue. See more at unearthedesf.com

Poem on the Last Day of my Thirties, by Jessica Whipple. Found online here: https://wildroofjournal.com/issue-31-gallery-3/

Did you know you can gift yourself a poem on your birthday? This one is from last year at @wildroofjournal.bsky.social (thanks, @aaronlelito.bsky.social)

This Is My Religion: How Nature teaches me to open my heart (when I’m ready for it) A guest post from Erin the Bard

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New guest post on the WRJ Substack

From Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world.

Get it here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...

@ellisedenauthor.bsky.social

Saturday Shout-Out ~ February 7, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

Want to submit your work this month? Here are some great opportunities: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Including @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @pictura.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social & more

@bdcutkomp.bsky.social @rachelturney.bsky.social @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world from the minds who pay it the most attention.

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...

"...[A]cross these poems, witness the speaker break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and, in an era of political upheaval, raise her children with a love that is fiercely abundant and profoundly self-aware."

Blurb by @susanlleary.bsky.social, Author of Dressing the Bear

"Candice M. Kelsey’s Another Place Altogether is a book of sweeping emotional and geographic expanse; of memory, introspection, and resilience; and especially of remaking, the speaker narrating her move from Los Angeles to Augusta, GA and back again...."

New post! Check out a preview of Candice Kelsey's new poetry collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/into-the-w...

@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social

Wild Roof Journal | Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Podcast with Wild Roof Journal

Thank you so much to Aaron and Wild Roof Journal for having me on! Aaron and I talk about motivation and the meaning behind what we write. We discuss visual art. I share my top tip for time management. We also go in depth about my upcoming debut full-length poetry…

In this episode, @rachelturney.bsky.social joins host Aaron Lelito to talk about how to maintain an organized chaos while writing, the influence of music in her new work & the dilemma of publishing poems about family. Rachel closes us out with a piece called "Meditation."
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Winter 2026 issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

On this Wild Roof Podcast episode, authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction as a genre and cultivating awe in our daily lives. Get the full clip here: youtu.be/9rpOBi03c_Y?...

Saturday Shout-Out ~ January 10, 2026 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Including @tabularasa.bsky.social @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @msatris.bsky.social @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social @pooryorickjournal.bsky.social & more

New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft.

Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!

Oh, nothing, just my poem appearing in this dynamite issue of Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Go read issue 32, y'all, it's so good - wild nature, soft light, books, pasta, and people saving trees <3

@valerielawson.bsky.social @elyabraden.bsky.social @oystersands.bsky.social @warmaiden.bsky.social @emilybrisse.bsky.social @makevisualpoetry.bsky.social @deroneckert.bsky.social @timloftus.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #poetry

Absolutely thrilled to have a story in the Winter 2026 @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for including “Glory Days” in this beautiful issue.

Proud to have my #poem "Lament of an Islander Too Long Gone" in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32-gal...

The whole issue is fantastic & I'm proud to be in it--read issue 32 at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32/
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️

It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

For today’s post, I asked some of WRJ’s friends and collaborators to offer a few of their favorites from 2025. Check out the list here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...

From Fall 2025 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31

From Fall 2025: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31

@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

Read 2 poems from Melissa Powless Day's new collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-bow-forg...

It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.