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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 1d

huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬

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air

after midnight now & i am instituting the freight train over lombard street shut the fuck up challenge & it's
not an attack on trains but actually in defense of a silent night, soundtracked only by tires across slick
pavement & an errant thrush. it's been months since i heard a whistle sound through the stark chill
of midnight air & i swear this tree had leaves the last time i looked but here we are now, in the
waxing-days of january staring at pockets of orangegrey between shadows of branches. i will always
bemoan july's humid advances but never stop to consider the right now of it all—the way chills lurch
up unsuspecting spine, regardless of the weight of my jacket. the black-iced patches of uneven brick
sidewalk. the way a sound, any sound, cuts the sky in the first hours of a new year, ecstatic at all the
streets it may roam unencumbered.

i keep a stock of blades
to cut the sky beneath
my tongue / shaped like
every sound that was
rejected by my kin

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 5d

Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.

October 27th - Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk preorder

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 1d

Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.

Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 3d

couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 3d

More like a flower than a gun

WITH EACH BITE MORE MAD by @lowermelody.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/baker_bite

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 8d

Less than 10 days to get your collaborative poems and/or sparks in, for consideration in our Issue Six!!

Come be part of this next issue 🔥
#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!

Spark to Flame’s Best of the Net Nominations 2026. From issue four: “here in the dreaming” by Ashley Varela (Flame) and mk zariel (Spark). From issue five: “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark); and “fire” by nat raum and D.W. Baker.

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Michael Kellichner @mithalanis.bsky.social · 23d

It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for @s2fjournal.bsky.social - definitely somewhere I recommend looking into.

#poetry #litjournal #collaboration

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you Michael!

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼

#writingcommunity

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · Sep 6

Need a wild tale of the underworld set to an epic soundtrack? Queue up Underworld’s Born Slippy and open the latest issue of Gone Lawn.

It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.

Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 6

Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy!
“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yes yes yes 🔥

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 24

Day 24: “fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social and @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social in @s2fjournal.bsky.social (pg. 7). I love how nat and D.W.’s styles merge in this raging, red-hot poem.
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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️

#writingcommunity #poetry

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.

What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎

Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!

#poetry #writingcommunity

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you for taking part in this! 💕

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jul 29

This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29

“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Michael Kellichner @mithalanis.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm completely in love with "Little Sapling" - Karina Lin Jones took a small reflection of mine and transformed it into something wonderful, powerful, and pertinent.

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#writingcommunity #poetry 📝

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Jul 20

A wonderful concept… this #poetry publication publishes collaboration #poems. “Spark” poet and “Flame” poet.

Worth your time to read. #poetry

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#writingcommunity #poetry 📝

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thank you for reading and sharing 💕

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#writingcommunity #poetry 📝

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 19

“Draught” by @giadapesce.bsky.social (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.

“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”

Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 13

“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and @giadapesce.bsky.social (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 12

“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?”

Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).

Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#writingcommunity 📝

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 6

The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak.bsky.social (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Jul 5

Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody.bsky.social (Flame) and @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social (Spark):

“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

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