Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf.bsky.social
Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Flash Reader for Split Lip Mag. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay a/f.
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a little girl is shoveling snow with a shovel and a bag .
Alt: a little child is shoveling snow with a shovel and falls over, only to be righted by their parent.
media.tenor.com
My new poetry column is up, with a round-up of winter snow poems to consider - featuring poems by Louise Glück, Carl Phillips, @toddedillard.bsky.social, Alex Dimitrov, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo & other favorites.
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“I fry one hundred over-medium eggs and wash one hundred beige ceramic coffee mugs, and I think about the bottom of the sea, deep blue-black nothing. After eight hours in the hot whir of the kitchen, I can feel my cells aging, frail and irreplaceable.”
"Grandfather is ninety-four, and none of his organs are his own."
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
“I fry one hundred over-medium eggs and wash one hundred beige ceramic coffee mugs, and I think about the bottom of the sea, deep blue-black nothing. After eight hours in the hot whir of the kitchen, I can feel my cells aging, frail and irreplaceable.”
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
"Grandfather is ninety-four, and none of his organs are his own."
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
"Grandfather is ninety-four, and none of his organs are his own."
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH tackles oceanic creatures, hearts, and immortality. Read it right here! buff.ly/ePT4ZNT
A very Hediggerian notion, when on “Stay”, Lisa Loeb sings “I think that I’m throwin’ but I’m thrown.”
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A very Hediggerian notion, when on “Stay”, Lisa Loeb sings “I think that I’m throwin’ but I’m thrown.”
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
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POEM 302: "Vessel" by Christina Tudor-Sideri (@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social)
"I linger in thresholds
doors ajar
always almost
never fully
haunted
by the girl I was
by those who vanished
shadows persistent
shivering against me
I press back
even as I fade"
stonecirclereview.com/vessel/
#Poem #Poetry
"I linger in thresholds
doors ajar
always almost
never fully
haunted
by the girl I was
by those who vanished
shadows persistent
shivering against me
I press back
even as I fade"
stonecirclereview.com/vessel/
#Poem #Poetry
January 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
POEM 302: "Vessel" by Christina Tudor-Sideri (@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social)
"I linger in thresholds
doors ajar
always almost
never fully
haunted
by the girl I was
by those who vanished
shadows persistent
shivering against me
I press back
even as I fade"
stonecirclereview.com/vessel/
#Poem #Poetry
"I linger in thresholds
doors ajar
always almost
never fully
haunted
by the girl I was
by those who vanished
shadows persistent
shivering against me
I press back
even as I fade"
stonecirclereview.com/vessel/
#Poem #Poetry
nothing in my Submittable queue
a cartoon character is laying on the ground in a pool .
Alt: Goofy mascot character is floating in a pool .
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 PM
nothing in my Submittable queue
The revolution will be fracked.
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The revolution will be fracked.
“And what can demonstrate to us the reality that is common to all yet in each case singular, but words? Words are signs turned back on themselves, tools of indirect communication referring me to myself because they refer uniquely to him.”
Sartre, “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Sartre, “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“And what can demonstrate to us the reality that is common to all yet in each case singular, but words? Words are signs turned back on themselves, tools of indirect communication referring me to myself because they refer uniquely to him.”
Sartre, “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Sartre, “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
“He performs brilliantly at a social function, laughing and making others laugh, and then notes in his journal that he wishes he could die. He could make people laugh because he wanted to die because he made people laugh.”
Sartre on Kierkegaard in “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Sartre on Kierkegaard in “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
January 18, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“He performs brilliantly at a social function, laughing and making others laugh, and then notes in his journal that he wishes he could die. He could make people laugh because he wanted to die because he made people laugh.”
Sartre on Kierkegaard in “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Sartre on Kierkegaard in “Kierkegaard: The Singular Universal”
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
"shoveling out" & "touch grass"
January 18, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"shoveling out" & "touch grass"
a poem:
Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.
January 18, 2026 at 12:36 AM
a poem:
Remember when Stefano kidnapped Marlena and then she got possessed by the Devil, but then John saved her using virtual reality goggles?
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Remember when Stefano kidnapped Marlena and then she got possessed by the Devil, but then John saved her using virtual reality goggles?
A massive door is being closed in Rome.
January 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
A massive door is being closed in Rome.
“Metaphysics, like inauthenticity, cannot be overcome.”
- Derrida on the big 3 H’s (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger) in “Heidegger: The Question of Being & History”
- Derrida on the big 3 H’s (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger) in “Heidegger: The Question of Being & History”
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM
“Metaphysics, like inauthenticity, cannot be overcome.”
- Derrida on the big 3 H’s (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger) in “Heidegger: The Question of Being & History”
- Derrida on the big 3 H’s (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger) in “Heidegger: The Question of Being & History”
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
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“the nonsense factor like sunshine in the face”
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
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James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
January 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
“the nonsense factor like sunshine in the face”
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
“the nonsense factor like sunshine in the face”
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
January 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
“the nonsense factor like sunshine in the face”
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
—
James Tate (from Shroud of the Gnome)
To write a poem as intricate as Ball X Pit
January 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
To write a poem as intricate as Ball X Pit
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they're gonna keep making us fight for it, so this issue we're asking: fact, fantasy, or fiction, what expressions of gender make you feel fierce?*
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January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
they're gonna keep making us fight for it, so this issue we're asking: fact, fantasy, or fiction, what expressions of gender make you feel fierce?*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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congrats to Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social
and Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social
for their hex stories on the BNW shortlist !!
and Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social
for their hex stories on the BNW shortlist !!
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
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January 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
congrats to Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social
and Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social
for their hex stories on the BNW shortlist !!
and Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social
for their hex stories on the BNW shortlist !!
Reposted by Adrian Dallas Frandle
oh honeys oh honeys oh honeys!!!!!!
beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
beestungmag.com/about/
beestungmag.com/about/
January 14, 2026 at 10:15 PM
oh honeys oh honeys oh honeys!!!!!!
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A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social