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Pinhole Poetry

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We’re missing pieces for our next issue!
We’re still looking for a few more poems and pinhole photography submissions.
Check out our guidelines on our website and send in work by Nov 28 to be considered for the Jan 2026 issue.

pinholepoetry.ca

November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Alastair Morrison

@alasmorrison.bsky.social

I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry

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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research

This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...

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November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur.bsky.social

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM

Alastair Morrison

@alasmorrison.bsky.social

I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry

mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...

Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research

This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...

mh.bmj.com

November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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The Fiddlehead

@fiddlehd.bsky.social

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)

October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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phillip crymble

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social

One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!

The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 26d

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)

October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM

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Mark Goble

@goblemark.bsky.social

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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phillip crymble

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social

One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.

Indelible Radiance

Translation of Jeannette Lozano Clariond

It is perfectly itself, the tree
fixed in your eyes. Poplar
and blood.
An image beaming
its silver
undersides:
indelible radiance
seeping out
through little holes
in the tracery.
Leaking across the lake,
the image advances
toward
you.
But what remains
beyond reach
is the Word.

November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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knife | fork | book

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Sitting pretty. 10~5 TODAY #smallpressfair @victoriacollege.bsky.social

November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Alastair Morrison

@alasmorrison.bsky.social

Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
porterhousereview.org/articles/ski...

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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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Matt Seybold

@mattseybold.bsky.social

If you like this☝️you’ll almost certainly like this👇

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Gregory Crosby

@monostich.bsky.social

A haunted house, but it’s the Criterion Closet you’ll never get to visit because you’re just a fucking poet.

October 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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Stefanie Kirby

@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!

HAD @havehashad.com · Oct 17

TWO today from Stefanie Kirby!!

Here's the first. Click through for a bonus!

https://www.havehashad.com/4nmfe

A group of four diverse individuals, two women and two men, are laughing and smiling while sitting together at a table in a bright, modern office environment. They are engaged in a discussion with laptops and notebooks in front of them, showcasing a collaborative atmosphere.

October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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Thomas J. Kitson

@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social

I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5

bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press

www.rabrab.net

December 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM

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knife | fork | book

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social

TODAY at 2pm #withrowpark

knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · Oct 2

What an astonishingly inspired trio. #WeReadTogether
@peacehearty.bsky.social #TrishSalah #JulieJoosten #attend

18 October 2pm Withrow Park (Logan at Danforth)

October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Susan L. Leary

@susanlleary.bsky.social

New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜

@creamcityreview.bsky.social
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Susan L. Leary

At First, Obedience, Subsequently—

Defiance. The wound,
begging for attention: its half heart
beating beneath a lace doily while the ugliness

explodes to the surface. Why
disrupt this flourish of peace, this little tomb of white space? She looks good,

they'd said. Brave inside unworkable conditions. Dead or alive, we make an
anniversary of our sorrow, expeditious

with our buckets of spring. To what do we owe the pleasure? You fabricate worlds in dreams while a girl fabricates worlds

on the page. This is what is meant by ritual.
When we say, the pedigree of the mouth-body is good. There's no use determining for whom

our company is intended. Every gesture
is dangerous. Were I to cut my ear off,
I'd give it to you.

An image of the front cover of Cream City Review.

October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Alastair Morrison

@alasmorrison.bsky.social

Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
porterhousereview.org/articles/ski...

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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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Róisín Ní Neachtain

@roisinnineachtain.com

I wrote a section of this in each class at UCD - with Declan Hughes, Éireann Lorsung, Sarah Moss and Jonathan Creasy.

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · Oct 7

This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books

Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...

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October 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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phillip crymble

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social

So much going on in this remarkable poem by Joshua Mehigan.

A Contract

Their love ran out in March; their lease, in June.
He moved where cash allowed, took the room strewn
with near-junk unseen since their wedding day.
Home, then, was like a drawer where one might lock
loose pieces of a fallen antique clock.
She lived in bed, ate oatmeal from a tray,
read comics like a child bored with a cold.
He searched the bars for something nice to hold.

Then, drunk, he'd close his eyes and trace the day,
the day's soft flicker, down to a shrinking dot,
as though a ship were burning, far away.
She saw his razor on the sink, the cot
folded, the room he slept in not at all,
where once she'd wrapped him, waiting, in a shawl
and, warmed at last, he could pretend to wake.
He waited now, unseen, for no one's sake.

October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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KIRBY

@itsakirby.bsky.social

So pleased to reissue @travissharp.bsky.social amazeballs @knifeforkbook.bsky.social debut YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER, (sold out print run) now downloadable @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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October 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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The Madrid Review

@madridlitmag.bsky.social

October 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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London Review of Books

@lrb.co.uk

flock of flamingos balanced
on slender stemware

or mad flight of hats,
magenta origami,
by Schiaparelli,

above ground, you stand
poised as flames on candlewicks,
but under earth I

know you’re a heavy
dark mass

“Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...