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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · 1d

I some times find poems in reviews of mundane things. Or I force them: thanks SPAM.
Please enjoy:

www.spamzine.co.uk/post/poetry-...

(POETRY) 'Alexa reviews' by Luca Fois

A poem from Luca Fois appraising the notorious device known as 'Alexa'.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

such a fun spiraling out of the polite memo from Ross McCleary!

"Fire is raw and cleansing like alcohol. Embrace it like an undeserved promotion."

https://www.havehashad.com/voc9j

Please Consider The Environment Before Printing This Email by Ross McCleary

but if you must do so then please make sure to shred the pages after you’re done. If you must print this email then shred it, please, despite previous environmental concerns, burn the shreds in the…

www.havehashad.com

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · 5d

I am so OBSESSED by these

Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 5d

Week 40 of documenting everything I buy at the reduced counter this year. Smashed my teeth last week, so food largely in soft focus.

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · 10d

Hey babes. (I just woke up from a dream where Tilda Swinton told me not to call her babe, so hoping you're not Tilsa Swinton) here is the new issue of @streetcakemag.bsky.social! I've got a piece on memory in, but also, there's so much good. Have a slice! Eat the whole thing!

streetcake magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social · 13d

NEW ISSUE 🥳

Please head over to our website to read some amazing work by a range of talented writers!

www.streetcakemagazine.com

#LitMags #WritingCommunity

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 12d

for #NationalPoetryDay one of my all-time favourites.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 19d

Week 39 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a big week for hummus chips.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 18d

many of my fave poems and short shorts are these tiny little slices of life, worded and captured so perfectly as to become something so much bigger and more

today from Justin Karcher:

https://www.havehashad.com/x2r9v

A hand holding a smartphone displaying a Twitter post with a colorful infographic about social media engagement statistics. The background is blurred to emphasize the phone and the infographic.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22d

in honor of it getting colder here’s a poem by Nikki Giovanni “about” the cold coming in which is ALSO a fantastic study in enjambment and how to end a poem!!!

(this is from her collected works)

Hampton, Virginia
by Nikki Giovanni

the birds flew south
earlier this year
and flowers wilted under the glare
of frost
nature puts her house in order

the weather report says this
Will be the coldest winter
already the perch have burrowed
deep into the lakes
and the snails are six instead
of three feet under

I quilted myself
one blanket and purchased five
pounds of colored popcorn
in corners i placed dried
flowers and in my bathroom a jar
of lavender smells
my landlord stripped my windows
and i cut all my old sox for feet pads

they say you should fight the cold with the cold
but since i never do anything right
i called you

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · 26d

omg thanks for sharing, this goes into the I don't know what to write today messages with myself.

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Sep 9

SUBMIT TO THE URGE!!

🖤

ENGINEIDLING.NET

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Sep 9

Answer the call!

Submit to The Urge!

We'd especially love more subs from women!

engineidling.net

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #litmag #litmags #indiepublishing #authorscommunity #writers #artists

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HAD @havehashad.com · Sep 3

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today!

I.i am
A. writing
1. an ars poetica
i. in which i bury you,
ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself,
2. a farewell.

https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

poem in which you become the “you” by nat raum

i am writing an ars poetica in which i bury you, in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, a farewell. still crying in my car sometimes. for your specter.

www.havehashad.com

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 1

anyone can have an idea for a novel. but writing a novel? anyone can do that too. all you need to do is get creative. for example, create a new meaning for “writing a novel.” like “making a sandwich.” “writing is not writing,” you wisely whisper, reaching for the sourdough.

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HAD @havehashad.com · Aug 16

new list poem today from Ewen Glass that's funny and heartbreaking and weird and sweet

"He's still with us. He's in the trees."

https://www.havehashad.com/nm89b

Things Said to an Eight Year-Old Boy at His Dad’s Funeral by Ewen Glass

Your dad was a real people person; it's just a shame his immune system wasn't. There are those tiny sausages you like. Every time you see a shooting star– first of all, you'd be lucky, the chances of…

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Love it when @cuttinghail.bsky.social gets published in Tiny Wren Lit because it means I get to do a little zine making. The design on these is just gorgeous 🥰

Image of a zine in progress of being put together, open at some poems by Luca Fois and Janel Pleskač

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Jul 26

Add to your to do list. Issue 9: Inventory is live!

www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-9

Issue 9 | Tiny Wren Lit

www.tinywrenlit.com

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streetcake magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just a reminder of our latest issue below 👇🖊

streetcake magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social · May 15

Our new issue is now live! 🥳🖊

Be prepared to experience some amazing work.

Head over to our website to check it out: www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html

Pls share and support our writers 🤝 and buy us a coffee if you enjoy 😀

P.s - we're now open for subs!

#LitMags #Submissions

Image of a glass case with fragments of words encased in it. This is the front cover of streetcake's latest issue. Text reads New Issue Out Now!

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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · Jun 3

🌈 Happy Pride Month ♥️

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

Gregory Orr

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HAD @havehashad.com · May 27

Beautiful Elizabeth Fletcher "body-horror love story" today

"My husband is not a man of surprise flower bouquets or elaborately planned date nights. But in the three weeks that followed my surgery, he took on my thrice-daily surgical drain maintenance."

https://www.havehashad.com/b2qwm

Love, Distilled by Elizabeth Fletcher

If grand romantic gestures were my measure of true love, I never would’ve married my husband. He is nothing if not practical. He bought me a basic calculator our first Christmas together so I wouldn’t…

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · May 23

On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets.
Now, back to my dwam*
Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

On Not Writing

Kathleen Jamie considers the fallow times

open.substack.com

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · May 22

Why was I born
if it wasn’t forever?

—Eugène Ionesco

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · May 22

and the thing itself:
www.invisiblecitylit.com/poetry/we-mu...

we must all decide again and again whom we love | Invisible City

www.invisiblecitylit.com

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Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · May 22

I have a thing in InvisiblecitySF
invisiblecitylit.com

But there are so many good things, that I really want to celebrate the whole issue. Have a look peeps.

And resist. ✊❤️‍🔥

Invisible City Literary Journal |

Invisible City is a journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art published by the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

invisiblecitylit.com

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Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · May 14

It’s short & it’s shiny. 🪩
Some recommended reading brought to us by @kiptain.bsky.social.

Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social · May 14

Check out my new micro prose poem that just dropped in Scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

self-portrait in a disco ball by kip knott — scaffold literary magazine

prose poetry

www.scaffoldlit.com

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