David Elliot Eisenstat
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Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
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flaremagazine.bsky.social
Author Spotlight #25: David Elliot Eisenstat (eisenstat.bsky.social) and his creative nonfiction piece, "The Bread of Affliction."
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variantlit.bsky.social
Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
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anthonyetherin.bsky.social
KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS) -- “I’ve seen people able to do perfect bottom deals at casino poker tables for 100 thousand dollar stakes, under heat. I’ve seen people able to do bottom deals at illegal mob games where everyone was carrying. This poetry is only a bit safer but way, way harder. And impresses me more. I love it.”
— Penn Jillette
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martin65.bsky.social
Solidarity to every poet who finally figured out what that poem needed, and is now tempted to yank the previous version from submission queues.

(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )
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stonecirclereview.bsky.social
🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.

No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
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anthonyetherin.bsky.social
POEM SEALED IN A BOTTLE

A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.
eisenstat.bsky.social
Always a pleasure to read a sonnet that does something a little different than the ones that came before.
anthonyetherin.bsky.social
LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC
eisenstat.bsky.social
Nobody does these flavors quite like Defenestration! The August issue is hilarious, and I’m so glad that one of my poems calls it home.
defenestrationmag.bsky.social
If the August 2025 issue of Defenestration were a candy bar, it would be chocolate filled with assorted nuts, ghosts, and the yellowing pages books. It would also have been banned in three dozen localities for causing seizures in the humorless. Devour it here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc #DefenestrationMagazine
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publishedbyjake.bsky.social
Do you want to edit for JAKE? The poetry team is looking for some more hands!
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variantlit.bsky.social
Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.

"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
My Teenage Daughter
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megjnic.bsky.social
Next 🍋 Writing Sprint: Saturday, April 12th
11 AM CT / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
Free • On Zoom • Open to all genres

Join us for two quiet, focused hours of writing.
Bring your project or start something new. Prompts provided (but totally optional).

RSVP: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint
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variantlit.bsky.social
"There’s a sun out there somewhere but I can’t see it. For some reason, I want to find it, but it’s buried alive."

Read "The Opposite of Dusk"
by Ron Riekki ☀️

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The Opposite of Dusk
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"On Craft" by Erica Dawson @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social

"The first job of the poet is to say / what we are, the second what we are becoming.
I turn the pages over on the desk.
The radiator hisses hard. Sunset."

Read the whole poem from issue 20 on our site!

variantlit.com/on-craft/
On Craft
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If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.

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eisenstat.bsky.social
“I remember the first night of Passover for once, but the store is out of matzo, and—oh no—the smallest bag of flour barely fits in my granny cart.”

The fourteenth issue of Minyan Magazine (@minyanmag.bsky.social) is out today, with a prose poem by yours truly:

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The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat | MINYAN
The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat from Issue Fourteen
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eisenstat.bsky.social
My poem “A Brooklyn Atheist at Summer’s End” just appeared in the new issue of Midway Journal! midwayjournal.com/a-brooklyn-a...
Screenshot of “A Brooklyn Atheist.” The lineation is important and I don’t trust Bluesky not to mangle it, so please follow the link.
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pshares.bsky.social
We've extended the deadline for the Regular Reading Period! Keep sending us your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Monday, January 20th, at noon EST for the chance to be featured in a future issue of Ploughshares. pshares.org/submit/
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publishedbyjake.bsky.social
Poets! Essayists! We want your work!
publishedbyjake.bsky.social
Nearing the end of the first 24 hours of the new sub manager, and 11 of the 15 submitted pieces are in Fiction. The rest are poems. So if you're a poet or CNF writer, the odds are generally never better than this to get a quick response/acceptance!
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JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine Submission Manager
Submit to JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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delilahsdawson.bsky.social
Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:
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trossiwriter.bsky.social
And we’re open @variantlit.bsky.social for poetry and prose (3-micro series, flash up to 1500 words and fiction up to 20 pages)! Please submit only once through 12/31 unless invited otherwise. Can’t wait to read your lovelies!
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publishedbyjake.bsky.social
Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵
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trossiwriter.bsky.social
Calling all @variantlit.bsky.social contributors! We’re here in the blue and gearing up to open for subs!
variantlit.bsky.social
Good morning! While we get ourselves set up over, if you've ever been published in Variant Lit, could you leave us a like? We want to make sure that we're up to date with your pubs!!