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Casey Reiland @caseyreiland.bsky.social · 1d

I have two new poems published today in @emergejournal.bsky.social! Read em here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-connecti...

The Connection

The space between the sternum and the slope of flesh

says so much. Here, a quarter, shiny like macadam in the morning sun, now thrown

at her chest. A boy says, Look at how it slides right over her middle. Boarded, flat, fabled.

This too a fable: Lavender. Tea tree oil. How many times have I written about

what my body could not give? Instead, consider my grandmother, her torso

gaping like mine. My sister insists we inherited our breasts from her,

and I’ll admit this once would have split me of resentment—

girl who wants to take up space, who wants to be enclosed perfectly into someone’s fist.

Always myself witnessed in another’s eyes, a mark, a haunting, ruptured ribs

in the canyons of their irises. But in my grandmother’s ripening, I now behold how

we are bound, hanging on to what we still can, cupping the curves of each other’s hands.

The thing we contain: a sphere of silver, spinning like a coin.

I Said I Would Never Write About 2020

My coworker asks, “Wanna hear something funny?” and describes how he was hit by a car. I find his indifference to the ruthlessness of our job equivalent to the shock that comes from salt stinging a wound: a searing white space. Me: “Aren’t you ever angry?” Him___. When we fuck later, a barren plain glaciates between us. If I’m being honest, I mostly wanted to sleep with him because he is ___ years older than me. Age specifically has a distance. So does trauma. I’m afraid of driving because I’ve been in a car that spun into a cornfield. I was thirteen. My friend’s older sister was driving us to a Halloween party. The coarse dying stalks revolved yellow-green-yellow in my vision, and all I could think was, I’m going to___. In the mornings after the world has shut down, there goes the yellow-green-yellow-green in my mind. I text my one friend, What if one of us___? How do___? I’m so___. Later, my roommate reprimands me for almost wearing sandals to a protest at the White House. When the tear gas blooms a sulfur mist, I let their shaming engulf my legs as we run, grateful to have someone unafraid in their bluntness. I tell my mother what happens, and she says, ______. My coworker insists he only wants my body, and I let him have it because this is the year where I cough up shards of ice, where inside my mouth is a killing frost.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 6h

New #poems!

"Natural History" & "Mind Made" out now at @emergejournal.bsky.social

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#poemsky #writingcommunity #poetry #authors

Current Issue | Issue 35

Emerge Literary Journal: 2025 Editor’s Note It’s October 2025. We’ve entered fall, the season of bright color. I love the turning of greens to fiery reds, oranges, yellows, how leaves make th…

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 14d

New: Definition by Sarena Tien!

Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself.

Definition | ELJ Editions

Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people con...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 16d

On a rollicking midnight ride from small-town Tennessee to Daytona Beach and back, Jamie turns over his relationship with Micah, with his friends, and even God, as he tries to do the right thing and save her—one last time.

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 16d

Now Available: The Trouble with Sweetheartz by Lukas Tallent

If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s Micah, his ex-girlfriend, and she needs a ride home from Florida.

The Trouble with Sweetheartz | ELJ Editions

On a rollicking midnight ride from small town Tennessee to Daytona Beach, Florida—and back—Jamie turns over his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Micah, with his friends, and even God, as he tries t...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 21d

Submission open 2/1/26.

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 22d

@dianegotauthor.bsky.social interviews author @billhollands.bsky.social about his poetry collection, Mangrove. Mangrove recently received an outstanding review over at The Adroit Journal. Check out the interview!: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/o...

One Poem at a Time: An Interview with Bill Hollands by Diane Gottlieb

I use the writing to help me figure it out, to come to some understanding, and perhaps some resolution.

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 22d

The Be Well Series is returning in January 2026 as Be Well: a Series on Craft, Writing, and the Art of Healing, hosted by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. Save the date: 1/11/26

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness is a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph; pleasures and pain; challenges, resilience, and growth. Get it today for only $2.99!

Awakening: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness | ELJ Editions

What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Curated by Diane Gottlieb, with a foreword by Gayle Brandeis, Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness...

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · Aug 26

My chapbook with the long title is on sale today for e-readers. Check it out! #flashfiction

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you know we have an eBook Shop on our website. For a limited time, get an eBook for just $2.99, including the highly acclaimed Awakenings anthology. We’ve currently got a limited selection, but new and older titles will be added soon!

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you know we have an eBook Shop on our website. For a limited time, get an eBook for just $2.99, including the highly acclaimed Awakenings anthology. We’ve currently got a limited selection, but new and older titles will be added soon!

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you know we have an eBook Shop on our website. For a limited time, get an eBook for just $2.99, including the highly acclaimed Awakenings anthology. We’ve currently got a limited selection but new and older titles will be added soon! Shop elj-editions.com/shop/ via @EmergeJournal

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Now Available: Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage! Don't miss this stunning collection of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social!

Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage | ELJ Editions

Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage is a stunning anthology of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Set in New England, Los Angeles, Seattle; across oceans in Israel, Norway, Spain...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 23

We're excited to share @billhollands.bsky.social will be on the Rattlecast on August 3 talking about "Mangrove," his new poetry collection! Look for it on your favorite podcasting app.

Rattlecast - Rattle: Poetry

Meet a new poet every week with Rattle’s editor Timothy Green, then share a poem on the open lines!

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 23

"...there’s something there: an image, a memory, a line. So I think, well, let’s hone in on that and see what happens."

Don't miss @billhollands.bsky.social discussing his collection Mangrove with @lukerolfes.bsky.social in Laurel Review!

Laurel Review - Bill Hollands

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · Jul 22

Finally get to hold a copy of the Grieving Hope anthology with my first microchapbook Preparing to be wrecked. And I share space with amazing writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social

A hand holding a book with the cover in light grey background, an orange flower with green leaves and a light purple bud; text: Grieving Hope Microchap Volume II, Edited by Diane Gottlieb Featuring Kristina Tabor, Janet Murie, Charlotte Hamrick, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kim Steutermann Rogers; behind the book there is a dark red box with golden leaves pattern and a colourful Ganesh statue on top of it, part of a tray with a stem and leaves pattern, a wall in light orange colour

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Melissa Greenwood, @mimiziemanmd.bsky.social‬, Nina B. Lichtenstein, Robbi Nester, @nuevohombre.bsky.social, Ronit Plank, Sandell Morse, Sarah Leibov, Seth Schindler, Talya Jankovits, and Tzivia Gover

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

@debbiefeit.bsky.social, @eileenvcollins.bsky.social, Ellen Levitt, Erika Dreifus, Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer, Jena Schwartz, Jennifer Fliss, Joan Leegant, Judy Bolton-Fasman, Julia Grunes, Julie Zuckerman, Lisa Grunberger, Lynne Golodner, Matthew Lippman, Megan Vered, Melinda Gordon Blum...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social and featuring work from Adrienne Dern, Aliza Marton, @amyrogers.bsky.social, @shimshona.bsky.social .social, Ana Miriam Lublin, ‬Dina Elenbogen...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ronit Plank, Sandell Morse, Sarah Leibov, Seth Schindler, Talya Jankovits, and Tzivia Gover

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Jena Schwartz, Jennifer Fliss, Joan Leegant, Judy Bolton-Fasman, Julia Grunes, Julie Zuckerman, Lisa Grunberger, Lynne Golodner, Matthew Lippman, Megan Vered, Melinda Gordon Blum, Melissa Greenwood, @mimiziemanmd.bsky.social‬, Nina B. Lichtenstein, Robbi Nester, nuevohombre.bsky.social

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Whether set in the Catskills of New York, in New England, Chicago, or LA; across oceans in Israel, Denmark, Mt. Everest, or Spain; in the synagogues of youth, redwood forests, or at family seder tables, its stories, like the manna in the desert of our ancestors, sustain both body and soul.

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Now Available for Pre-orders! Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage—a stunning collection of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy.

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Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage is a stunning anthology of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Set in New England, Los Angeles, Seattle; across oceans in Israel, Norway, Spain...

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Shannon Frost Greenstein, Writer @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social · Jul 2

Y’all, this was meant to be a 2,500-word short story, and THINGS CHANGED. 🤣 Probably the most fun I’ve ever had researching, because the myth of the Wendigo is BANANAS. 🍌

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

After their disastrous first date, Juliette, an Anthropology professor, never expects to hear from Cole, a self-professed “Crypto Bro,” again. But when Cole texts her late one night, she finds herself caught up in a sordid plot of money, mythology, and murder.

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Juliette is an Anthropology professor in New York City. Cole is a self-professed “Crypto Bro” who makes a killing on Wall Street. After their disastrous first date, Juliette never expects to hear from...

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thanks a lot @melostrom.bsky.social. Your support means a lot. So glad to be a part of this beautiful group of writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (Ed) @emergejournal.bsky.social

Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · Jun 26

Mocha & I are spending this rainy morning reading GRIEVING HOPE, a stunning collection of micro chapbooks by Charlotte Hamrick, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social, Kristina Tabor, & Janet Murie, edited by the wonderful @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Check it out, friends!🧡📚🐶

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