Jill Kitchen
@jillkitchen.bsky.social
poems, stories, music, landscape. in DC. co, nyc, & london hold pieces of my heart. writing in asterales, crab creek review, HAD, four way review, iowa review, poet lore, split lip. soon in AQR. social media manager @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
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Jill Kitchen
@jillkitchen.bsky.social
· Jan 15
Dreams do come true. The amazing team at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social chose my poem "in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do" for this month's issue. I am still pinching myself. Thank you so much to the brilliant editors & readers. splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0125/...
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Assembling a holiday wishlist... what books are on your list this year, and what is your favorite independent bookstore?
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Assembling a holiday wishlist... what books are on your list this year, and what is your favorite independent bookstore?
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Has loss or change or time made you rethink how you define yourself? Then you or someone you know might like Unrivered.
Get yours at the link in bio or from your indie bookstore at bookshop.org/p/books/unri...
(I also have some at home that I can sign & mail (US only). DM for that option.)
Get yours at the link in bio or from your indie bookstore at bookshop.org/p/books/unri...
(I also have some at home that I can sign & mail (US only). DM for that option.)
Unrivered
Check out Unrivered - <p>"A new shore for this salvage. </p><p>I salvage a self, unrivered."</p><p></p><p>Donna Vorreyer strikes gold with Unrivered</em>, a stunning collection of poems that meditate ...
bookshop.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Has loss or change or time made you rethink how you define yourself? Then you or someone you know might like Unrivered.
Get yours at the link in bio or from your indie bookstore at bookshop.org/p/books/unri...
(I also have some at home that I can sign & mail (US only). DM for that option.)
Get yours at the link in bio or from your indie bookstore at bookshop.org/p/books/unri...
(I also have some at home that I can sign & mail (US only). DM for that option.)
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Don't forget...submissions for Issue Five are open until December 15. Particulary looking for more prose (F or CNF or hybrid) and more visual art!
Send us some things, will you?
asteralesjournal.com/submissions
Send us some things, will you?
asteralesjournal.com/submissions
Submissions — Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters
asteralesjournal.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Don't forget...submissions for Issue Five are open until December 15. Particulary looking for more prose (F or CNF or hybrid) and more visual art!
Send us some things, will you?
asteralesjournal.com/submissions
Send us some things, will you?
asteralesjournal.com/submissions
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Hey, a friendly reminder to all of you writers out there who aren't on any end of year lists or nominated for anything or winning awards... Lots of us are out here reading and loving what you make, are instructed and impacted by it. Keep doing what you do.
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Hey, a friendly reminder to all of you writers out there who aren't on any end of year lists or nominated for anything or winning awards... Lots of us are out here reading and loving what you make, are instructed and impacted by it. Keep doing what you do.
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you're so right jimmy eat world even at 25 you've gotta start sometime (i',m in my 30s)
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
you're so right jimmy eat world even at 25 you've gotta start sometime (i',m in my 30s)
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This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚
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Chloe Alberta reads from her flash piece RENAISSANCE featured in our NOVEMBER ISSUE. ✨ You can find the whole piece right here! buff.ly/OjkvGSN
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Chloe Alberta reads from her flash piece RENAISSANCE featured in our NOVEMBER ISSUE. ✨ You can find the whole piece right here! buff.ly/OjkvGSN
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Read these two poems by Allison Blevins and travel through both the universe and the body, both mysterious and mostly out of our control. asteralesjournal.com/1-4-blevins-sq…
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Read these two poems by Allison Blevins and travel through both the universe and the body, both mysterious and mostly out of our control. asteralesjournal.com/1-4-blevins-sq…
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Deep gratitude for my press and for my pressmates.
Our Pushcart Noms!
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Deep gratitude for my press and for my pressmates.
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coyote
Black bear
Gray wolf
Moose
Bobcat
Coyote
Black bear
Gray wolf
Moose
Bobcat
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Oryx
Gazelle
Pine Marten
Flying squirrel
Hoopoe
Oryx
Gazelle
Pine Marten
Flying squirrel
Hoopoe
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Harpy eagle
Sloth
Gila monster
Coyote
Road runner
Harpy eagle
Sloth
Gila monster
Coyote
Road runner
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coyote
Black bear
Gray wolf
Moose
Bobcat
Coyote
Black bear
Gray wolf
Moose
Bobcat
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We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6
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My whole life is this and it’s amazing
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My whole life is this and it’s amazing
"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels,
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/
#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/
#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: “Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels,
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
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Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees!
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees!
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
When a journal says please send again, do keep trying. I have now gotten eight acceptances this way.
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When a journal says please send again, do keep trying. I have now gotten eight acceptances this way.
So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!
Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!
Somedays it helps to know that someone decided to build this in their backyard.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Somedays it helps to know that someone decided to build this in their backyard.
Have you ever noticed a submission packet switch from In Progress to Accepted without any acceptance message?
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Have you ever noticed a submission packet switch from In Progress to Accepted without any acceptance message?
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And ... drum roll... the book is now available for pre-order! lilypoetryreview.blog/perforated-b...
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And ... drum roll... the book is now available for pre-order! lilypoetryreview.blog/perforated-b...
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Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
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On this day in 1983, U2 released the live album “Under a Blood Red Sky”
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On this day in 1983, U2 released the live album “Under a Blood Red Sky”
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we can't wait to devour your words!
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we can't wait to devour your words!
It's Give Miami Day! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard.
"“Poetry, I feel like in this time, in this political climate, I think we need each other. We need community. I think that’s what’s going to keep us together. I think it’s what SWWIM does so well, & how lucky we are to have you all with the curation & the vast selection of poems that you do from
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's Give Miami Day! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard.
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Congrats to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on her well -deserved National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder. Long live the Queen!
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Congrats to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on her well -deserved National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder. Long live the Queen!