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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 4d

NEW POEM #272: "Lying at your grave," by Christian Paulisich

"and say you rise

through six feet of dandelions and dirt, the sewers
rushing through
you now like rivers and byways

to a place better
than this, or worse?"

stonecirclereview.com/lying-at-you...

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 4d

Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception.

-William Blake

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 5d

Aotearoa poet Joel LeBlanc has been nominated for Best of the Net 2026 for his magical poem ‘in my dreams i saved us’
Published in Stone Circle Review
@cottageinwood.bsky.social
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social

stonecirclereview.com/in-my-dreams/

in my dreams i saved us

by Joel LeBlanc A voice sings a lullaby: “The animals went in two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah!” Noah is drunk in the corner, grieving the past, he thought the ark would make him happy. Naamah is wash...

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 5d

Very honoured to be nominated for Best of Net 2026 💚 Thanks @stonecirclereview.bsky.social

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 5d

NEW POEM #271: "The Idea of Lightning" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran (@kdawn999.bsky.social)

"A crack in the crypt, that jolt
against mortality, the way the iris
closes in. The air is a marriage
of mud and the fine fine dust
that spills in with the morning."

stonecirclereview.com/the-idea-of-...

#Poem

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 6d

Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net this year! Thank you @stonecirclereview.bsky.social!

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 7d

I'm pleased to have new work forthcoming to Stone Circle Review, Libre, and UCity Review...
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social
#poetry #nonfiction #writer

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 9d

#Poetry
Here it is, folks! If you preorder, good things will surely follow. (Or, a book, at any rate.)
Thank you thank you thank you!
🎶💯👀🤩☄️

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 9d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

The distributor’s search result for a book with a light blue cover with yellow type:

**ASTERISM
Search by title, author, translator, or ISBN
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Becoming
Altar
New and Selected
Poems
Kyla Houbolt
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 9d

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.

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

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 11d

NEW POEM #270: "Euphoria" by Janis Greve

"How could you, I want to say,
deprive me of this thing I never
asked for, but that gave me a strange
euphoria, a flood I could always count on
rising, silent, from the depths of me,"

stonecirclereview.com/euphoria/

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 12d

Ooh what an intriguing form for this one:

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 12d

NEW POEM #269: "My mother’s body in old age" by Gail Zing

"her wide surprise / jarred by the mirror’s stranger again and again, was that / me, a stupefied bystander, mouth firmly closed?"

stonecirclereview.com/my-mothers-b...

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 12d

NEW POEM #269: "My mother’s body in old age" by Gail Zing

"her wide surprise / jarred by the mirror’s stranger again and again, was that / me, a stupefied bystander, mouth firmly closed?"

stonecirclereview.com/my-mothers-b...

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 15d

Folks seemed to enjoy my offering for Top T***T Tuesday over there on the other place so thought I would share it here as well. Many thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social.

Text of poem:

# As long as we can

I fear these things are all going back to sand again anyway:
windows, mirrors, bottles
(no matter their brittle nostalgia for the furnace)
the slow agony of objects releasing form and function.

The ocean will slip miles inland to help the last weary girders fall.
Beloved, let the constellations dance into something else
over everything we’ve ever known or held,
drowning us under eons of sodden time;
and shelter, for as long as we can, in each other’s arms.

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 16d

Thank so much, Catherine.

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 17d

Just in case tomorrow really is the day the other shoe finally drops, here is one of my Rapture-trauma poems. "Angel Triptych" appeared in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social almost exactly two years ago.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 18d

NEW POEM #268: "We Almost Lived Somewhere Else" by Vaneeza Sohail

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Mother of smoke, we can’t breathe
so you give us rain

we find laughter
between sheets of anguish

stonecirclereview.com/we-almost-li...

#Poetry

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 19d

NEW POEM #267: "Glass Desert Anthem" by Allison Zhang

"I passed a woman grinding glass
into salt. Her wrists bandaged in gold.

She asked what I came to trade.
I didn’t know what I had left.

The trees whispered
what I should not have known."

stonecirclereview.com/glass-desert...

#Poem #Poetry

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you Lucy, Ellen, and Raine for giving my little poem such a great home.❤️

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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 25d

This week’s Sunday Snippet is Needing an alibi by Lee Potts (
@leepottspoet.bsky.social )

A subtle yet striking piece, it captures a seemingly mundane moment and turns it into something quietly unsettling.

Read it in Issue 4.

Sunday Snippets
I tried to tease an augury out
of something inauspicious: A cricket
hooked on our drowsing cat’s paw.
Needing an alibi
Lee Potts

Text is on a black background. There is a picture of a cricket in the bottom right corner.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 25d

#266: "To the Woman Whose Charred Wedding Dress I Found in a Sandy Ravine" by Paula Brown (@azpaula.bsky.social)

"Tell me how your rage fell off a cliff and tumbled into this unlikely scene. / Tell me how betrayal is a brutal beast fit for uncommon consequence."

stonecirclereview.com/to-the-woman/

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 26d

NEW POEM #265: "Thoughts, in the Bath, on Trees & Bears" by Francesca Leader (@mooninabucket.bsky.social)

(CW: Suggestions of self-harm/family violence)

"like a bear-scarred aspen
in your childhood woods,
thinking how you’ve
become
both trunk
& claw"

stonecirclereview.com/thoughts-in-...

#Poem

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Sep 4

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "We Can’t Undo the Moment Our Organs Develop a Taste for Fire" by Justin Karcher (@justinkarcher.bsky.social‬) #TBT

stonecirclereview.com/we-cant-undo/

We Can’t Undo the Moment Our Organs Develop a Taste for Fire - Stone Circle Review

by Justin Karcher - I'm stuffing my face with the best Vietnamese food in Buffalo when Chris tells me old kidneys stay inside your body when you have a ...

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our 2025 titles—love how beautiful the spines of our books are 🥰🙏💙📚 🌊 🌊

riverriverbooks.org/store

white hand holding four books in home office space/press office:

CORRIE WILLIAMSON
YOUR MOTHER'S BEAR GUN

JOE WILKINS
PASTORAL, 1994

E.G. CUNNINGHAM
Field NOTES

JAMEELA F. DALLIS
ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

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