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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH)

@mehpoeting.bsky.social

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Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & flash fiction dabbler 🧐| Author of 6 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 29d

"Stage Proxemics," my latest creative nonfiction piece, was published by Pangyrus.

www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

Stage Proxemics | Pangyrus

My brother is a fucking badass. Always has been. Even before he was my brother. I learned how to walk trying to keep up at Afrocentric art shows, poetry rea ...

www.pangyrus.com

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Therese Gleason @theresegleason.bsky.social · 6d

I'm thrilled to share that HEMICRANIA has won the 2025 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club, selected by Matthew E. Henry, a phenomenal poet I have long admired. A thousand thank yous to him, NEPC, and Chestnut Review for publishing it.🤩 Congrats to the incredible finalists!!

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In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @inshortlit.bsky.social · 7d

We're so excited to announce our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology!
Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸

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Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!

Identity Theory Best of the Net 2026 Nominees:

Fiction
Deities by Jo Withers

Nonfiction
White Woman Freedom by Matthew Henry

Poetry
Little Bluestem by Pamela Manasco
In Dreams by Shira Haus
Reasons for Staying by Sarah Mills
Sonnet for the Dreamers Craving Sleep by Janna Miller
A chainsaw whirs through February air by nat raum
As Is by Jillian Clasky

Art
Politeness of Giraffes by Alan Michael Parker
Rothko Burger by Alan Michael Parker
The Subway Boar by Alan Michael Parker

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 10d

🤯🥳❤️✊🏿

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 13d

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!!

Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link):

beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards
Of BlueSky

Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

November 8, 2025
Featuring:
Todd Dillard
Brian Spears
Matthew E. Henry
James McConachie
David J. Bauman
Jonathan Everitt

December 13, 2025
Featuring:
Jared Beloff
Barlow Adams
Dan Murphy
upformsumdirt
Gregory Crosby
J-T Kelly

5:00-6:45 est / 2:00-3:45 pst

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 16d

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.

porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Porcupine Literary Submission Manager

We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 16d

Best of the Net Nomination from The Lit Nerds

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“when asked why I’ll never write you a sincere poem” nominated for Best of the Net — MEHPoeting

I wrote a poem for a good friend. I sent it into the world. It got published. And now “when asked why I’ll never write you a sincere poem” was nominated by The Lit Nerds for a Best of the Net ...

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In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @inshortlit.bsky.social · 17d

Today’s featured piece from Issue 3 is @mehpoeting.bsky.social's micro, “The Quiet Part.”

This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀

Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...

Matthew E Henry

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 20d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 18d

We've got some awesome editors, including Leah Anderson, Jennifer Avingon, Michael Brennan, Joel Dunlap, Carrie Esposito, @mfitejohnson.bsky.social, @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social, @fklein907.bsky.social, Robin Moten, and
@mitchnobis.bsky.social !

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 18d

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions!

www.theweightjournal.com

The Weight Journal

www.theweightjournal.com

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, so, for various reasons I haven't been able to do a slew of readings for my new book like one is supposed to do, which means I have a handful here still. Let me know if you want a signed copy dropped in the mail sometime this week! DM for details, Venmo, CashApp, whatever.

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's mine!

The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions

The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.

matchfactoryeditions.com

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 24d

Want to help your elementary students level up their academic discussion skills? Try a Socratic seminar—the junior version ☺️

#ElementaryTeacher #EduSky

Adapting Socratic Seminars for Elementary

With a few key modifications, teachers can make a complex academic discussion into an excellent learning opportunity for younger students.

www.edutopia.org

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 27d

elmo from sesame street is dancing with a stick in his hand

ALT: elmo from sesame street is dancing with a stick in his hand

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 28d

🎶 Everything sucks so make some books!
🎵
Everything sucks so write some books!
🎵
Things are terrible & stupid? You kinda want to cry?
Submit your manuscript—give art a try!
🎵
Everything sucks so
write and sub your booooooks!
🎶

[holding the smile while clearly trying to catch breath]

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎶 Everything sucks so buy some books!
🎵
Everything sucks so buy some books!
🎵
Got a book you want folks to buy? Go ahead, put it in the replies!
🎵
Everything sucks so buuuuuyyyyy sooommmeee booooooks!
🎶

[put of breath, on a knee, jazz hands still kinda involuntarily going]

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 29d

"Stage Proxemics," my latest creative nonfiction piece, was published by Pangyrus.

www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

Stage Proxemics | Pangyrus

My brother is a fucking badass. Always has been. Even before he was my brother. I learned how to walk trying to keep up at Afrocentric art shows, poetry rea ...

www.pangyrus.com

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 31

Up early reading submissions with my favorite assistant editor—Flight 2 is open for submissions in all genres!

A picture of a laptop open to submission guidelines, in front of it is a black kitten with yellow eyes

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Book of Jobs

#LaborDay

oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...

The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work

The Book of Jobs – Poems About Work

oneartpoetry.com

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Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) returns with a new Letter to America: "watching a production of The Tempest after a colleague asked about my relationship with white women".

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-henry-2/

#poetry #poem #politicalpoetry #race

Letter to America by Matthew E. Henry - Terrain.org

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) returns with a new Letter to America: “watching a production of The Tempest after a colleague asked about my relationship with white women”.

www.terrain.org

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 30

"nothing but the reminder of how "a" tragedy is not "the" tragedy"

Come for the powerhouse language, stay for the disaster with "...it is not the stones/but the child's mound" by @mehpoeting.bsky.social

flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm honored to have my poem “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" (a golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”) published in the inaugural issue of @flightlit.bsky.social.

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Matthew E. Henry- Poetry

“…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" A golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” were it only true that tragedy howls in packs of three, I wouldn’t so curse my retention, wish...

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 30

Friends! Enemies! Acquaintances! Flight 1 is now live!

Read our inaugural issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 27

Three days until submissions open! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell your mom who doesn't understand what literary magazines are and wishes you would go to law school!

Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 12

Flight opens for submissions on August 30th, at 10am AK time (2pm Eastern)

To celebrate our first sub call, the first ten submitters will get free feedback on their submissions.

Check out our submission guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines

Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

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Kymm Coveney @kymminbarcelona.bsky.social · Aug 24

Day 24 of #thesealeychallenge with Matthew E Henry after an amazing reading at #theoldmanse in Concord.
#NEPoetryClub

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