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A high humidity journal of poetry / Queer, fluid, trans affirming / currently publishing 3x a week / Home to the #FullMoonHaikuContest / 🏳️‍⚧️ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

hips skyward, limbs trailing behind,
shoulder ripped from socket by the drag;
friction makes you burn, a reverse comet,
a smoking censer chain-dragged through the sky

—McKinley Johnson, with a fierce ekphrasis #SummerRiot poem to close out our summer. Wishing y’all joy, rest, resistance. ☄️

“Rapture is a painful thing” by McKinley Johnson

after Louise Bourgeois’s Arch of Hysteria (1993)It’s no simple vanish, no snap of earth-forming fingers;when God takes you, it’s violent.Dissonant trumpets, burning chariots,angels grab you b…

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 9d

the skyline is saying today is National Poetry Day (which like, why wouldn’t it be in April during NaPoMo?) but whatever, feels like an appropriate day to leave for my first poetry tour

ALSO here’s my first pub credit, courtesy of @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social (published July of this year)

“wonder-struck” by Bridget Gordon

you will, at timesfind yourself in defiance accidental or noof grand celestial plansregimes will rise to meet you vast empires of ruinwill array themselves against youall because you had the nerve …

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 9

"When this hurricane comes, I am all candles, all reverence,
All wafts waving lavender up the walls of each room in the house."

A spiritual poem on climate change and faith, by SLM poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social ✨ In the @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/K6oKuL8

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Highly recommend you check out Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture Arch of Hysteria, the inspiration for McKinley Johnson’s poem “Rapture is a painful thing,” the final poem in our #SummerRiot series:

Louise Bourgeois. Arch of Hysteria. 1993 | MoMA

Audio from Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait. Explore the prints, books, and creative process of this celebrated artist.

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

hips skyward, limbs trailing behind,
shoulder ripped from socket by the drag;
friction makes you burn, a reverse comet,
a smoking censer chain-dragged through the sky

—McKinley Johnson, with a fierce ekphrasis #SummerRiot poem to close out our summer. Wishing y’all joy, rest, resistance. ☄️

“Rapture is a painful thing” by McKinley Johnson

after Louise Bourgeois’s Arch of Hysteria (1993)It’s no simple vanish, no snap of earth-forming fingers;when God takes you, it’s violent.Dissonant trumpets, burning chariots,angels grab you b…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

😏 @hanvanderhart.bsky.social will ahaha

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Aug 20

EIC Danielle just loves writing about summertime and lovesickness.

So let’s share “boy crazy” just once more for the kids in the back!

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot
diesel fumes & freshly mown grass

& lo!

how the breeze comes on
like an afterglow
hopelessly blue

tragic

—Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️

“boy crazy” by Danielle McMahon

summertime stings of honey-suckle & sweet sweet gasoline spilt on blacktopsneakersO how the hot tin roofs glint in harsh sunlight & our lovesick hearts answer to the creak of slick skin stu…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

IMPOSSSIBLE, even. Tbh.

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cAndycOrnperandi @andyoperandi.bsky.social · Aug 20

This one cuts deep, to the pain I hide from my daughter, to the fear I turn away from. The Earth we actually inhabit feels as bleak as it is beautiful, lately.

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.

I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.

—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥

@jacquiz.bsky.social

“I Search the Internet for Evidence to Justify My Melancholy” by Jacqui Zeng

Yes, headlights are 15% brighter nowand plane turbulence is actually worse.Birds crash into windows, little yellow packages droppedonto the sidewalks, announcingthe death of spring and the riseof b…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

🦉🙏💙💙 So glad for your poem in the #SummerRiot company, Jacqui!!!

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.

I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.

—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥

@jacquiz.bsky.social

“I Search the Internet for Evidence to Justify My Melancholy” by Jacqui Zeng

Yes, headlights are 15% brighter nowand plane turbulence is actually worse.Birds crash into windows, little yellow packages droppedonto the sidewalks, announcingthe death of spring and the riseof b…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.

I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.

—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥

@jacquiz.bsky.social

“I Search the Internet for Evidence to Justify My Melancholy” by Jacqui Zeng

Yes, headlights are 15% brighter nowand plane turbulence is actually worse.Birds crash into windows, little yellow packages droppedonto the sidewalks, announcingthe death of spring and the riseof b…

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 19

I love this poem 💜

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot
diesel fumes & freshly mown grass

& lo!

how the breeze comes on
like an afterglow
hopelessly blue

tragic

—Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️

“boy crazy” by Danielle McMahon

summertime stings of honey-suckle & sweet sweet gasoline spilt on blacktopsneakersO how the hot tin roofs glint in harsh sunlight & our lovesick hearts answer to the creak of slick skin stu…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

😍🙏🎉🎉🎉

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you have ever been a love-hungry teenager in a rural community, you're not prepared for this poem, but sweet heavens, you need to read this poem.

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot
diesel fumes & freshly mown grass

& lo!

how the breeze comes on
like an afterglow
hopelessly blue

tragic

—Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️

“boy crazy” by Danielle McMahon

summertime stings of honey-suckle & sweet sweet gasoline spilt on blacktopsneakersO how the hot tin roofs glint in harsh sunlight & our lovesick hearts answer to the creak of slick skin stu…

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 19

my ode to suburban summers "boy crazy" is out today!

moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/08/19/b...

many thanks to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for picking this one up!
💙💙

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Danielle McMahon also has a brand new microchip out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!!! Check it out! ☔️👇 Congrats, @dehm000.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Jul 30

ROWHOUSE SONG by Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

@dehm000.bsky.social ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot
diesel fumes & freshly mown grass

& lo!

how the breeze comes on
like an afterglow
hopelessly blue

tragic

—Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️

“boy crazy” by Danielle McMahon

summertime stings of honey-suckle & sweet sweet gasoline spilt on blacktopsneakersO how the hot tin roofs glint in harsh sunlight & our lovesick hearts answer to the creak of slick skin stu…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Facts ☔️ ☔️ ☔️

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Note that my journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social pays $25 a review: moistpoetryjournal.com/submissions/

Submissions (Poetry and Reviews)

Currently CLOSED to poetry submissions via Duosuma, and accepting poetry reviews (1000-2000wds) to [email protected]. Note: Poetry submissions only received through Duosuma (see link bel…

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets

docs.google.com

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Beauty is both ways,
All ways & always.

—Nicholas Viglietti splashing open our final week of #SummerRiot poems! 🌴🌊

“Stockton Blvd.” by Nicholas Viglietti

Northward,On Stockton Blvd. Cruisin’ under an ocean sky; It’s a sun blazed, kinda day. Strollin’ south – Thickness.That makes you drop Your mouth.On night-club heels. Beauty is both ways, All…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Catch up on the latest at Moist! 💦 #SummerRiot

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

If we’re lucky,
if the water

is clear enough,
if the light is right […]

—Andy Fogle with our #SummerRiot poem today!

“THE SPEED OF THINGS AT SPRING RUN” by Andy Fogle

A green frog on the bank,and we just watch. Everyone knows thisfrom cartoons and/orbeing outside: the leapis a single, swift, arcfrom right there at our feetto somewhere elsewe don’t even know.It h…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

If we’re lucky,
if the water

is clear enough,
if the light is right […]

—Andy Fogle with our #SummerRiot poem today!

“THE SPEED OF THINGS AT SPRING RUN” by Andy Fogle

A green frog on the bank,and we just watch. Everyone knows thisfrom cartoons and/orbeing outside: the leapis a single, swift, arcfrom right there at our feetto somewhere elsewe don’t even know.It h…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

“i borrowed the last cup of sugar
from next week.
tomorrow is Friday & Tuesday
expects to bake lemon pound cake”

—Will Diggs, from “I Write Love Poems Too”

Two Poems by Will Diggs

Imma Die Bout My Queer Niggas ion wanna die bout my queer niggascuz i believe we should live. we all gon die eventually but if we can keep death waiting i really think we should.greedy bitch alread…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

imma die bout my queer niggas cause we
deserve a chance to live fruitfully

—Will Diggs, with two fresh #SummerRiot beauties this morning

Two Poems by Will Diggs

Imma Die Bout My Queer Niggas ion wanna die bout my queer niggascuz i believe we should live. we all gon die eventually but if we can keep death waiting i really think we should.greedy bitch alread…

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