SarahJSloat
@sjane.bsky.social
Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty
Author of Hotel Almighty
A winter poem for #smallpoemsunday, from Classic Crimes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A winter poem for #smallpoemsunday, from Classic Crimes.
Reposted by SarahJSloat
January 31, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Thrilled to have 3 collages in the new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social, which you can peruse here:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I loved this postcard when I found it bc of the message on the front: "I hope you are well. From Maggie Gaver."
It's also from Strawberry Mansion🍓 2cm.es/1imC-
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I loved this postcard when I found it bc of the message on the front: "I hope you are well. From Maggie Gaver."
It's also from Strawberry Mansion🍓 2cm.es/1imC-
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Thrilled to have 3 collages in the new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social, which you can peruse here:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I loved this postcard when I found it bc of the message on the front: "I hope you are well. From Maggie Gaver."
It's also from Strawberry Mansion🍓 2cm.es/1imC-
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I loved this postcard when I found it bc of the message on the front: "I hope you are well. From Maggie Gaver."
It's also from Strawberry Mansion🍓 2cm.es/1imC-
Reposted by SarahJSloat
Memoirs about or that touch on bipolar disorder or mania?
January 22, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Memoirs about or that touch on bipolar disorder or mania?
Impossible to tell which way leads to
perplexity...
A Walden erasure for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's #smallpoemsunday, originally published in @fuguejournal.bsky.social
perplexity...
A Walden erasure for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's #smallpoemsunday, originally published in @fuguejournal.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Impossible to tell which way leads to
perplexity...
A Walden erasure for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's #smallpoemsunday, originally published in @fuguejournal.bsky.social
perplexity...
A Walden erasure for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's #smallpoemsunday, originally published in @fuguejournal.bsky.social
Hadrian via WS Merwin
January 14, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Hadrian via WS Merwin
Holly was reduced to skin & bones & raw footpads.
Domestic cats rarely pass through the Everglades alive.
Do not be ashamed. Who doesn’t have a hungry wilderness
inside? -- "America," Kathleen Graber
plumepoetry.com/america/
Domestic cats rarely pass through the Everglades alive.
Do not be ashamed. Who doesn’t have a hungry wilderness
inside? -- "America," Kathleen Graber
plumepoetry.com/america/
plumepoetry.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Holly was reduced to skin & bones & raw footpads.
Domestic cats rarely pass through the Everglades alive.
Do not be ashamed. Who doesn’t have a hungry wilderness
inside? -- "America," Kathleen Graber
plumepoetry.com/america/
Domestic cats rarely pass through the Everglades alive.
Do not be ashamed. Who doesn’t have a hungry wilderness
inside? -- "America," Kathleen Graber
plumepoetry.com/america/
Reposted by SarahJSloat
✨ LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by Lesyk Panasiuk, trans. by Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris (Jan 20), was praised by World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social) as "modernly, and terrifyingly, Kafkaesque."
Read this timely + essential collection! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Read this timely + essential collection! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
✨ LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by Lesyk Panasiuk, trans. by Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris (Jan 20), was praised by World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social) as "modernly, and terrifyingly, Kafkaesque."
Read this timely + essential collection! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Read this timely + essential collection! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Reposted by SarahJSloat
WORDS TEND TO BE INADEQUATE
January 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
WORDS TEND TO BE INADEQUATE
"The howling pretends to bring on winter,
but the howling was there all along."
Laura Kasischke for #smallpoemsunday
but the howling was there all along."
Laura Kasischke for #smallpoemsunday
January 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
"The howling pretends to bring on winter,
but the howling was there all along."
Laura Kasischke for #smallpoemsunday
but the howling was there all along."
Laura Kasischke for #smallpoemsunday
For #smallpoemsunday, a poem from "Hotel Almighty."
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Lord.'
you,
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred --
The road you were on
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Lord.'
you,
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred --
The road you were on
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
For #smallpoemsunday, a poem from "Hotel Almighty."
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Lord.'
you,
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred --
The road you were on
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Lord.'
you,
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred --
The road you were on
Reposted by SarahJSloat
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)!
Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
January 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)!
Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Reposted by SarahJSloat
Wouldn't it feel good to start your new year off by sending out work? Think of us!
Free subs from January 1 through February 15 in Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Comics.
Free subs from January 1 through February 15 in Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Comics.
January 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Wouldn't it feel good to start your new year off by sending out work? Think of us!
Free subs from January 1 through February 15 in Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Comics.
Free subs from January 1 through February 15 in Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Comics.
"Those who talk too little usually know it, those who talk too much usually don’t."
Aphorisms by James Richardson
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Aphorisms by James Richardson
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American Poetry Review - James Richardson - "Vectors 6.2: Just Saying"
Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 54 | No. 06
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January 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Those who talk too little usually know it, those who talk too much usually don’t."
Aphorisms by James Richardson
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Aphorisms by James Richardson
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Reposted by SarahJSloat
WISHING THINGS AWAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
WISHING THINGS AWAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE
let bygones be bygones
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
let bygones be bygones
Reposted by SarahJSloat
I’m the poetry editor at Cable Street literary magazine @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social • if you write prose poems, please send some my way by March 1—considering poems now for our Spring (April) issue. Three to six poems in a Word Doc or Google Docs link. Send to: [email protected]
December 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I’m the poetry editor at Cable Street literary magazine @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social • if you write prose poems, please send some my way by March 1—considering poems now for our Spring (April) issue. Three to six poems in a Word Doc or Google Docs link. Send to: [email protected]
. . . . . They wished to bloom
and to bloom is to be beautiful; but we want to ripen
and that means being dark and taking pains.
. . . . . Sie wollten blühn,
und blühn ist schön sein; doch wir wollen reifen,
und das heißt dunkel sein und sich bemühn.
-Rilke
and to bloom is to be beautiful; but we want to ripen
and that means being dark and taking pains.
. . . . . Sie wollten blühn,
und blühn ist schön sein; doch wir wollen reifen,
und das heißt dunkel sein und sich bemühn.
-Rilke
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
. . . . . They wished to bloom
and to bloom is to be beautiful; but we want to ripen
and that means being dark and taking pains.
. . . . . Sie wollten blühn,
und blühn ist schön sein; doch wir wollen reifen,
und das heißt dunkel sein und sich bemühn.
-Rilke
and to bloom is to be beautiful; but we want to ripen
and that means being dark and taking pains.
. . . . . Sie wollten blühn,
und blühn ist schön sein; doch wir wollen reifen,
und das heißt dunkel sein und sich bemühn.
-Rilke
Reposted by SarahJSloat
"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...