SarahJSloat
@sjane.bsky.social
Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty
Author of Hotel Almighty
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„Nach Kraft ringen. Das klingt alles so dramatisch. Man tut eben, was man kann und legt sich dann schlafen. Und auf diese Weise geschieht es, daß man eines Tages etwas geleistet hat."
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, die vor 150 Jahren geboren wurde und jung mit nur 31 Jahren verstarb

- Paula Modersohn-Becker, die vor 150 Jahren geboren wurde und jung mit nur 31 Jahren verstarb

February 8, 2026 at 7:37 AM
„Nach Kraft ringen. Das klingt alles so dramatisch. Man tut eben, was man kann und legt sich dann schlafen. Und auf diese Weise geschieht es, daß man eines Tages etwas geleistet hat."
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, die vor 150 Jahren geboren wurde und jung mit nur 31 Jahren verstarb

- Paula Modersohn-Becker, die vor 150 Jahren geboren wurde und jung mit nur 31 Jahren verstarb

A winter poem for #smallpoemsunday, from Classic Crimes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A winter poem for #smallpoemsunday, from Classic Crimes.
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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-
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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/
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✨ 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...
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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
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✨ 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 ✨
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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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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
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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