Teresa Burns Murphy
@teresaburnsmurphy.bsky.social
Author of The Secret to Flying (TigerEye Publications)
https://www.teresaburnsmurphy.com
Writing in Chicago Quarterly Review, Evening Street Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Literary Mama, The Opiate, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, The Write City Review . . .
https://www.teresaburnsmurphy.com
Writing in Chicago Quarterly Review, Evening Street Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Literary Mama, The Opiate, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, The Write City Review . . .
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I’m delighted that my poetry chapbook, JOY’S BOOK OF ESSENTIAL SASS AND NECESSARY TEARS, has been accepted for publication by Prolific Pulse Press. @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social
I’m delighted that my poetry chapbook, JOY’S BOOK OF ESSENTIAL SASS AND NECESSARY TEARS, has been accepted for publication by Prolific Pulse Press. @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m delighted that my poetry chapbook, JOY’S BOOK OF ESSENTIAL SASS AND NECESSARY TEARS, has been accepted for publication by Prolific Pulse Press. @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Beth Konkoski’s insightful short story collection, A DRAWN & PAPERED HEART.
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Beth Konkoski’s insightful short story collection, A DRAWN & PAPERED HEART.
Loralee Clark’s poetry collection, SOLEMNITY RITES, is an eloquent exploration of sacred practices that have held cultures together from ancient times to the present. In our current season of social fragmentation, SOLEMNITY RITES is a poignant reminder that connection is essential.
July 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Loralee Clark’s poetry collection, SOLEMNITY RITES, is an eloquent exploration of sacred practices that have held cultures together from ancient times to the present. In our current season of social fragmentation, SOLEMNITY RITES is a poignant reminder that connection is essential.
Abundant in verve and compassion, Julene Tripp Weaver’s SLOW NOW WITH CLEAR SKIES is a wonderful collection of poems. @trippweavpoet.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Abundant in verve and compassion, Julene Tripp Weaver’s SLOW NOW WITH CLEAR SKIES is a wonderful collection of poems. @trippweavpoet.bsky.social
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"He points to the deviant course
my bones have taken."
my bones have taken."
"The Topology of My Bones" by Teresa Burns Murphy
Mother discovers curves,unlike the abstract curvesshe studied in topology,as she traces the trajectoryof my spine, twistingbeneath her fingertips,bones winding like a road,destination unknown…
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July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"He points to the deviant course
my bones have taken."
my bones have taken."
I’m honored to have a poem in this issue of The Broadkill Review. @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social
Our fabulous summer/fall issue is up here
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Submissions are open for the winter-spring! Send us your strange your queer your wonder your horror--surprise us. Our staff likes a variety of work, pop culture, recovery, identity, love stories, essays about your weird family
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Submissions are open for the winter-spring! Send us your strange your queer your wonder your horror--surprise us. Our staff likes a variety of work, pop culture, recovery, identity, love stories, essays about your weird family
Summer/Fall Issue 2025 | broadkillreview
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July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’m honored to have a poem in this issue of The Broadkill Review. @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social
Thank you for including my poem in this issue.
It’s publishing day! Our latest issue Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2025) is now live on our website.
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
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Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
coolbeanslit.com/vol-2-issue-2
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
June 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thank you for including my poem in this issue.
I’m delighted to have a poem in this issue of Cool Beans Lit Magazine. @coolbeanslit.bsky.social
We’re proud to share the names of our 25 amazing contributors to Vol 2, Issue 2 coming out later this week!
They were selected from 960 submissions. Very grateful to everyone who submitted their work. We wish we could have accepted so many more.
Cover reveal coming soon. 🖼️
They were selected from 960 submissions. Very grateful to everyone who submitted their work. We wish we could have accepted so many more.
Cover reveal coming soon. 🖼️
June 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m delighted to have a poem in this issue of Cool Beans Lit Magazine. @coolbeanslit.bsky.social
I’m honored to have a poem in this anthology.
June 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m honored to have a poem in this anthology.
I’m grateful to The Mid-American Review for publishing this poem.
New today on The Mid-Atlantic Review, a poem by @teresaburnsmurphy.bsky.social.
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Blue Fading to White by Teresa Burns Murphy | Mid-Atlantic Review
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June 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I’m grateful to The Mid-American Review for publishing this poem.
I’m so happy to be a participant in this reading.
May 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m so happy to be a participant in this reading.
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This is worth a read. Even as a secular person, it's easy to get lost in the pageantry. Ritual is something most churches do to awe-inspiring effect. Enough to forget the blatant misogyny? Let's not. Let's name it. @sorayachemaly.bsky.social
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No Cookies for Popes
A Week of Watching the World Celebrate the Conclave’s Spectacle of Male Supremacy
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May 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is worth a read. Even as a secular person, it's easy to get lost in the pageantry. Ritual is something most churches do to awe-inspiring effect. Enough to forget the blatant misogyny? Let's not. Let's name it. @sorayachemaly.bsky.social
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At a time when practically everything seems unstable, Gemma Hartley’s book, FED UP: EMOTIONAL LABOR, WOMEN, AND THE WAY FORWARD, provides guidance for living a more balanced life. Unpaid work, which often goes unnoticed, is a topic that receives far too little attention.
April 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
At a time when practically everything seems unstable, Gemma Hartley’s book, FED UP: EMOTIONAL LABOR, WOMEN, AND THE WAY FORWARD, provides guidance for living a more balanced life. Unpaid work, which often goes unnoticed, is a topic that receives far too little attention.
This is one of my favorite books ever. I have lost track of the number of times I have read THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS by Sara Hills. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is one of my favorite books ever. I have lost track of the number of times I have read THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS by Sara Hills. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social
Patricia Q. Bidar’s novelette, WILD PLUMS, is a marvelous read. @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Patricia Q. Bidar’s novelette, WILD PLUMS, is a marvelous read. @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
The waning days of 2024 seem like the perfect time to reread Kate Manne’s insightful book, DOWN GIRL: THE LOGIC OF MISOGYNY. @katemanne.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM
The waning days of 2024 seem like the perfect time to reread Kate Manne’s insightful book, DOWN GIRL: THE LOGIC OF MISOGYNY. @katemanne.bsky.social
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Blue sky, white clouds float
over an Amsterdam street,
slick with autumn rain.
over an Amsterdam street,
slick with autumn rain.
November 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Blue sky, white clouds float
over an Amsterdam street,
slick with autumn rain.
over an Amsterdam street,
slick with autumn rain.
Reposted by Teresa Burns Murphy
Many thanks to THE BOOKENDS REVIEW for publishing my poem, “Cinders.” Written from the perspective of a character named Joy, “Cinders” is from my work in progress. All the best to everyone who, like Joy, resists patriarchy.
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Cinders - The Bookends Review
Everyone called Cynthia, our church camp counselor,Cinders even before she burnedmy pink bikini in a big trash barrelbecause I’d “left it lying on the bathroom floor.”Branding me a rule breaker,she sl...
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June 10, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Many thanks to THE BOOKENDS REVIEW for publishing my poem, “Cinders.” Written from the perspective of a character named Joy, “Cinders” is from my work in progress. All the best to everyone who, like Joy, resists patriarchy.
thebookendsreview.com/2024/06/10/c...
thebookendsreview.com/2024/06/10/c...
An American in Denmark participates in a study designed to help him retrieve his earliest memories with the intention of discovering the genesis of his Tourette syndrome in K.E. Semmel’s heartbreaking, humorous, and hopeful novel. THE BOOK OF LOSMAN is a wonderful read. @kesemmel.bsky.social
October 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM
An American in Denmark participates in a study designed to help him retrieve his earliest memories with the intention of discovering the genesis of his Tourette syndrome in K.E. Semmel’s heartbreaking, humorous, and hopeful novel. THE BOOK OF LOSMAN is a wonderful read. @kesemmel.bsky.social
Happy to have three new poems, “Horse School,” “Heart Study,” and “The Secrets of Water and Air,” published by The Word’s Faire, an independent press based in Dayton, Ohio.
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‘Horse School’, ‘Heart Study’& ‘The Secrets of Water and Air’ — THE WORD'S FAIRE
Teresa Burns Murphy is the author of a novel, The Secret to Flying (TigerEye Publications). Her writing has been published in several places, including Chicago Quarterly Review, Evening Street Review...
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October 2, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Happy to have three new poems, “Horse School,” “Heart Study,” and “The Secrets of Water and Air,” published by The Word’s Faire, an independent press based in Dayton, Ohio.
www.thewordsfaire.com/words/z4cvpk...
www.thewordsfaire.com/words/z4cvpk...
There are just 2 WEEKS left until the release of THE BOOK OF LOSMAN by @kesemmel.bsky.social! Don't wait, preorder your copy today! https://buff.ly/4e9bKtB
September 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I just finished reading Mike Hixenbaugh’s book, THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS. I recommend it to anyone who is concerned about what is happening with America’s public schools. @mikehixenbaugh.bsky.social
September 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I just finished reading Mike Hixenbaugh’s book, THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS. I recommend it to anyone who is concerned about what is happening with America’s public schools. @mikehixenbaugh.bsky.social
The personal is the political in Leslie Pietrzyk’s collection of DC-based stories. I really enjoyed reading ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE. @lesliepwriter.bsky.social
July 31, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The personal is the political in Leslie Pietrzyk’s collection of DC-based stories. I really enjoyed reading ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE. @lesliepwriter.bsky.social
I got such a nice note yesterday from the editor of Black Lawrence Press letting me know that my short story collection has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2024 Hudson Prize. blacklawrencepress.com/the-2024-hud...
The 2024 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists - Black Lawrence Press
We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2024 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Prose Finalists The Earth Room – Dana Diehl ...
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June 30, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I got such a nice note yesterday from the editor of Black Lawrence Press letting me know that my short story collection has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2024 Hudson Prize. blacklawrencepress.com/the-2024-hud...