Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 8h

If you're thinking of entering this year's €11,000 Moth Poetry Prize, the perfect place to start is in our archives...

Grab one from just €5 and take inspiration from some of The Moth's most-loved poets: bit.ly/pastmoths

1 4

Reposted by The Moth Magazine

Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · 11h

To anyone who is currently looking to place their work: The Moth Poetry Prize is back, adjudicated this year by Ishion Hutchinson.

Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

The Moth Poetry Prize is now OPEN!

One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.

More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25

2 5

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

A Tuesday throwback from the #MothArchives, Chinese painter Wen Wu's gorgeous piece 'Wild Swan', which appeared on the cover of Issue 22.

🦢 bit.ly/pastmoths

1

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 5d

Hello October! 👋 For #SharingSunday, show us your favorite pieces of art that remind you of the season.

🎨 John Everett Millais

2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

❛ I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Getting a little existential this weekend with Kit Fan's 'Year of the Rat', from the #MothArchives 🐁

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

❛ I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.

Artist Pierre Bonnard, born #OTD in 1867.

1 5

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

The Moth Poetry Prize is now OPEN!

One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.

More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25

1

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

❛ I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

W. S. Merwin, born #OTD in 1927.

2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

The theme of this week's Moth Studios Challenge is correspondence. Complete your piece within two hours and submit to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM) from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening: facebook.com/TheMothStudios

Open to everyone. Please share and good luck!

🎨 Franz Nolken

1 1

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 13d

Ukrainian artist Kateryna Kosianenko's 'Bunny', which featured in Issue 49 of The Moth. 🐇 #ArtistSpotlight

2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 14d

❛ To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Poet T. S. Eliot, who was born #OTD in 1888.

1 1 3

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 15d

On a beautiful country lane surrounded by some of Cavan's famous 365 lakes, The Moth Retreat is the perfect getaway for up to two writers or artists in rural Ireland...

Visit our website for more details and how to apply: www.themothmagazine.com

3

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 16d

LESS THAN ONE WEEK TO GO! 🍂

Time is running out to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize - closing on 30 September.

We want to read your poems and prose about your relationship with the natural world, for the chance to win up to €1,000.

bit.ly/mothnature25

(Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe)

1 2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 16d

There's an issue of The Caterpillar for every season...

Take Issue 30 for example –– haunted houses, circus acts, monsters, banjos, even excuses for not doing your homework.

Perfect for the spooky months.
👻 bit.ly/caterpillarbackissues

1

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 17d

❛ One of the things I’ve been doing recently is I’ve gotten interested in chickens. Hen-keeping. I could see how I could easily become a chicken farmer.

An interview with poultry enthusiast and poet, Paul Muldoon, originally from Issue 12 🐓 → bit.ly/pastmoths

2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

An after work treat...

American painter Zoey Frank's 'Blueberries', from Issue 36 #MothArchives 🫐

1 2

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19d

❛ Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax... bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do ― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Author Stephen King, born #OTD in 1947. 🎈

1

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 20d

A classic, from the #MothArchives, Sarah Tsiang's Forward Prize shortlisted poem, originally from Issue 40. 🍆

4

Reposted by The Moth Magazine

Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social · 22d

Beautiful, award-winning poem featured in @themothmagazine.bsky.social newsletter today. A treat to hear Ann Gray read "My Blue Hen."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjO...

Ann Gray | My Blue Hen | The Moth Poetry Prize 2013

YouTube video by The Moth Magazine

www.youtube.com

1 4

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 23d

Less than two weeks left to enter!

You could win a cash prize or a week at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland – and see your work published in the Irish Times online...

We want to hear from you.

🌷 bit.ly/mothnature25

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 25d

Here's 'Go Player' from Issue 44, by oil painter Jeffrey Chong Wang, who relocated from China to Canada in 1999 – his work reflects the history of Western oil painting techniques, with contemporary themes in Eastern culture. 💚 #MothArchives

1 5

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 26d

It's #SharingSunday again! And already halfway through the month, so let's share our favourite pieces of art that remind us of the month of September.

🎨 Vincent van Gogh, The garden of Saint Paul’s Hospital (‘Leaf-Fall’), 1889

7

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 27d

Saturdays are for Swedish flat-pack furniture stores. #MothArchives (from Issue 44) 💙

2 6

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 29d

‘An edition of The Moth is as much a finely weighted collage of text and image as it is a sturdy literary journal of international standing and aspect.’ Adrian Duncan

Interviews, poems, art and short stories, this way - a welcome distraction from reaching for your phone...

☎ bit.ly/pastmoths

2