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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Sep 3

the tiny issue 14 is live!

The cover art Bedroom (2023) is by KB Jones.

Read the issue at thetinymag.com

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Jul 3

it’s the years people feel the least patriotic that you get the most / fireworks

Oki Sogumi from issue seven

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Jul 2

Farid Matuk from issue 8

"Space isn't empty"

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Apr 2

Alice Notley from issue 11

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Apr 1

This year marks 20 years since the tiny published its first issue. Today, we’re opening submissions for our fourteenth issue.

the tiny adheres to the guidelines of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

See more details here:

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Mar 13

Kyle Dacuyan from issue nine

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Reposted by the tiny

G Myers @ginabird.bsky.social · Mar 5

Honored to have a selection from my forthcoming book in the March/April issue of American Poetry Review. You can read it online too: aprweb.org/poems/from-w...

Thanks, @elizabethscanlon.bsky.social!

Sitting on a wood table is the March/April 2025 issue of American Poetry Review featuring a photo of Alex Dimitrov. A finger is pointing to text on the cover that says, “Gina Myers / from Works & Days”

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Mar 2

Craig Santos Perez from issue 5

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Mar 1

truly! we love stephanie's poems

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 26

or sincerity—minor/major/otherwise/in. It was good noodles

under stuttered brown light. My understanding cast itself

into the line drawing we inhabit—pushing, pushing.

@azimmerman.bsky.social from issue 9

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Amie Zimmerman — the tiny

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 26

less space than me; how I wag my pallbearer’s head

at any less than full collapse; how there is purpose

to cartography beyond counting the measure. I almost left!

Year of jubilation! My practice of writing about desire for silence

does not bring me closer to the totality of perfect rest

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 26

Take the foot, for example, as the accessible metaphor

& since it has now been mentioned, spoiled. Conceptual thought

starts as a lie; the permit was paid for just not on time. The structure

of self is that each person packed into this room needs

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 18

something inside you finally feels instinctual
says it should be $5
your stomach says $5
not the chicken

Violet Spurlock from issue 11

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Violet Spurlock — the tiny

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 18

if we lived in poems
we’d never watch TV
well, we would, but with an audience
watching us trying to be an audience
awkward to have a record
of aimless spirals’ varying degrees of casualness
some days nothing crystallizes
until you see an overpriced chicken

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 14

Stephanie Cawley — the tiny

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 14

down my chest. I let you
take it off me, in my mind,
because you were far away.
I felt impossibly jealous
of your hands on a glass
in Philadelphia. Of the glass,
I mean, which got to
touch you. It was so dumb.

Stephanie Cawley from issue 12

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 14

You can’t see
your own face, what I kept
repeating the day we hardly
left bed. When we did
we watched a man turn into
a fly on film. A life was just
a collection of images
happening to one person.
A kind of screen
for experience. I wanted,
vaguely, to cry.
I wore a shirt that buttoned

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 14

I had to pretend
I hadn’t just made myself
come. I couldn’t remember
if I washed the wetness
off my hands. For days
I thought of nothing
but getting you off.
It was humid. I sweat through
my shirts. I couldn’t
tell anyone, kept studying
my face in the mirror.

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 12

who put away the altar years ago

And care. What is it?

Raquel Gutiérrez from issue 4
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Raquel Gutiérrez — the tiny

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 12

be with someone that can find and put out the fires during a drought.

Who will take care of you when gossip surrounds you like revelers and effigy, who will watch over the you

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 12

Follow The Spirit, The Trail of Slurring Auras

that ride the night tearful ad hominem inside an ambulance. Fighting cocks

inside your ribcage, the Internet said a heart attack.

Prattle the idle, coaxing needles needling the need to

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 4

I love to brandish my conflicted lips
dry goods some just raid I
wear my karma so it shows

Steven Alvarez from issue 6

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 4

to a small town lawyer little
lettuce a bunch of poison arrows
but I watched
how a mist cd coax it open
I exited the arena in my underwear waving a chair
do they make hand pajamas
I wuz lying in the bathtub infected but I still
remember it as a very good time

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the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Feb 4

my house
is my horse
I am never not surprised by yr gentleness
I just missed the most watched
television program ever among morning leaves
puddles the sun bees hovered
abt the sugar skulls dirty & sweet on the rusty
candelabras candied violet
in the skull’s last hat I really want to stick it

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