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Up the Staircase Quarterly

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An online journal of poetry & art. posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social http://www.upthestaircase.org

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 1

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!

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November 1st 😊

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are open for submissions of poetry and art until September 15th: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · Aug 13

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social (Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social (Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/up-the-staircase-quarterly-2990 #amwriting

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 2

Day 2: “Last Night at Good Luck Bar” by Catherine Fletcher in @upthestaircase.bsky.social. I LOVE the “platonic love” theme of their recent issue! This poem feels so nostalgic and reminds me of nights out with my best friends. www.upthestaircase.org/catherine-fl...

Catherine Fletcher

Our boy-girl-boy trio huddles together, at a booth with half-full hurricanes. For you, I’ve crawled across our sprawly city to the junction where Sunset bends. I lean on my umbrella, and it pops...

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cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm thrilled to have my poem "Last Night at Good Luck Bar" for my friends Jeff/ @jorgill.bsky.social & Tony in this stellar issue. Many thanks to editor April Bratten & the USQ team!

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 1

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!

www.upthestaircase.org

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm honored to have a poem for my friend Jerica up today in @upthestaircase.bsky.social in their 70th issue "Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love," celebrating friendship & community. Happy this poem found a home in this special issue & in good company. Gratitude, editors, & cheers to all contributors.

Rebecca Hart Olander

Thirty years since Jerica and I earned Monadnock’s rocky summit, popping blueberries into our mouths, sprawled in a dirty pile of newfound friends after a precollege trip. We were close to...

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're so happy to have you in this issue 💕

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you to the editors for including my poem in this beautiful issue in such kindred company. ♥️ @upthestaircase.bsky.social

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 1

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!

www.upthestaircase.org

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Aug 1

We decided to sweeten your Friday with our themed summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love is now live!

www.upthestaircase.org

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Screen Door Review @screendoorreview.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈

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Vismai Rao @vismai.bsky.social · Jun 2

"If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead,
then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed

with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July
berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical."

Dream of the Moose Calf, Zeke Shomler in @upthestaircase.bsky.social
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Zeke Shomler

If alive, then all alone and bleeding. If dead, then freshly dead. If not alone, then swarmed with ants and flies, thick flies like biting July berries. If swarmed with maggots, biblical. If...

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · May 24

Celebrate friendship and community with Up the Staircase!

We are seeking poetry and art for our themed issue, Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love.

Deadline: July 1st

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · May 23

We are seeking cover art submissions for our future issues!

Cover art can be of any genre or discipline and must contain a *staircase* somewhere in the work (but does not have to be the focal point).

Visit our guidelines for more information: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

Up the Staircase Quarterly

a journal of poetry and art

www.upthestaircase.org

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · May 8

Check out our guidelines to submit to our themed issue celebrating friendship, community, and platonic love: www.upthestaircase.org

Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · May 6

Submissions are now open for our special issue Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love. Send us your work about friendship and community:

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a husky dog is looking at the camera with the words `` everybody has that one friend . ''

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Dr. Rachel Turney @rachelturney.bsky.social · May 5

#upthestaircase Read the latest from @upthestaircase.bsky.social

See my photo taken in Barga, Italy on the cover! #barga #italy #stonesteps

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · May 2

The new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly is here 👀 www.upthestaircase.org

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Apr 26

We are bringing our themed summer issues back ✨️

We will be looking for poetry and art submissions that highlight friendship and community for our August issue. Submissions open May 1st 👀

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · Apr 4

Or this one from a couple of years ago in @upthestaircase.bsky.social (choosing these ones for you since you're an ecopoet!) www.upthestaircase.org/jill-kitchen...

Jill Kitchen

the finches are having an evening party in the tree. skateboards are cracking against sidewalk a block away while your son throws ladder balls and narrates each move in the fading light by...

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Mar 21

Ready your poems. This summer we are bringing back our themed issues! On May 1st we will open to submissions for our Kindred Issue: Poems on Platonic Love.

More details soon.

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Mar 15

Have some poems ready for submission? Tonight is the deadline to submit for our May issue:

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Up the Staircase Quarterly

a journal of poetry and art

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · Feb 14

I love you as in let's face down climate catastrophe together. ❤️🐟🦐
(poem pubbed last year by the lovely folks at @upthestaircase.bsky.social)
#lovepoem #poetrysky #valentines

Chiara Di Lello | Shrimp (A Love Poem)
It sounds like bickering but I realize it’s not: the couple
shuffles just ahead of us toward the seafood department
one gesturing from captain’s seat behind the cart’s
handlebar and one leaning into the cold case. Get some
salmon, too. Where? Right there. Not the eight ounces,
get the twelve, and it’s the loving exasperation, my sudden
certainty that they’ve done this a thousand, ten thousand times
that they’ve gone back and forth about whether to get
the farmed shrimp or wild, which kind is the bad one and
why pay more when we could just peel them ourselves?
By the time we are their age there may not be any shrimp
left tangoing in the trash-choked, superheated Pacific
and this store might be transformed to warehouse
FEMA supplies for climate refugees, our post-industrial town
may be islanded by rising sea levels and our house might sink
into the creek on the next lot but at least this is true:
when I move to nudge you and quietly point out the couple
I find your eyes and you are already looking at me, beaming
as we look with full hearts at what we hope against all odds to become.

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Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Vismai Rao @vismai.bsky.social · Feb 14

Sharing an old poem titled 'On Valentine's Day...' on Valentine's Day though it's not 'on' Valentine's Day :)

from Issue 64 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social
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