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V.C. Myers
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Fmr V.C. McCabe | author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) & Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019) | Fmr editor/reader Muruch, Barren, Ice Floe, Frontier, Sarabande Books | work in EPOCH, Poet Lore, etc. http://vcmyers.com
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V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social · Nov 7
For those that don't know, I'm the poet formerly known as V.C. McCabe. New name, new life, all good.
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love Ed Harcourt's new album, Orphic. Especially the songs "O' Gentle Death" & "Mercurial." Hints of Elliot Smith & The Church.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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read this beautiful poem!
readinstead.bsky.social Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10h
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
vcmyers.bsky.social
these random firepit evenings w/ friends & family are my new favorite thing to do. we're trying to do it as often as we can before winter sets in.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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shout it from the rooftops!
anthonyframe.bsky.social Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 1d
casual reminder that saying you're interested in submissions from underprivileged and underrepresented writers falls a little flat when you're also charging folks to submit
anthonyframe.bsky.social Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 1d
literally just checked 25 journals I was going to submit to and every one of them charges a fee.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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mathewyates.bsky.social
not quite done but finished for the night and feel like sharing
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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friend: I just baked macaroons

me: I just wrote a poem from the perspective of a serial killer's wife
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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sjane.bsky.social
What if someone had told me, thirty / years ago: if you give up now…

“The Easel,” Sharon Olds
Poem by Sharon Olds from the book “Stag’s Leap”
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
Kestrels are such handsome birds. Lots out and about today, their plumage even more striking than usual. This shot captures the colors and patterns well.
A male kestrel mid-flight above a meadow in late fall. His blue-gray wings, accented with dark tips and white dots, are spread wide; his coppery red tail, dipped in black, is fanned out. His back is copper flecked black, his head blue, his face white, his black beak small and sharply curved. He appears to be glancing over his shoulder at the viewer.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
vcmyers.bsky.social
Death by Lightning is one of those shows that feels like someone made it just for me. Obscure history, dark humor, Michael Shannon, Michael MacFadyen, & Nick Offerman. Love it.
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I used to think Bon Jovi sang "swap spit w/ the sky for you"
grousehollow.bsky.social Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 4d
My wife’s friend in high school thought the song went “Don’t go, Jason Waterfalls…”
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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firepit & wine evenings w/ family & friends is soothing to my weary soul
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social
An herb for January! This issue will be themed "Wintergreen," so send us your poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations inspired by themes of hope, persistence, and endurance. Human resilience this winter!

Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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NEW ISSUE KLAXON!!

Strange Play: The Voidspace TTRPG Special is now live!

Trains, ghosts, an ant's eye view: there's a whole bunch of weird and wonderful games for you to try.

Now play on 🖤

voidspacezine.com/ttrpg-special/
Strange Play: TTRPG Special
Ice, Snow and the Quest for Salvation by Rat in a Suit DELETION – Dead End by Kyle Tam We Are the Land by Rat in a Suit 200 Word Backstory by Gary Chadwick It’s the ANT of the World by …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Well I have a new favorite poem. I sure felt this one, @martin65.bsky.social!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 6d
got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!

https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
November 19, 2025 In Retrospect Catherine Rockwood She never did laugh when he did.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
Look at this political cartoon my student made based on Hamlet!
A political cartoon of Hamlet mourning his father while Claudius and Gwrtrude get married.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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grousehollow.bsky.social
Parsley, sage, rosemary, *and* thyme? In this economy? At Scarborough Fair prices?
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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mehpoeting.bsky.social
Do I have a new collection in preorder from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social coming out in the spring? Why yes I do!
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
What if all our doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog?
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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See, I told you to watch All Her Fault! Go now go!
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9d
I always wanted to watch “Succession” specifically because of Sarah Snook but I just couldn’t take it. (No, no, I’m not asking for feedback or persuasive.) Thankfully, I just started #AllHerFault and the look she just gave her husband???????? WHEW!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social
New poem in Redivider out of Emerson College. It’s in an issue of their Blurred Genre series so check it out if that appeals to you. redivider.emerson.edu/visual-purple/
Visual Purple – Redivider
redivider.emerson.edu
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
This is tomorrow night!

Register here to see @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
A NAWP reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas ans Daniella Toosie Watson. Nov. 17th 7 to 8pm EST
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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redividermag.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to share that the newest issue of Redivider is out today! Check out 23.1 and all of our wonderful contributors here: redivider.emerson.edu
New: Redivider, a journal for New Literature. New issue of Redivider out today! Explorations in form, voice, and social consciousness. In the center of the image, there is a piece of art from a past issue in an oil pastel style, depicting a pink nude woman surrounded by a blue seat and a green eye.
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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if you ever want to know what it looks like when I pack for a trip ...
nematode.bsky.social J.D. Ho @nematode.bsky.social · 11d
Is it ambitious to take this many library books to family Thanksgiving? I am halfway through writing my new book, and I need these books to stare at me and ask if I am working.
A tote bag filled with eight Library books. They are stood up on their ends so that we just see the tops of them, all the pages
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM