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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 19d
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁

ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!

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Have you seen/heard this one by Jenna Cardinale?

That ending!
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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c-late.bsky.social
Oh hey, it's meeeee. Thanks @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for giving "potato" new life! ❤️
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 6d
“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”

- @c-late.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
voicemailpoems.bsky.social
“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”

- @c-late.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
voicemailpoems.bsky.social
“As a recluse / I really went / all out"

- @jennacardinale.bsky.social

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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.”

- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro

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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”

- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)

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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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aporianautics.bsky.social
so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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aporianautics.bsky.social
Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 14d
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"

- Lauren Mills

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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"

- Lauren Mills

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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”

- Alexa Vallejo

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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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c-late.bsky.social
More of the Fall issue awesomeyamazingyness over at Voice Mail Poems. Hearing this poem by Juniper Danger is chef's kiss and visceral.
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 17d
“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”

- Juniper Danger

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November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”

- Juniper Danger

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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”

- John Muro

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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”

- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”

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November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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aporianautics.bsky.social
Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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jennacardinale.bsky.social
Thanks to @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for including a poem of mine in this issue. Listen up!
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
voicemailpoems.bsky.social
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁

ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!

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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Sep 4
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨

voicemailpoems.org/submit

🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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one week left to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 👻
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Sep 4
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨

voicemailpoems.org/submit

🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“I dreamed of a canoe, and of the two of us”

- Devan Murphy

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September 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The Urge is open for poetry and art!

Deadline: Sept 22nd!

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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social
Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication.

Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Flyer for Pigeon Pages Poetry Contest Deadline Extended! September 19 Winner receives $250 and publication Judged by Cecily Parks (There is also a photo of Cecily and images of yellow flowers)
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
voicemailpoems.bsky.social
“But dawn,
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
 
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”

- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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two more weeks to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 🎃
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Sep 4
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨

voicemailpoems.org/submit

🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
September 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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paradiselaust.bsky.social
A poem that’ll be in my forthcoming book, This Elegance, in the summer issue of @voicemailpoems.bsky.social ☕️
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Sep 16
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”

- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)

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September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM