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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 9h

Today on Glass!

"with my back to the city" by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey (@esmepromise.bsky.social)!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Image of fire

Text: So I will meet you
at the summit. Dirt
in my stomach —
gardens of it.

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey

with my back to the city

https://www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 7h

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 1d

Keep an eye out folks! Our Fall 2025 Issue will be out October 15th! Featuring all kinds of eco-writing and translation from a wonderful set of new and established writers.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 11h

"June carries drifts

gliding his gentle hand guiding
stamen to release, against aching
stamen..."

—earth justice zadok

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earth justice zadok :: POLLEN SONG – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 11h

"June carries drifts

gliding his gentle hand guiding
stamen to release, against aching
stamen..."

—earth justice zadok

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/e...

earth justice zadok :: POLLEN SONG – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 1d

"with your medicine
we can talk with plants
in their own language
gleaming green resounding
in eardrums, throat, and heart
we sing to roots and chlorophyll"

—Cherolyn Kay Fischer

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Cherolyn Kay Fischer :: “forage: waagaagin” and “ode/ode’“ – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 1d

"with your medicine
we can talk with plants
in their own language
gleaming green resounding
in eardrums, throat, and heart
we sing to roots and chlorophyll"

—Cherolyn Kay Fischer

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/c...

Cherolyn Kay Fischer :: “forage: waagaagin” and “ode/ode’“ – ALOCASIA

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 2d

My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2d

"They would have poisoned the land, too.
Sprayed weed-killer, as though raspberries are weeds,
all to plant Christmas trees
to be murdered each December.
Dad told them that weed killer would poison our spring."

—Shantell Powell :: “Raspberry Elegy”

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Shantell Powell :: “Honey in the End Times” and “Raspberry Elegy” – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 3d

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2d

"They would have poisoned the land, too.
Sprayed weed-killer, as though raspberries are weeds,
all to plant Christmas trees
to be murdered each December.
Dad told them that weed killer would poison our spring."

—Shantell Powell :: “Raspberry Elegy”

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/s...

Shantell Powell :: “Honey in the End Times” and “Raspberry Elegy” – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 3d

if you leave bsky, stay in touch:

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

Mixed floral and cactus background. Text reading: The 2025 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. This year's awardee is Mukethe Kawinzi. Supported by finding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Want to support Sundress Academy for the Arts AND get cool stuff? Check out our new online auction with some amazing donated books and more from our alumni, authors, and more! paybee.io/quickpay.htm...

SAFTA/Sundress fundraising auction

As many of you know, Sundress’ residency program nurtures and empowers writers underrepresented in literary publishing. “Amazing,” “life-changing,” and “productive” are some of the words used to descr...

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud!

It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are

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Alocasia leaf background. Text reads "Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue"

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 5d

Over the moon to get to make this announcement!!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

"for this apple
to be placed on the dirt, its
veins emptied,

apple juice pooled,
its beet-red bodice becoming
unclear.

I could then
vocalise. I never spoke
until I wrote

my first words—"

—Dorothy Lune :: “Eden, use your words”

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Dorothy Lune :: “Eden, use your words” and “Ghost apples” – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Mukethe Kawinzi lives and works on a ranch in california. She loves the goats and adores the grass but is happy, in recent months, to be in the world alongside humans once more.

You can find out more about her at: www.mukethekawinzi.com

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d

"for this apple
to be placed on the dirt, its
veins emptied,

apple juice pooled,
its beet-red bodice becoming
unclear.

I could then
vocalise. I never spoke
until I wrote

my first words—"

—Dorothy Lune :: “Eden, use your words”

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/d...

Dorothy Lune :: “Eden, use your words” and “Ghost apples” – ALOCASIA

alocasia.org

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 6d

"you nightmare’d sucking colors from the rhododendrons
left with a garden of floating fish eyes–open, unblinking,
their lashes crusted with pollen..."

—syan jay :: “CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF YOUR ROOTS”

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syan jay :: “CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF YOUR ROOTS” – ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 6d

"you nightmare’d sucking colors from the rhododendrons
left with a garden of floating fish eyes–open, unblinking,
their lashes crusted with pollen..."

—syan jay :: “CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF YOUR ROOTS”

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/s...

syan jay :: “CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF YOUR ROOTS” – ALOCASIA

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