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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the audio reading of the work too, it was a delight to read ;)

dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 2d

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE!

#litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

Poster that has a painting of a tattooed body submerged underwater, the head just poking out. The words say “Creative Debut, Read Katherine Souza’s piece in dogyard mag!” “There’s a lump in your throat. It’s wriggling. You say you don’t know why this happens when I touch your sternum. But I see the lump for what it is: a bird you swallowed to keep the chirping muffled in a corporeal tomb…”

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dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 7d

#dogyard is back with our last editor interview for a while. Over the next week, we'll be posting some fun stuff and hanging out!

Even if you hate my lame interview, please take the time to thank our editors and those that helped get us here. It's been a blessing and so much love all of our mutts!

poster featuring a child holding a baseball bat, wearing a cap with curly hair coming out the sides. the words say “Editor interview! dogyard is open, submit work! Join our monthly contest! Read Edith Krone’s interview!”

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Aug 17

The semester starts tomorrow. I’ll update this thread with teachings and discussions about each book as we discuss them throughout the semester! I’m missing a few that are in transit or on pre-order but about 18 books this semester for two classes and then a workshop that only has one. #booksky

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Aug 14

In reading our heritage, you find a love and trust instilled in you. We have always been the underdogs, always been attacked. Still, the work endures and there are those that built this world for us and it is our job to continue the work. Bless the work.

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today, #dogyard debuted our classical section. In my intro, I identified the importance of literary heritage. It truly means the world to me to know that I am apart of something larger than myself. With the arts being attacked, it is important to think of the past and the future we CAN build.

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Aug 8

So blessed for the reception. This mag is only a month and a half old and was only an idea that started in April. A great and dedicated staff that truly cares about literature and the work that we do. Love love love the #writingcommunity.

dogyard @dogyardmag.com · Aug 8

#dogyard is so appreciative of the reception and work we’ve received so far! Thanks for 1K!

In celebration, how about you send us your work so we can celebrate you too?! Submit #fiction, #art, #poetry, #cnf, #essay, and more!

#submissionsopen #writingcommunity #literarymagazine #litmag

Drawn dog wearing a party hat and bandana!

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Aug 7

Constant work this summer and I cannot exaggerate the amount of books I bought for class this week. I’ll post what a semester in an #MFA program looks like soon. Check out what we’re doing at @dogyardmag.com because we have a lot of posts up soon!
#booksky #writingcommunity #writer #writing #dogyard

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 17

Entirely not the move. Let me know if you have any online book clubs for poetry that you participate in 😭

Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 6

I joined my first book club today! A bit nervous bc I don’t know the vibe but I’m excited! #writer #poet #writingcommunity

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’m heartbroken to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. I’m blessed for the door they opened and paved the way for Spoken Word and performance poets. Andrea’s work in Button Poetry was a god-send for my teenage years and really allowed me to see this light that we all work in. Thank you, Andrea.

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dogyard @dogyardmag.com · Jul 9

Check out our first book review done by the brilliant @lillian-durr-art.bsky.social! Lillian covered the awe-inspiring debut from @cdeskilson.bsky.social!

dogyard mag is accepting fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and more!

#writing #writer #writingcommunity #poetry #review #bookreview

Poster featuring the cover of CD Eskilson's book, Scream/Queen, and a dog. The photo's text details a section of the book, "“...Scream/Queen’s horror concept is both playful and powerful... Eskilson makes it clear in their writing that there is more to the stories of all things we are told go bump in the night, redeeming monsters and redirecting horror tropes which have historically demonized trans experiences, while also creating a collection of poems that allows for the celebration of community, love, survival, and self...” -Lillian Durr"

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 7

There’s so much power in a single poem that the heat that you’ve built can really explode throughout!! I’m currently having to redo the syntax and making it more direct which is challenging. Feels like I am entirely rewriting everything but it’s a book! Each voice sings but the choir captivates.

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 7

Listen, I know it’s an art form. BUT! Ordering poems is the most bureaucratic process of writing. I’m at this step and it makes me want to NEVER WRITE AGAIN haha. Bless all y’all who have multiple books, I’m drowning in # 1

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 6

My writing advice on poem ordering in a manuscript is: have you tried folding them in, like cake ingredients? 🎂

a woman in a green apron is preparing eggs in a brown bowl

ALT: a woman in a green apron is preparing eggs in a brown bowl

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 6

I joined my first book club today! A bit nervous bc I don’t know the vibe but I’m excited! #writer #poet #writingcommunity

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jul 5

yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 4

Started the rewrite of my manuscript today and I am truly a little bit lost. Happy with the project, frustrated with pieces. Alas, the work continues. How many rewrites have you done for a project? #writer #writers #writingcommunity #poetry #wip #create

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jul 1

I am SO interested. I’m currently thinking of a similar topic as a longer project so please lmk if it gets published!

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jun 30

You’ve probably seen a notification from us, but I (along with some great friends) started a literary mag. It’s a big undertaking but the notes and reception has been so, so beautiful thus far. I’m so grateful for this. Blessings always. Check out dogyardmag.com and bluesky @dogyardmag.bsky.social

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Featured Interview

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jun 30

Apparently using em dashes are a common indicator of AI?? I’m losing it. They’ve taken so much from me, but they can’t take her. #writing #writingcommunity

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jun 23

Moving into my new home for the next three years! I even have a garden now!!

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Jun 13

The one day every 5 months where you submit EVERYTHING and then wait again <3

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · May 16

Had a job interview today and I will always love them. Yes, please ask me random questions where you are required to listen to me ramble about things that do NOT answer your question!

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · May 3

This week I started a CNF project and I cannot lie, I may be in love.

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just had a conversation about poetry so enlightening that I feel like I got beat up continuously for 45 years. But hey! I give my first live poetry reading in years next week!

Ozark Graduate Reading poster featuring readers and detailing the schools. It is on Saturday, April 26th at Two Friends Book in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Apr 10

Geffrey Davis ends every class with the quote “Get your breath back” which is very funny in context. I wonder if that quip inspired this poem.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Apr 9

This “Sonnet with Its Breath Knocked Out” by Geffrey Davis.

Sonnet With Its Breath Knocked Out
Mess
Mass
Miss
Muss
Moss
Moss

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · Apr 9

Grateful to have had Joy Priest speak to my class- I’ll give you the advice she departed with. “There’s a child in you that loved reading, tap into that.”

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