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A journal of text, art, and schematic. Kicking it since 1999. Published by New Michigan Press. Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 8d

New issue DIAGRAM 25.3 LET'S GOOOO thediagram.com/25_3/index.h...

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks to the editors of @eldiagram.bsky.social for including this Barbie poem alongside so much other great work!

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 8d

well well well look at those beauties

Jerboa Lit @jerboalit.bsky.social · 8d

THIS FRIDAY is our third Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction writing contest, and we can see it in the cards: It’ll be a good one.

One lucky honorable mention will win this gorgeous set of tarot cards from @eldiagram.bsky.social — could it be you?

Register at jerboalit.com!

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · Aug 16

“In this delicious game we call love,
Paracelsus lost 88 to 74, / which is why he slept with his sword, never / changed clothes, and developed ethyl ether.” —Jason Bredle, “If It’s Shot out of a Cannon, a Box of Kleenex Can Kill You” @eldiagram.bsky.social

IF IT’S SHOT OUT OF A CANNON, A BOX OF KLEENEX CAN KILL YOU . Today I am listening to disdainful telephone hanging upping and a mother regurgitating food for her two kids, Justin and Skyler. Today I am knowing too much about Screech Powers and not enough about lucrative financial management. I haven’t felt warmth in over 24 hours. Today I am listening to a plastic sack being thrown over my head as I am kidnapped. I’m hopeful for a high seas adventure like that jerk kid in Robert Louis Stephenson’s Kidnapped, I’m hopeful that Zack has the opportunity to feel up Kelly on the rafting trip Rod Belding has planned for the Bayside gang and that Jessie overcomes her drug addiction to one day star in an adult themed film that I’ll watch years later while on the verge of suicide. Today I am remaining

in my head and not relapsing. Today I am listening to myself accidentally tumble into a well, where I will be trapped for three days before firemen finally come to my heroic rescue and I am championed to the nation on the cover of People magazine before completing the talk show rounds and making a cameo on a popular NBC sitcom. You will briefly worship me, oh nation of infidels, then I shall take my place among you. I believe it was the great Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder who said we are like sparrows, always regurgitating, always swirling about the heavens. I believe it was the great Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder who also said blame not my lute, for my lute is merely a phallic symbol in this delicious game we call love. In this delicious game we call love, I am winning 40 to 36 at halftime. Still, coach thinks I’m not adequately blocking out

and for the second half we’ve planned a box and one defense on my lover. Today I am remaining in my head and not relapsing. Today I am listening to the Chipmunks record my father proclaimed genius at Thanksgiving dinner. In this delicious game we call love, Paracelsus lost 88 to 74, which is why he slept with his sword, never changed clothes, and developed ethyl ether. If you had syphilis, he’d make you eat mercury. Afterwards, there would be only a dark, red sky, a pool retreating beyond the architecture. Today I am remaining in my head and not relapsing. Today I am walking across a parking lot toward a railway station. I am winning this delicious game we call love, yet I am losing. I am regurgitating my food for a sparrow with a broken wing, for a sparrow at a railway station in a hurry to meet a sparrow in Sparrowtown, to meet a freezing sparrow under a dark red, sparrow-enlivened sky. Jason Bredle

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 8d

oh man this is an old school banger

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · Aug 27

“All those years an avatar of rage and fury: / my feathers gone in fits until I’m ink / and nubbled flesh, pink. A poor meal, / by my naked look. A long knife in a dark / drawer” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “Donald Duck’s Lament” @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/3_5/guest.html

DIAGRAM :: Paul Guest

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 8d

New issue DIAGRAM 25.3 LET'S GOOOO thediagram.com/25_3/index.h...

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Jun 17

For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.

www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...

Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation

The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Jul 14

Send us work! Deadline tomorrow!

DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Jul 14

Reminder that our yearly Chapbook Contest Deadline is TOMORROW. Details: thediagram.com/contest.html

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Really like both the @catherineweiss.bsky.social poems in the new DIAGRAM magazine (@eldiagram.bsky.social), one pasted below, the other is called "The Multitool" and you can read it here: thediagram.com/25_2/weiss.h...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · Jul 6

"We couldn't find an end to things. We'd lost all sense of narrative." Great essay by Katherine Zlabek in the newest @eldiagram.bsky.social
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DIAGRAM :: Katherine Zlabek

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Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now available from @eldiagram.bsky.social:

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Paul Cunningham, Sociocide at the 24/7 (print + pdf) – DIAGRAM

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March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 14

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Jul 14

Reminder that our yearly Chapbook Contest Deadline is TOMORROW. Details: thediagram.com/contest.html

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jul 1

So happy to be able to share my little mousetrap piece, up @eldiagram.bsky.social now, with my fellow contributors and you! 💃🥰💃

Thank you, Ander Monson and everyone at DIAGRAM!!!

(PS: click on the image to get a bigger version, esp. if you use your phone.)
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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · Jul 2

My work is featured in DIAGRAM 25.2. Thank you editor Ander Monson.

#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity

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Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social · Jul 3

You can learn more about SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (available from @eldiagram.bsky.social) at the link below: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

Paul Cunningham, Sociocide at the 24/7 (print + pdf) – DIAGRAM

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · Jul 3

DIAGRAM has been a dream publication for me for a long, long time, so i'm so happy to be able to say i have two poems in this issue!

DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Jul 1

DIAGRAM 25.2
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Olivia Garard @teaandtactics.bsky.social · Jul 3

My poem “Romeo and Juliett” was just published with @eldiagram.bsky.social.

Check it out: thediagram.com/25_2/garard....

DIAGRAM :: Olivia Garard

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · Apr 29

“This room fills with air when I leave it, / like a heart with blood, or lives with time— / the matters of course ticked off / like seconds or groceries presently needed / and absently bought.” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “Apogean” @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/1_1/guest1.h...

DIAGRAM >> Apogean

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · May 17

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · May 21

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Jul 1

nice

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Megan Baxter @meganbaxter.bsky.social · May 21

I'm excited to share that my short piece 'All Made-Up' has been selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology! And thank you to The Diagram for originally publishing the piece!
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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Jul 1

DIAGRAM 25.2
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Carrie George @carriegpoet.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hi Bluesky—excited to be in this issue of DIAGRAM! Read it all???

DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Apr 1

Speaking of new issues it's the first one of our 25th freaking year! Welcome DIAGRAM 25.1 thediagram.com/25_1

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