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Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem) @morganvl.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out @clbpoetry.bsky.social new chapbook out with the fabulous folks @ghostcitypress.bsky.social !

Chris is an incredible poet so don’t miss this

Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pub day 🎉 my new chapbook INSIDE THE GARDEN OF ALCHEMY WITH DMX AND KARL MARX is out today with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

Special thanks to Kevin and Justin for bringing this project to publication

Enjoy centos from DMX and Marx. FREE / pay what you can model

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Inside the Garden of Alchemy with DMX and Karl Marx by Chris L. Butler Published August 22, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sealey Challenge 2025, Day 27: from the @ghostcitypress.bsky.social microchap Rowhouse Song by Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social), "gianna, gianna"

gianna, gianna
1987

sweet sweet summer has a name and it’s
gianna marino the sleek teen queen
of waverly st.

gianna with the black-magic curls windswept
gianna the girl forever homecoming and going

gianna the wild-one who gave two for flinching
caught gassing up the alley kids

with candy-sweet smokes
from the cornershop

our folks cried o gonegirl o choirgirl
fallen from such angelic heights but

it was gianna always who called in
the neighborhood kids in time for supper

her orange-violet tones carried in
the dusky afterglow

it was gianna true that feral sunsetting
screech-machine the rasp in her voice

unheard of before this very summer
gianna the teen dream perched rooftop

laid out on her stripey beach towel
that fourth of july

in the blazing sun all the livelong day tanned herself a deep deep purple

til her whole body became one big
plummy bruise

raven-like and violet-black
silken with ooze

across the alley we watched her
poor old dad shoo her away

with a kitchen-broom
like some dark harpy

her eyes straw-scratched
and black hair full of splinters

our folks said looks like
she musta finally flew the coop
flew the coop

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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · Aug 25

Issue No. 10 of & Change is now available for preorder! Get your copy here: www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-10

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 23

The 2025 Summer Series concludes today with INSIDE THE GARDEN OF ALCHEMY WITH DMX AND KARL MARX by Chris L. Butler (@clbpoetry.bsky.social‬)!! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pub day 🎉 my new chapbook INSIDE THE GARDEN OF ALCHEMY WITH DMX AND KARL MARX is out today with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

Special thanks to Kevin and Justin for bringing this project to publication

Enjoy centos from DMX and Marx. FREE / pay what you can model

ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Inside the Garden of Alchemy with DMX and Karl Marx — Ghost City Press

Inside the Garden of Alchemy with DMX and Karl Marx by Chris L. Butler Published August 22, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

ghostcitypress.com

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 21

THE TENTH FALL OF MOSES by Obinna Okwesili is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 20

OUR CITY WON'T BE LONELY ANYMORE by Para Vadhahong is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm so grateful to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for publishing my microchap Tithe of Trees in their fab Summer Series! Huge thanks to guest editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and Gabrielle Grace Hogan for choosing it.

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 19

TITHE OF TREES by Kelly E. Sullivan (@real-immirage.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 19

TITHE OF TREES by Kelly E. Sullivan (@real-immirage.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · Aug 19

Issue 10 is on the way! Full cover reveal coming soon 👀

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Lisa @saltlock.bsky.social · Aug 19

Delighted to have a new chapbook out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

You can read it here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Danielle McMahon also has a brand new microchip out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!!! Check it out! ☔️👇 Congrats, @dehm000.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Jul 30

ROWHOUSE SONG by Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 18

AMERICAN FRACTURE by Brittany Mishra (@brittanymishra.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 18

WE HAVE TRAVELED FAR DOING NOTHING MORE THAN CALLING OUT FOR HOME. by Lisa Ciccarello (@saltlock.bsky.social‬) is now available as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Aug 14

Inch contributor Christopher Citro has a new, free, downloadable collection.

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 14

I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST by Christopher Citro (@christophercitro.bsky.social‬) & Dustin Nightingale is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Tinamarie Cox @tinamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 15

#sealeychallenge2025 @ghostcitypress.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social
31 Days of August = 31 Books of Poetry
#sealychallenge #poetry #poets #poems #poetrychallenge #readingchallenge #poetrybooks #poetrychapbooks #readmorepoetry #poetryisnotdead
#poetryisforeveryone #tinamariethinkstoomuch

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sealey Challenge 2025, Day 17: from Marc Alan Di Martino's 2023 @ghostcitypress.bsky.social microchap Love Poem with Pomegranate, "Office Orchid"

Office Orchid

The orchid flowers purple, stains the room
a winey tint of red. White walls wash mango
pink. I sense an encroaching tangle creep
as if this solo tropical sojourner
were on a mission to reveal the deep
wild undergrowth of this aseptic space.
Rorschach starbursts tinge its belly berry.
Its calyx, inked with fruity residue,
explodes to constellate the windowsill
where cityscape and rainforest commingle
synthetically, improbably. Water it
promiscuously and you strangle it
with care. Too little, and it dies of air.

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 14

I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST by Christopher Citro (@christophercitro.bsky.social‬) & Dustin Nightingale is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Tinamarie Cox @tinamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 14

#sealeychallenge2025 @poetjohncompton.bsky.social
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social
31 Days of August = 31 Books of Poetry
#sealychallenge #poetry #poets #poems #poetrychallenge #readingchallenge #poetrybooks #poetrychapbooks #readmorepoetry #poetryisnotdead
#poetryisforeveryone #tinamariethinkstoomuch

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 14

(forgot to share)

#SealeyChallenge 13 of 31

Fire Sermons (2021) by @rayehendrix.bsky.social

via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

A reread because I love these poems so much.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale (@dustinnightingale.bsky.social ) has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or pay whatever you want!
HUGE thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · Aug 12

In anticipation of the upcoming release from Ghost City Press of "I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest, a micro-chapbook of collaborative poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, here's a short film!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVFX...
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Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale "Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music"

YouTube video by Christopher Citro

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 13

HAPPY IDEAS by Valentine Freeman is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 12

ROSES BRICKS BLOOD by Ulyses Razo is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Come with me to the empty banks of the Thames when it runs through the parts of the city you didn't know were there!

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 11

IN THE BLOOD by Dani Salvadori (@danisalvadori.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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