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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks!

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you to Epistemic Literary for nominating my poem "There Will Be Warnings" for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology!

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please congratulate our Best of the Net 2026 nominees!

Best of the Net
2026 Nominations
POETRY
CANDACE KRONEN I TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE issue 5
JAMES LILLIEFORS I THERE WILL BE
WARNINGS issue 5
ALLISON P. BROWN I REMEDY FOR
FASCISM issue 5
LOUIS FABER | EASTER issue 4
KATRIN REESE I MORDACIA PRAECOX THE AUSTRALIAN BROOK LAMPREY issue 4
ALLISON WALL I BEFORE YOU BURN ME
AT THE STAKE issue 4
ART
Original artwork by Melissa Fitzpatrick
SPEAK TRUTH, SPEAK FIRE issue 5
FICTION
HALEY DIRENZO | UPENDING THE GARDEN issue 4
LY FAULK | PIG FLU issue 5
CREATIVE NONFICTION GRETCHEN FILART I GARDENING DURING
A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE - issue 4
MAC CAREY I LAST LIGHT - issue 4

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wendell Berry reciting "The Peace of Wild Things."
Happy 91st birthday.
onbeing.org/poetry/the-p...

The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

onbeing.org

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Jun 15

Cover reveal for my chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS, which is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. www.finishinglinepress.com

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Jun 15

My poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Publication date is October 17.

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sudd...

SUDDEN SHADOWS 21 Poems of Love and Loss by James Lilliefors – Finishing Line Press

www.finishinglinepress.com

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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net · Oct 15

To this day, "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller remains my favorite poem ever written. It is simply beautiful.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52577/...

Monet Refuses the Operation

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Oatleaf Poetry Magazine @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social · Apr 11

James Lilliefors's poem Inversion is now available to read on Oatleaf! #poetry #indiepoetry #litmag #oatleaf

www.oatleafpoetry.com/2025/04/inve...

Inversion by James Lilliefors

... Start with things we know but can’t name. Sacred things our words have failed to find, falling headlong through open fingers into ...

www.oatleafpoetry.com

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Mar 15

Thanks to Third Wednesday magazine, and Editor David Jibson, for including my new poem "Seriously" in its upcoming spring edition.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · Feb 21

My poem "Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951" was published in @tahomareview.bsky.social today!

Thank you @jessicacuello.bsky.social!

tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e...

Edward Hopper's Rooms by the Sea where well lit rooms are adjacent to a blue sea that seems to begin right at the open door's threshold.

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Feb 21

Very nice poem! I have a framed print of this painting in my study.

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thank you to Hanna Nielson @hannaswork.bsky.social, EIC of The Belfast Review, for including my poems "Covered" and "The News Was Good" (a tribute to Jimmy Carter, written months before he passed away) in the third edition, which is now available from Amazon and online.

The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · Jan 31

Consider us launched! Issue 3 now available in our shop, or at the links below.

Feel free to screenshot & share your work, and help promote others. Tag us so we can like & repost 🍀

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Dec 31

Hopeful words from W.S. Merwin.

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Dec 20

LitHub asked some poets what our favorite poems of the year are and I picked two ("A Sunset" by Robert Haas and “The Poets Awoke” by m. nourbeSe Philip)

lithub.com/49-contemporary-...

50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024

In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…

lithub.com

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A.R. Williams @arwpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 11

So grateful for @jackbedell.bsky.social endorsement of my forthcoming book A WEATHERED SHIP. Pre-orders coming soon—stay tuned! 🌊📖

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Dec 18

My pleasure. What a great poem!

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Dec 18

"Strawberry Season," a lovely, thought-provoking poem from Susan L. Leary (@susanlleary.bsky.social).

www.arkint.org/magazine/sus...

Susan L. Leary — The Arkansas International

Strawberry Season

www.arkint.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Dec 14

"I am surprised sometimes
to hear late-at-night voices
through open windows
and realize those rooms
are still out there."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Some Rooms are Prayers by @jameslilliefors.bsky.social (2024 Amethyst Review) tinyurl.com/ykrdy6f4

Some Rooms are Prayers – a poem by James Lilliefors

Some Rooms are PrayersThe times they wanted me to think their thoughtsand I went on thinking mine. The times they expected meto hear, to see, to remember a certain way, and I tried, but couldn’t.Th…

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thank you to Editor Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social for including my poem "Playing Tennis with the Past" in the new print anthology from Rough Diamond Poetry Journal - on the important theme of Hope! The Hope anthology features about 75 poems.

Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · Nov 23

Our hope anthology is available from Amazon internationally. We are proud to have had so many amazing poets published in this. Hope can mean a million different things to different people and this showcases that #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing

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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · Nov 23

I love this poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Nov 23

this i think is the poem I’m most known for, and probably will be for the rest of my life

How to Live

Depravity begins with thinking of love

as a radical act. I quit loving

with difficulty. I love

easy now. Two parakeets on my shoulders.

They'll fly away if I move. So I move.

I love flight. I love cages

left wide open. I am not a window.

I could be a window. Open me,

you'll find a dense wood,

children wandering inside it.

Not lost children. They know the way.

They live the way horses run.

If they each had a bird in hand

they would open their hands.

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Dec 7

Powerful words from Susan Stewart.

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks!✌️

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Nov 26

It's much appreciated. And yes, I feel the same.

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thank you!
Nice to meet a fellow FLP poet. I am ordering your collection.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Nov 22

"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses... We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."

Remember JFK, slain on this day in 1963, with his magnificent speech on the political power of art:

JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”

www.themarginalian.org

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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thank you! Nice pic, btw. I think I recognize the background!
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