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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · 15d

Aracelis Girmay, from Green of All Heads

Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · 22d

New poem up at Action, Spectacle. Gratitude to Adam.

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · 23d

New prose at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Thank you to David for selecting “Cleaning Other People’s Houses,” a piece about my mother.

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Cleaning Other People’s Houses — The Argyle Literary Magazine

by Kelly R. Samuels “I could try and find those houses, now, but I think I would fail. It’s not their exteriors that I remember. Just their rooms, before, and then after—the stillness and shine.”

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University of Wisconsin Press @uwiscpress.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks so much to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @slowdownshow.org for featuring the poem The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi, author of the poetry collection Salvage! Listen here: tinyurl.com/3hz7k7wy

1351: The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi

Today’s poem is The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi.

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings
@moonstonearts.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @stonecoastreview.bsky.social @meowmeowpowpow.bsky.social @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social @allisonhicks.bsky.social @linalambert.bsky.social

Saturday Shout-Out ~ September 6, 2025

Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hedgie Choi, from Salvage. #booksky

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · Aug 24

Today’s poem is selected by Emily Skaja (@emilyskaja.bsky.social‬) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

It appeared in The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jul 31

Issue 15 of Blood Tree Literature is available to order! I’m happy to have a poem in this print issue that features work by past contributors.

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · Jul 27

Jennifer Chang

The Innocent
For weeks we watched for hatchlings to come of three smug eggs tucked into a nest, the nest tucked into the crook of a neighbor's honeysuckle. Time nodded, was nodding— the shred of living, how offhand the wind teeters toward erosion. Hard at work, on guard in two backyards, the robins mothered and fathered their territory daily. And beyond, our block's alley stretched, aimless as fields, where watching happens by accident, by nature. They'd squawk on a streetlamp, a cedar fence, our back stoop, warning off the tabby, my two young sons, everyone stuck at home. I lost my mind with watching and thought it grief or egotism, the bruise of yesterday, not least the sky unraveling another season. It was easy to mistake the bared skeletal pinions as lawn clippings, old leaves. That circle in the grass, a massacre of feathers. That terrible cat. It was easy to lose my mind.
One neighbor said, Let's not tell the children, why know the world as always fated toward remnant. Another said, Go,
take the nest, set it under glass, and make it a lesson.
Instead, I watched our habits pass, the honeysuckle fade from sickly sweet to nothing but heat.
Call it science. It's summer again, and then everything's remnant. What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you!

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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · Jul 16

New summer issue

Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

Sixth Finch

Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Katie Berta, Conor Bracken, Ava Chen, Andrew Collard, Sofia Fall, Kelle Groom, Katie Kemple, W. M. Lobko,...

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jul 10

New piece up at Wild Roof Journal’s Substack. Big thank you to @aaronlelito.bsky.social for all he does for writers. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/getting-aw...

Getting Away: On the question of writers traveling to write

A guest post from Kelly R. Samuels

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jul 9

Megan Merchant, from Hortensia, in winter. #booksky

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 30

Lucie Brock-Broido, from Trouble in Mind. #booksky

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 19

David Gregory Welch, from The Book of Echoes. #booksky

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Jun 19

🧶 e(i Issue 6: yarn is LIVE! 🧶

Our #spotlight is on Kelly R. Samuels' @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social epic time-traveling poem on family lore.

Check out their work at buff.ly/Z8rgDrq !

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jun 18

“If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution—“

—Carl Phillips in THEN THE WAR 💙

Fixed Shadow, Moving Water

One friend tells me everything's political, another says nothing is, we just make it political.
By "we"" he means human beings, I assume-what's political to a fox curled in sleep,
or a pond, or a sycamore in winter with no leaves left to stop the snow falling through it? I have loved you for less time than I have loved some others,
but none more deeply than you; no one more absolutely. Which, as if inevitably, amounts to a hierarchy of sorts, doesn't it? Value, then the power that comes with it-soon enough, the distribution of power, who gets to do the distributing...
But if we make of tenderness a countervailing force, the two of us-
If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution-

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 18

New poem in Issue 34 of Blue Earth Review. Thank you to Amy, Jacob, Levi, and Luke for publishing “What I Learn from Rita.” blueearthreview.mnsu.edu

Blue Earth Review – Minnesota State University, Mankato's Literary Magazine

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 18

My copy is arriving today!

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 9

New poem in Delta Poetry Review. Gratitude to Susan, Victoria and Dixon for publishing “Burdened by the Particular.” deltapoetryreview.com

~ Delta Poetry Review ~

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · Jun 5

New poem in Nine Mile Magazine’s spring issue. Big thanks to Stephen, David and Andrea. www.ninemile.org/spring-2025-...

Spring 2025 Issue | Nine Mile Press

Our third all-digital issue, is now available online. This issue features original poetry as well as another entry in the new feature, Conversations about Poetry

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · May 28

Some of my favorite lines so far from Issue 6 of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

(Outside the text box, more dusk. /
More dim-lit clouds.

~Kathryn Reese

did he tell you about the spacious palm / did he say you could be made visible by water

~Carolyn Zaikowski

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · May 28

Some of my favorite lines so far from Issue 6 of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

The night sky too light / to seal this day.

~Angela Arnold

Are we having fun, funning it up for fun’s sake?

~Zebulon Huset

They called me for miracles: / peonies out of season

~Suze Kay

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Kelly R Samuels @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social · May 28

Thank you!

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · May 27

I’m loving @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social ‘s poem “There and Here, with Footnotes” in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ‘s Yarn issue. The way it weaves time gently. The tightness of the sound. The way there are so many ways to read through it.

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