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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 2d

Oh hey, it's me! This will be out soon. Really looking forward to it- I've seen a ton of great contributors! 💞🌸

Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 20d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit

Arrives Nov

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 4d

Our "Witness" issue begins with Rowan Tate's poignant bearing witness to life in exile. The feeling of bringing everything you have left with you is encapsulated here.

📖 Read "The Tent" and more:
www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #RowanTate #TheTent #RefugeePoetry #LitMag

A quote graphic from the poem "The Tent" by Rowan Tate. The quote reads: "...Whatever is left of my country, I brought it with me in my skin and keep it wrapped in my abaya..."

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 5d

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 5d

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 5d

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 5d

Feeling like I want to go home and pluck my eyebrows.

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 5d

Thank you for highlighting us lil guys! 🤩

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 5d

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 Eeeek! We’re today’s Listing of the Day on Duotrope!
Proud, thrilled, and maybe a little over-caffeinated. 💫

Submissions are OPEN, and we’re so excited to keep building our little corner of the literary world!

#artcall #poetrycall #opencall

Duotrope @duotrope.com · 5d

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

duotrope.com

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 7d

Audi Locus is now accepting poetry, art, and music for our next issue. Submit your work between Oct 1 – Nov 30.

🖊 Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

Art is resistance. Come build with us.

#poetrysubmission #poetrycall #artcall

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 8d

The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam

Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus

www.audilocus.com

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 8d

You'd think that losing my dad would have been the thing to slow me down during Vol. 1.1— but a storm of currents turned on the executive dysfunction surrounding Vol. 1.2. Owning up and moving forward now!

Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 8d

Cover reveal time! 🎉 We're thrilled to finally share the beautiful cover for Audi Locus Volume 1.2: "Witness."

We hit some delays (mental health break), but we’re back on track and this powerful collection is coming very soon!

Cover Art: "The Window" by Carolyn Schlam

#poetry #literarymagazine

A magazine cover for "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry," Fall 2025, Volume 1, Issue 2, themed "Witness." The cover features a painted image of a young woman with long, brown hair, wearing a mauve sweater and blue jeans, sitting by a window. She's holding a white mug with both hands and looking pensively out the window at a scene of colorful, brightly lit houses or buildings at dusk or night. The overall style is expressive and painterly.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 8d

I’m a little late sharing, but three of my visual poems were published in swifts & slows at Arteidolia. These pieces let me stitch fragments and small drawings into something between poem and spell. I'm happy they found a home.

👀: www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows...

#VisualPoetry #Poetry

A black and white visual poem is centered on a line-drawn image of a globe on fire, which is mounted on a small pedestal. The globe has a cross-hatched pattern to suggest lines of longitude and latitude.

The poem's text is scattered around the central image in a mix of typewritten and handwritten-style fonts, some words are curved or angled:

"southern porch" is at the top center.

"the sliding door feels like apple skin" is below that, with "waxy warm, peeling chimes" positioned further down and to the right.

"vibrate" is on the left.

"hummingbirds," is on the right, above "tasting tasting".

"red-capped vessels," is to the right of the burning globe.

The phrase "don't mix bleach and ammonia" forms an arc around the bottom half of the globe, with "don't mix" on the left and "and ammonia" on the right.

"fertile with sugared water." is at the very bottom.

The overall texture of the background suggests crumpled or wrinkled paper.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 14d

And Laura Benjamin (@laura.direct). 🔥

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 15d

Also admiring @katmabu.bsky.social ✊💞🌟

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 20d

Excited to see midterm candidates who are working-class people, ready to fight for working-class folks!

Give 'em a follow!
Conrad Cable @conrad4congress.bsky.social
Lauren Jewett @doitjewett.bsky.social
Graham Platner @grahamformaine.bsky.social
Joel Willett @joelforkentucky.bsky.social

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 15d

I've never set out to be an essay writer, but the times demand speaking up, not silence. My piece “Leave Space for the Redemption Arc” is out now in the new Substack, Roses in the Swamp 🌹. Democracy only works if we leave room for mistakes, growth, and second chances.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Shreveport Speaks: a community submitted article, 9/23/25

Titled "Leave Space for the Redemption Arc", submitted by Maudie Bryant

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 16d

a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

Alt: a woman in a floral shirt is laughing

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 16d

Kinda feels like juggling projects is the hardest project of all. But I'm determined to figure it out.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 20d

It’s wild how some people act like being kind and inclusive is radical when really it’s the baseline of just being human.

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