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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 23h

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social press is a powerhouse! Three of their titles (including my book 🥰) on the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award

A real testament to the work @wordperv.bsky.social is doing

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so honored to be in this company. This means so much ❤️

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so honored! Thank you again ❤️

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 8d

It really was! I keep revising my definition of “success”; it’s stuff like this now that makes me feel fulfilled rather than chasing some vague validation I can’t even articulate

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 8d

I'm Poetry Editor at @porcupinelit.bsky.social, and I just got to give someone their first acceptance! I think that's a first for me, so it's just a very exciting night all around

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 8d

Oh thank you! Your opinion always means so much ❤️

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 12d

Happy and honored to have three estrangement poems up at ONE ART today

ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 13d

Three Poems by Melissa Fite Johnson in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

oneartpoetry.com/2025/09/26/t...

Three Poems by Melissa Fite Johnson

Estranged Villanelle For forty years, I shared only the good— my mother and I in a booth every Thursday, long talks that avoided my childhood memories. I left out the times she stood, threatened to…

oneartpoetry.com

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you so much for publishing these!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 15d

I'm the poetry editor of this terrific journal by and for teachers, and I'd love to read your poems.

Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 16d

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.

porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Porcupine Literary Submission Manager

We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 18d

We've got some awesome editors, including Leah Anderson, Jennifer Avingon, Michael Brennan, Joel Dunlap, Carrie Esposito, @mfitejohnson.bsky.social, @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social, @fklein907.bsky.social, Robin Moten, and
@mitchnobis.bsky.social !

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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 18d

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions!

www.theweightjournal.com

The Weight Journal

www.theweightjournal.com

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Aug 31

🚨 🚨 LAST DAY to submit to Glass: A Journal of Poetry!! 🚨 🚨

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Alt: an illustration of a penguin with the words you got this below it

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh this sounds incredible!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is just so good. Perfect title, too

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Oh thank you! This means a lot ❤️

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Aug 17

This piece means a lot to me. Thank you so much to @megannn-lynne.bsky.social for selecting it and to anyone who reads it. Always the best to be part of @havehashad.com ❤️

HAD @havehashad.com · Aug 17

oh. damn. wow. amazing list today from Melissa Fite Johnson!

"2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone.
3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away."

https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0

Footnotes to My First Diary, Sixth Grade, Lock and Key by Melissa Fite Johnson

Purposefully broken lock. Too much trouble, and who would read. I trusted my mother. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it…

www.havehashad.com

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oh thank you--for this, and for your beautiful piece of art. It's perfect.

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 28

Good point. I think I’ll try to track down the ones from the anthology, too:

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The Anthology (March 2026) — March Second Chanceness

What does music pull out of you? What do the songs you once loved and maybe still do mean? What can thinking about Def Leppard or White Town or Red House Painters reveal?

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Oh thank you! I admire you and your work so much, so this means a lot. And Whale Road Review! Also the best--and they send tea!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ha, daunting but I'm looking forward to it!

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 27

So grateful to @asteralesjournal.bsky.social--for publishing a poem of mine and pairing it with beautiful visual art by @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social, for sending a handmade thank-you card with a collage depicting a line from my poem, and for making the people they publish feel special ❤️

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Well I’m totally getting that anyway, only the timing is such that I fear it’ll lead more to “Oh THAT’S how you do it!” as I shake my head in shame

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 27

The first one of these I ever read was @toddkaneko.bsky.social's essay about Loudness' "Crazy Nights." I reread it last night and can't get over how good it is. Please, send me your favorites from over the years; I need to prep for writing my first one (over Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," duh)

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 26

So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist

March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist If yr name is drawn, we'll send you an email (and put it on the bsky). You've got 24 hours to get back to us with your pick (we're askin...

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh my goodness, I got it! This is amazing; thank you so much!

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