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Stefanie Kirby

@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

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Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2025). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's here!! 🎉

Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Jun 24

🎉 #HappyPubDay to Stefanie Kirby with REMAINDER (Inch #64) available now --> buff.ly/WHXyMdi

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 1d

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh! I just saw that two of my poems are this month's Amuse-Bouche feature from @lunchticket.bsky.social !

Big thanks to the editors at @antiochmfa.bsky.social for giving these poems a home!

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Scientists Confirm Visceral Reactions to Graphic Images - Lunch Ticket

Two poems by Jill McCabe Johnson

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Read read read this incredible story and stave off the horrors for just a few moments more and just maybe, if you are lucky, you, too, will emerge with a fragrance suggesting an ongoing relationship with leather!

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 1d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to have a new poem in the gorgeous fall issue of North American Review! Many thanks to J.D Schraffenberger and the NAR team. This is a poem from a new manuscript I’ve been working on.
@northamerreview.bsky.social

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 3d

I thank the knife.

Jon Cone

AN ESSAY ON ONTOLOGICAL
PRAGMATISM

It is bitterly cold outside. The kitchen is cold. I thank the kettle. I thank the toaster. I thank the skillet. I thank the cutting board. I thank the knife. I thank the butter. I thank the water. I thank the raspberry jam. I thank the tea towel. I thank the coffee grounds I put into the compost tin. I thank the orange. I thank the orange peel. I thank the old round table. I thank the plate, the cup. The fork, the spoon. The small bowl of milk. The kitchen windows have ice. I must get window curtains. If you lean over the sink and look out the window at the far end of the street you see a pink aura announcing the sun’s arrival. I pick the cat's bowl up to clean it. I reach the cat food down from the cupboard. I thank the cat food and the cat bowl. The floor is dirty. It needs washing. I thank the floor.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words!

Pre-order link in comments!

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 3d

Very lucky to have a poem from my “Guide to Interpreting Dreams” series in the finale issue of Gigantic Sequins, alongside a stunner by @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

Guide to Interpreting Dreams V
FRANCES KLEIN
You demand soup.
You crumple saltines over my bowl just the way I don't like it. At the magpie's rattle, you send me to tend to our child. Claws scratch my arms as I lift him from the cradle; I stoop for a kiss, and my mouth fills with beak. Outside, the sky is end-days yellow, and you answer each plea with a turned back. We have had the frogs and the hail. We have sprayed blood from the patio furniture, our bodies anointed with ointments for the lice and boils.
When the long darkness breaks, I know what comes next— but you hunch over your soup, unmoved. In the crib, silence where there should be song.

A list from the back of the issue showing Stefanie Kirby and Frances Klein

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 2d

Such a delight to be issue mates! 💙💙💙

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 4d

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 6d

"She hates forming meatballs in her hands, digging in the sticky mass again and again. They pull the awful lump from between her legs. "

"Knives, Tongues ," by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner.
Translated from the German by Melody Makeda Ledwon.
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Knives, Tongues

SIMONÉ GOLDSCHMIDT-LECHNER <br> The paths are drawn on the ground before the borders appear. We buried water and supplies there, made this barren ground walkable, and moved from the north to the…

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to this new collection from @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social!!! 🎉

Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 14d

COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social

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Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay — Yellow Arrow Publishing

Like humid Ohio summers, often wistful and lovely, yet undeniably heavy, Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay is a sticky collection. At times a confrontation, at others an abdication, the poems within t...

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...

Here’s one:

A city bursts inside of me
My head becomes heavy from bloom.
The lake leaks out of my eyes.
I'm pregnant with families.
They spill onto my toes and set up tents.
I can hear crying on my kneecaps.
At night, a train shivers with longing.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 6d

You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!?

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A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer

A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer. Hosted by Jared Beloff.

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 6d

Mary Reufle

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to announce that I have won the Elgin Award for Mexicans on the Moon in the full-length book category. The Elgin Award is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's highest award for speculative poetry. Truly an honor. Much love!

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 7d

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 8d

So thankful to have spent time with this collection from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social, and to see it out in the world now!

Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 9d

"In the Blueprint of Her Iris evokes an expressionist tapestry that echoes the complexities of land, language, and loss."

Grateful to prescient poet @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social for beautiful praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

Out now from @icefloepress.bsky.social🔥

Praise for In the Blueprint of Her Iris by Stefanie Kirby, author of Fruitful.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 9d

Ouyang Jianghe, tr. Austin Woerner

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We in our sleep have invented birds,
invented song, invented pure
white feathers. But birds
are just the party line on flight:
the bat has no residence in light, his sky
is an underground sky, lower than the visibility
provided by a guttering candle.
Extinguish sight: ash rises in peaceful spirals.

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 12d

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!!

Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link):

beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards
Of BlueSky

Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

November 8, 2025
Featuring:
Todd Dillard
Brian Spears
Matthew E. Henry
James McConachie
David J. Bauman
Jonathan Everitt

December 13, 2025
Featuring:
Jared Beloff
Barlow Adams
Dan Murphy
upformsumdirt
Gregory Crosby
J-T Kelly

5:00-6:45 est / 2:00-3:45 pst

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 11d

El Maestro Homero Aridjis

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 12d

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission.

If you identify as disabled, please submit!

The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13d

Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 12d

We love to hear it! 👏👏👏