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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 8d

Muleskinner Journal Presents TENSION, our fifteenth journal

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 9d

Muleskinner closes out our meditations on Tension with a remarkable story from Maryah Converse. Please afford it the space and honor it deserves. We’ll see you soon.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 11d

Nick Di Carlo takes us on another wild ride. Our patience is wearing thin. Our tension is running out.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 11d

Scott Ruescher’s new poem, gracing Muleskinner today, swims upstream with piranha and crocodile, and all sorts of tense and wonderful things.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 13d

Writer Atma Frans brings us a tension-filled short story about gardening. And a few other matters, as well.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Today, a short poem from the acclaimed Paul Hostovsky. Back Door 1973. Includes a tetherball.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 19d

Poet David Kirby returns to Muleskinner with forgotten history, a story for the ages to make your day

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 19d

Muleskinner presents a poem with pain and wonder. Father in the Next Room is a room with and without a view.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 24d

Margot Wizansky’s remarkable poem To Love in that Insane Tortured Way will make you think twice – a good thing.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 28d

A.Z. Foreman brings us a sonnet cut short, for our time. This poem brings it all home.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

From poet Callie Crouch, a poem you can’t quite quit.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 7

Annie Weeks brings us an excerpt from her upcoming novel. It’s set in the Netherlands, a long time ago, today.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today in MSJ: Poet Joel Bush offers insight on roads taken, not taken, and lived on. Not a beginner’s course. A collision course.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

From MSJ today, flash fiction that moves: “The Bus Driver’s Routine” and the road to redemption.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 30

Poet Shannon Cates sings a song for what’s been lost, but not forgotten

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today, on the eve of Labor Day, an amazing poem. Briana Naseer takes us on a journey of acceptance

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Diane Gottlieb lines things up in just the right way. Did you hear it too?

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today in MSJ: Ken Foxe takes us on a wild ride – without ever leaving the house.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today in MSJ, a short piece of family history. Heather Pegas reminds us that there’s no tension like generational tension.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

A Muleskinner request: Please read this poem from David J.S. Pickering.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

MSJ today presents a new poem from Sarah Dickenson Snyder. The Beekeeper will stay with you.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Buenos Aires-based writer Calla Smith presents a tense, powerful, thought-provoking flash fiction story that comes to stay.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Rev up your engine. Poet Marisa P. Clark was born to ride. And so is our collection on Tension.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Jul 10

Submissions for Journal 15 will open on July 17. Our theme is Tension. See our Submission Guidelines for all the dirt.
We can’t wait to read your work. Enjoy the flower.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Jul 1

Muleskinner Journal announces Journal Fourteen. Thanks to everyone who submitted work. What you'll find is what we selected. Memorable work, agonizingly selected over other great work. We are proud and lucky. See here.

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