Call for Submissions! Looking for poems, short stories, hybrids, about the people who get ignored. The ones forget looked down on. True saints don't live in the pews, some of them live on the streets.

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It's been 2 months since my friend died and it still sucks.

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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔩𝔶 ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯 (excerpt)

I was sitting in an airport café
collecting flies like a two-tongued frog lady.

My coffee was cold.
My ticket said, destination:
nowhere that will have me.

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I will be featured in three anthologies through Nocturnicorn books over the next several months— including one for icon punk poet Ellyn Maybe! Plus Riot Pink which benefits the @trevorproject.bsky.social + a tribute to William Burroughs.
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"I leave a flower on the grass,
a cigarette butt, and a mixtape.
They say she was loved—
but it’s a shame.

I clean her stone, pull weeds, cry,
and realize the name between the dates is mine."

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"A flurry of ash spiraled through the night air, like the ghosts of everything I burned to stay alive."
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The one that took 12 yrs to complete! Writers-block is no joke.
“Love Letters & Suicide Notes” feels like a demented country song on a punk dive jukebox. Lisa’s poems are pretty & sad—consolation prizes you win just for surviving another night of ‘Damn them to Hell!’" — Exene Cervenka, X
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Thoughts and prayers don’t work here. Gasoline and verse do.
Read previews of all my books:
lisainwonderland.com/books

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My newest collection.
“Raw, defiant, and triumphant—Paper Monsters digs into pain, dismantles patriarchy, and reclaims power in league with the moon. A vital volume.”
— John Burroughs, U.S. Beat Poet Laureate 2022-2023

Hi, I’m Lisa Bennington-Love. Detroit-bred poet, memoirist, rebel mom, & ghost in the algorithm.
lisainwonderland.com

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medium.com/@rebelmom313

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Locked out of my old account (lisainwonderland). Let's start over!