Ruth Irene Poetry
@ruthirenepoetry.bsky.social
Wild
like my curls.
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Poetry Editor-Reader for The Periwinkle Pelican ✨️
Poetry published by Aôthen, Red Sheep, Haunted Words Press & others🪶✒️📚
like my curls.
🌬🌊🔥🌲
🐺
Poetry Editor-Reader for The Periwinkle Pelican ✨️
Poetry published by Aôthen, Red Sheep, Haunted Words Press & others🪶✒️📚
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Some personal news…
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
therumpus.submittable.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some personal news…
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
So excited for my new piece, "If Only Orpheus Had Read Carson" 💔🖤♥️
Meet our lovely contributors 🙌
Issue 9 is coming on the 5th of August, and we can hardly wait to show off the work by these amazing creatives. Stay tuned!
Issue 9 is coming on the 5th of August, and we can hardly wait to show off the work by these amazing creatives. Stay tuned!
August 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So excited for my new piece, "If Only Orpheus Had Read Carson" 💔🖤♥️
Fresh cut sunflowers 🌻💛🌻🖤
#happyaugust 🌱
#happyaugust 🌱
August 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fresh cut sunflowers 🌻💛🌻🖤
#happyaugust 🌱
#happyaugust 🌱
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some of you haven't stepped up your cover letter game, and it shows...
April 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
some of you haven't stepped up your cover letter game, and it shows...
Wrote this for in memory of my Grandfather 🕯
St. Joe's Lighthouse, Lake Michigan 🌊🌅
St. Joe's Lighthouse, Lake Michigan 🌊🌅
March 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wrote this for in memory of my Grandfather 🕯
St. Joe's Lighthouse, Lake Michigan 🌊🌅
St. Joe's Lighthouse, Lake Michigan 🌊🌅
Just received my lovely contributor copy 👻🖤🤍
March 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just received my lovely contributor copy 👻🖤🤍
Happy International Women's Day to Me 🙈🥰
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We think #Sappho would love this poem inspired by her fragments. Read more here: buff.ly/pcYzcak. 🤍
#amreading #sapphicpoetry #poetrycommunity #classics #antiquity #classicalstudies #indiemag
#amreading #sapphicpoetry #poetrycommunity #classics #antiquity #classicalstudies #indiemag
March 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Happy International Women's Day to Me 🙈🥰
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Grey skeletons against grey sky.
Dead leaves, like bits of crumpled tissue paper, cling to branches.
Twig season
The-never-ending-desert-of-winter
And my heart continues beating
In a cold dead world.
~Ruth Irene
Dead leaves, like bits of crumpled tissue paper, cling to branches.
Twig season
The-never-ending-desert-of-winter
And my heart continues beating
In a cold dead world.
~Ruth Irene
February 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Grey skeletons against grey sky.
Dead leaves, like bits of crumpled tissue paper, cling to branches.
Twig season
The-never-ending-desert-of-winter
And my heart continues beating
In a cold dead world.
~Ruth Irene
Dead leaves, like bits of crumpled tissue paper, cling to branches.
Twig season
The-never-ending-desert-of-winter
And my heart continues beating
In a cold dead world.
~Ruth Irene
Decided to make a poem out of an acceptance letter from tonight:
"Dear Ruth,
you are a piece of work
we accept
Sincerely,
a mag"
"Dear Ruth,
you are a piece of work
we accept
Sincerely,
a mag"
January 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Decided to make a poem out of an acceptance letter from tonight:
"Dear Ruth,
you are a piece of work
we accept
Sincerely,
a mag"
"Dear Ruth,
you are a piece of work
we accept
Sincerely,
a mag"
Atticus Catticus ✨️
January 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Atticus Catticus ✨️
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Foraged for this bouquet and placed it in a broken vintage pitcher I found at my mom's.
Turned it into a vase for a friend's baby shower yesterday 🩷🌱
Turned it into a vase for a friend's baby shower yesterday 🩷🌱
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Foraged for this bouquet and placed it in a broken vintage pitcher I found at my mom's.
Turned it into a vase for a friend's baby shower yesterday 🩷🌱
Turned it into a vase for a friend's baby shower yesterday 🩷🌱
Empathy is Poetry.
They both reach into the intangible to touch
an almost truth.
[-some lines I wrote in a poetry final for today]
#Poetry #poetrycommunity
#poets #writing #writingcommunity
They both reach into the intangible to touch
an almost truth.
[-some lines I wrote in a poetry final for today]
#Poetry #poetrycommunity
#poets #writing #writingcommunity
December 7, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Empathy is Poetry.
They both reach into the intangible to touch
an almost truth.
[-some lines I wrote in a poetry final for today]
#Poetry #poetrycommunity
#poets #writing #writingcommunity
They both reach into the intangible to touch
an almost truth.
[-some lines I wrote in a poetry final for today]
#Poetry #poetrycommunity
#poets #writing #writingcommunity
Wrote this using Gill's words: for all of you anxious about this holiday season 🩶 #cento @nikitagill.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Wrote this using Gill's words: for all of you anxious about this holiday season 🩶 #cento @nikitagill.bsky.social
Finished this dinky mushroom Christmas gift 🍄🍄🟫
November 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Finished this dinky mushroom Christmas gift 🍄🍄🟫
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Poet: in the cup the water takes / the shape of the cup / which I take into me / leaving an absence / which also takes the shape of cup / and which you, by not being / here, drink up
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Poet: in the cup the water takes / the shape of the cup / which I take into me / leaving an absence / which also takes the shape of cup / and which you, by not being / here, drink up
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
November 24, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Poet: in the cup the water takes / the shape of the cup / which I take into me / leaving an absence / which also takes the shape of cup / and which you, by not being / here, drink up
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Poet: in the cup the water takes / the shape of the cup / which I take into me / leaving an absence / which also takes the shape of cup / and which you, by not being / here, drink up
Outlander day!! 💚🌱🍀🍵🌿✨️
a group of people standing in a dark forest with candles
ALT: a group of people standing in a dark forest with candles
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November 22, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Outlander day!! 💚🌱🍀🍵🌿✨️
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totally realized that like I never dropped a link to submit for issue two when i mentioned it yesterday SO HERE YA GOOOOOOO submit for issue two here!! (“the truth is, i want to want to live.”)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
totally realized that like I never dropped a link to submit for issue two when i mentioned it yesterday SO HERE YA GOOOOOOO submit for issue two here!! (“the truth is, i want to want to live.”)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Friendship as good fortune. Mark Strand was at my house when author/editor's copies of the anthology HISTORY OF HEARTBREAK arrived. In one copy, all the pages were blank. Make it an album of friends, Mark said, and made the first entry in a book I've come to treasure.
November 16, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Friendship as good fortune. Mark Strand was at my house when author/editor's copies of the anthology HISTORY OF HEARTBREAK arrived. In one copy, all the pages were blank. Make it an album of friends, Mark said, and made the first entry in a book I've come to treasure.
Cozy up with some books 📚 ✨️ #happysunday 🌱
November 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Cozy up with some books 📚 ✨️ #happysunday 🌱
November 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Hanging moss 🌱
November 16, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Hanging moss 🌱
Propagating pearls today 🌱🌿
November 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Propagating pearls today 🌱🌿