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Michael C.
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co-curator at Lamp Lit (subs closed)

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Reposted by Michael C.
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from Todd Dillard's ( @toddedillard.bsky.social ):

The Lampshade

Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Please see full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you! 🛋️
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#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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from Darren C. Demaree's ( @darrencdemaree.bsky.social ):

All All #21

Read the full piece, and another from this beautiful series by Darren in our latest issue, at www.lampLit.net

Submissions for our Winter 2026 are open now!
#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Full guidelines at LampLit.net

We can't wait to see you! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 5: “Tenfold” poem

i wrote this poem using words donated by 22 people who were contributing to these projects for their first time! credits in thread!

get the collection as a free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
black square image with black border has page from a digital book at center. book page is white with black text. poem title “Tenfold” is at top left. page number 5 appears at bottom center. all remaining contents of book page are in two columns, separated by a vertical center line. text reads as follows: Tenfold What's unfair is that a bulwark has been built and built too high: no climb to sit within stillness on top, between two wars. This bricolage of aged brick and outdated mistakes has crafted a too-steady divide. Tintinnabulation tolls in the form of tsk, tsk from the cool, hounding mouths of onlooking hordes on both sides. To be in the middle rouses unexpected fury. An inchoate stirring of sound rises in crescendo, sings a swarm like cicada. There is stark, night-dark penury inside the illicit pockets of apathy. A cacophony of cattywampus disagreement and the buzzsaw droning of insects become an agglomerate. Fight- to-fight defies real, oneiric forecasting of beautiful futures. Shouting schadenfreude seems appropriate while the sanguine purr of a kitten irks nerves. Sense goes missing like the ease of katabasis; could have shaken hands and called it a day. What's fair is that there is sometimes a sunrise or sunset the color of the belly of an oriole. Maybe it's lurking inquisitively in a mist of mysticism fraught with the weight of an under- lying schism. But it might be in a painting of beach swells waving their Atlantic greetings from Narragansett. It could be from a comic book blaring a good evening outlined with winking of the moon's horizon over gold-shocked iris- star- bursting "POW!" while the retina sleeps. The possibilities are wide as eyes peering from any angle of the aquarium glass. K Weber Morgan Marion Carey - bulwark Evelyn Anne Clausen - stillness Julie Luepke - bricolage Centa Therese - tintinnabulation Meesh Montoya - inchoate Keti Shea - cicada Alan Parry - night Anthony Robinson - penury Christian Garduno - … white square image with black text reads Page 5 has the first poem of this collection! “Tenfold” is a donated words poem i/we wrote in 2024 that includes words from new contributors! 22 people were involved! this was their first time contributing and some returned to take part in the “& DAYLIGHT” section of this project! as i began to work with these words & crafted lines, a theme of divide began to take shape; the mindful versus the uncaring especially. the final stanzas turn toward hope and the hope that hope can prevail. so many challenging words in this poem! get the free PDF of this collection at tinyurl.com/2025daylight or via the link in my bio white square image with black text reads thanks again to all word contributors! Morgan Marion Carey - bulwark Evelyn Anne Clausen - stillness Julie Luepke - bricolage Centa Therese - tintinnabulation Meesh Montoya - inchoate Keti Shea - cicada Alan Parry - night Anthony Robinson - penury Christian Garduno - illicit S. Salazar - cacophony Callie, Bug & Boo (kitties!) - cattywampus (via Carla Marchal) Victoria Spires - agglomerate Zach Spruce - oneiric Ted Jackins - schadenfreude Pratibha Kelapure- sanguine cm ellis - katabasis Resignation Records - fair Kristin Lueke - oriole Zahra Shahrambakht - mysticism Oswald Perez - Narragansett Renee Gilmore - retina Benjamin Niespodziany - aquarium
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Michael C.
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Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue.

I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!!

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue.

So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here:

lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!
Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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From Dustin Brookshire's ( @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social ):
Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It,

"I need some advice, a friend says
before I utter hello. Why are you crying?
she asks. Have you seen the news? Pulse?"

Read the full piece at LampLit.net!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal!

Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta

Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️

#coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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This short, creepy comic by Andie Frein is here for #halloween

anmly.org/ap31/andie-f...
Black and white pencil sketch comic. Panels read: They buried the farmer's dog under the cornerstone Of the new church before they laid the foundation They buried the farmer's dog alive whining and howling While the vicar and the Deacon filled the hole up with soil from the old graveyard
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Michael C.
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! this free PDF is packed with writing created by 17 authors that incorporates words contributed by many people!

lots of thanks to all involved! everyone who took part is tagged in this thread!

get the PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
daylight & tenfold orioles (2025)
DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! It includes 17 poems and 1 work of microfiction by 17 authors. In total, this collection was created by 49 participants & their 55 contributed words. The…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Friendly reminder that we've got free stickers in our store for all!

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September 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The urge to languish in your goddess era.

Send in your poetry and artworks today!

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September 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🛋️Submissions are open until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #essay #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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👻Dear Listeners and Guests, do you dare? The P & W Halloween Party Sign Up is Open!

Limited Spots so be quick about it!

#poetry #writing #creativitypodcast #writingpodcast #writingcommunity #poetrypodcast #poemsandwhiskeypod
September 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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⚡️⚡️Raye Hendrix @rayehendrix.bsky.social and I had good long, long chat. LISTEN IN this Wednesday, September 3rd, 10pm cst ~⚡️⚡️

Links are in link places.

Cheers y'all!

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writingpodcast #creativitypodcast #poetrypodcast #poemsandwhiskeypod
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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⭐It's @rayehendrix.bsky.social 's Night! 10pm cst⭐
snakeborn.bsky.social Michael C. @snakeborn.bsky.social · Sep 2
⚡️⚡️Raye Hendrix @rayehendrix.bsky.social and I had good long, long chat. LISTEN IN this Wednesday, September 3rd, 10pm cst ~⚡️⚡️

Links are in link places.

Cheers y'all!

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writingpodcast #creativitypodcast #poetrypodcast #poemsandwhiskeypod
September 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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⚡️⚡️Raye Hendrix @rayehendrix.bsky.social and I had good long, long chat. LISTEN IN this Wednesday, September 3rd, 10pm cst ~⚡️⚡️

Links are in link places.

Cheers y'all!

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writingpodcast #creativitypodcast #poetrypodcast #poemsandwhiskeypod
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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still totally unreal
my name among the list of contributors for the newest issue of The Threepenny Review
September 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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⭐Natalie @birdinstead is on Tonight! 10pm cst ⭐

What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves.

What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps.

Links are where they generally go

#poetry #writing #creativity
August 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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🛋️Submissions are open now until Sept 30th for our Fall Issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art. Please see the full guidelines at Lamplit.net.

We can't wait to see you! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #essay #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🛋️Submissions are open now until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️
.
#poetry #prose #fiction #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
July 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM