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Sophia Carroll
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she/they | scientist | writer | founder & editor at MENACE mag | reader at Four Way Review | #poemoftheday every weekday sccarroll.com https://torporchamber.substack.com/ https://www.menace-mag.com/
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Jan 29
New to Bluesky so pinning my favorite thing I've published all year in @smokelong.bsky.social

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Wolf Hollow in February - SmokeLong Quarterly
I told you that I wanted you to propose to me with a dog. I imagined finding a rescue waiting for me in the kitchen, an engagement ring dangling from its collar. To tell you the truth, the dog alone w...
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 2d
#poemoftheday is "Epitaph in Three Parts" by Sylvia Plath

"Rocking across the lapis lazuli sea
comes a flock of bottle battleships
each with a telegram addressed to me."

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Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: (1) Rocking across the lapis lazuli sea comes a flock of bottle battleships each with a
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 3d
Two of the poems in my new chapbook have just been nominated for Best of the Net! Come for the poems, stay for the amazing art by @volapardus.bsky.social

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I think we should be louder at Dyke March, by Sophia Carroll
Poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, illustrated, from Bottlecap Features. I think we should be louder at Dyke March is a collection born out of the chaos and upheaval of a Saturn return. The twin blows of a s...
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 3d
I am thrilled to announce that I was nominated for Best of the Net a second time by Joe Pickard at Pulp Poets Press! Thank you, Joe!

Check out my nominated poem "Freezer Spell" here

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Freezer Spell, by Sophia Carroll - Pulp Poets Press
Make a list of things you dislike about him—the pettier, the better. Cross each day you don’t talk off on your paper calendar, like an alcoholic marking sobriety. Be glad it’s January. Correct the mis...
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 3d
thank you! ❤️
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 4d
I'm so honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net this year! Thank you @stonecirclereview.bsky.social!
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 5d
I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 5d
#poemoftheday is this simple but powerful one from K. E. Sermonté: "What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired"

"I don't want to die.
But I do want to rest in a way
the world has never allowed me."

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 7d
#poemoftheday is "TIVE" by Gray Davidson Carroll

"I go to my favorite coffee shop
where all the baristas are terrorists.
There, I see my friend from the terrorist knitting group.
He makes the most beautiful sweaters,
always decorated with flowers."

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TIVE by Gray Davidson Carroll - Rattle: Poetry
I wake up in the morning and I am a terrorist. I wash the dishes, I read the news. My hands are a terrorist’s hands.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 11d
Since June I've been mostly working on a long-form prose project, so I haven't written a poem in ages. Similarly liking the work I'm doing though!
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 11d
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how's writing going? i'm still geeking out over your only poems packet!
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 11d
another personal rejection from @chestnutreview.bsky.social. they are my white whale
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 12d
issue 2 of M E N A C E is coming together and it's FIRE
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 12d
#poemoftheday is "O, Sadness Immaculate" by Jay Hopler

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/o-sadness-...

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O, Sadness Immaculate by Jay Hopler
Looking at them—; it's like bleeding. So I don't look at them.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 13d
#poemoftheday is the stunning "How to Live" by Todd Dillard

"Two parakeets on my shoulders.
They'll fly away if I move. So I move.
I love flight."

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/how-to-liv...

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How to Live by Todd Dillard
Depravity begins with thinking of love as a radical act.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 15d
#poemoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "The Mare" in LUNA LUNA

"I’m back here, in the slow.

Grief howls in like an animal,
then stills. Huffing. Uncertain

of forms and environs. Time becomes impassable..."

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'we could be orchards' — poetry by Disha Trivedi
AUTOPSY OF DESIRE In the mirror my mother and I have the same eyes, but when I fan my lashes to prick myself with eyeliner, the lashes, they smile. Oh. Need like a seed at my center. I wish I had m...
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 20d
#poemoftheday is "Baltimore Pride Abecedarian" by Yasmine Bolden from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

"Bless the homegirl whose purse pockets
naloxone, water, and grandma candies."

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/baltimore-...

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Baltimore Pride Abecedarian by Yasmine Bolden
Bless the homegirl whose purse pockets naloxone, water, and grandma candies.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 22d
#poemoftheday is "Lost Glass" by Grady Chambers from @parisreview.bsky.social

"Driving through a tunnel,
approaching its end: a small circle of the world
growing larger."

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 23d
#poemoftheday is "When All the Books Are Gone" by Jessy Randall from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

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When All the Books Are Gone by Jessy Randall - Rattle: Poetry
In the future, when all the books are gone, people will walk around crying, just sobbing, loudly, endlessly, on the city streets, not knowing why, knowing only they are missing something,
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 27d
#poemoftheday is "Chrysalis" by Beverley Sylvester in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

"It is hard to learn the complications of personhood, to learn no one is perfect, to learn that before we can grow we must wrap ourselves into darkness and dissolve."

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/chrysalis-...

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Chrysalis by Beverley Sylvester
People are messy like unformed caterpillar goo.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 29d
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 29d
From Sierra DeMulder's book, Ephemera.

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · 29d
#poemoftheday is "War Villanelle" by Shannan Mann

"We did think them human before
our bombs engraved their eyes."

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Sep 8
#poemoftheday "queer poetry" by gray davidson carroll

"If you have to send us a heartbreak poem,
make sure it includes a pronoun and not just a feeling"

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Sep 8
just sent out an acceptance for a piece i'm SO excited about
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Sep 5
BIG news -- my first ever chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press! Please consider supporting it. It's only $10 and features amazing original art by @volapardus.bsky.social

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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Sep 5
#poemoftheday is "On Children" by Khalil Gibran

"Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness"

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/on-childre...

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On Children by Khalil Gibran
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social · Sep 2
#poetryoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "be here to mother me at the end of the world" in the latest issue of @luckyjefferson.com

"Weather-green, that book, the cover, like chutney, or the slick mint sari for a wedding I won’t have."

luckyjefferson.com/fissure/

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Fissure -
Fissure celebrates 14 writers and artists who dare to examine the cracks in our world, and within ourselves. Each contributor in this issue confronts the question: how do we find […]
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