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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks to ANMLY for publishing 4 new poems of mine, all "girl on the spectrum manifestos" i wrote for their 'autistic protest poetry' call after RFK's comments. There is so much cool stuff in this issue! 💜
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Kathryn @kathrynraver.bsky.social · 5h

Many thanks to the folks at ANMLY for giving this work a home, and, as ever, free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Steven R. Kraaijeveld @srkraaijeveld.bsky.social · 2h

And do read the rest of this beautiful issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social, which you can find here: anmly.org/ap41/

ANMLY #41 – ANMLY

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Steven R. Kraaijeveld @srkraaijeveld.bsky.social · 2h

Thrilled to have my (very short) story "Birdsong" included in Issue #41 of ANMLY! You can read it here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 4h

Delighted to have a poem in Issue #41 of
@anmlymag.bsky.social!

You can read 'Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef the first time I used a tampon' here:
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 6h

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!

>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com

Grayscale geometric design with glyphs that almost look like words. The "words" "kinship" and "adjoining" can be made out, but not many others.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 5h

“Did the world fall ill at once, or was only the ill world visible?”

Editor @daniellezacc.bsky.social has work in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social!

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 5h

ANMLY ANMLY ANMLY is out and
I
I
I am in it.

Wow.
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ANMLY – a journal of literature and the arts

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james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social · 4h

The newest issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social is here! There are many excellent poems in this issue. I want to shout out them all, but I'll start with McLeod Logue's "Descent" a ghost story in the shape of a chasm, a poem that floored me the first time I read it

McLeod Logue
Descent

Night glows gold like blood stains, like first lost
tooth. The crunch of a change: brutal. Begin again.
I hear the slow essence of retraction. It glistens.
This morning I make eggs in bare feet, wilt white
onto windowsill. The slim reap of my body. I’m
seeing faces that aren’t mine in the mirror, some
other me who scabbed and started fresh.
I feel my blood pumping, every heartbeat
the same lonely terror. The eggs cool.
The whole house sighs. I can feel
my nested wandering, the ghost’s
shadow stretching, making moods
that affix. The wind chimes move,
catch shapes I couldn’t see. The noose
of a song slopes, creeks a stair
that wasn’t loose before. I feel
the hollow calling: the hole
in my stomach eating itself.

You want me
to describe my
white cotton
panties, tangled
mass of hair. My
bones. You want
to hear the ways
I opened myself,
let light into vein
and perfect pink.
Here:

The first time I ever opened the door, there was an endless dark.
A sinking deepness that flattened. I mean, when it creaked on
its hinge, the whole house numbed. How do you describe eternity?
How do you live in a place that creases the fold? That swallows it.

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Kathryn @kathrynraver.bsky.social · 5h

I’m beyond thrilled to have a translation in @anmlymag.bsky.social ‘s newest issue! Karim Kattan is an extraordinary author, and I’m honored to have had the opportunity to translate his work.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 1d

“Poetry . . . is a place of endless possibilities for exercising subversive power and challenging the dominant norms.” That’s translator Marina Veverec on Monika Herceg’s Closed Season. Read two poems from the collection @anmlymag.bsky.social and then buy the book! anmly.org/ap38/marina-...

Marina Veverec translates Monika Herceg – ANMLY

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 5h

thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social / @sarahclark.bsky.social for making space for autistic protest poetry & inviting me to introduce the issue. as i read through these works, i feel i can see the future of our craft.

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The small something could be a creature, perhaps a technology. Maybe, in more abstract terms, a political orientation or set of social norms. Looking back, I now understand “A small something” as part of a larger body of autistic poetic work, which, in my view, are always and already “protesting” neuronormative creative and political frameworks. Thinking back to the misleading figure of the savant and this demand for autistic exceptionality, it seems to me that to impute autistic life into our creative practices, to document it as it exists and not as our neurotypical counterparts with it were, then we must turn to a form prepared to resist normative grammars and restrictive relationships to language, activity, and achievement. After all, these very restrictions—this sociocultural “common sense”—are what got us into this mess in the first place: demands for tact over honesty, ambiguity over courage.

Instead, I want live in a poetics which refuses common sense, a poetics of autism.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 5h

find my pieces & audios here.

and check out everyone's incredible work!

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I am learning how to be weakness leaving the body.
I am licking citric atlas critic acid off my fingers.

Every day is keep doing my tasks keep reminding and head down.
Nobody minds the back kept slant until straight again.

My name are looking for rooms among all the names the
all the other names.

My Sarah looking for its girl among its mother.
A name is looking for more cells to burn.

I am learning to learn appropriating the hurts of others
Is the wrong kind of sorrow.

Doesn’t suit this age of me.
Doesn’t suit this plane of me, too flat, too full,
Too echoes.

I have viewed suffering as a sign of power. Why
Am I suffering at the edge of submission?

I just encountered a sharp ugly comfort
But it was not the product of my mind.

It is hard to want to die when everything is wanting to die
and hard to live.

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you to the ever-brilliant Maša for trusting me to rewrite her work in another language and to the @anmlymag.bsky.social team for giving our work a home. 💙🧿 Issue 41 is out now! anmly.org/ap41/ena-sel...

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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · 6h

Please take a look at @anmlymag.bsky.social's newest issue! Very proud of being Fiction Co-Editor for Anomaly, so please take a look at the stories, and also read the rest of this incredible issue!

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ANMLY #41 – ANMLY

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 6h

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!

>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

"Nowadays, I suck on sour drops / to stop flashbacks, heart firing as fast as that boy’s drum kit and his long-gone reign / of percussion. Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies." READ @erinvachon.bsky.social

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 5d

"Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies. Corporate grandiosity / couldn’t claim us. Our manager was one rabid man afraid of wet places, trained to gain from every grand / opening..."

—Erin Vachon

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Erin Vachon – ANMLY

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 1d

"...This
heat won’t let me clean my head. The
brother-heat pulling me under, this swamped-in-
prehistoric-like-thinking
but present in burning."

—Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington

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Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington – ANMLY

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 1d

"...This
heat won’t let me clean my head. The
brother-heat pulling me under, this swamped-in-
prehistoric-like-thinking
but present in burning."

—Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington

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Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington – ANMLY

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 2d

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 2d

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with queer planty IndigiLit!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud!

It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are

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Alocasia leaf background. Text reads "Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue"

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 2d

"No, I am listening with one ear to the constructed world of death-making and surveillance while, with another, I am listening to the sound of contented munching, of something real and visceral and of this place I call home for the moment."

—Em Roth

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Em Roth – ANMLY

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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 2d

"you were a Rock / dropped in my lake when I was water waking up to being fluid." Wow. Don't miss @erinvachon.bsky.social 🔥

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 5d

"Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies. Corporate grandiosity / couldn’t claim us. Our manager was one rabid man afraid of wet places, trained to gain from every grand / opening..."

—Erin Vachon

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Erin Vachon – ANMLY

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

“You’re sitting in the back of the car en route to the outlet malls a few towns over. In front of you is a GameBoy Color.”

Read Lyn Rafil's “‘Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?’: A Walkthrough" in @anmlymag.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth anmly.org/ap37/lyn-raf...

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 2d

"I was a student scraping by on a slim budget, crafting / a self out of used books while you and I laid on a bare mattress in your grandmother’s / apartment." A stunner @erinvachon.bsky.social Prose sestina? @anmlymag.bsky.social

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 5d

"Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies. Corporate grandiosity / couldn’t claim us. Our manager was one rabid man afraid of wet places, trained to gain from every grand / opening..."

—Erin Vachon

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Erin Vachon – ANMLY

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