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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · 6d

Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 7d

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 18d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social

Read here:
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Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian

lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · 28d

Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 25

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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)

7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations - Electric Literature

These authors capture the power and privilege of staying

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 27

“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”

Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jul 25

"We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."

Librarians Recommend 8 Books that Changed the Shape of Politics and Reading in America - Electric Literature

According to the Brooklyn Public Library, these titles can help you understand how we got here

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Jul 22

Looking at the sky where we are, you'd never know it's late July. Oh well, let's read.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 18

A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Jul 14

If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · Jul 9

Is this a brilliant week or a bullshit one?

Being a writer means thinking “this is brilliant”  & “this is bullshit” at the same time

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The Bitter Southerner @bittersouth.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Look—the Capitol! Let's pay it a visit!"

Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Jul 3

This issue's been out for a couple of days, but we're not even gonna lie, y'all, this post is a bit late because of well, everything. So our only question is: how are you caring for yourself?

Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Jun 25

Do you love poetry or is nonfic more your jam? Do you have eclectic taste? Are you into history-- the weird, secret, but most importantly, true kind? Come read with us!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jun 25

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

What’s Happening to Reading?

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Jun 24

Here to remind you to care for yourself. Walk through flowers. Have an iced coffee. Read a poem. Breathe.

(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)

Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · May 19

More daylight hours just means more time to read our Spring issue, right? Is that how that works? No? Oh well, read it anyway!

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · May 6

This is going to be a blow to some litmags.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · May 5

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Apr 10

It's here! It's here!
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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Apr 4

Five days until our new issue drops AND five days until submissions close. There's all kinds of stuff going on over here!

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · Mar 31

We're staying open until April 9th, y'all! Why? Because we want to. That's why!

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · Mar 26

Find us at Booth 948 at #awp25!

Our E-i-C @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social will be there most of the time, and we'll have book signings with many delightful contributors and staff!

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Mar 28

We're ready for another great day at the #AWP25 bookfair! Stop by and say hello to Publisher Nicola Mason and Assistant Editor Hussain Ahmed. Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

Acre Books Publisher Nicola Mason and Assistant Editor Hussain Ahmed at the AWP Bookfair.

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