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Stefanie Kirby

@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social

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Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2025). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's here!! 🎉

Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Jun 24

🎉 #HappyPubDay to Stefanie Kirby with REMAINDER (Inch #64) available now --> buff.ly/WHXyMdi

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shovda @shovda.bsky.social · 2h

Hi, I have a poem in Glass Poetry today. 🙂

Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 2h

Today on Glass!

"what is a woman" by Sara Hovda (@shovda.bsky.social)!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Image of a foggy field

Text

my voice so low
you can hear the earth

you call me a clearing
scarred by human feet

what is a woman

Sara Hovda

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 54m

Look who is long listed for The Maya Angelou Award! The Grace of Black Mothers by @martheaus.bsky.social!💛💜💛💜

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 11h

The Sisters is an absolute favorite!

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 20h

Very excited about @djvorreyer.bsky.social’s new collection!

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 19h

In breaking news, I will be hosting A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour in Baltimore on 3/6 of AWP from 5-7 pm. More details coming soon.

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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · Sep 7

Final copies are here, and they're stunning. Alex Wolfe did an excellent job with the design. If I owe you a book, it'll be on its way shortly. And for the rest of y'all, the book comes out from @upittpress.bsky.social on October 21. I can't wait to share No Longer at This Address with you.

12 copies of No Longer at This Address in a partially opened cardboard mailer.

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 1d

@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @nowarwarren.bsky.social @thekismetmag.bsky.social thank u for this amazing book, & for this searing account of an indispensable collection of voices & witnessings which cannot now be erased, revised or wiped from the historical record.

kismet-mag.com/review/blood...

Blood-Soaked Shirt

Noah Warren reviews YOU MUST LIVE, an anthology of new poetry from Palestine.

kismet-mag.com

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · Feb 3

"Bluegrass" (acrylics on paper).

#painting #art #acrylics

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 1d

Torn paper revealing a message: Call for submissions; The Offing’s Micro department is seeking new works !

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 3d

Jon Boisvert

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

TRANSPLANT
Father receives another transplant today.
This time, it's a beehive. It feels good to drink the rain, he says, & better to eat the Aowers. He's been in the meadow for hours now, getting so big & brave.

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 1d

It's fantastic. Some of the pieces remind me of your work!

Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent, thank you so much!!!

Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 1d

Which of his collections would you recommend for starters?

Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 1d

Big fan of Julie Doxsee's Objects for a Fog Death and @jwindholz.bsky.social's The Sisters, in case you haven't read them yet!

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

my to-be-read pile steadily contains more and more novels with less and less poetry

please recommend me poetry collections that are weird, strange, surreal, funny, shocking, chaotic, unhinged

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2d

Monday with Jane Hirshfield

Obstacle

This body, still walking.
The wind must go around it.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 3d

“Everything ends up being an ode to death.”

—Martha Silano in TERMINAL SURREAL (@acrebooks.bsky.social)

DEATH POEM

Death is the one-day-alive mayfly clinging to a watering can.
When the grass turns brown, how can I not think of death?
In my heart, death lives like a mama raccoon with her two young.
We haven't figured out a way to undo death.
Death awaits the pigeon on a roof, says the Cooper's hawk.
It's not cool to mention corpse beetles when there's a death.
Did you know there's a death's-head hawkmoth?
A scrub jay squawks death, death, death!
Dragonflies and death: they live about six months.
Eating is for sure some kind of elaborate death feast.
Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh.
Our planet: one big tribute concert to death.
Death be not proud, says John Donne, but death is proud, I think.
Everything ends up being an ode to death.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 5d

better pic, hard to get a good one with the lighting in my room. not edited, just camera/lighting

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 6d

It's cool and sexy to read books and hate fascism.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 7d

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/can...

HAD @havehashad.com · 7d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

www.havehashad.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 8d

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 7d

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series of objects on canvas 44

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my gosh! I just saw that two of my poems are this month's Amuse-Bouche feature from @lunchticket.bsky.social !

Big thanks to the editors at @antiochmfa.bsky.social for giving these poems a home!

lunchticket.org/scientists-c...

Scientists Confirm Visceral Reactions to Graphic Images - Lunch Ticket

Two poems by Jill McCabe Johnson

lunchticket.org

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 7d

Read read read this incredible story and stave off the horrors for just a few moments more and just maybe, if you are lucky, you, too, will emerge with a fragrance suggesting an ongoing relationship with leather!

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 8d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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