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Dina L. Relles
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
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writer • editor • road-tripper
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lovely prominent placement for @ambersparks.bsky.social at @strandbookstore.bsky.social UWS!
photo of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE by Amber Sparks on display on a bookshelf at The Strand
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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martin65.bsky.social
If you want a _very_ brief poem this morning, @havehashad.com and I can provide.

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/in-...
Poem, "In Retrospect," by Catherine Rockwood. It reads: She never did laugh when he did.
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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havehashad.com
got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!

https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
November 19, 2025 In Retrospect Catherine Rockwood She never did laugh when he did.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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emmasloley.bsky.social
This @literaryhub.bsky.social glory days of Literary Twitter bracket is very amusing if you, like me, were way too online in a very specific book nerd way back in the day - if the words bad art friend, shitty media men & cat person mean anything to you, go vote! 😊
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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 3*
Welcome to the third day of voting! We’re down to just 16, and it’s getting harder for me to discern how this thing will shake out, to be honest. Unsurprisingly, a few top seeds remain—bad art frie…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
i love you like the first snow of the season
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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mattkendrick.bsky.social
"Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)"

Another stunner for a Sunday morning. Love the fracturing of time in this piece, how all these departures echo against each other
dinalrelles.bsky.social Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · Oct 6
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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tonight’s moon 🤍
photograph of the full moon through a clearing in the clouds and tree branches
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
What we know so far, 8:30pm

—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
i would like to save daylight and nightdark and all the hours really, i would like to save them all
November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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collage postcards with aphorism from @dinalrelles.bsky.social
Collage postcard of dog in spiky collar and aphorism from @dinalrelles.bsky.social collage postcard of dog and aphorism from Dina L. Relles
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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livesinpages.bsky.social
Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!
Christopher Gonzalez Named 2025 Recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
This annual fellowship supports the residency of an LGBTQ+ writer working in any genre at VCCA’s artist retreat in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
www.vcca.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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amorak.bsky.social
Couple of love poems in the new issue of Waxwing --
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Aperture Amorak Huey we’re tangled in nowhere knotted in not supposed to be & I say I want to frame this what I mean is I want to keep it, the now of it like time is a thing we can hold to look at later & also I mean I want to draw a border around this blackberry thicket & the here we are the can you believe it & I want to trim away the rest of the world, I want to make of the universe a blankness everywhere except here where the light enters through the brambles that hide us except here where parts of us touch nothing beyond the thorns of our entangling & on the sheets of this touching a million tiny points of blood or is it the juice of berries spilling like stars, like sand an offering
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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andrewbertaina.bsky.social
Come support @ladiwoods.bsky.social this week as she launches her debut collection in DC

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October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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alinapleskova.bsky.social
i have two poems (w/audio!) in the new issue of blush, ft. so many great poets!

been thinking about “productivity” & “achievement”, referring to poems as “work”, artist statements, lexicon i often saw when working at an art school, how to stay loose & silly, etc

🎡 www.blush-lit.com/alina-plesko...
alina pleskova — b l u s h
www.blush-lit.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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sad13.horse
had 3 poems published in blush the other day. AnD here they ArE. will read em tonight at molly's books & records alongside @alinapleskova.bsky.social for the launch of rachelle toarmino's HELL YEAH. these are my updates at this time! www.blush-lit.com/journal#/sad...
journal — b l u s h
www.blush-lit.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
AppleCare but for the heart
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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matt-uhler.bsky.social
This made me want to write my own version.

From the author’s note:

“Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”
dinalrelles.bsky.social Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · Oct 6
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
i will never regret how everything i ever did was in pursuit of love
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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sabrinahicks.bsky.social
“If you ask me about love, I’ll show you late winter light on the farmland—some liminal thing.”

Love the longing in this beautiful @dinalrelles.bsky.social piece.
dinalrelles.bsky.social Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · Oct 6
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Oh, do we love a new book to celebrate coming back from break!! Former Managing Editor @mossyair.bsky.social's debut novel COVER GIRL came out on August 5th 🥳 Find all the info here ➡️ buff.ly/szixFW9
The book cover of The Cover Girl by Amy Rossi. A blue background with several photos of a young woman.
August 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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literally everything is better when i’m reading a good book
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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If you ask me about love, I’ll show you late winter light on the farmland—some liminal thing…..
beautiful! @dinalrelles.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
dinalrelles.bsky.social Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · Oct 6
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.
October 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
“…the beauty of things that are ending.” — Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
He didn’t say he would call. (In spite of myself, I think of my mother, the last time I saw her, in April ‘86. I said, “See you Sunday,” and she did not reply.) However, he did ask me if I was going to Salon due livre, meaning that we wouldn’t see each other before then. And yet, and yet, what tenderness, the last time. But that’s just it: the last planned meetings have the beauty of things that are ending. What if I were never to see him again, as with Claude G in the past? That is like death. I fear the worst (he’s leaving France, ditching me, etc.)
October 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM