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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to William Welch and Finishing Line Press for winning the 2025 CNY BOOK AWARD: People’s Choice Award for his book Adding Saffron (Finishing Line Press). #poetry #books #winner #recommended

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 2d

A Poem by Veronica Sanitate
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#poetry #nature #sun #life

A Poem by Veronica Sanitate

Reprise The fields of golden heliopsis (false sunflower) in their joyful blooming can’t know whether the next moment brings life or decline, nor can they choose it, but there must be …

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 3d

A Poem by Barry Vitcov
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#survivor #life #poetry #HolocaustRemembrance

A Poem by Barry Vitcov

A Redheaded Girl born at a time to wonder about the numbers on her arm too young to ask about memories when we played on the steps of my great-grandfather’s apartment house your redhe…

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 4d

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 4d

Lineage – patrilineal, matrilineal – the lines of connection among family are not so easy. Relationships are complex, twisted and twined through our lives, sometimes the strands breaking. #poetry #family #dysfunction #connections

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 4d

A Poem by Karen Betz Mastracchio
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#poetry #life #relationships #family #teddybears

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 5d

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Person Under by Paige Thomas
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/pers...

Person Under renders a careful portrait of two #sisters and their #mother. In this book-length erasure of guardianship renewal papers, Paige Thomas retrieves fragments of her #family’s

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 5d

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 5d

A Poem by Gregory Maertz
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#poetry #life #relationships

A Poem by Gregory Maertz

The Daughter I Never Had I see her now and then, most recently Below Munich’s famous clock belfry. She had the same Kirghiz eyes with The same arresting blue-grey tint, The same impis…

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 5d

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: The Art of Undoing by Hudson Plumb
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

The poems in The Art of Undoing guide the reader through the strange, luminous terrain of what remains after separation #poetry #chapbook #poems #loss #undoing Instagram: @hudsonplumb

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6d

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: The Sky Weeps with Us by Laurel S. Peterson
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The poems in this collection explore how grief builds through the weight of multiple losses, and then #poetry #grief #gratitude #aging #environment #peace

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6d

The deadline is fast approaching. Submit your manusctipt by the October 15, 2025 deadline. finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit/32778... #poetry #women #poetrycontest

Finishing Line Press - 2025 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition

A prize of $1,500, royalty contract, and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually to the winner for a poetry chapbook by a writer who identifies as a woman and has not yet published a ful...

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6d

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: The Needle Has Landed by Alicia Caldanaro
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

THE NEEDLE HAS LANDED includes amusing poems with pop culture references that blend solicitude with enigmatic revelations.#poetry#pop#culture#mirthfulness#life

Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6d

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 6d

A Poem by Margaret Lee
paddockreview.com/2025/10/08/a...
#poetry #Sappho #ancients #water

A Poem by Margaret Lee

Water Song for Sappho Become my voice. lyrics Your rode&n…

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 13d

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Weight of Water by Samantha Wallen
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Weight of Water navigates the terrain of #loss—the #death of a mother, the foreclosure of #home, the vanishing of animal species, and the desecration of the #planet.

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 14d

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Tasting Moments by Pamela Pan
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/tast...

Tasting Moments celebrates the strength of ordinary people as they gain wisdom and embrace new possibilities.

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 14d

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Suncatcher by Brian C. Miller
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These poems explore the aspects of the human condition, such as #love, #time, and #faith during life’s pivotal moments.

Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 14d

A Poem by Dee Slavutin
paddockreview.com/2025/09/30/a... #poetry #family #motherhood #children

A Poem by Dee Slavutin

Polyester Never Dies These sheets wrapped my children’s dreams. Pink and yellow ruffles under chins, stars warded off the boogeyman. They’ve been moved three times to second homes. Now…

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 15d

The deadline is fast approaching. Submit your manusctipt by the October 15, 2025 deadline. finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit/32778... #poetry #women #poetrycontest

Finishing Line Press - 2025 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition

A prize of $1,500, royalty contract, and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually to the winner for a poetry chapbook by a writer who identifies as a woman and has not yet published a ful...

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 15d

Check out this book review: www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/09/26/c... #poetry #bookreview #recommended

Covid-25 - New Haven Independent

New collection by "deadline poet" Allan Appel returns us to life in pandemic times.

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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 15d

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Ponies and Other Poems by Cheryl Derby
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The titular poem “Ponies,” takes a what-if stance. What if a pony would stop trying to buck you off, and instead lead you to a smoother carousel ride.

Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 15d

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Rucksacks for the Leaf Cat by Dianna Henning
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/ruck...

Rucksacks for the Leaf Cat prompts the reader into questioning the duality of love as well as examining what it means to survive on this delicate planet.

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