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Jodie Young, verray jangleresse

@jangleresse.bsky.social

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Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia Poetry, books, art, history. Resisting the urge to despair.

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Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social · Nov 24

I've created a start pack of Aus Poets I've found so far.

Please let me know if you'd like to be added or can suggest some poets
go.bsky.app/RoeuVZ6

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 4h

Tomorrow night is the night. Pittsburgh folks, please join us.

Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 7d

With a week to go, we hope you can Join Jamie Lackey and AaN on October 17th, 6:00pm, at Blythe Books in Brentwood for our “The Forest Gods” book launch. RSVP here - www.blythebooks.com/shop/p/an-ev...

Covers to both books and date and time info + a QR code to scan.

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 1d

ERMEHGERD! I've been nominated for a Pushcart by MockingHeart Review for my #poem "Morning Commute"!!! Immensely grateful to their team & readers. You can read it here: mockingheartreview.com/archives/vol...

#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Colleen S. Harris

MORNING COMMUTE A quick jerk of my ringless left hand is allit would take. I could ruin this Tuesdaymorning, the air sodden with near-rain flirting with the grubby pines guardingthe shoulder of thi…

mockingheartreview.com

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Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much Kelli Russell Agodon and Melissa Studdard for such beautifully attentive readings of my poems. 💕💕💕

youtu.be/mEwJNvG8m6c?...

Poems You Need, Episode 25: Luisa A. Igloria

YouTube video by Poems You Need

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

This is fucking great. Go read it. I’m only 150 pages in and have to drive now and apparently the book won’t read itself which is unfair.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

On the plane. Finally a moment to read the new @charliejane.bsky.social !

While soft Muzak of “born this way” plays overhead. (It was “dance monkey” previously).

The front page of lessons of magic and disaster.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 10d

The Freedom issue of ABOUT PLACE just dropped with super fine work by Susan Terris, Nancy Mercado, Alexandra Teague, Laura- Gray Street, Pam Uschuk, Denise Duhamel, Jacquiline Johnson, and Marjorie Maddox, and so much more. I have a couple poems, scroll all the way down.

aboutplacejournal.org

Home – About Place Journal

a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society

aboutplacejournal.org

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Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats!

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Cormac Culkeen @cormacculkeen.bsky.social · 5d

Tired but buzzing. I won second prize in the Frances Browne Poetry Competition 2025 for my poem, Meteor. I'm a happy chappie!

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 5d

Next Sunday! A writing session hosted by me!

These are a lot of fun, writing and sharing and discussing poetry in community, and… signing up comes with a free chapbook in the mail!

I hope you take a moment to register.

See you then! Exclamation point!

blacklawrencepress.com/books/pickel...

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 5d

We need our independent bookstores and libraries now more than ever. In a time of rising fascism, the guardians of knowledge are the ones who lead revolutions. They hand people ideas - ideas that lead to resistance and liberation. It’s why fascists target them.

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 10d

The first of my celebratory book orders arrived and it’s an Afrocentric sci-fi horror

The Nga’Phandileh Whisperer by @genni.bsky.social

My second @starsandsabers.bsky.social publication

#booksky
🪐📚💙
🩸📚

Nga’Phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon. An African woman in an orange dress, two drums, three towering snakes and a darkly lit palace on the cover

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Robin Brooks @robinbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to share my first published words!

My short non-fiction piece was published in the Fall 2025 edition of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social. Click on the Youtube link below to listen.

*Potentiel triggers: miscarriage, suidical thoughts, accidental death.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwt3...

Thunk by Robin Brooks

YouTube video by Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 10d

I'm in the top ten again at Waterstones in Wolverhampton! How lovely.

Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social · 10d

Out latest Waterstones #Wolverhampton best-sellers, with Richard Osman and SenLinYu again out in front, a good week for #Twilight fans, and weekend events for @emmapurshouse.bsky.social's Unsung and Jake Perry's Nights in Gold Satin help keep them in the Top 10!

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Happening this Friday!! 🚨

Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 10d

colleen j. mcelroy
PAINT ME VISIBLE
from her collection, Blood Memory

Paint Me Visible

in a family of beautiful intelligent and profoundly
crazy women one danced in the dark
to soothe her nerves another wove shawls
from her husband's hair and discarded both
when the work was done another read palms
tea leaves cards anything that left an imprint
on her inner eye neighbors said she saw
things nobody else could describe

Lord knows not every family has an oracle or two
women who could hoard love like pirates' treasures
wool gatherers omen givers ones who stir
the soup of memory always in their favor the oldest
daughter the most formidable commanding the others
but you child grew up believing they all held magic
eyes in the back of their heads that told them
what you planned to do before you did it and you
thinking any one of those women could be your mother
you the child half hidden in the folds of their skirts

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Warren Mortimer @woz012poetry.bsky.social · 10d

What a top-tier journal. You can tell how slick Lighthouse is just from the front cover. I'm delighted to have my poem 'rosetta' included in the latest issue. This goes out to anyone who's just got their kid to nod off, only to howl in pain by treading on a square of duplo. @julwe1.bsky.social

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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for all the likes. follows and reskeets. Here is the wonderful @joriegraham.bsky.social with 'Poem' #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiq...

Pause for Art - Jorie Graham

YouTube video by HarvardArts

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 12d

It Takes A Village: a speculative anthology about the meaning of care, bringing some of the best indie #scifi and #fantasy voices to speculate about what it is to be human. On Promo this week! amzn.to/42pE2ww

It Takes A Village: ebook on $0.99 special Oct 3-11

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15d

I'm delighted to announce that
my poem Prefab (which can be found in the link below)
has been nominated for BEST OF THE NET
My boundless gratitude goes to @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social & @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social for nominating me 🙏

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #BOTN

Five Poems by Paul Connolly

Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com

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Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to @abctales.bsky.social for giving my short story, Low, Pick of the Day #writingcommunity

ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 14d

A fine piece of writing from Mark Burrow for you today:

www.abctales.com/story/mark-b...

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Evan Kuhlman @moonbasewolfy.bsky.social · 19d

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow here is a painting my late brother Eric created during his high school days. #TheRoad #artwork #paintings

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14d

Thrilled to be Commended in #nationalpoetryday Stanza comp. I wrote it for @tessafoley.bsky.social in a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA workshop with Joelle Taylor. Congrats Marilyn Longstaff, runners-up Nairn Kennedy & Jack Houston & other Commended poets. I'll be reading at the Poetry Cafe tonight!

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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social · 16d

I was delighted to find that I've been nominated in the #BOTN awards 2026 by @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for the poem Polyrhythmic Cake Mix.

Thanks so much to Editor Leia for the belief in my work.

Couldn't be happier.

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Nathaniel Spain @nathanielspain.bsky.social · 14d

The anthology is out later this month, support a brand new press and pre-order here: www.uncertainstories.com

Uncertain Stories

Uncertain Stories is a new publishing house specialising in short fiction.

www.uncertainstories.com

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 16d

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.

No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 16d

Hullo. Ever so chuffed and very grateful that this has just received a Best Of The Net nomination from @lozzawriting.bsky.social of Frazzled Lit fame. Congrats to all the nominees!

Seeing Stars

We arrive
not quite from nowhere
to lie together,
two empty spoons in need of shining,
to share the charge of rural stars,
and ponder
all those crazy gaps
between them
and us.

Simmering on a bank of nighttime grass,
you name this act
Cosmic Vertigo,
till suddenly you are crying:
for the past, and the future, but mostly for
the many shocks
of now:
time running
askew
in this skyward drowning.
Your tears are distilled starlight,
neither of us
fully understanding
their distant origins.

The crook of an arm I brought with me
for one purpose
comforts you,
shutting out your crowding
over-lit universe,
though the limb is stuck fast as a buttress,
unfree to offer
any more earthy
tenderness.

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