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Jeremy Michael Reed
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poet, writer, editor, teacher, interested in all things books. He/him.

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Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social · 5d
I couldn't be more excited for this new project! Help us spread the word, and I hope you send something our way!
swiftslitmag.bsky.social s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 5d
We are officially open to submissions for Issue 1 to be published in early 2026! Send us some work to consider!
An image of the about page for a new literary magazine, simple black text on white background with a line-drawn swift (bird) at the top: s w i f t s is a literary magazine edited by Jeremy Michael Reed. You may submit up to five pieces of creative work regardless of genre. Like our namesake, the journal prioritizes pieces that are adept in multiple ways at the same time: speed and strength, quick movements and longevity of flight, drag and thrust. We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us when your work is accepted by another publisher. If you are submitting translations, please include the original language version and proof that you have permission to translate the work. If you are incorporating work you did not create yourself into your piece, please acknowledge it in your cover letter and provide any proof of permission if necessary. Rights revert back to the author after publication, though we do ask for an acknowledgment when the work later appears elsewhere and we maintain non-exclusive anthology rights in case we publish a print anthology in the future. We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prizes, Best American anthologies, The O’Henry Prize, Best Literary Translations, Best Microfictions, and other awards as applicable. If there’s a place we should be nominating work we aren’t already, please let us know. To contact the editors or submit your writing, please email swiftslitmag@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your work.
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Thanks for listing us & helping spread the word, @duotrope.com!
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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mollyakin.bsky.social
New journal accepting submissions
swiftslitmag.bsky.social s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 5d
We are officially open to submissions for Issue 1 to be published in early 2026! Send us some work to consider!
An image of the about page for a new literary magazine, simple black text on white background with a line-drawn swift (bird) at the top: s w i f t s is a literary magazine edited by Jeremy Michael Reed. You may submit up to five pieces of creative work regardless of genre. Like our namesake, the journal prioritizes pieces that are adept in multiple ways at the same time: speed and strength, quick movements and longevity of flight, drag and thrust. We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us when your work is accepted by another publisher. If you are submitting translations, please include the original language version and proof that you have permission to translate the work. If you are incorporating work you did not create yourself into your piece, please acknowledge it in your cover letter and provide any proof of permission if necessary. Rights revert back to the author after publication, though we do ask for an acknowledgment when the work later appears elsewhere and we maintain non-exclusive anthology rights in case we publish a print anthology in the future. We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prizes, Best American anthologies, The O’Henry Prize, Best Literary Translations, Best Microfictions, and other awards as applicable. If there’s a place we should be nominating work we aren’t already, please let us know. To contact the editors or submit your writing, please email swiftslitmag@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your work.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
I couldn't be more excited for this new project! Help us spread the word, and I hope you send something our way!
swiftslitmag.bsky.social s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 5d
We are officially open to submissions for Issue 1 to be published in early 2026! Send us some work to consider!
An image of the about page for a new literary magazine, simple black text on white background with a line-drawn swift (bird) at the top: s w i f t s is a literary magazine edited by Jeremy Michael Reed. You may submit up to five pieces of creative work regardless of genre. Like our namesake, the journal prioritizes pieces that are adept in multiple ways at the same time: speed and strength, quick movements and longevity of flight, drag and thrust. We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us when your work is accepted by another publisher. If you are submitting translations, please include the original language version and proof that you have permission to translate the work. If you are incorporating work you did not create yourself into your piece, please acknowledge it in your cover letter and provide any proof of permission if necessary. Rights revert back to the author after publication, though we do ask for an acknowledgment when the work later appears elsewhere and we maintain non-exclusive anthology rights in case we publish a print anthology in the future. We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prizes, Best American anthologies, The O’Henry Prize, Best Literary Translations, Best Microfictions, and other awards as applicable. If there’s a place we should be nominating work we aren’t already, please let us know. To contact the editors or submit your writing, please email swiftslitmag@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your work.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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snullr.bsky.social
Amazing poem by Joy Harjo.
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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philipchristman.bsky.social
I don’t sometimes think this, I always think this. Like this is one of the six things I think every day before breakfast
whetmoser.com whet moser @whetmoser.com · Oct 13
sometimes i think we lost something with the disappearance of not just cheap but cheap *looking* mass market paperback versions of "prestige" books
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"I am a white deer, he said, as he escaped through the trees."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Shapeshifter”
“The white deer appeared on the road to his sister / As she returned from looking for him.”
www.newyorker.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...
OF POETRY PODCAST Donna Varreyer Unrivered DONNA VORREYER (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts) EPISODE 78
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"I, civil, lift my arms, balance." - Zeina Hashem Beck

The mirroring/self-investigating in this poem.

poets.org/poem/standup...
Standup Sonnet
Imported, my given name barely sounds
poets.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Still thinking about the piece I read this morning by @selahannsaterstrom.bsky.social at @thecreativeindependent.com:

"We carry the archive in our blood."

thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer and diviner Selah Saterstrom on taking turns to light our passageway through disaster – The Creative Independent
Writer and diviner Selah Saterstrom discusses academia, the importance of communal storytelling, and investing in your mental health to support radical creative risks
thecreativeindependent.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Really enjoying the new issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social this morning, and this poem by Caitlin Scarano in particular:

"My organizing principle keeps slipping / off in the night, a fox silently piercing a series / of fencelines."

www.theshorepoetry.org/caitlin-scar...
Caitlin Scarano "Mud Season with Her Glass Flowers" — THE SHORE
www.theshorepoetry.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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In a note to herself, Octavia E. Butler wrote, “Tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know. Make people feel!“

Good writing advice for academics and researchers. All writing is a form of creative writing.
September 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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saraelizaj.bsky.social
“It’s extremely important for me to keep the reality of film craft alive. I want real sets. I don’t want digital. I don’t want AI. I don’t want simulation. I want old fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. I go in and paint props myself.“
Guillermo del Toro Unpacks ‘Frankenstein’: The 30-Year Journey to Make It, Getting a Netflix Theatrical Release and Why He Axed the Plan for Two Movies
Guillermo del Toro tells all to Variety about the 30 year process of bringing his 'Frankenstein' to life, plus casting Oscar Isaac in the title role.
variety.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What’s better than @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social on BlueSky? A Diane Seuss poem to start them off.
blackbirdjournal.bsky.social Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · Sep 15
Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛

blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...
A black-and-white portrait of Diane Seuss. She has long dark hair with bangs, wears dark eyeliner, and looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. The image is framed by a salmon-pink border. A white graphic bordered in salmon pink featuring an excerpt from Diane Seuss’s poem "In every religion, a purifying." The excerpt reads: “The rain came in multitudes, / in droves, like supplicants / to a holy place, almost // beautiful, as a shattered / windshield is beautiful, / especially when it rains.” At the bottom, text notes: Poetry / Blackbird v23n4, with a small blackbird silhouette.
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Can’t wait to check out this convo w @aliciawright.bsky.social!
sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · Sep 9
Really, really interesting conversation about book reviews, the state of criticism today, etc—from a perspective that centers poetry & the renegade genres for discussing it. I really like this podcast! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
Episode 25: Alicia Wright - “The Ecstatic State of Making the Point”
Podcast Episode · Index for Continuance · 2025-09-08 · 1h 21m
podcasts.apple.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
"This interactive map explores five centuries of Indigenous histories on the land now known as Chicago. Stretching across time, it emphasizes that Chicago is, and has always been, an Indigenous place."

map.indigenous-chicago.org/pr/indigenou...
Indigenous Chicago
This interactive map explores five centuries of Indigenous histories on the land now known as Chicago. Stretching across time, it emphasizes that Chicago is, an
map.indigenous-chicago.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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emdashphillips.bsky.social
Stunned and absolutely thrilled that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (@uakronpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy (@lambdaliterary.bsky.social)! Congrats to all the finalists in all categories 🏳️‍🌈
July 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I mentioned this to friends recently as one of the few tools I use every semester without fail (for years!) & they didn’t know about it to my surprise so now I’m making sure to spread the word. I truly appreciate @wcaleb.org putting it online for everyone so long ago!
jshelat1.bsky.social Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · Jul 29
Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
July 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
I just backed Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection (!) from @fonografeditions.bsky.social & you probably should too on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...
Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection
Support Fonograf Editions in publishing a volume of four early Eileen Myles books, including the never-before-published Bird Watching
www.kickstarter.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

1. Toni Morrison
2. Joy Harjo
3. C.D. Wright
4. Gabriel García Márquez
5. Marilynne Robinson
6. Virginia Woolf
7. Sandra Cisneros
8. Joe Sacco
9. James Welch
10. Annie Dillard
July 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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eireannmor.bsky.social
now in Blackpitts in Dublin, if the rain holds off they'll be there a while (you are not alone)
A black siding with a dozen brightly colored posters wheatpasted on it. The posters are printed with overlapping words in bright colors A corner of one of the posters next to small cards with typewritten language on them. The cards say, "it can be easy to walk through this shared world for getting that we are all here together. Even forgetting that we are here with all the plants, animals, landforms, ideas, books, music, pictures, etc. All of human imagining is here with us. You are not alone." and "these posters were made by collecting words from our ordinary surroundings (groups of people did that). Then we got to stencils in paper and we used those two screen print the words one on top of another. Some words came from groups in Dublin. Others came from groups in the US. The posters travelled. Our language is shared. Our world is shared, too."
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"How ridiculous now to think we were happy in the quick shelter / we sought from truth." - Joy Harjo, "Overwhelm" at @newyorker.com
“Overwhelm”
“How ridiculous now to think we were happy in the quick shelter / we sought from truth.”
www.newyorker.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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aarikdanielsen.bsky.social
"From the tawny light
from the rainy nights
from the imagination finding
itself and more than itself
alone and more than alone
at the bottom of the well where the moon lives,
can you pull me ..."

— Denise Levertov

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42525/...
Everything that Acts Is Actual
From the tawny light from the rainy nights from the imagination finding itself and more than itself alone and more than alone at the bottom of the well where the moon lives, can you pull me into Decem...
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM