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Josiah Nelson

@josiahnelson.bsky.social

I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me

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Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada

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Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social · Dec 22

Happy to share a zany story out with Sonora Review:

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And Love Me and Love Me and Love Me and Love | Josiah Nelson - Sonora Review

The man who kept a book in his pants came by it honestly. That is to say, Terrance did not simply see a book and think, And into my pants this must go. Prior to keeping a book in his pants, Terrance n...

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Morgen Jahnke

@morgenjahnke.bsky.social

Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social

Cover of Brick: A Literary Journal. Yellow background with an inset photograph of a figure standing in a rocky landscape

December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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Angelo Santos

@angelospins.bsky.social

Grateful beyond words that my essay about living in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War was selected for Brick 116, which is now out in the world!

December 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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Mr. Joshua

@pantspants.bsky.social

December 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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Annick MacAskill

@thisisannick.bsky.social

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.

November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Clare Proctor

@almostasif.bsky.social

September 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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skin clear hair shiny, girls and maeves like me

@maeveynot.bsky.social

mosab abu toha #smallpoemsunday

Sunrise in Palestine

The smoke of bombs
dropped from F-16s
has covered the city's sky.

Fighters smuggle the sunlight
through tunnels
beneath our houses.

September 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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Alison Birch ❄️

@irishali13.bsky.social

A poem for your Sunday
~Marie Howe
Annunciation
I thought I'd die from being loved like that...

Annunciation
Even if I don't see it again —nor ever feel it I know it is— and that if once it hailed me it ever does —
And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction not as towards a place, but it was a tilting within myself,
as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where it isn't-I was blinded like that-and swam in what shone at me
only able to endure it by being no one and so specifically myself I thought I'd die from being loved like that.

August 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Litbowl

@litbowl.bsky.social

From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorrow.

Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781942683551

#poem #books #writing

August 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

off to be kissed and changed

Tom Clark

POEM

My heart in pieces like the bits
Of traffic lost in the blue
Rain confused I roar off into
To learn how to build a ladder
With air in my lungs again
To be with you in that region
Of speed and altitude where our bodies
Sail off to be kissed and changed
By light that behaves like a hand
Picking us up in one state and putting
Us down in a different one every time

August 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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Vicki Ziegler

@bookgaga.bsky.social

"Aware
of time drifting away, as clouds do, moving
overhead, the pewter clouds holding back rain
and slowly tarnishing."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Search Party by @ianletourneau.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc3vvnne

Poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau (Opaat Press) sits on a wooden table with a pineapple and an elegant container with two red bergamot flowers

Poem inside poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau, next to a pineapple

July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Bill Knott

POEM

A kite in the shape
of a map floats
over the land it depicts,

but at night no one sees
its roads at the end
of which a child feels

his hand tugged upward,
disappearing
in salutations.

June 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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joe positive

@joepositive.wtf

yes.

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jun 21

Robert Creeley

“YOU WANT. . .”

You want

the feel

of things

in words,

of words.

June 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Nicole Caruso Garcia

@nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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Montreal International Poetry Prize

@montrealprize.bsky.social

Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!

Metatron Press @metatronpress.bsky.social · Jun 17

✶❂✷ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟕𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 ✷❂✶

✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 ✦
𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐞
❀ A seismic new voice in poetry — raw, mythic, and electrifying.

↠ Read the full announcement ✶
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Announcing the Winner of the 7th International Metatron Poetry Prize

Prairie-based Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye wins the Prize with 'The Goat’s Tongue'

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June 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Robert Selby

@reselby.bsky.social

Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
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June 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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Ronna Bloom

@ronnabloom.bsky.social

I'm just going to quietly put this here and make some noise later.

Poems. September 15. Brick Books

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June 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM

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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :)

here’s one by Kess Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social, from their Apt. 9 Press chapbook Gavel sound. Gravel sound. 💫