Liza Sparks (she/her)
@lsparks.bsky.social
Writer, poet, and creative; work appearing in TIMBER, CALYX, Allium, The Pinch Journal (online), and many others. 🏳️🌈
Work forthcoming with Pangyrus LitMag and The Morgue 🥳
https://www.lizasparks.com/
Work forthcoming with Pangyrus LitMag and The Morgue 🥳
https://www.lizasparks.com/
Checkout my new piece in Black Fox Literary Magazine! ❤️ Many thanks to the editorial team 🙏🏽 You can read the whole flash fiction story here: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/
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November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Checkout my new piece in Black Fox Literary Magazine! ❤️ Many thanks to the editorial team 🙏🏽 You can read the whole flash fiction story here: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/
#flashfiction
#literaryfiction
#shortstory
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#shortstory
A little Halloween fun. Here’s my poem, “Ode to the Horror Film.” Stay spooky 👻
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October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A little Halloween fun. Here’s my poem, “Ode to the Horror Film.” Stay spooky 👻
#Halloween
#Halloweenpoem
#Horrorpoetry
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Can anyone recommend any books, papers, articles, thought pieces, etc. on queer poetics? Thanks!
May 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Can anyone recommend any books, papers, articles, thought pieces, etc. on queer poetics? Thanks!
Bet you in the future Columbia University will reclaim students it expelled, suspended, or revoked degrees from for Pro-Palestinian protests, the same way UCLA reclaimed Angela Davis after firing her…twice.
March 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Bet you in the future Columbia University will reclaim students it expelled, suspended, or revoked degrees from for Pro-Palestinian protests, the same way UCLA reclaimed Angela Davis after firing her…twice.
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From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
March 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
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Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m so grateful this little poem of mine is finding its way to folks ❤️
“Take a deep breath in. It's so good to be alive./
It's so damned good to be alive.”
—that 💕💕moment @crochetkingpin.bsky.social, the leader of tonight's Arts Club workshop on “Writing Queer Joy” shares @lsparks.bsky.social’s “Ponderosa Pine” 🔥🔥🔥 #poetry #glbtqpoetry #queerlove
It's so damned good to be alive.”
—that 💕💕moment @crochetkingpin.bsky.social, the leader of tonight's Arts Club workshop on “Writing Queer Joy” shares @lsparks.bsky.social’s “Ponderosa Pine” 🔥🔥🔥 #poetry #glbtqpoetry #queerlove
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m so grateful this little poem of mine is finding its way to folks ❤️
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Thank you for sharing this poem Ginger Ayla on Substack “Effing the Ineffable” ❤️
And thank you, thank you Aracelis Girmay for writing it 🥹
I cried my eyes out reading it 😭 This poem. THIS…
Thank you for sharing this poem Ginger Ayla on Substack “Effing the Ineffable” ❤️
And thank you, thank you Aracelis Girmay for writing it 🥹
I cried my eyes out reading it 😭 This poem. THIS…
You Are Who I Love
You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You protecting the river You ...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Thank you for sharing this poem Ginger Ayla on Substack “Effing the Ineffable” ❤️
And thank you, thank you Aracelis Girmay for writing it 🥹
I cried my eyes out reading it 😭 This poem. THIS…
Thank you for sharing this poem Ginger Ayla on Substack “Effing the Ineffable” ❤️
And thank you, thank you Aracelis Girmay for writing it 🥹
I cried my eyes out reading it 😭 This poem. THIS…
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so hurry
to where it's soft & I will weep with you.
—Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"
to where it's soft & I will weep with you.
—Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
so hurry
to where it's soft & I will weep with you.
—Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"
to where it's soft & I will weep with you.
—Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"
Shared by Well-Read Black Girl. Every day is Black History Month! 💪🏽❤️
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Shared by Well-Read Black Girl. Every day is Black History Month! 💪🏽❤️
Seen in my local library! 😊 Libraries are bad ass places! Support your local library! Read banned books 🥳❤️🏳️🌈
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Seen in my local library! 😊 Libraries are bad ass places! Support your local library! Read banned books 🥳❤️🏳️🌈
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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ICYMI — Sharpton led a buy-in to support Costco after they didn’t back down on DEI
January 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
ICYMI — Sharpton led a buy-in to support Costco after they didn’t back down on DEI
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Thanks to Adrienne Maree Brown for posting this poem! ❤️ First time reading and found the truth of this poem brutal and transformative.
Thanks to Adrienne Maree Brown for posting this poem! ❤️ First time reading and found the truth of this poem brutal and transformative.
I Woke Up
I walked down the street in short shorts and a Bob Mizer tank top and they were political, the walking and the shorts and the beefcake silkscreen of the man posing in a G-string. I forgot my sunglasse...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Thanks to Adrienne Maree Brown for posting this poem! ❤️ First time reading and found the truth of this poem brutal and transformative.
Thanks to Adrienne Maree Brown for posting this poem! ❤️ First time reading and found the truth of this poem brutal and transformative.
The ending lines of “Poem About My Rights” by June Jordan…
January 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The ending lines of “Poem About My Rights” by June Jordan…
Thinking about June Jordan’s “Poem About my Rights”
January 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thinking about June Jordan’s “Poem About my Rights”