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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 1d

This seems a great time to pipe up with a #Conrad4Congress! There's a working-class guy running against Mike Johnson in Louisiana (@conrad4congress.bsky.social). ✊💞

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 1d

This is art.

Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com · 2d

I just got a targeted ad on IG for the literal shirt I’m wearing.

Me wearing a shirt with the Bob Pepper art used on a paperback of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP by Philip K. Dick.

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are now OPEN for new poems until midnight on Sunday 19th October.

atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 2d

Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry

A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 5d

Read the journal here: www.ringling.edu/academics/ma...

Shift - Ringling College of Art and Design

www.ringling.edu

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 5d

This poem, "On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy," came out of the first week I went back to work after my dad's funeral. It's that staggering feeling of loss mixed with the pressure of a world that just keeps going.

I'm honored to have it included in Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities 💞

A close-up photograph of an open book, showcasing a poem titled "On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy" by Maudie Bryant. The page rests on another copy of the book, Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities.

Poem Text:

On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy

by Maudie Bryant

The coffee scalds my tongue,
bitter as the ache that woke me.
I think of my father's hands,
how they used to cup my face,
how they smelled
like cigarettes and sawdust.

The world doesn't care
if I stay in bed today,
but my inbox fills
like a sink left running—
so I pull on jeans
stiff with yesterday's sweat,
grab the keys,
and pretend the engine's roar
isn't just another version of my own.

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Conrad 4 Congress @conrad4congress.bsky.social · 5d

Constituents have a right to be heard. Speech isn’t free if we aren’t allowed to use it. Protesters should be moved to public property, not removed. Why isn't Mike accessible?

shreveportbossieradvocate.com @sbcadvocate.bsky.social · 6d

Before a small group of protesters could say much of anything about the health care cuts at the center of the ongoing government shutdown, five Bossier City and parish squad cars pulled up to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and ordered them to disperse at the property owner's request.

Bossier police disperse protest against health care cuts at Speaker Mike Johnson's office

Before a small group of protesters could say much of anything about the health care cuts at the center of the ongoing government shutdown, five Bossier City and parish squad cars pulled up to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and ordered them to disperse at the property owner's request.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 8d

Oh hey, it's me! This will be out soon. Really looking forward to it- I've seen a ton of great contributors! 💞🌸

Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 27d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit

Arrives Nov

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 10d

Our "Witness" issue begins with Rowan Tate's poignant bearing witness to life in exile. The feeling of bringing everything you have left with you is encapsulated here.

📖 Read "The Tent" and more:
www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #RowanTate #TheTent #RefugeePoetry #LitMag

A quote graphic from the poem "The Tent" by Rowan Tate. The quote reads: "...Whatever is left of my country, I brought it with me in my skin and keep it wrapped in my abaya..."

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11d

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 11d

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 11d

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11d

Feeling like I want to go home and pluck my eyebrows.

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11d

Thank you for highlighting us lil guys! 🤩

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 11d

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 11d

🎉 Eeeek! We’re today’s Listing of the Day on Duotrope!
Proud, thrilled, and maybe a little over-caffeinated. 💫

Submissions are OPEN, and we’re so excited to keep building our little corner of the literary world!

#artcall #poetrycall #opencall

Duotrope @duotrope.com · 11d

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 13d

Audi Locus is now accepting poetry, art, and music for our next issue. Submit your work between Oct 1 – Nov 30.

🖊 Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

Art is resistance. Come build with us.

#poetrysubmission #poetrycall #artcall

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 14d

The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam

Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus

www.audilocus.com

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 14d

You'd think that losing my dad would have been the thing to slow me down during Vol. 1.1— but a storm of currents turned on the executive dysfunction surrounding Vol. 1.2. Owning up and moving forward now!

Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 14d

Cover reveal time! 🎉 We're thrilled to finally share the beautiful cover for Audi Locus Volume 1.2: "Witness."

We hit some delays (mental health break), but we’re back on track and this powerful collection is coming very soon!

Cover Art: "The Window" by Carolyn Schlam

#poetry #literarymagazine

A magazine cover for "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry," Fall 2025, Volume 1, Issue 2, themed "Witness." The cover features a painted image of a young woman with long, brown hair, wearing a mauve sweater and blue jeans, sitting by a window. She's holding a white mug with both hands and looking pensively out the window at a scene of colorful, brightly lit houses or buildings at dusk or night. The overall style is expressive and painterly.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 14d

I’m a little late sharing, but three of my visual poems were published in swifts & slows at Arteidolia. These pieces let me stitch fragments and small drawings into something between poem and spell. I'm happy they found a home.

👀: www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows...

#VisualPoetry #Poetry

A black and white visual poem is centered on a line-drawn image of a globe on fire, which is mounted on a small pedestal. The globe has a cross-hatched pattern to suggest lines of longitude and latitude.

The poem's text is scattered around the central image in a mix of typewritten and handwritten-style fonts, some words are curved or angled:

"southern porch" is at the top center.

"the sliding door feels like apple skin" is below that, with "waxy warm, peeling chimes" positioned further down and to the right.

"vibrate" is on the left.

"hummingbirds," is on the right, above "tasting tasting".

"red-capped vessels," is to the right of the burning globe.

The phrase "don't mix bleach and ammonia" forms an arc around the bottom half of the globe, with "don't mix" on the left and "and ammonia" on the right.

"fertile with sugared water." is at the very bottom.

The overall texture of the background suggests crumpled or wrinkled paper.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 20d

And Laura Benjamin (@laura.direct). 🔥

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 21d

Also admiring @katmabu.bsky.social ✊💞🌟

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 26d

Excited to see midterm candidates who are working-class people, ready to fight for working-class folks!

Give 'em a follow!
Conrad Cable @conrad4congress.bsky.social
Lauren Jewett @doitjewett.bsky.social
Graham Platner @grahamformaine.bsky.social
Joel Willett @joelforkentucky.bsky.social

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 21d

I've never set out to be an essay writer, but the times demand speaking up, not silence. My piece “Leave Space for the Redemption Arc” is out now in the new Substack, Roses in the Swamp 🌹. Democracy only works if we leave room for mistakes, growth, and second chances.

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