Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.FALLEN LEAVES by Sam Rasnake
We are thrilled to announce the release of Sam’s new poetry collection FALLEN LEAVES, as well as his signing a long term, author contract with Ballerini Book Press. Our long literary collabor…
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Pleased to announce the release of Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection (Ballerini Book Press). Preorders available. Thanks for the kind words, Suzanne Frischkorn & James Owens. Excited that future works will have a home at BBP.
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Sweetie / Jane Campion, dir., 1989
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November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sweetie / Jane Campion, dir., 1989
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay.... Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
anymore. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
Wendell Berry
#poetry #writer
vacation with pay.... Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
anymore. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
Wendell Berry
#poetry #writer
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
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Grateful that holidays in recent years haven’t required an explanation, a therapist, or a demo by finger puppets to answer stuff like, “What’d’ya do for Thanksgiving?” Life settled well, and feels more chosen than inherited.
Thinking of everyone spending the holiday quietly, in their own company.
Thinking of everyone spending the holiday quietly, in their own company.
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Grateful that holidays in recent years haven’t required an explanation, a therapist, or a demo by finger puppets to answer stuff like, “What’d’ya do for Thanksgiving?” Life settled well, and feels more chosen than inherited.
Thinking of everyone spending the holiday quietly, in their own company.
Thinking of everyone spending the holiday quietly, in their own company.
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Last years study of the ocellated turkey! A species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. ^^
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Last years study of the ocellated turkey! A species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. ^^
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"She sits down beside him on a rock overlooking the still lake. All is quiet. They hold hands and look up to watch a passing cloud together."
I love how @anniejowrites.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! 💙💙💙
I love how @anniejowrites.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! 💙💙💙
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"She sits down beside him on a rock overlooking the still lake. All is quiet. They hold hands and look up to watch a passing cloud together."
I love how @anniejowrites.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! 💙💙💙
I love how @anniejowrites.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! 💙💙💙
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“… I’m thinking about the swings, and how Papi pushed harder when I said higher, and how the air felt like a warm towel and the clouds smelled like fresh linen, and …”
@karenc.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/24/m...
@karenc.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/24/m...
MicroMonday #33
Golden Trumpet by Marcus Silcock People went buck wild back there. The stalls heaving. I was invited inside but preferred to stay on the sidelines. On the dance floor, the sweat stuck to the ceilin…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“… I’m thinking about the swings, and how Papi pushed harder when I said higher, and how the air felt like a warm towel and the clouds smelled like fresh linen, and …”
@karenc.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/24/m...
@karenc.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/24/m...
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sent three.
the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:
MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:
MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sent three.
the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:
MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:
MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
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Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
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✨Today’s Bookmail!✨
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
✨Today’s Bookmail!✨
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
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Notes for Canto CXX
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Notes for Canto CXX
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
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One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
At 100 years old, the Grand Ole Opry is the keeper of country music's legacy
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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RIP Tina Darragh 💜
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
RIP Tina Darragh 💜
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What I want is to sleep / inside a strange language,
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
What I want is to sleep / inside a strange language,
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
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Please join us in congratulating our Pushcart nominees! Good luck everyone!
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Please join us in congratulating our Pushcart nominees! Good luck everyone!
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"When I was twelve years old, I sold my soul to the devil to become a virtuoso violinist."
Keene Short's memoir piece FAKING IT was just highlighted in our monthly newsletter! Find the full piece in our archives. 💕 buff.ly/oJdECIE
Keene Short's memoir piece FAKING IT was just highlighted in our monthly newsletter! Find the full piece in our archives. 💕 buff.ly/oJdECIE
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"When I was twelve years old, I sold my soul to the devil to become a virtuoso violinist."
Keene Short's memoir piece FAKING IT was just highlighted in our monthly newsletter! Find the full piece in our archives. 💕 buff.ly/oJdECIE
Keene Short's memoir piece FAKING IT was just highlighted in our monthly newsletter! Find the full piece in our archives. 💕 buff.ly/oJdECIE
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Writer friends, please welcome my fellow Berlin-based writer @janewords.bsky.social to Bluesky! And be sure to check out her amazing work like this story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Writer friends, please welcome my fellow Berlin-based writer @janewords.bsky.social to Bluesky! And be sure to check out her amazing work like this story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
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Thank you so much for reading and sharing this superb flash. Greatly appreciated, Pat @pdforan.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
“… if not for promises made and unmade, if not for promises kept, promises unkept, promises unkempt …”
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
They would have been perfect for each other if
by Kathryn Kulpa He hadn’t been divorced, three kids, full custody, ex-wife in the state mental hospital, weekday breakfasts of edge-burnt Eggos and heated-over SpaghettiOs, any food with an O in i…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you so much for reading and sharing this superb flash. Greatly appreciated, Pat @pdforan.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
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In the Weeds
Maybe you're planting the seeds, Geri says when I complain how lately I'm not writing, how the garden lies dormant, a tangle of roots and weeds. In this barren span I feel banished from myself, my mind like an electrical cord searching for a socket, an entry bell buzzing angrily in…
Maybe you're planting the seeds, Geri says when I complain how lately I'm not writing, how the garden lies dormant, a tangle of roots and weeds. In this barren span I feel banished from myself, my mind like an electrical cord searching for a socket, an entry bell buzzing angrily in…
In the Weeds
Maybe you're planting the seeds, Geri says when I complain how lately I'm not writing, how the garden lies dormant, a tangle of roots and weeds. In this barren span I feel banished from myself, my mind like an electrical cord searching for a socket, an entry bell buzzing angrily in the dark, no one there to let me in.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
In the Weeds
Maybe you're planting the seeds, Geri says when I complain how lately I'm not writing, how the garden lies dormant, a tangle of roots and weeds. In this barren span I feel banished from myself, my mind like an electrical cord searching for a socket, an entry bell buzzing angrily in…
Maybe you're planting the seeds, Geri says when I complain how lately I'm not writing, how the garden lies dormant, a tangle of roots and weeds. In this barren span I feel banished from myself, my mind like an electrical cord searching for a socket, an entry bell buzzing angrily in…
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Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
Thanks
Listen
poets.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
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“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
North Carolina Literary Review Online Fall 2025
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
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“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman