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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 7h

featured poets:

Molly Brodak
Leila Chatti
Brandon Som
Chen Chen
Mary Szybist

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Session 8: Fall 2025

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous and self paced poetry workshop by mail. Session 8 includes 5 poems by 5 writers, and 30 total prompts. Registration is open from October 12th until October 26th...

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 7h

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail.

registration (in thread) for the eighth session is open 10/12 thru 10/26!

Optional donation of $5-10

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · Aug 18

previously, on jay's bluesky:

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dear father, safe at present by Jay Besemer - Steel Incisors

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 1d

'to light a candle' is a poetry workshop by mail 💌 the EIGHTH session is opening tomorrow! registration closes October 26 (maybe earlier if it fills up quickly.)

this session includes one of my favorite poets ever (can you guess who?)

plz share <3

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 2d

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING"

Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

ex-puritan.ca

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 2d

Hey hey hey!

We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October.

Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

a woman is singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

Alt: Tori Amos singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

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Aaron 🐙 @scabzilla.superghost.site · 1d

"Ya know what? FUCK YOU."

*unMuds your Kip*

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 3d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 3d

set a boundary with a coworker please clap

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 5d

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

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HAD @havehashad.com · 5d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

www.havehashad.com

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HAD @havehashad.com · 5d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

www.havehashad.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

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Neocities

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

neocities.org

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 7d

ok i finished the first draft of the session 8 workshop :) time for proofreading!

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 15d

appreciate you! and sorry i didn't get a chance to rly comment on your first poem!

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 15d

called out for talking too much about Leila Chatti today..

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · Aug 12

"But it’s hard. I am not a spokesperson. Every trauma is different, but we must realize, also, there are commonalities. You are never in [total] solitude." The incomprable Neige Sinno breaks down her process today in the @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent

Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 25d

If you dream about work they should have to pay you

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 23d

me AND alex !!!

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 26d

omg lame!! i hope the 2nd move goes better

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mk in the garden 🌷 @stonespiral.bsky.social · 26d

i got a poem accepted for something really cool :)

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shovda @shovda.bsky.social · 27d

To all my poets and Legend of Zelda lovers, if you want a book of poetry that breathes LoZ, consider "I could die today and live again" by @summ.bsky.social

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