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Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

Matt’s theme for the month will be///

__My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico

Sendyourmagicxx

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DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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D'oh!

This should say Thursday 11th December.

Join us!
Reminder!

Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec

Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus

With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.

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December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I've read it and it is a fabulous edition - join the launch! 😍 MPT
Reminder!

Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec

Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus

With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.

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December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an incredible and visceral poem OMENS OR DELIRIUM from Logan Berry 🔥🔥🔥
OMENS OR DELIRIUM by Logan Berry
Nico in Tokyo album cover. Logan Berry is the author of several books, including Doom is the House Without a Door and Ultratheatre: Volume 1.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an extract from an interview between Graham Russell and John Waters about the filmmaker meeting Nico - his favourite singer 🌼💫
When John Waters Met Nico by Graham Russell
John Waters by Nicolas Russell, Austin, Texas, January 1976. For so many of us malcontents, the riotous 1981 book Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste by cult filmmaker extraordinaire John …
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December 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Call for applications!

Poet-in-Residence
Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich

Applications open until 20th January 2026

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<p class="text-justify"><strong>Ausschreibung / Poet-in-Residence&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong><br />Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich&nbsp;<br />Bewerbung bis 20. Januar 2026&nbsp;<br />Aufenthaltszeit...
Hier finden Sie aktuelle Informationen aus dem Lyrik-Kabinett.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an incredible poem in nine parts by Nicholas Rombes 🔥🔥🔥
Nico Restored by Nicholas Rombes
A young Nico in Berlin, photographed by Herbert Tobias. Nico Restored I.Because Nico could not foresee the danger ahead.She was not careful, she was a child.Above her Hell’s Sunmoved blackly—How fa…
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December 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Excited to be guest-editing @thearsonista.bsky.social for December.

The theme is: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico ❄️❄️❄️

Send baroque fantasies, imaginary interviews, dream fragments, incantations, maps, fiction, essays, harlequin nightmares to [email protected] 🔥
DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Today’s post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is a piece of writing from Nate Lippens about Nico’s time in Paris living in an apartment with Philippe Garrel 🕸️🕸️🕸️
In the Dark by Nate Lippens
Still from the film Athanor (1972) by Philippe Garrel In the dark room at night, the walls enameled black, so dawn arrives as a violation, she smokes. She smokes without conviction, almost without …
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December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social - an incantatory poem from Misha Honcharenko summoning baroque visions ⚔️🥀 l
consecrated to the gods by Misha Honcharenko
Misha Honcharenko is a Ukrainian writer based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Their debut novel, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily, was published by Sissy Anarchy in 2024, following their first poetry collect…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Some exquisite prose from James Nulick for today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social 🌼💫
Boy or Girl by James Nulick
Nico in his The Velvet Underground & Nico shirt. My name is Nico. It has always been Nico. It felt like a good name when I tried it on. My mother named me after a singer most people my age…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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First post for Nico month @thearsonista.bsky.social - a short essay from Graham Russell on Nico in Warhol’s The Closet (1966) and the early contradictions of her persona ❄️
Nico in The Closet (1966) by Graham Russell
Nico and Randy Bourscheidt in The Closet (1966) The Closet (1966) was Nico’s first film with cadaverous Pop Art visionary Andy Warhol and thus represents her cinematic unveiling as a Warhol S…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

Matt’s theme for the month will be///

__My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico

Sendyourmagicxx

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DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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People are powered by science. Nobody understands it. That is fine; that is why we have scientists to attend to the little details. Our details extend further out into the day-to-day
Dreams by Bebe Zeva
Consciousness is overrated.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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very soon
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Will be doing some pomes at this tomorrow night (Tuesday) Bethnal Green pop thru if you’re about should be a goodun
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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we are now open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts ...

all info here:
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December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Rust & Moth is now accepting poems for our Spring 2026 issue! We read until the solstice hits (Dec 21st).

rustandmoth.com/submissions/
Submissions – Rust & Moth
A Journal Of Poetry And The Arts
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December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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This collection has magic, humor, spirit, lyricism, resistance, delight, and lots of animals. Thought-provoking and kind, *Becoming Altar* makes a great gift for yourself or any reader.

What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!

❤️ 🎄 📘 💖

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December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

Matt’s theme for the month will be///

__My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico

Sendyourmagicxx

burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...
DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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One of the pieces I loved from the last time I edited @thearsonista.bsky.social, back in 2018 — by the Egyptian artist Ganzeer

"In Casablanca, everyone you meet will know that one Moroccan guy you met ten years ago in another country, on the other side of the world..."
In Casablanca by Ganzeer
In Casablanca you will expect buildings to be white, based solely on the city’s name, which translates to ‘white house’. But there will hardly be a truly white building in sight. How od…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The not for profit journal had @ccohanlon.bsky.social guest edit for the @thearsonista.bsky.social and he was nice enough to publish my piece on what I believe the kids call touching grass burninghousepress.com/2025/11/25/m...
Mizmaze by Sylvia Warren
The first time I walked a city without direction was in Florence. Before that trip each day was regimented by parents—a designated set of sites to visit, walking through the streets was a chore bet…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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My last for @thearsonista.bsky.social: Bo Mandeville's Sketching Clouds, a moving account of a journey by road and sea to Northern Ireland, his open-hearted acceptance of a terminal point to his degenerative illness, and his joy.
Sketching Clouds by Bo Mandeville
Photo by Bo Mandeville Driving from Edinburgh to Cairnryan, still in a state of dulled lucidity, unable to fully grasp the enormity of the journey. Once boarded, sounds, smells and motion wake me. …
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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well, my Nov 26th interview with Kentucky Writers Roundtable is up on RadioLex/MediaLex...

Kevin & Jay are absolute jewels & local legends in the poetry community & i enjoyed myself way more than my grumpy ass expected 😂

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Kentucky Writers Roundtable
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November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Massive gratitude and thanks to November’s guest editor - the amazing @ccohanlon.bsky.social and to all the fantastic contributors to the JOURNEYS edition! 🖤🥳
And that's me done as November's guest editor @thearsonista.bsky.social (for the second time in seven years).

I'll find my own way out.
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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And that's me done as November's guest editor @thearsonista.bsky.social (for the second time in seven years).

I'll find my own way out.
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM