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here is the shorter of yesterday's 2 poems from Kara Knickerbocker
Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny What I can’t stop thinking about is how, when I was growing up, we kept a large glass jar of them behind the couch— our way of saving for a vacation. How my dad would search for those copper-plated faces like little parking lot prayers. Looking now feels worthless but I do. Heads up, my father is still alive in another universe. Tails up, try again.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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fun Timothy C Goodwin shortie today!

"...I saw my old dog Awesome in a dream last night so I thought I would take a mental health break to pet him and soon enough my boss was next to me behind my desk watching quietly as I told him Awesome was panting..."

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I Saw Awesome In My Dream Timothy C Goodwin My boss stood in the doorway to my office with his hand tight around the doorknob and asked what I was doing kneeling on the floor behind my desk and because my boss was always uptight no matter what anyone told him I always told him the truth so I said I saw my old dog Awesome in a dream last night so I thought I would take a mental health break to pet him and soon enough my boss was next to me behind my desk watching quietly as I told him Awesome was panting happily because he had just finished some zoomies through the break room and his tail and tongue were wagging happily because I gave him a special treat I had been saving just for him and soon enough my boss unset his jaw and asked if he could pet Awesome too and soon enough my boss was sitting in my chair telling me Awesome was curled in his lap asking if my boss’ old cat was available to play and soon enough Awesome and Pancake were chasing each other around my office...
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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what a piece today, from Molly Akin!!

"One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed."

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November 22, 2025 Evolution Molly Akin One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed. I waited. One time I lost sorrow; it slipped out and was buried under sand. Finely ground shells and bits of fur. One time my ancestors came walking out of the sea. They collected the bits of rock and bone and feather and fur and fashioned me. Now I fly with open mouth, trailing words and shouting meaning: “Look at what I lost.” Another swoop, closer to the ground now: “Look at what I found.” Now tusks curl from my mouth. I charge at memory, tossing aside its fragile weight that once pined me hollow. Now I am the one who will turn and return, slipping gently into water.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🚨 new Ross White day! 🚨

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November 21, 2025 BROKEN GAME OF TRON Ross White After intervals of highway, you climb out of the stiff chasm of unconsciousness to more highway. Twin yellow lines stretch out in front of you like the afterimages of starships. Everything is velocity. Everything is hyperspace. Oblivion is a place not far from where you start out, not far from scrub pines and red grain silos. Take a few wrong turns in one-stoplight towns, make a few wrong choices at the beginnings of romantic misadventures, and you will find yourself, mallet in hand, hammering at the joists of a foundation, the foundation of a mansion, a mansion where no one can live. Outside are a thousand feral cats. A few fishbones. Everyone you have ever loved turns out to be a non-player character. You control nothing at all.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!

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November 19, 2025 In Retrospect Catherine Rockwood She never did laugh when he did.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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here are the second window's donation recipients:
A Safe Place, AbleGamers, ACLU, Afghan Refugee Relief, Albany FNB, Albertina Kerr, AMA Animal Rescue, Angat Buhay, ASPCA, Astoria Food Pantry, BDS, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, Cal State Monterey Bay Basic Needs, Capital Area Food Bank, Community Food Share (x2), Community FoodBank of New Jersey, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Darfur Women's Action Group, DC Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid, Doctors Without Borders (X2), East Lubbock Art House, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Exodus Refugee Immigration, Experience Camps, Feeding America, Four Paws, France Alzheimer, Friends of Mindo Cloud Forest, GiveDirectly, GoFundMes (x4), Greater Chicago Food Depository, Guiseppe Conlon House, HAD (x2 🤔), Heal Palestine, Human Appeal, Human Rights Campaign (x2), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (x2), Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund, Jeremiah's Inn, Kashmir Education Initiative, Leukemia Research Foundation, Lupus Foundation of America, Make-A-Wish, Maryland Food Bank, Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, Mile End Community Mission, NAMI, NorCal Resist, Okra Project, Ottawa Humane Society, Our Roots Run Deep, Palestine Children's Relief Fund (x7), Petits Frères des Pauvres, Philabundance, Planned Parenthood (x2), Rainforest Trust (x2), Red Umbrella Fund, RISE Collective, River City Food Bank, Salvation Army, Save the Children, Share Baby, SNAP Gap, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!, St. Mary's Food Bank, Tarrant Area Food Bank, Text Power Telling, The Center, The Nature Conservancy, The Sameer Project, The Treatment and Learning Centers, The Trevor Project (x2), The X for Boys, Thorn, Trans Lifeline, Translate Gender, Trevor Project, Undue Medical Debt, WalkGood LA, Wikimedia (x3), Women's Health Center, World Central Kitchen, Wounded Warrior Project
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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recipients from the first round
recipients of donations from the first of two fundraising HAD submissions calls: A Radical Guide, ACLU (x2), ADL, Atlanta Community Food Bank, Connecting Humanity, Freestore Foodbank, GiveWell, GLSEN, GoFundMes, Hanoon Foundation, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (x2), Kids in Need of Defence, Kids Poetry Studio, Marie Curie, Mermaids, Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, Migrant Mutual Aid, Outside In, Palestine Children's Relief Fund (x2), PFLAG, Philabundance, Planned Parenthood (x3), Return to the Heart Foundation, Saving Our Sharks, Specialty Purebred Cat Rescue, St. Jude, The Mustard Seed, The Treatment and Learning Centers, The Trevor Project (x2), Trans Harm Reduction, Trans Income Project, Unicef (x2), Wikimedia, WWF
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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our acceptances form Tom Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call officially wrapped up yesterday, but we've got another small poem for y'all today, courtesy of Bobby Vanecko!

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November 14, 2025 Happy Gilmore Soundtrack Bobby Vanecko walking down the street over the ear studio headphones on no music playing through them singing carry on my wayward son at top volume
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...
Submission call to benefit... causes. You pick the cause. We don't need your money, but lots of other people do. Make a donation to a cause that really needs it. Reply to our post with links to give others ideas. Include a screenshot/picture of your donation (from today, of any amount) with your submission. I'm gonna open two windows today (Friday, November 14th): from 10-11am Eastern, and 7-8pm Eastern; no limit, no scramble, no lost sleep (hopefully!) If you don't have spare cash at the moment, HAD still appreciates you. Screenshot an impassioned letter about something you care about to your city counselor, school board, governor or whatever. Writing-wise: no theme, no restrictions. Short is nice, we like publishing short. Also, we'll select at random one submitter to win a merch article of their choosing, (including the sold-out HADt!) <3 crowjonah
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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today's our final pub from Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call, with TWO small poems from Waniya Aks E Noor!

here's the first one. click through for #2!

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The Night I Stole a Shooting Star A shooting star tore through Lahore’s smoggy horizon. You covered your eyes, to save your superstitious soul. I looked at it in your stead— pilfered your superstition with my charred hands, ceded the burning wish to you.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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our series of tinies, from Tom Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call are getting close to wrapping up... but not before this wonderful beauty from Diana Cao!

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November 12, 2025 Insomnia Diana Cao Refuse the day. In the night, a jewel balloon will hang doubled in the snow, an echo like anger curled in the mind, like a peeled thing without eyes, troubled, finite, and proud. Like the living. Now light rushes in from the window, flooding the day before you.
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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today's small prose poem from Maureen Thorson is a marvel, but that first sentence — "It’s nearly Christmas." — just about gave me a panic attack.

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November 11, 2025 Song Maureen Thorson It’s nearly Christmas. The bar’s half empty, which also means half full. Even the strangers know each other, the way people do when the righteous are in bed. An older man in a beret sits up front, with an amp and a guitar, and it’s too cold and late for irony. Suddenly, Hotel California. Everyone takes it up, a doxology in two dozen voices. What’s religion but everyone knowing the words? Afterwards, the bartender in cat-eye glasses laughs, says, “You guys bring out the worst in me, which is awesome.” The night fogs like breath on a mirror when we disperse.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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another perfect little wonder of a micro, today from Katy Luxem!

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November 10, 2025 Changing the Calendar Katy Luxem Every box is open snow in an untouched field. Horses in the barn cannot even see the fences.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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two new little micro #littlepoemsunday poems today from Adrian Dallas Frandle!

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November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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new itty bitty #smallpoemsunday from Kari Zander!

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November 8, 2025 Ex-Ex Kari Zander how did I forget how he talks in his sleep
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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love a short ekphrastic! today from J. Freeborn:

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November 7, 2025 Flour Mill, Andrew Wyeth (watercolor, 1959) J. Freeborn From a distance, the wall waves gently, like ticking under sheet. On approach, the lime wash is buckled, split. There is water damage and creeping damp. Ill-use rimes our mill and we, having no work to fill it, pass at respectable distance. Soft hands away in pockets, safe from the river’s stagnant gaze.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"It’s my birthday and I’ve spent
the day counting the 27 bones
that make up a fist..."

today from Daniel Lurie!! 👊

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November 6, 2025 Fatherhood Daniel Lurie It’s my birthday and I’ve spent the day counting the 27 bones that make up a fist. My birth lies on a peg among the hay hooks and horse tack. Metal panels rot in the roof, so the sky watches with all its eyes. In one of the stalls, the straw is still damp with a sheep’s stillbirth. I soak my hands in the beaten- to-hell washroom sink. My father’s voice rests in the tin soap dish. The suds almost look like a family.
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"I’m hitting targets
Even I can’t see,"

🔥 today from Bradon Matthews

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November 5, 2025 Sound of an Impact Bradon Matthews Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer I’m hitting targets Even I can’t see, Just blind fire, A distant thud And me, sitting here, squinting, Asking if it’s changing anything
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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wonderful new ars poetic up on the site today from Alex Carrigan!!

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November 4, 2025 Ars Poetica: Lace Alex Carrigan After “Ars Poetica” by Ellene Glenn Moore And that’s when I found the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen tossed into the river outside my house: an entire milk crate full of lace scraps. I pulled it to shore with my boat hook and began to go through the pieces. Most of them had taken on the color of the river; muddy brown with a dark green line tracing along the scallop edges. I found one strand of lace that remained dry and white and held it up to the sky. A seagull snatched it from my hands before I could count the number of holes in it. It carried the lace with it as it flew towards the other side of the river. In that moment, I remembered what my grandmother said as she knitted lace for my first wedding veil: Make sure the pattern is readable.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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love Andrea Krause's bio today almost as much as her #smallpoemsunday poem itself!

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November 3, 2025 Like Cotton Andrea Krause stuffed into a bottle of pills, you keep me from rattling around. bio: Andrea Krause went for a 4-mile walk under stunning fall foliage and couldn't think of one damn poem-y thing. Then, she opened her medicine cabinet and the idea rushed in. Figures! Read more of her work at: andreakrausewrites.com.
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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let's ALL celebrate #smallpoemsunday today with Kate Hall's FIRST PUBLICATION!

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November 2, 2025 Hello from the Future Kate Hall We ran out of atmosphere but it didn’t turn out to be a big problem. It was never just the one thing. It will always feel strange buying magnetic fields from the government. Very funny how there’s a provincial law against making them taste good. I think to myself, This used to be my bank.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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this cover letter just made me feel a little guilty
cover letter Don't tell my husband
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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an extra hour this morning! what if I fill it with a 30-60 minute spontaneous submission call??

— @aaronburch.bsky.social

open now:
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DST morning call it's been a minute since I did a spontaneous call going to keep this open until 8am ET. maybe 8:30? maybe even 9?? we'll see send me something I'll love no limits (but for these calls I really mostly like short stuff that grabs my attention fast and hard) 💀 —aaron
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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couple of new #smallpoemsunday poems for you all today from Dana Chiueh!

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B.I.R.D. I remember my father as a small inventor. Of wireless bird cages, he said, the floor is gum. When the bird pushes down to launch, it sticks. Recently he said, thank God you got better looking, we were getting worried. I bought it I said. What were we so still for? In Dallas-Fort Worth, America’s diaphragm, I ate from a white plate at a bar seat. I looked outside and thought about horses that wait to run.
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Happy Halloween, from us, and Katherine Oung, and the blood moon!!

👻 🎃 🩸 🌑 💀

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October 31, 2025 Blood Moon Katherine Oung I have dreams of war but only dreams. Come morning my body turns, kinetic. Trying to catch up with the sky. Window left open; it’s rattling. Dogwood carcass, American robin. Chest split open by red light.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM