Who’s open for poetry subs I need to be depressed in public

thank you so, so much!

just happy to be here 🥰

Call for general submissions, black text on white background with pink bubble letters.

Open for general subs through September 13th (which is also our dear @terrilinndavis.bsky.social’s bday so give her something good to read)!

www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions

how annoying that i’m never on here so my whole presence is just me reposting my own work. here’s a post where i say something different, like i think you’re all really hot and talented. mwah.

You’re gonna want to read this one!

🥹💛

THANK YOU

thanks so much. shaggy dog justice!

Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...

"When I told people about this fear, they’d laugh and I’d laugh and I’d say, “I know, I know” and I’d do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and we’d move on."

We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱

poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...

adore you 💛

This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!

🥺 thank you my friend. honored to be in @poolpartymag.com 💛

lol, i’ll take it.

🥺 thank you endlessly

Aubri (seemingly) reached into my brain, pulled out a bunch of my favorite things, and made an incredible story of them. I would lose it all at the Space Casino.

🥹 tysm my friend

Space Casino “Eight of swords.” I can’t tell if the dealer recognizes the unlikelihood of the pull. It keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Eight of swords, eight of swords, eight of swords.  A woman, bound ...

Space Casino by Aubri Kaufman

maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/

Space Casino “Eight of swords.” I can’t tell if the dealer recognizes the unlikelihood of the pull. It keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Eight of swords, eight of swords, eight of swords.  A woman, bound ...

i never post here but maybe i should? idk. idk anything. anyway here’s space casino!

maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/

oh, i’ve got longings and i am ready to give them to the birds. 🫡

i’m obviously not writing about birds enough

@terrilinndavis.bsky.social this is what the “and just like, so many fucking birds” poem has been waiting for

👀 be still my little collaborative heart

okay well now i’m obviously gonna write about turkeys too

@terrilinndavis.bsky.social has a series of stunning turkey-centric poems and i feel like there’s something happening here. turkeys are having a moment.

proud teacher aaron is one of my favorite aaron forms

🤍🤍🤍

Words With Friends I can purchase words by category: The Human Body, Sexology, Expressions.

@aubrirose.bsky.social might’ve scrolled past ‘imbrue’, but you shouldn’t scroll past her piece, “Words with Friends”:

jakethemag.com/words-with-f...

GENERATIONAL GERMINATION - Farewell Transmission By Aubri Kaufman Every time my three-year-old falls down, he tells me he “crumpled,” like, “I crumpled, mama,” and I hold back a laugh because I’m not sure where he learned the word. From me, I suppos...

Great piece from @aubrirose.bsky.social in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/gene...

tysm!