An overview of some of my treasures from MZF over the weekend...

#zinehaul #MZF

Image comic #1 NARCO

I read this one lately and am interested to see where it goes...

What a lovely afternoon in Milwaukee - Such a generous space with such stately aesthetics to set a backdrop for such a spirit-lifting series of moments. I loved every second of it. Thank you all who stopped off at our table!

#MZF #realmaxmagenta #lonelywritersclubnw

All packed up and ready to roll...

MZF here we come!

PS. Check out The Lonely Writer's Club Instagram for pictures and updates throughout the day from the Zine Fest - @lonelywritersclubnw insta

#MZF #lonelywritersclubnw #realmaxmagenta

The view from my desk tonight - Less than 2 days til the Milwaukee Zine Fest and I've got some folding to do!

My favorite Deftones playlist is putting in nearly as much work as I am on this Thursday night.

#realmaxmagenta #MZF #lonelywritersclubnw

Jessicamarie and I will be there signing copies of our latest books (respectively). Make sure to check out some of our pocket zines that we've been working on or pick up a sticker pack!

#lonelywritersclub #realmaxmagenta #zinefest #MZF

Who doesn't love stickers?

We will debut them at Milwaukee Zine Fest 2026 - I will make them available afterwards on my Ko-Fi. Stay tuned!

#milwaukeezinefest #stickers #lonelywritersclubnw #realmaxmagenta

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
breathe

hills sigh at daybreak
clearing throat; a chance to breathe
honey-scented air

From 6 feet away, stress sweat and nicotine sweat is indistinguishable from one another...

hostage negotiator there was an uneasiness to his smile; it sat on his face like beads of nicotine sweat.

#mpprompt #monostich #nicotine #poetry #poetrycommunity
#writing #writingcommunity #poetryprompt #lonelywritersclubnw #realmaxmagenta
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

Wizard school isn't all eye of newt and Leviosas like you see in the movies.

Just sayin.

~Max

#realmaxmagenta #lonelywritersclubnw #wizardschool
#bad-dreams

wizard school (psychic battery) a small glass vial with sworling flakes of ground limpet shells now crunching under the weight of porcelin crowns creaking wedging and waiting to shatter within my unclean mouth a fractured hug from the arms of my mother-of-pearl the copper taste turns slippery as my iridescent dreams are siphoned off drop by drop through a broken smile.

#writingprompt #inspiration
#Writing #WriterCommunity
#PoetryCommunity
#Poem #poetrysky #blueskypoetry
#poetry #prompt #mpprompt
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
handle

morning wrens warbling
cheery songs; little teapots
with missing handles

HEY CREATIVES!!
Now taking submissions for issue #3: Red.

Red is the color of passion, luck, and blood; of fire engines and childhood valentines. Send your visual/written stuff that feature Red/s.

Submit: lonelywritersclubnw@gmail.com

~Chief

#lonelywritersclubnw #winterofdiscontent

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
ease

his smile slid and creaked
rusty; without ease of use
the tin man is awake

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
cluster

sweet pecan clusters
petrichor mixed with syrup
farmers market rain

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
rock

we drift on this rock
lonely blue marble; we shout
words into the void

july 3, 1971 the longer i live the more i think we should all be so lucky to wind up famous and dead in a bathtub at 27.

Youth is gone in the blink of an eye. But, for one brief moment, we see the infinity that resides within the night sky, and we are allowed to witness that what we have created will live forever.

*From the zine 'The 27 Club,' ©2025 Max Magenta

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#zine #the27club

Today's the day for SlamShop II ! If you are in the Chicago-Metro area and have no plans this afternoon, drop by...

1pm-4pm Schaumburg Library

~ Chief

#lonelywritersclubnw #slamshopII

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
hire

icy rain impacts
like hired assassins bullets
winter maintains grip

Flyer for Milwaukee Zine Fest, and email header saying we were accepted to vend at this fest. Exciting!

We got in. HOLY SH*T.

More info to come later.

#milwaukeezinefest #lonelywritersclubnw

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
end

universe heat death
may not be the end; perhaps
another big bang?

Seeking Resident Artist respond to lonelywritersclubnw@gmail.com

It is with a sad tone that I must report that the LWCNW's association with Bruiseb3rry as our resident artist has come to a close. We wish her well, but as per her wishes, we are ending our partnership (effective immediately).

Our loss is your gain:

#winterofdiscontent #lonelywritersclubnw

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
occur

recently it had
occurred to me; peonies
might outlive us all

Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.

~

I had it on cassette tape and literally played it so much I wore it out...

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky

debut

shy fox kits debut
bejeweled faces at dawn
sunrise debutantes

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
ban

in silent forests
none spoke, empathy now banned
only loss remained

The cover artist is Patrick Tighe

IG @ pad_thai81

cover of issue #34, 'the inflated graveworm' zine. Trippy visuals with spoopy and dark imagery.

dark oak upon this particular midnight i had seen from the corner of my vision a smear of something black a void insisting that i ignore the sliding into space it took up chitenous rattling of tooth to bone i knew him a hesitation in his gait the thumping of a missing limb upon wooden planks still sounding entirely wrong wet thunks of charnel meat against the most souless of oak former asylum residents reject the reclamation vehemently yet, their cries are trapped within the woodgrain of amontillado like tears in amber mortar i could not help but shiver when i discovered the smudge had moved to the other corner of my eye and that its foul mouth was open and ready to swallow me sins and all.

I recently was published in the 'Inflated Graveworm,' an independent publication out of Ohio; This is from issue #34, entitled 'dark oak'

And yes, that cover is sick AF.

#lonelywritersclubnw #realmaxmagenta #inflatedgraveworm

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
#haikufeels #prompt #poetrysky
glare

weeping sunrise eyes
caught between loss and the glare
harsh despair backlit