Unpacking the trauma of chronic pain and everyday ableism is incredibly difficult. Many thanks to @sarahclark.bsky.social, Jess Silfa, and @anmlymag.bsky.social for publishing this micro about escaping the body and the cruelty of an ableist world.
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If needed, turn on English closed captions. This is beautiful.
youtu.be/Ri_14Bxvi-w
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And nothing encourages disloyalty more than being asked to join a loyalty program.
The poet sitting in the botanic garden, a background of trees against blue sky. A fresh buzz cut, signature blue-framed eyeglasses, and the ear buds
Happy Saturday, friends. Grateful for a sunny day and a green place to be alone in company, listening to favorite tracks from all over the place. My earbuds only stay in when pointing upward, which from observation I'd say is one more way in which I diverge from the norm :)
till,at the corner of Nothing and Something,we heard
a handorgan in twilight playing like hell
E. E. Cummings
We want poems that understand scale —
and still locate the human within it.
#Firmament #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
Poem by BlueSky poet extraordinaire @kelliagodon.bsky.social
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Thanks to Rob Jelly for having me back on BBC Upload last night. Yay! You can listen to my poem Write on Walls here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Thank you! It's a great place to be 🙂⭐
Jason Fraley Paper Trail XXVIII Briars and Bradford pears ripple. Out here — locals call this teenage joyride haunt TNT — the military buried munitions in small domes. The enemy would not bomb a land where bridges fall on their own. The gravel road gathers its own resistance. Chugholes with mud-riven bottoms. Ever-lengthening grass inspects the sedan’s undercarriage. Curls of chain link rust jagged. A small audience of red eyes surveil: deer, racoon, rabbits, a stray Mothman or wayward sandhill crane. Someone’s hand fumbles below my seatbelt, tears a page from a chapter now revised. I hear soft scraping as if she is drawing the night from memory. When we stop, cut the engine, the darkness is a shade of aftermath. The moon’s craters consume TNT’s soft dimples. She unzips my jacket, stuffs my page back inside. Pencil lead so thick it snuffs out my frail light.
Today on Glass!
"Paper Trail XXVIII" by Jason Fraley!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
Delighted to be included in the new issue of @acropolisjournal.bsky.social
A vast, dark blue space scene with a small astronaut floating alone in the distance near the curve of a massive planet. The scale emphasises isolation and insignificance. The Broken Spine logo appears in the top left, "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" in white at the top right, and bold white text at the bottom reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #GRAVITY".
#PoemsAbout #Gravity starts Friday. Write pressure. Pull. Weight.
What happens when the self can’t hold its shape?
Mid-month check:
Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty?
That’s what #Firmament is for.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
I agree. This was just what I needed tonight and beautifully written (of course)
Submissions now open through May 30th for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' Invocation Contest:
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ICYMI
Haunted swimming pool on greens and golds
ANMLY is looking to add new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff w/ us! Roles = 1-3 hrs/wk
- Translation Co-Editor
- Translation Readers
- Fiction Readers
- Poetry Readers
Email editor@anomalouspress.org w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply
Deadline: 5/1
Why is it that false prophets so rarely apologize or admit that prophecy is a chump's game?
Name four non-person things that make your life livable:
1. Testosterone
2. Poetry
3. Travel
4. Sliced apples with peanut butter
Name four non-person things that make your life livable:
1. Cats.
2. Books.
3. Writing.
4. Soft blankets.
Maybe it will inspire a piece for you to submit to the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Poetry Competition ⏳💙
And the final voices shaping what #TheWhiskeyTree will be:
@judemarr.bsky.social @lozzakidwriting.bsky.social @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @ronanmurphymusic.com @victoriaspires.bsky.social @georgiahilton.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social
Religion. Space. Time. Mortality.
If your poem engages with any of these — without flinching — send it.
#Firmament #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
"i could draw/paint/write that." ok but you didn't. and you won't come anywhere close if you think it requires zero study/practice/experience.
The barriers outside Parliament have got even higher, recently. Metaphor.
