this one really hit us

So grateful to have two new poems featured in this issue!

Please go read this fantastic bunch of work 😊

hell yeah

I Knives are the currency of young boys and father, forever the salesman, hands you a Walmart sack stuffed with whittlers all folded into cheap nylon fiber handles, blades concealed by visions of eagles screeching of does at calm unaware how soon their skin will split from the stinging touch of clearance bin steel. (keep / trade)

For years, @eldiagram.bsky.social has been my dream journal, and I finally published with them!

I have two new poems in the latest issue and I’m so, so, so happy about it 💕

This is an excerpt from the first piece, inspired by Zelda trading quests.

Read here: thediagram.com/26_1/hester....

love a new issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social, love a new @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social piece or two!

Photo of parchment with a quill and ink.

We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

a bittersweet publication for sure

"User Options" by Noah Kucij: Do you want to give Hallow permission to use your location? Do you want Hallow running in the background while you sleep? Hallow has detected the following devices nearby: old telephone booth, white oak stand, grazing array of rabbits. Hallow wants to access the following: images, objects, notions, certain slants of light, blind curves, rapt silences. Hallow is set as the default program to run when you encounter headlights scrambled up a slope, pages the sudden wind flips through, bare necklines, bourbon, lone crows. Do you want to change this setting?

Noah Kucij in the new @eldiagram.bsky.social: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

The bedside lamp or another housewife soon joined the idylliIc storybook nook of the cozy stove in betraying its owner. Instead of bringing light, it brought to light at loudspeaker volume everything she said in bed: The lamp was speaking in a loud, shrill voice, like a military officer. At first I thought I would just turn it off and stay safe and sound in the dark. But then I told myself that that wouldn't help. I rushed to see my friend, who owned a dream-interpretation manual, and I looked up "Lamp": the only definition in the book was "Serious illness." It was a big relief, but only for a moment, until I remembered that nowadays, to be safe, people were using "sickness" as a code word for "arrest." Again I felt desperately worried,

The nightmare objects in the dreams of those in 1930s Germany struck me as too mundane when I read Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams—the lamp that tells one woman’s secrets, for instance.

5 great Significant Objects + the stories that make them what they are all on auction now as part of the Significant Objects 2026 project. All of these have between 12 and 96 hours left. All live listings here:

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And here's the newest Significant Object 2026 story + object, Floral Picture Frame with Photo by Layla Todd:

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Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

DIAGRAM 26.1

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Heck yeah it's a new issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social. Behold 26.1: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

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I am so excited to get my hands on a copy of this book! My short piece - 'All Made-Up', originally published in Diagram, is included in the 'Best Small Fictions 2025'!
A huge thank you to the editors, both at Best Small Fictions and at Diagram!
@altcurrent.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

Next up in #significantobjects2026 from @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social, it's Danielle Hartshorn's The Gospel of Captain Gentoo:

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And finally... tarot is really not my thing 😅 but I bought this deck designed by @eldiagram.bsky.social. Brian wrote the text for the 8 of Cups. Very cool! My @brianevenson.bsky.social shrine is coming along!

A scrabble board on a coffee table with a poem made up of the tiles that says Nest as receptacle lure riot bite a salted wound as knife jam volume hunger for another way

A black and white graphic of a scrabble board with a poem made up of the tiles that says Nest as receptacle lure riot bite a salted wound as knife jam volume hunger for another way, the unused tiles are in black

simply making the list! then I have to actually... submit the poems.

@eldiagram.bsky.social was the first place to take a chance on these 🙏

any recommendations out there for places open to visual poems/graphics/weird hybrid stuff?

Happy pub day to

— Chivo / @jacobgriffinhall.bsky.social
— The Karen Horney Progressions / Rachael Guynn Wilson
— Commonplaces / @suburbanfolktales.bsky.social
— Quasi-Metalloid / Karla Myn Khine
— Comfort of Stone / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Order em here:

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Almost all of our 2026 chapbooks are now up for preorder! New ones from Josh Russell, Karla Myn Khine, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, and Rachael Guynn Wilson: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

Before reading, please make the following changes. incorrect correct Title: An error message for reading? ————> An unerring message for reading! Line 1: Forget ————> See if I care! Line 1: all your ————> Resume all your Line 1: complaints. ————> complaining. Line 2: You want to say ————> Say what you want Line 2: I can ————> you can't Line 2: handle it. ————> handle me. Line 3: Want to ————> You want to Line 3: put across ————> put out Line 3: this ————> this idea Line 4: So that ————> That Line 4: by being a mountebank, you can make ————> you keep amounting to a mouthful Line 4: a name for yourself ————> of a famous name Line 5: Or raise ————> Rise above Line 5: your ————> your Line 5: voice ————> the sound, Line 5: high ————> even higher Line 6: So no one's hand ————> So with a sleight of hand Line 6: can get a hold of ————> you can get rid of Line 6: it and ————> everyone and Line 7: Put ————> Bring Line 7: me in ————> shame upon Line 7: my place. ————> the earth! Line 8: Someone has ————> I will Line 8: chopped ————> cut off Line 8: your head off ————> your head, Line 8: you fancy. ————> you'll see! Line 9: This is ————> This is not Line 9: the real issue. ————> even the real issue.

Mohammad Azarm

tr. Kaveh Bassiri

via @eldiagram.bsky.social

hell yeah

Delighted to start the year with a poem in the new issue of Diagram!

I wrote this one several years ago about police shootings, which is only timely again now because we have a police killing people problem that makes it always timely. *heavy sigh*

Enjoy!

YES

My first pieces of ‘26 in the new Diagram

Re-opening: DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest @eldiagram.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com/contest/diagram-chapbook-contest-7486 #amwriting

DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest @eldiagram.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com #amwriting

I absolutely loved Anney Bolgiano's "Flat-Pack," a chapbook that @eldiagram.bsky.social published a couple years back. Anney combines IKEA visual instructions with rearrangements of Marcus Aurelius. It's marvellous.

i'm very proud of the publications i had in 2025! i'm linking these two poems in @eldiagram.bsky.social

"The Multitool" is a poem which maaaaybe contains my favorite last line of any poem i've ever written

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