[walks to the fridge immediately]

Abstract painting reminiscent of a horizon, gently textured with soft brush strokes. Pink, hill-like masses are topped by swooping gray and cream layers and curvy, blue, cloud-like forms. A yellow streak runs vertically down from the middle.

We watered and waited. Now it's ready to share. Our blossoming 🌼 MARCH ISSUE 🌼https://buff.ly/xk6gUgW

Love & Thanks to the Contributors! 🥰
WORDS Todd Honeycutt, Carol M. Quinn, @lydia_abedeen, @shannyyy
PLUS Jennifer Savran Kelly interviews Jesi Bender
ART Scott Radnidge

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.

I am still basking in the glow of this wonderful reading! Thank you to @chloechun.bsky.social @jonmcconn.bsky.social @adamg.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @topefolarin.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social & more for the beautiful work you all read!

Text: Split Lip's reading with CHARM. Collage of readers standing at a podium.

Collage of readers standing at a podium. Center photo features a booth with books.

Collage of photos from the CHARM reading, including group shots of readers, the CHARM booth, and pictures of the audience.

What a night! Thank you to our fabulous readers, everyone who came out to support, and CHARM for hosting us! 💕 If you couldn't make it, you can still donate to CHARM right here: buff.ly/PT4Mu9N

A picture of a stopwatch that shows 8 minutes and 7 seconds

One fun thing to do at AWP is to start a timer at the beginning of the Q&A section and stop it the first time someone has “more of a comment than a question”

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TFW you almost forget to buy your AWP registration before it goes up $175.

Photos from AWP 2025, featuring the Split Lip Magazine booth and merch.

AWP 2025.

AWP 2025.

Scenes from AWP 2025. ✨ We're so excited to see you this week, fam! Find us at Table T960, or at our offsite reading! All the details are right here: buff.ly/zARNntb

if you wanna wish me a belated happy birthday and/or console me for being so old, please do feel free (and even encouraged!) to buy yourself a copy of TACOMA, or to read a little of it if you already have it, and/or rate it on goodreads, and/or just tell me how great it is and I am

If you're going to AWP, check out the lineup ✨ Pretty cool readers if we do say so 😜

A beige flyer with stacked books in the background. Text reads: next month, offsite at AWP, reading to benefit CHARM: voices of Baltimore youth, SLM AND FRIENDS, Thursday, March 5, 2026, 7-9pm, Snacks & drinks? Please RSVP, charmlit.org, CHARM is an organization that supports and publishes young writers in Baltifmore

A beige flyer with stacked books in the background. Text reads: please RSVP, SLM AND FRIENDS, featuring Priyanka Champaneri, jason b. Crawford, Tope Folarin, Adam Gianforcaro, Kat Giordano, Hannah Grieco, Jon Chaim McConnell, Crystal Odelle, Sebastian Paramo, Albert Phillips Jr, Chloe Seim, Stella Wong, BALTIMORE UNITY HALL, 1505 Eutaw Place

✨Hey friends✨

I'll be reading at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social's AWP Offsite on Thurs, March 5 from 7-9pm. The event will benefit CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth. Please join us and RSVP here if you plan to go! www.eventbrite.com/e/split-lip-...

people should subscribe to literary magazines

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Some things masks can’t hide.

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.

What movie do you consider "perfect?"

I mean, seriously, the amount of nonsense this is is very high

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

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I’ve read a billion books and watched a million films and documentaries about the rise of fascism in Europe in the 30s and I really never thought being one of the fascism noticers would feel like this but here we are

Thank you, Erin! I'm sorry you've had to go through this as well.

Thank you, Jeremy! Yeah, it's been a little rough. Hopefully I'll be getting relief in the next few weeks after this Botox treatment 🤞

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry

Anyone with student loans serviced by MOHELA and on SAVE still not seeing interest accrue? It's been over a month! Mainly curious bc my loan interest is gonna be like ~$220/month.

Today was Botox round 2 for migraines. My neuro is convinced this one will help, and I'm still trying to be optimistic. Today is also Day 179 of daily migraines. Here's hoping this stops them before I hit the half-year mark 🤞

Thank you! Just had my second Botox this morning, so hopefully I'm rounding the corner 😊

I'm so glad it ended! It's so rough to go through days-long bouts. Hoping you stay headache-free!

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."