sara teasdale is literally the love of my life omg 🌸🌸

Junction Rule

Put simply, all who enter the crossroads must leave it exactly as we found it and it, in turn, will leave the sum of our parts more or less unharmed. Or in other words, disassembling a thing does not change its constituents, so says the rule, and so to the left go the actions and to…

Gender incomprehensible w/ long-term shifting of forms that defy both natural
laws and the outermost bounds of reason (started Aug 2025)

a black and white design that reads "you could learn a lot from a lesbian." to the right of the text are various items such as carabiners, a boot, a lollipop, a hammer, a boot, an apple, a lighter, cherries, a bouquet of flowers, a butterfly wing, and many stars. the entire image is textured to be grainy.

happy #lesbianvisibilityweek!

Hey! I have a poem in the 30th edition of @petrichorlit.bsky.social as they celebrate 10 years!

Read this poem to find out why I was fired by the Audubon Society!

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My first big poetry publication came out today!! Check it out! Poems about racism and Barack Obama and musical theater, aka the stuff I talk about on here all time! And read the whole issue, it is full of amazing stuff.

https://anmly.org/ap42/christopher-leigh-silverberg/

“I am also the judge. Now would you like a long or a short sentence?”

“A short one, if you please,” said Milo.

“Good,” said the judge, rapping his gavel three times. “I always have trouble remembering the long ones. How about ‘I am’? That’s the shortest sentence I know.”

“she’s started walking like a greaser, she’s unwinding you with her fingers between your shoulder blades, she’s sexysexy like murder (a quick fix, a long end), she’s neverwilting, she’s cold to men”

This stunner by @taralabovich.bsky.social in @anmlymag.bsky.social

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VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

spring song by lucille clifton for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

erasure poem with collage from "Classic Crimes"

"April is one of the / broken folk"

a poem from Classic Crimes for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Tiffany Lamp inspired outfits with my eternal muse,Rose !! ✨

Treehouse of Horrors episode where Bart's sinister twin shows Bart the pigeon rat he made while living in the Simpsons attic

getting "the surgery"

"The God fought Jacob just because the God wanted Jacob to fight."

We're too divine to work!!!

favorite bible verse (wrong answers only)

"How can I concentrate when my left / hip is an unattended campfire?"

This time last year, we published Amy Thatcher's MY THERAPIST TELLS ME TO TRY MEDITATION. ✨️ Find it in the archives! buff.ly/On7dr6A

excruciating read but so, so vulnerable and human.

The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown St. Louis, the city's upper crust attend a garish costume party that doubles as a debutante's ball. The daughters of high society are paraded to the throne of a cloaked monarchical figure, and bow to the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. At first glance, the event seems outdated and clownish, but in truth the Veiled Prophet Society has functioned as an exclusive club for the "city fathers," where solidarity is built between wealthy men who head major U.S. corporations, banks, and control whole industries. At the Veiled Prophet's Ball, these titans of capital come together to crown one of their daughters the Queen of Love and Beauty, and celebrate the breaking of strikes, the sabotage of protests, and the enforcement of racial hierarchies. Devin Thomas O'Shea's The Veiled Prophet is the definitive history of the Veiled Prophet Society in all its violence and pageantry, offering a colorful alternate history of the United States through the lens of the Midwestern elite. O'Shea follows the Veiled Prophet Society from its origins in the wake of the 1877 general strike, through the 1904 World's Fair, to the height of the Prophet's--and St. Louis's--influence during the Cold War. The Veiled Prophet examines the unexpected ways this secret society has shaped the course of history, from the CIA to the Vietnam War to the assassination of Martin Luther King. Yet the power wielded by the Veiled Prophet has not gone uncontested. Since the Gilded Age, the Prophet has faced resistance from orphans armed with pea-shooters, Communist Party organizers during the Depression, Civil Rights icons, and renegade debutantes. The Ferguson uprising of 2014 was only the most recent challenge to the Prophet's influence. As the fight for the soul and streets of St. Louis intensifies, it's more critical than ever that we expose the sordid history of these powerful, masked figures and their control over our democracy.

Been sucked into this forthcoming history book, primarily because it is, like, 5 bananas conspiracies all rolled into one, but also because I think it shows how much money & power are leveraged to preserve the ideas of white supremacy in this country. They're not inherent. They're manufactured

"Eventually, America became an afterthought, easily mistaken for the rush of wind that picked up pollen and carried it to other lands..."

—Ashia Ajani :: “After”

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Quick, Playful Writing Exercises for When You’re Feeling Stuck - Electric Literature These unintimidating experiments will reinvigorate your writing when you need a breakthrough

Ramona Ausubel provides simple, playful prompts to help you break through creative blocks.

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GRAYLING by Jenifer Browne Lawrence. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Lawrence’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @jenblaw.bsky.social

Redacted Finalists - Glossy Planet Join us in celebrating the three winners from our March writing challenge. Check out the finalists from Redacted.

i won a thing and u can read it soon 🪐👀 www.glossyplanetmag.com/redacted-fin...

the only acceptable soul patch in my book is that guy from the imagination movers

no joke i am discussing antitranscendentalism and postpostmodernism with my mother via text and i feel like a teenager again but in a good way

"Cigarette lady spits out fornicated weeds
How we wished to be umbras, settling for the icelipped things of wonder my mouth a sex cavern
My body an engine of trapped space"

—Bryana Dawkins

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Once, I returned Tulip, Once I became | Reckoning once the city sprouted with gods— seeds whispers, freshly braided with the breaths of the ancients; tombs cracked impulses like husks and roots curled from the bones of history. say once, children bui...

Start your day off with this gorgeous poem from CP Nwankwo in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : reckoning.press/once-i-retur...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Richard Smith Richard Smith is the author of Beyond Where Words Can Go: A Novel in 200 Sonnets (Bauhan Publishing, April 2026). His first book, Not a So...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Richard Smith
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