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"In an outdoor fireplace my fingers add flame to wood At a park bench, a sandwich materializes between my fingers" So struck by this poem "A Visual Meditation on Natural Gestures" by Will Conley in The Night Heron Barks (There's also a video of the poem in sign) nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/willy-c…

"We lived on prayer —hoping that when the day ended, a day will begin between two horizons, slightly slanted: tilted to balance our thoughts." Gorgeous word magic by shome dasgupta in the new The Night Heron Barks 💙 nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/shome-d…

“I’d like to share a beer with him, a cigarette, tug at the silver light of our dawdling death. But that’s not it, I think. …” Sitting on a Soccer Field at the Edge of Carson City by Scott Neuffer in The Night Heron Barks nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/scott-n…

“There were boxes of them, the memo books stacked like money and fastened together with rotting rubber bands. She wore his sweatshirt—the hem stained with bleach—and rolled the sleeves up. Things began to make sense.” Memo by @be_hahn in The Night Heron Barks nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/beth-ha…

"The boatman tells me eyeshine that spangles these high-summer shallows comes from gators that dangle their primeval bodies like lightning rods fixed between two atmospheres" Stunning imagery & a gorgeous last line🔥🧡 Frank Paino in the new The Night Heron Barks nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/frank-p…

"I never heard God speak out of a thing I wasn't drawn into, hadn't become" Three poems by H.L. Hix in The Night Heron Barks nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/h-l-hix/

I am very honored to have the opening poem from my book Death Prefers the Minor Keys read and shared by the always luminous Major Jackson on today's issue of The Slowdown. slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/1…

I've barely had the chance to celebrate that this poem appearing in the most beautifully curated edition of The Night Heron Barks but now it has also been nominated for a Pushcart. Thank you @jerzypoet for supporting my work. nightheronbarks.com/2023-2/rachel-…

Submissions close December 31st; short form, hybrid prose, flash, CNF, micro prose, lyrical essay, or prose poems. Under 1,000 words. ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/submit/

Yay. Such good news. Have a read and a listen and look at the painting chosen for my poem. Thank you @jerzypoet and team @heronbarks nightheronbarks.com/nominations/ ✨✨✨

The artist Agnes Martin slips in and out of Lauren Camp’s "An Eye in Each Square” (River River Books 🌊🌊) like a wraith, an invisible companion. New review by Richard Oyama in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/an-eye-in-each…

New poem in this gorgeous issue of Up the Staircase 🥲 Ever grateful to april michelle bratten 💙 upthestaircase.org/vismai-rao-iss…

It’s Publication Day —WHIPSAW is officially out from Anhinga Press! rb.gy/v8gia9

Feeling hopeful and grateful for the support so far. Every repost and donation is greatly appreciated. Let's keep spreading the love, fam! 🙏 Gofundme link: gofundme.com/f/help-martins…

All gratitude to mentors Adam Clay, Brandi George, Angela Ball, Susan Briante, & Farid Matuk.

Will you walk with me? Maggie Millner (!) selected Shade is a place for the National Poetry Series! I celebrated by spending summer glad for my life, mistakes, & misguided attempts at relief (at livingness?) Thank you all for shade walking me back to me nationalpoetryseries.org/meet-the-2024-…

Very excited about our Bending Genres LLC October 25- 27 weekend workshop with Rogan Kelly Rogan Kelly!!! A BG community writer, and the EIC of The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. Rogan will provide a super course, and content!!! bendinggenres.com/writing-groups/

“I shape my best hours alone, squinting through glass, remembering” —from “Koan of Shivers” by Robert Okaji 🌻 1st pub’d in The Night Heron Barks. Many thanks to Rogan Kelly & editorial team for giving this poem its first home! Forthcoming in SCARECROW SEES Jan 2025 #poetry