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All the moons of the year 2023

Today's the LAST DAY of our friend deal - sign up for our OCT session with a bud for only $250USD*! 🍬Both apply separately & mention the friend they are registering with 🍬Offer is valid for our FLAT FEE only 🍬Offer valid until Sept 18 at MIDNIGHT EST ➡️officialshira.com/insurreallife

We’re open for submissions for Issue #31. Deadline to submit is December 1st. Send us your best prose, poetry, and hybrid work 🚀 hungermtn.submittable.com/submit

Nimrod International Journal is delighted to announce that our submission window will open November 1-30. Dust off your drafts or let the winds of inspiration take you somewhere new. We want to see your work!

Tag a friend who has an amazing novella or poetry collection that should get published! Use the link in our bio for details. #poetrycollection #writerfriends #novella

THRILLED to have ISL Alum alex cuff as a Visiting Artist in our October session!! 🚨📷Deadline to apply is September 22nd. Come write poems, play, get creative and learn alongside 50 fellow poets next month! Apply here: officialshira.com/insurreallife

‼️ Only a few more days to get in on this session & learn from these amazing writers. PLUS: Daily prompts crafted by Shira Erlichman , a wonderful community of other creatives, and and and! Apply today: officialshira.com/insurreallife

Swooooning for Jeremy Michael Clark as the visiting artist for our BIPOC exclusive call this OCTOBER session! 💥Deadline to apply is September 22nd!! Come write poems, play, get creative and learn alongside 50 fellow poets next month! Apply here: officialshira.com/insurreallife

We ❤️ our ISLiens and their warmheartedness. Apply today for our October session >> officialshira.com/insurreallife

I begin with love, hoping to end there. —Jericho Brown, from “Duplex”

"Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible." - Alice Oswald

THERE ARE STILL SPOTS LEFT!! We've extended our deadline to tmr, September 24th at midnight EST! If you've been thinking of joining us for a month of poetry and fun and caring community - take this as your sign!! Apply today: officialshira.com/insurreallife

hello -- I have curated a poetry and music festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which will be taking place in just a couple of weeks, and I'd love for you to join for whatever excites you. Tickets and info here: bam.org/poetry/2024/i-…

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just remembered that the only point of life is to love

“I know there is a river somewhere, / lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that” — Molly Brodak . . . This poem appeared in The Cipher by Molly Brodak, published by Pleiades Press, 2020. Shared here with deep gratitude.

The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.' Solmaz Sharif

Some lady said this once & she also runs a global creativity school called In Surreal Life: A Portable Creativity School & that school is having a session in January with Visiting Artists Danez Smith aka Hennyfurr Lopez & Jennifer Espinoza & Brittany Rogers (she/her) & if I were you I'd probably get in on that 🤷‍♀️❣️ 🕺✍️officialshira.com/insurreallife