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Richard Wright • Haiku: This Other World

Our sister journal So to Speak is boycotting X, but I wanted to shout out that they are currently open for submissions! Subs are open until May 1st. Link in bio.

Mosab Abu Toha

The first tulip!

Immense gratitude to the amazing Jillian Sico at The Press at Colorado College, who created this gorgeous letterpress broadside featuring an excerpt from the concluding short story Reveal Codes, "Space." <3

i’ve got a new poem in Passengers! this one’s about how while i wasn’t raised religious, a conservative type of american christianity (& american homophobia) entered my life early on, even in a (supposedly) progressive college town in western mass. also, Staryu 💫

New poem in Stanchion Thank you, Jeff. 🖤 #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity stanchionzine.com

With apologies to all the real poet laureates out there, but with much gratitude to UF Health writer Bill Levesque for this article in the latest issue of Florida Veterinarian magazine, which I developed 35 years ago. Only 3 more weeks to retirement! bit.ly/4jqKIRb

Ko Un, trs. Br. Anthony, Kim, & Gach

― Ursula K. Le Guin

"A Rose Shoulders Up" by Mosab Abu Toha for #smallpoemsunday 🥀

Poetry Month 2025 - Day 20 Walt Whitman "This Compost" "It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions" poets.org/poem/compost

Marie Howe. From: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2024).

Hermann Hesse (translated by James Wright)

"Uncensored beauty slides into a nightjar, the lens pouring April through my hands." BEHIND THE CAMERA by Vikki C. (From a future collection...) #NationalPoetryMonth Day 20 💙 #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #writerscommunity

Two of my micro CNF pieces are out in the The Hooghly Review — Issue 4 out now! ! So grateful to the editors for including me! These are part of a longer linked collection I’m working on 💙🥰

“they ask me to remember / but they want me to remember / their memories“  — Lucille Clifton . . . This poem appeared in The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2012. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Issue Two is Live! Thank you to all of our amazing contributors - we can't wait for you to read this collection of work. asteralesjournal.com

a horse passing by comforting himself with barley during the night Basho

Jenny George 💙 Day 20 - National Poetry Month