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[alexispopeisahuman]

ok so willa & i read a poem from soft threat b/c it’s sunday and we’re killing time

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We're running a contest! Between now and March 15, send us your work for a chance to be featured on a postcard that we'll give away at AWP + have your piece published in BIRDFEAST Issue 12. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction - send us anything you'd like, but keep it short.

Details: Send 1-3 short pieces in a .pdf, .doc, or .docx to [email protected] w/ the subject heading "AWP Postcard Contest." Make sure to get it to us by March 15! One winner will be chosen, but we'll also consider all submissions for publication in Issue 12.

[yourlittleampersand]

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More excerpts from C Dylan Bassett's "The Invention of Monsters / A Performance in One Act" in the new issue of DIAGRAM.

[adamclay]

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[selfiesinink]

new poem at Selfies in Ink: caroline crew: pastoral in another river

to whom the river spoke is the title of every manifesto  written since 1760   a year I remember as a hillside unyielding to a violet light most often draped against me   here the good shepherd unaliened though full to gulping of stars and now the virgin continent   little piercing its pastel plain silence retaining this holding pattern I am carefully etched to quiet

[ratrapss]

from GLAM GIRLS in ILK 13

[carolinecrew]

ILK Issue Thirteen is HERE

James Eidson // Kristen Evans // Sarah Jane Grimm // Amorak Huey // Tony Mancus // Kathleen Maris // Paula Mendoza // Sean F. Munro // Nick Narbutas // Emily O’Neill // F Daniel Rzicznek // Jessica Lynn Smith // Rachel Springer Dunbar // Alison Strub // Carleen Tibbetts

[carolinecrew]

today there is a new issue of Souvenir thanks to Keegan Lester, with two new horoscope collab poems that Chris Emslie & I made.

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Caroline Crew, C Dylan Bassett + more are in the new issue of interrupture tody. From Bassett:

There is the caracas of a dog left on the highway, beneath whose skin another baby is born.

from The Invention of Monsters / A Performance in One Act

[bostonpoetryslam]

Real prophets shoplift. Real prophets pretend to be ghosts, and they learn to move like the quiet and the dead, and their hands get swifter, and their pockets expand to fit more food, expand like the river gnawing into its own banks. Everybody here studies the dead. Everybody here is a kind of haunting.

Michael Mlekoday, “Self-Portrait with Blight,” published in Union Station Magazine (via bostonpoetryslam)

[bostonpoetryslam]

Something starts happening. Then something is happening. Then something happens. And then nothing happens. And then something new happens. Then someone you don’t know jumps off a tall building and dies on the sidewalk in front of a group of schoolchildren on a class field trip to the natural history museum, but it is you. It’s been you this whole time.

Zachary Schomburg, from “Agnes the Elephant,” published as part of the PEN Poetry Series (via bostonpoetryslam)

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Issue 32 of Salt Hill is available for preorder now, with work from Birdfeast contributors Jenny Boychuk, Stevie Edwards, RJ Ingram, and Jane Wong, among other incredible authors. Check out a preview on the website and then order your copy!

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Even in death a herd animal doesn't like to go it alone so around and around the field the dead horse goes until there are two, three, four to travel together.

Lisa Olstein, The Symptom Pool // from Birdfeast 9

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As if the lure of a new issue of Caketrain wasn't enough, this one is loaded with Birdfeast contributors. Order your copy now to read new work from C Dylan Bassett, Ruth Baumann, Matthew Mahaney, and more people we love. Plus, look at that cover - just LOOK at it. Enough said.