I have a story today on the amazing @DoricLiterary about a therapist and a poet, and I'd be super happy if you gave it a read, friends. Thank you so much @CourtlandAvenue for helping me polish it and giving it the perfect home 💖💖💖

Staff mtg: Friday is the last day we’ll look at subs for our Jan issue. . . then on to Feb! Also, last week in the office for Coco. No one climbs screen doors like you, little Coco-bean. You will be missed!

I really need to find healthy distractions to cope with a recent traumatic event (on top of a very difficult year), so I decided to attempt to start a poetry literary magazine send 1-5 poems to controlledvocabmag [at] gmail [dot] com @CntrlldVocabMag

for the evening crowd,

Honored to learn that this piece "A Week After I Die" has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Huge thanks to 10 x 10 and Zvi A. Sesling!

And what if I said most people don’t need therapy they need a stable income, stable housing and stable supply of food? What if I said most people could overcome their trauma more naturally if they had these 3 basic needs met at all times

https://t.co/iUEhe1wqX6

Sylvia Plath's 93d birthday today. the first 2 poets i found when i began my obsession was her and Anne Sexton

Glad to have a poem out in @FeversOf

One week from today, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚 @happymil_

'The dead brown squirrel has been in my garden for two days. I should have placed her in a box and buried her, but it has been raining incessantly." @whirlwindtots @brightflash1000 🐿️🐿️🐿️

John Wieners

"And it’s better to attempt to be human than easily slip into its opposite. Not non-human exactly, but just outside of human. Some third, monstrously feral and indolent thing" @JillianLuft @citywidelunch 💖🌽💖

Never forget

Mythic Micros Mini Anthologies Check this thread for guest-curated mini micro anthologies ⬇️ #MythicPicnicTweetStory

Just go ahead and assume that your writing will be very popular after you die so you don’t have to worry about it while you’re still alive.

In Scarsellino’s take on the “abduction” of Persephone (Proserpina), the moment feels less like a crime and more like a turning of fate — gentle light before the descent. Some myths aren’t about love or tragedy… but transformation.

When Zeus divided the cosmos, Hades, unwillingly took dominion over the underworld, ruling it with absolute fairness.

Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @SuzyEynon and For Every Tower, A Princess by Kathryn Kulpa! We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf. 📚🐈‍⬛📚

My very first collection of short stories is up! In Body Parts Picnic, you'll find self-deprecating comedy, horror, and oh-so-serious literary micros. 25K thank you's to Mark for creating space for bodies of work (see what I did there? Jokes are funnier when you explain them)

"an image of his hands on your body, an image of your hands on his body, two shadows merging and separating against the wall, just panicked neurons firing at random now" Chris Scott @moonrabbitcandy 🌄🌄🌄