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Amy Saul-Zerby
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author: Choose Your Own Beginning, Deep Camouflage, & Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds

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Amy Saul-Zerby @amysz.bsky.social · Nov 15
a quick intro 'cause i'm new here! 🤓

I'm a poet with two collections published by Be About It Press 💜 & one with the late CCM ☠️😬

I write about mental health, generational trauma & love

I've been working on @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for ten years & been E.I.C. for six

more at amysaulzerby.com!
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“There was so much we didn’t see, but it saw us. We shone for it. The past recognizes its imminent relatives.
 
It warms as it watches
you and me becoming 
artifacts of love.”

- Rose DeMaris

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February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️

ft. @carmenbarefield.bsky.social, @arianathepoet.bsky.social, @jmfletcher15.bsky.social, @bilorat.bsky.social, & more!

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February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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“I feed
like falling and I fuck like falling,
equalizing pressure,
meant to shed a wreck of men”

- Callie Jennings (@aporianautics.bsky.social)

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January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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“and I loved before
I had the language
then it came in a dialect
I had to translate for myself”

- Muhammad Rabih

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January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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last call for submissions for our winter issue! ❄️

call & send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Dec 3
we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨

💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛

deadline january 1st
January 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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“and why
            this want
for permanence surround
 
sound my life with
            backups
sound out my name and
 
it’s almost a library”

- Fiona Martinez

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December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Dec 3
we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨

💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛

deadline january 1st
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“Gravity is repression, you think and try to not. You know how you will feel when you awaken. You can already feel the cold sweat coming.”

- JeFF Stumpo

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December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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“do not be afraid of your own heart beating”

- Charlotte Alexander

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December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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“What bloomed from grief / came instinct, / came wrath.”

- c. rivera

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December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“I want to write about eternity too
just like the cats
probing at their breakfasts
 
or your two week old hands Isadora
brushing my beard like sleepwalking
windshield wipers”

- Dylan Emmons

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December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨

💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛

deadline january 1st
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
amysz.bsky.social
writing again, thank God!
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
amysz.bsky.social
Hosting for @moonstonearts.bsky.social again next month, and I'm so excited to feature my good friend & mentor @derrickbrown.bsky.social and the wonderful Erica Miriam Fabri 🤩 Wednesday, Dec. 10th at Fergie's Pub 🎉 Hope you can join us! It’ll be a rockin’ good time 🤘🖤
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”

- @c-late.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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“As a recluse / I really went / all out"

- @jennacardinale.bsky.social

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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.”

- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro

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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”

- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)

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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"

- Lauren Mills

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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”

- Alexa Vallejo

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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”

- Juniper Danger

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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”

- John Muro

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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”

- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”

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November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁

ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!

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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
voicemailpoems.bsky.social Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · Sep 4
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨

voicemailpoems.org/submit

🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM