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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters
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A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. Issue One Coming in January of 2025

Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social

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Today’s the day! Send us your darlings, now through December 15! ❤️
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Today’s the day! Send us your darlings, now through December 15! ❤️
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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It’s here! Issue 4 is live today, featuring work from Sean Cho A, Sarah Mills, Allison Blevins, Jill Kitchen, Anthony Frame, Will Musgrove, Charles Jensen, Susan Barry-Schulz, Julia Biggs, Sheila Squillante, and Vishaal! #poetry #prose #visualart #literaryjournal #asterales

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@rebunting.bsky.social and I both loved this piece. Excited for everyone to read it when the new issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social goes live!
charlesjensen.bsky.social Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 28d
A new essay from HOT MIC: WHAT I SANG AT KARAOKE AND THE MEN WHO DROVE ME TO DO IT will be out Monday from Asterales! Here’s a hint about the song featured in it, and big thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social for sending this to me!!!
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We are thrilled to announce our very first Best of the Net nominees!
@prayfortheapex.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @erinmurphy.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social Mike Nees Ellene Glenn Moore @mattkish.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce our very first Best of the Net nominees! @prayfortheapex.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @erinmurphy.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social Mike Nees Ellene Glenn Moore @mattkish.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social Beige background, green and maroon lettering - text is centered and framed by two bunches of maroon and pink asters with green stems, one on each side of the text.
September 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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There is so much mystery and wonder in this poem by @fklein907.bsky.social Read "How I Met My Deer Wife" in Issue 4!
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Brown Text: Deer Wife, red gold sunrise haloing her head, stepping gentle on legs slendered down to cloven points Backgroun - Gold/orange autumn grove of trees with a puddle and a semi-transparent female deer standing in the foreground.
September 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This still life has such color, movement, and surprise that we couldn't resist. Check out @carolee.bsky.social's Canary #1 in Issue 4!
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September 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This poem's narratives give us unspoken consequences and family dynamics that are so much more than just anecdotes. Read Gail Martin's "And We Never Spoke of It" in Issue 4.
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A swirl of spilled white paint on a light grey background - text reads "The can flew off, lid popped open, white paint flying up and down that aisle" Gail Martin "And We Never Spoke of It"
September 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Just a reminder that we're open until September 15 for subs! We'd really love to see more prose and more art, particularly. Send away!
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August 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What's on the inside? It could be fire. Check out this amazing collage work from @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social in Issue 4!
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August 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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What a pleasure to find a completely original love poem that takes you on a journey through the literal heart. "Diminuendo" by @johnpauldavis.org does just that. Read it in Issue 4!
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maybe this is the section of the scripture that just lists the livestock everybody owns & all the begetting... John Paul Davis "Diminuendo" White text on black backgrouns with rays of light filtering through a stained glass window on the upper left.
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This b&w photo is a story in and of itself. Check out "Italian Sea" by Rachel Turney in Issue 4!
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August 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Experience the headlong rush of images and memory in Meghan Sterling's "Spring is for Remembering" in Issue 4!

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"spring blossoms coming down like so many baseballs into the cage. How I finally understand the way it can rain anything." From Spring is for Remembering by Megan Sterling. Text on a light blue background with pink petals and baseballs raining down in a random pattern.
August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Open for subs until September 15, and we're light on prose and art. We love short and long stories and all types of visuals. Send us your best!
August 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Featured Artist Sandra Wilcoxon's delicate botanical watercolors wowed us with their detail. Take a look at her work throughout Issue 4!
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Watercolor painting entitled Small Lichen on Goatskin Vellum - pastel grays, greens and blues show the lacy forms of a lichen on a linen-colored background. Intricate watercolor of Texas Spanish Moss with a tangle of delicate green tendrils and a thin brown branch
August 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Editor @rebunting.bsky.social has a new poem in @glasspoetry.bsky.social today!

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Rachel Bunting | Event Horizon | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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August 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We were floored by this simple poem about the complexity of love. Read "An Old Friend Posts His Mother's Death" by Melissa Fite Johnson in Issue 4.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Submissions for Issue 4 have been coming in strong during this first week - poetry is still dominating the queue, so prose writers and visual artists, we'd love to see work from you! Subs are open until September 15.

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August 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Some news! 🎉🎉🎉
slowdownshow.org The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · Aug 5
Today, we’re thrilled to share that the new host of The Slowdown is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

The Slowdown will return with new episodes on August 18th. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and sign up for our free email newsletter at slowdownshow.org

📸: @cowtownchad.bsky.social
A headshot of the poet Maggie Smith framed by a caption: "Introducing our new host, Maggie Smith"
August 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We forgot to tag the talented @readinstead.bsky.social! But it gives us another chance to share this poem with you!
asteralesjournal.bsky.social Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · Aug 4
Ever wonder how a poem with a Sasquatch could make you question time, permanence, and memory? Read Jared Beloff's "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him" in Issue 4.

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This morning I watched as a pair of birds sat on the same branch, looking out, silent before one pushed off, flew across the water. Jared Beloff "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him"
August 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
asteralesjournal.bsky.social
Ever wonder how a poem with a Sasquatch could make you question time, permanence, and memory? Read Jared Beloff's "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him" in Issue 4.

www.asteralesjournal.com/1-3-beloff-w...
This morning I watched as a pair of birds sat on the same branch, looking out, silent before one pushed off, flew across the water. Jared Beloff "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him"
August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Subs are open for Issue 4! Send us your best prose, visual art, and poems. We can't wait to read!
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Poetry 1-3 poems Prose single work up to 7500 words- fiction, cnf, or something in-between Visual art- 3-5 images as .jpgd at least 300 dpi
August 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Issue One Poet Travis Chi Wing Lau has a beautiful book coming Thursday from @smallharborpub.bsky.social. Get yourself a copy!
smallharborpub.bsky.social Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · Jul 28
📣 Coming 7/31! What’s Left is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau is a powerful collection interrogating tenderness at the intersections of disability, queerness, and race.

Stayed tuned: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

#Poetry #IndiePublishing #QueerPoets #WhatsLeftIsTender
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Issue three contributor @johnpauldavis.org with a gorgeous meditation on being carried.
johnpauldavis.org John Paul Davis @johnpauldavis.org · Jul 28
My poem "Please Hang Up & Try Again" in the the latest issue of @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.bsky.social Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · Jul 28
"All I’m saying is, I could not say,
I could not see whose mouth it was carrying me."

"Please Hang Up & Try Again" by @johnpauldavis.bsky.social

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Art: "New Song" by Sarah J. Sloat
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Gail Martin has a new poem “And We Never Spoke of It” up at Asterales. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at www.asteralesjournal.com/1-3-martin-b.... @asteralesjournal.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We loved the way this piece took us back & forth between realities, ending with a new direction that made perfect sense for both. Read Kerry Trautman's "Totality" in Issue Three.
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Monday we slipped our glasses to check the progress of the chip missing from the bottom of the sun, the moon taking bigger bigger bites of light. From "Totality" by Kerry Trautman
July 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM