Crystal Taylor
@crystaltaylorsa.bsky.social
Poet/Writer | Rust & Moth | Ghost City Review | One Art | Pine Hills | Inkfish | Maudlin House | Gargoyle | MacQueen’s Quinterly |Trampoline | Neologism | Libre | Rogue Agent | wildscape | Dishsoap Qrtly | Broadkill | Sunlight Press | BotN nom
Where Love Is - My new micro out in Micromance today
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Where Love Is
By Crystal Taylor
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October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Where Love Is - My new micro out in Micromance today
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So excited! I have a poem out in @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social here: www.broadkillreview.com/post/antisep...
Thank you editors!
Thank you editors!
"Antiseptic" by Crystal Taylor
Gray, the stone I tumbled from, playing chase as children do.A gash split, brimming with gravel and potting soil. Seeds nurtured by blood.She twisted another bottle open, poured icy antiseptic over my...
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July 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So excited! I have a poem out in @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social here: www.broadkillreview.com/post/antisep...
Thank you editors!
Thank you editors!
Thank you Peter and Kate for including my poems in issue four of Inkfish! Great experience. Migration seems particularly relevant this morning and the I am included in the group in the last sentence. Hope you are too. inkfishmag.com/migration-ba...
'Migration' & 'Background Noise' by Crystal Taylor
Poetry
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June 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thank you Peter and Kate for including my poems in issue four of Inkfish! Great experience. Migration seems particularly relevant this morning and the I am included in the group in the last sentence. Hope you are too. inkfishmag.com/migration-ba...
Yea! Poem, Bitter Berries, up at @neologismpoetry.bsky.social here: www.neologismpoetry.com/April-2025/#ct and get a load of @garrettspeller’s headlining poem/haibun. Wow! Thank you @christopherallen.bsky.social!
April 2025
Issue #95 Garrett Speller A memory of someone long gone and a haiku we wrote together (a haibun) My mind winks back a few years into the past, minutes and hours ticking backwards, letting grandfath…
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May 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yea! Poem, Bitter Berries, up at @neologismpoetry.bsky.social here: www.neologismpoetry.com/April-2025/#ct and get a load of @garrettspeller’s headlining poem/haibun. Wow! Thank you @christopherallen.bsky.social!
Ya’ll! I’m so excited to have a poem up in wildscape. journal today! Checkout issue two’s featured poet, @FizzaFatima. wildscapelit.com/issue-2-crys...
April 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ya’ll! I’m so excited to have a poem up in wildscape. journal today! Checkout issue two’s featured poet, @FizzaFatima. wildscapelit.com/issue-2-crys...
Yea! Two new poems up at MacQueen’s Quinterly!
Scales and Violets. 😊 Thank you Clare!
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Scales and Violets. 😊 Thank you Clare!
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo... And here www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Crystal Taylor: Scales
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March 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Yea! Two new poems up at MacQueen’s Quinterly!
Scales and Violets. 😊 Thank you Clare!
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo... And here www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo...
Scales and Violets. 😊 Thank you Clare!
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo... And here www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Taylo...
New CNF up in @Gargoyle magazine called “Some Kind of Hell” about a school shooting. It was tough, but I’m proud of the piece. Read here: gargoylemagazine.com/crystal-tayl...
Crystal Taylor
A DC-based literary magazine
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March 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
New CNF up in @Gargoyle magazine called “Some Kind of Hell” about a school shooting. It was tough, but I’m proud of the piece. Read here: gargoylemagazine.com/crystal-tayl...
Yea! There’s a weird new poem out in the world today. One of the weirder things I’ve written. Okay, really weird. Check out today’s Trampoline magazine issue 28.6! www.trampolinepoetry.com Great experience working with the editor, Justin Lacour. He’s a brilliant poet. #poetry lovers!
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March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yea! There’s a weird new poem out in the world today. One of the weirder things I’ve written. Okay, really weird. Check out today’s Trampoline magazine issue 28.6! www.trampolinepoetry.com Great experience working with the editor, Justin Lacour. He’s a brilliant poet. #poetry lovers!
I’ve been waiting to share this! Thank you, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social. I really enjoy this magazine. Check it out here: dishsoap-quarterly.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’ve been waiting to share this! Thank you, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social. I really enjoy this magazine. Check it out here: dishsoap-quarterly.com
YESSS!
We're now open to #microfiction of up to 400 words. Do please check out our guidelines by following the link fictivedream.com/submission-g....
February 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
YESSS!
this was promptly rejected. But they haven’t seen the last of me. Mwahahaha
Alas! I wrote a genre bender that I’m proud of. I sent it to a bucket list magazine. Yikes!
February 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
this was promptly rejected. But they haven’t seen the last of me. Mwahahaha
Word up.
i’m going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but
we cannot forget the soft ones.
we cannot forget the soft ones.
February 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Word up.
Love this! My goal is similar, but applies mostly to poetry.
My current goal is to write a paragraph a day that is beautiful or horrifying or heartbreaking or whatever, that has positively nothing to do with the current political crisis.
It’s not much, but it’s something. Some part of me I do not sacrifice to the horrors, that I preserve for a better day.
It’s not much, but it’s something. Some part of me I do not sacrifice to the horrors, that I preserve for a better day.
February 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Love this! My goal is similar, but applies mostly to poetry.
I have a couple of poems about romantic love…with a twist. It only occurred to me now that this might be an appropriate season. I think it’s too late but wanted to tap into the collective wisdom here. Anyone looking for love poems that aren’t terribly sappy?
February 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I have a couple of poems about romantic love…with a twist. It only occurred to me now that this might be an appropriate season. I think it’s too late but wanted to tap into the collective wisdom here. Anyone looking for love poems that aren’t terribly sappy?
Yea! My piece, Li3 is in the latest @rogueagent.bsky.social! Highly recommend checking out @laurenkalstad.bsky.social’s piece, too. Great editors! Glad my piece landed safely at Rogue Agent Journal!
Maple, hazel, and broken glass…RA 119 is here! Featuring poetry by Elisa A. Garza, Kim Jensen, @laurenkalstad.bsky.social Haley Jinju Marks, @k-queen.bsky.social Andrea Maxine Recto, Lindsey Schaffer, V Shank, @CrystalTaylorSA.bsky.social, and Jessica Dawn Zinz // rogueagentjournal.com/issue119
Issue 119 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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February 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yea! My piece, Li3 is in the latest @rogueagent.bsky.social! Highly recommend checking out @laurenkalstad.bsky.social’s piece, too. Great editors! Glad my piece landed safely at Rogue Agent Journal!
Yea! Check out my 2 minute read CNF about birds and judgment! Thank you @rfpress.bsky.social!
Look what I spotted! The elusive CNF hanging out here in issue 81! Yes, this is a sad attempt at a play on the title of this lovely little piece by @crystaltaylorsa.bsky.social Don't judge me & definitely don't judge "Spotted"! Not without reading it first!
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February 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yea! Check out my 2 minute read CNF about birds and judgment! Thank you @rfpress.bsky.social!
Get ‘em in!
The Clock’s Ticking…
January 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Get ‘em in!
I adore this.
“All this sadness carved in silver leaf
All this emptiness in pressed cotton sleeves
All these muted days that bleed to neon
All these familiar faces through rain-swept glass
All this laughter caught like light in prisms
All these young dreams worn thin at the edges”
#poetry #writingcommunity
All this emptiness in pressed cotton sleeves
All these muted days that bleed to neon
All these familiar faces through rain-swept glass
All this laughter caught like light in prisms
All these young dreams worn thin at the edges”
#poetry #writingcommunity
January 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I adore this.
I truly love this off-beat magazine. Wonderful editors, professional, great companion art. They promote their contributors. Four jalapeños. I’m lucky enough to have a piece in issue 81 of @rfpress.bsky.social www.roifaineantpress.com/post/spotted...
"Spotted" by Crystal Taylor
I scanned through my binoculars, thinking I was alone until I saw a man peering back at me through his own. I had been spotted. The ornithology lab sent a rare bird sighting alert: an Inca Dove in the...
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January 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I truly love this off-beat magazine. Wonderful editors, professional, great companion art. They promote their contributors. Four jalapeños. I’m lucky enough to have a piece in issue 81 of @rfpress.bsky.social www.roifaineantpress.com/post/spotted...
Alas! I wrote a genre bender that I’m proud of. I sent it to a bucket list magazine. Yikes!
January 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Alas! I wrote a genre bender that I’m proud of. I sent it to a bucket list magazine. Yikes!
Oooh. Micros!
We're getting a LOT of poetry submissions. Send in your Micro Prose, Fiction & CNF too!
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January 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Oooh. Micros!
Reposted by Crystal Taylor
"The poor lad stinks as bad as Snow White’s breath when the lazy cow finally decided to wake up with a piece of rotten apple stuck in her throat." @delgeo14.bsky.social
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January 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"The poor lad stinks as bad as Snow White’s breath when the lazy cow finally decided to wake up with a piece of rotten apple stuck in her throat." @delgeo14.bsky.social
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Yea! Super excited about my cnf coming out on Sunday! Thank you @rfpress.bsky.social editors!
As I age, I realize the glory of birdwatching. Here is a quirky CNF story about such activity as well as people watching and the assumtions we make towards our fellow man. It’s “Spotted” by @crystaltaylorsa.bsky.social from our 81st edition. Sunday 1/26!
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Yea! Super excited about my cnf coming out on Sunday! Thank you @rfpress.bsky.social editors!
Throw up your flares!
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!! Send us your flares and see guidelines for how to submit here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com
#chronicillnessawareness #disabilities #mentalhealth #writingcommunity
Please repost!
#chronicillnessawareness #disabilities #mentalhealth #writingcommunity
Please repost!
January 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Throw up your flares!
I absolutely adore this.
January 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I absolutely adore this.