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Danielle McMahon
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EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net

Substack (under construction): https://dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/

author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps

latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 19d
My fellow elder millennials, this one's for you. 🖤

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January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Available for preorder now!
#booksky
dehm000.bsky.social Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 16d
My chapbook about coming-of-age in the era of cheap gasoline & AOL instant messenger is available for preorder from Stanchion Books & I won't stop talking about it!

Preorder: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Available for preorder now!
#booksky
dehm000.bsky.social Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 16d
My chapbook about coming-of-age in the era of cheap gasoline & AOL instant messenger is available for preorder from Stanchion Books & I won't stop talking about it!

Preorder: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

#poetrycommunity #poetry #readingcommunity #authors #writers #writingcommunity
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Hey friends, I’ll be reading something at @iridescentwords.bsky.social’s online gathering. Hope you can come. Just FYI it’s 7am Monday 12 Jan AEST
iridescentwords.bsky.social Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 11d
Join us on Sunday for a cosy reading and discussion!
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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#booksky
dehm000.bsky.social Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 16d
My chapbook about coming-of-age in the era of cheap gasoline & AOL instant messenger is available for preorder from Stanchion Books & I won't stop talking about it!

Preorder: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

#poetrycommunity #poetry #readingcommunity #authors #writers #writingcommunity
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Seeing Labyrinth in the theater tomorrow!!

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Labyrinth (1986) - As the World Falls Down | Movieclips
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January 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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dehm000.bsky.social
My chapbook about coming-of-age in the era of cheap gasoline & AOL instant messenger is available for preorder from Stanchion Books & I won't stop talking about it!

Preorder: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

#poetrycommunity #poetry #readingcommunity #authors #writers #writingcommunity
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Poem "Funny Gallery" by Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social

“Ate a fragment / Of a tablet / M train girl loves the scene / Cutting corners, cutting edge / Clickety clack like a heart attack...”

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funny gallery — Blood+Honey
by Damon Hubbs “Ate a fragment / Of a tablet / M train girl loves the scene / Cutting corners, cutting edge / Clickety clack like a heart attack / Loves the horses of Ulster County / Loves the Coney...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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My chapbook about coming-of-age in the era of cheap gasoline & AOL instant messenger is available for preorder from Stanchion Books & I won't stop talking about it!

Preorder: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

#poetrycommunity #poetry #readingcommunity #authors #writers #writingcommunity
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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My fellow elder millennials, this one's for you. 🖤

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January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Poem "Fantastic Garlands - Provincetown, MA" by Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social

“A few days in the Province Lands & I am only one / only one girl crowned / & anchored for her heart’s desire.”

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fantastic garlands —provincetown, ma — Blood+Honey
by Damon Hubbs “A few days in the Province Lands & I am only one / only one girl crowned / & anchored for her heart’s desire.”
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January 3, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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My fellow elder millennials, this one's for you. 🖤

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January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Would anyone like to order my NiF Mother Karma directly from me? Please fill out this form: forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7C...
I can sign it if you like, and you get swag! 15 copies left!
Picture of my NiF Mother Karma - yellow book with a black graphic of a mother with a bindi in a sari holding a baby. Words "Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash Sumitra Singam", postcard and sticker with same graphic lying on top of book
January 2, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Loved sitting with this book and letting it sit with me after. 🫶
Thank you to Danielle and Stanchion for letting me blurb!
stanchion.bsky.social Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 20d
Happy 2026 - a year of intention, of art, of rebellion, of love.

The 2nd of 2 new poetry chapbook cover reveals & pre-order openings:

Danielle McMahon's irl "captures the agony and ecstasy of being seen as a young person."
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Photo of a wheat field bathed in warm golden hour light as the sun sets in the distance. the words irl poems sit above that sun and Danielle McMahon rests in the wheat. Praise for irl "irl is what cuts through the radio static when the dead zone ends on a winding midnight drive through the middle of nowhere. It is the neon pulse of the lovesick heart and the shards of a glittering eternity. McMahon sings of the age when the small town last felt like the universe: of desolate landscapes crackling with life, and of the electricity of opening oneself to the possibility of everything." — Amy Jannotti, author of Angels & Insects are Creatures with Wings and editor-in-chief of Bleating Thing Magazine “A concrete journey into the sweet softness and earnest freedom of life when technology was a place to connect or hide free from contemporary norms. Wistful and immediately precise, irl creates a distinctive, trustworthy guide through parallelism and analogy, the smell of the earth and the quiet of the night, inspiring wonder regarding the relationship between peace and tension, the power of language to transport through time, and the joys or sorrows of recognizing in another 'my satellite / in a starless sky.'" — Lydia Rae Bush, author of Free Bleeding “Tender without ever being sentimental, even the silences in these pieces are deliberate and weighted accordingly. More than anything, these poems capture the agony and ecstasy of being seen as a young person. Where do these visceral memories go in the hearts of grown-ups? If we're lucky, we seek them with as much care, and turn them into art with as much attention, as McMahon does here." — Abigail E. Myers, author of The Last Analog Teenagers “At turns visually striking and intimately conversational, irl is a fascinating poetic exploration." — Audrey T. Carroll, author of The Gaia Hypothesis
January 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Happy New Year!

So thrilled to announce that my chapbook on coming-of-age in the era of AOL Instant Messenger & 99cent gasoline is available for preorder from Stanchion!

A real piece of my heart. I hope it speaks to someone out there!

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January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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2 new book cover reveals and pre-order sales open up tomorrow!

RIYL: Hardcore music, Moshing, AOL Instant Messenger, Finding and loving yourself
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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My poem about Middle Age, Tori Amos, & "the maps we’ve made of ourselves" has been published by Glint Literary! Many thanks!

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MIDDLE AGE some of us are closer to rot than you think and others more lovely in their withering but what do i know ask the tangles of spent grass this late autumn that moves like your hair in a fi…
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December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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My frankenpoem sourced from materials re: 1.) the nature of melancholy & 2.) carving/serving meats has been published by the fab Genrepunk Magazine! Many thanks to Audrey!
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
dehm000.bsky.social
My poem about Middle Age, Tori Amos, & "the maps we’ve made of ourselves" has been published by Glint Literary! Many thanks!

glintjournal.wordpress.com/glint-16-dan...
Danielle McMahon
MIDDLE AGE some of us are closer to rot than you think and others more lovely in their withering but what do i know ask the tangles of spent grass this late autumn that moves like your hair in a fi…
glintjournal.wordpress.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
dehm000.bsky.social
My frankenpoem sourced from materials re: 1.) the nature of melancholy & 2.) carving/serving meats has been published by the fab Genrepunk Magazine! Many thanks to Audrey!
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
dehm000.bsky.social
Preorder in Jan!!
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 23d
Preorders for EIC Danielle’s poetry chapbook irl start in the new year! 😱
If you’ve got a soft spot for aol instant messenger and a certain summertime lovesickness, this one’s for you!
stanchion.bsky.social Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 23d
The new year will bring new pre-order sales, new cover reveals, and a blurb extravaganza. Stay tuned for your chance to be among the first poetry lovers to buy Adam Gianforcaro's Poems to Stage Dive to and Danielle McMahon's irl.
December 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Recently wrote my first blurb for a fellow writer’s poetry microchap. Gotta say, i loved it!
December 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I'm awash in beautiful blurbs from beautiful people for the beautiful books by @tcboudreau.bsky.social, @dehm000.bsky.social & Adam Gianforcaro I'm privileged to be publishing this spring.

Also, it's weird that most presses & publishing houses don't do the work of sourcing blurbs for their authors.
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM