Jill Kitchen
@jillkitchen.bsky.social
poems, stories, music & landscape. in DC. co, nyc, & london still hold pieces of my heart. writing in asterales, ecotone, crab creek review, HAD, four way review, iowa review, poet lore, split lip, trampset, whale road. social media manager @ SWWIM she/her
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Jill Kitchen
@jillkitchen.bsky.social
· Jan 15
Dreams do come true. The amazing team at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social chose my poem "in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do" for this month's issue. I am still pinching myself. Thank you so much to the brilliant editors & readers. splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0125/...
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We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6
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My whole life is this and it’s amazing
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My whole life is this and it’s amazing
"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels,
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/
#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/
#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: “Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels,
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."
This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
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Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees!
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees!
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
Writers in Residence 2026-27
Erika Meitner
Bleah Patterson
Dorsía Smith Silva
Patricia Smith
@rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
When a journal says please send again, do keep trying. I have now gotten eight acceptances this way.
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When a journal says please send again, do keep trying. I have now gotten eight acceptances this way.
So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!
Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!
Somedays it helps to know that someone decided to build this in their backyard.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Somedays it helps to know that someone decided to build this in their backyard.
Have you ever noticed a submission packet switch from In Progress to Accepted without any acceptance message?
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Have you ever noticed a submission packet switch from In Progress to Accepted without any acceptance message?
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And ... drum roll... the book is now available for pre-order! lilypoetryreview.blog/perforated-b...
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And ... drum roll... the book is now available for pre-order! lilypoetryreview.blog/perforated-b...
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Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
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On this day in 1983, U2 released the live album “Under a Blood Red Sky”
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On this day in 1983, U2 released the live album “Under a Blood Red Sky”
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we can't wait to devour your words!
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we can't wait to devour your words!
It's Give Miami Day! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard.
"“Poetry, I feel like in this time, in this political climate, I think we need each other. We need community. I think that’s what’s going to keep us together. I think it’s what SWWIM does so well, & how lucky we are to have you all with the curation & the vast selection of poems that you do from
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's Give Miami Day! SWWIM is dedicated to publishing, promoting, and uplifting women's voices at a time when they really need to be heard.
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Congrats to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on her well -deserved National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder. Long live the Queen!
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Congrats to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on her well -deserved National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder. Long live the Queen!
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It’s on! Give Miami Day starts tomorrow—but early giving is already open. Please consider donating to @swwim.bsky.social to help us continue our programming for supporting women and raising their voices in Miami and the world beyond it. www.givemiamiday.org/organization...
Support SWWIM on Give Miami Day
SWWIM PUBLISHES, CELEBRATES, AND PROMOTES WOMEN-IDENTIFYING WRITERS, EXPANDING THE CANON TO INCLUDE VOICES TOO-OFTEN OVERLOOKED WHILE HELPING TO ESTABLISH MIAMI AS AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY HUB. TO AC...
www.givemiamiday.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It’s on! Give Miami Day starts tomorrow—but early giving is already open. Please consider donating to @swwim.bsky.social to help us continue our programming for supporting women and raising their voices in Miami and the world beyond it. www.givemiamiday.org/organization...
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I really hope none of you have a swan in your basement. At least, not involuntarily. Voluntarily is probably bad in this case too, though, so yeah, I wish you all swan-free basements.
Hey! Loved NAWP's November reading so much you want to relive it? (Understandable!) Couldn't be there because your basement was flooding and a swan had moved in? (Fair.)
Whatever your reason, we have the recording up on our YouTube page! Enjoy & NAWP!
youtu.be/5OaUxVr0MrU
Whatever your reason, we have the recording up on our YouTube page! Enjoy & NAWP!
youtu.be/5OaUxVr0MrU
November 2025: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas, and Daniella Toosie-Watson
YouTube video by NAWP
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I really hope none of you have a swan in your basement. At least, not involuntarily. Voluntarily is probably bad in this case too, though, so yeah, I wish you all swan-free basements.
We have entered the cologne phase of the middle school years. Send help.
a man in a black tank top is holding a light bulb in his hand
ALT: a man in a black tank top is holding a light bulb in his hand
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November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We have entered the cologne phase of the middle school years. Send help.
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"you start to wake at three a.m. to the sound of a man’s scream in one ear. you think it must be the stress of / work weaving nightmares until your man tells you he wakes that way, too, and often."
Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social has a poem in Boudin 🎉:
buff.ly/ah2kp9n
Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social has a poem in Boudin 🎉:
buff.ly/ah2kp9n
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"you start to wake at three a.m. to the sound of a man’s scream in one ear. you think it must be the stress of / work weaving nightmares until your man tells you he wakes that way, too, and often."
Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social has a poem in Boudin 🎉:
buff.ly/ah2kp9n
Contributor @jillkitchen.bsky.social has a poem in Boudin 🎉:
buff.ly/ah2kp9n
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We love ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we love this poem❤️ Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published the gorgeous piece, Self-Portrait as the Pie Crust in Heretic (2024), in @upthestaircase.bsky.social: buff.ly/L4U0jlR
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We love ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we love this poem❤️ Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published the gorgeous piece, Self-Portrait as the Pie Crust in Heretic (2024), in @upthestaircase.bsky.social: buff.ly/L4U0jlR
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I love a Saturday issue drop because we can stay in our pajamas, drink coffee, and READ all morning! I hope you LOVE this spectacular NEW ISSUE of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social as much as I do. Thank you to our contributors & staff for all the work & love that went into making this issue shine! 💫
Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is hot off the press. ✨
WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I love a Saturday issue drop because we can stay in our pajamas, drink coffee, and READ all morning! I hope you LOVE this spectacular NEW ISSUE of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social as much as I do. Thank you to our contributors & staff for all the work & love that went into making this issue shine! 💫
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Need more SLM? We have fam interviews, accomplishment roundups, and more!! It's all on our blog 💋 LIP SERVICE 💋 buff.ly/wDdoCsb
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Need more SLM? We have fam interviews, accomplishment roundups, and more!! It's all on our blog 💋 LIP SERVICE 💋 buff.ly/wDdoCsb
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TONIGHT!
Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
TONIGHT!
Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
Hanging out with my friends.
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hanging out with my friends.
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One of the most transformative moments I had as a writer was listening to a podcast years ago in which the editor in chief of Smokelong, Christopher Allen, talked about the day the guy who'd submitted 152 times to Smokelong had his piece accepted and how the whole staff celebrated. Suddenly (1/??)
We're rooting for you!
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One of the most transformative moments I had as a writer was listening to a podcast years ago in which the editor in chief of Smokelong, Christopher Allen, talked about the day the guy who'd submitted 152 times to Smokelong had his piece accepted and how the whole staff celebrated. Suddenly (1/??)