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Jaime Lilley
@jlilley.bsky.social
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Poet, teacher, economic migrant, obsessive enthusiast, grateful Praguer.
Curator at @lamplitmag
(she/her)
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🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Full guidelines at LampLit.net

We can't wait to see you! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Hello Bluesky. Poetry in progress. Delighted to have a poem in @lamplitmag.bsky.social Thanks to editors @jlilley.bsky.social and @snakeborn.bsky.social and fellow contributors. See current issue at lamplit.net/q-issue-number/ Cover art by Mirjana M., @cyanide_cherries on insta.
Cover art for Lamp Lit fall 2025. A figure facing right in profile. The image is broken up by concentric circles and a white cross as if refracted light. I have done it again (after Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath) I said yes; meaning no, I swallow the near vomit of negative Bite down on the bit Grimace from over-smiling I wake, jaw clenched and aching Tongue marked by my teeth What is this peg on my tongue? I am mute A strange Cassandra, What god or witch have I offended? To break the spell I bathe in rage Open the lock Spew bile until it runs clear.
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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memezine.bsky.social
girlhood is a spectrum (is LIVE baby)

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November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!
Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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New publisher listing for: Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Lamp Lit
New publisher listing for: Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
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September 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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cuttinghail.bsky.social
I read this, I think I am in love with this. Poetry ça va sans dire, but the artwork? Look at that Crazy Town! Look at it! Such a lovely place (to read and perhaps submit to)
lamplitmag.bsky.social Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 14d
🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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dustinbrookshire.bsky.social
Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue.

I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!!

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue.

So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here:

lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal!

Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta

Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️

#coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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🛋️Submissions are open until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #essay #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🛋️Submissions are open now until September 30th for our Fall 2025 Issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you all there! 🛋️
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#poetry #prose #fiction #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
July 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.1 Summer 2025 is Live at LampLit. net! 🛋️

Thank you all! This has been an amazing process and we can't wait to get started on the next issue!

(keep an eye on our opening soon for Fall 2025)

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#poetry #prose #art #litmags #lamplitmag
July 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.1 Cover Reveal!
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Our first issue debuts, Thursday, July 17th! Mark your calendars! The issue will go live at LampLit.net and will be printable!

So much gratitude to our incredible contributors! ⬇️

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#coverreveal #poetry #shortshories #art #litmags #lamplitmag
July 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We're all full up on gorgeous poems, but reopening for a week in some categories! If you wanted to, but didn't, the light's still on!
May 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
jlilley.bsky.social
Curating poems for @lamplitmag.bsky.social has been so, so interesting and instructive. It's really incredible to feel a vibe slowly emerging in our selections, and it's such a great way to learn about how poems that really hit do it...and to then realize that it's all just like, our opinion, man. 🤌🏻
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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snakeborn.bsky.social
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Don't It Feel Like Something
Poems & Whiskey · Episode
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May 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
jlilley.bsky.social
I cannot believe how much beautiful work has been submitted to @lamplitmag.bsky.social Thank you to every single person who trusted us with their work. I love being on this planet with all of you, and wow! Our work is cut out for us!! 🙏🏻🩷
May 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Hello!👋🏻 We're Michael @snakeborn.bsky.social and Jaime @jlilley.bsky.social ! We've made many new friends lately. Funny how that works.

Visit us at Lamplit.net

We'll keep a light on for you. 🛋 (I couldn't resist lol)

#poetry #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #shortstories #art #lamplitmag
March 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
jlilley.bsky.social
I love this poem a lot, and need to revisit it periodically for vitamins. ❤️
toddedillard.bsky.social Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · Nov 23
this i think is the poem I’m most known for, and probably will be for the rest of my life
How to Live Depravity begins with thinking of love as a radical act. I quit loving with difficulty. I love easy now. Two parakeets on my shoulders. They'll fly away if I move. So I move. I love flight. I love cages left wide open. I am not a window. I could be a window. Open me, you'll find a dense wood, children wandering inside it. Not lost children. They know the way. They live the way horses run. If they each had a bird in hand they would open their hands.
March 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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snakeborn.bsky.social
While I'm here, in case you missed it, @jlilley.bsky.social and I started @lamplitmag.bsky.social and we're open for subs!

It's easy too! Just an email. See lamplit.net for details!

#poetry #fiction #cnf #art
March 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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It's happening! We're open, people! We better see you all there. Yes you!

Especially you.

Lamplit.net for more information.

curators:
@jlilley.bsky.social @snakeborn.bsky.social

#poetry #fiction #cnf #essay #lamplitmag
February 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
jlilley.bsky.social
So, my poem was published in Door=Jar, so... Sharing here.
December 18, 2023 at 9:00 PM
jlilley.bsky.social
❤️
stonecirclereview.bsky.social Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Nov 18
NEW POEM #79: "37 Trillion" by Julia Wendell

"Fist or potato, tennis ball or squash,
I’ve spent a lifetime
examining what’s like but isn’t,
as if a thing has more meaning
by close enough, but not quite."

stonecirclereview.com/37-trillion/

#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
November 19, 2023 at 10:22 AM