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Kelly R Samuels
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Poet | Oblivescence (Red Sweater Press, 2024) & Talking to Alice (Whittle Micro-Press, 2023)…

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November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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“The hills step off into whiteness.” -Plath
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
Victoria Chang: “The Swan”
A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“
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October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Ellen Bryant Voigt. 💔
Adagio We never said aloud: into the earth or fire. And if earth, then where. And if fire, then where to cast the ashes. Each thought the other would choose: choosing for two, not one— the body lying flat, the body left upright. And if a stone.
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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ballast issue 3.4 (our last of 2025) is officially unleashed 🛸

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With Daniel Barbiero, Jerome Berglund, Joel Chace, Michael Daley, @geoffreydetrani.bsky.social, Connor Fisher, J. Freeborn, G Timothy Gordon, Vivian Ia, Jenna Jaco, Ted Jean, David Koehn…1/2
Cover image for ballast issue 3.4. Chalk drawing of three circles with white and red text saying “ballast 3.4 fall 2025”
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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2/2 and Jason Labbe, Andrew Maxwell, Jory Mickelson (@poetryphone.bsky.social), Pete Miller, Matthew Murrey (@mytwords.bsky.social), Tom Phillips translating Tzatcho Boyajiev, Caroline Picker, @megpokrass.bsky.social, RL Powell, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @hannahazar.bsky.social, Misha Tentser 2/…
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Rose McLarney, from Colorfast.
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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New poem in the Phantom Issue of Azarao. Thank you to Sandrine. www.azarao-litjournal.com/kelly
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Aracelis Girmay, from Green of All Heads
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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New poem up at Action, Spectacle. Gratitude to Adam.

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September 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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New prose at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Thank you to David for selecting “Cleaning Other People’s Houses,” a piece about my mother.

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Cleaning Other People’s Houses — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by Kelly R. Samuels “I could try and find those houses, now, but I think I would fail. It’s not their exteriors that I remember. Just their rooms, before, and then after—the stillness and shine.”
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September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Thanks so much to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @slowdownshow.org for featuring the poem The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi, author of the poetry collection Salvage! Listen here: tinyurl.com/3hz7k7wy
1351: The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi
Today’s poem is The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Saturday Shout-Out ~ September 6, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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September 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Hedgie Choi, from Salvage. #booksky
August 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Today’s poem is selected by Emily Skaja (@emilyskaja.bsky.social‬) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

It appeared in The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Shared here with deep gratitude.
August 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Issue 15 of Blood Tree Literature is available to order! I’m happy to have a poem in this print issue that features work by past contributors.
July 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Jennifer Chang
The Innocent For weeks we watched for hatchlings to come of three smug eggs tucked into a nest, the nest tucked into the crook of a neighbor's honeysuckle. Time nodded, was nodding— the shred of living, how offhand the wind teeters toward erosion. Hard at work, on guard in two backyards, the robins mothered and fathered their territory daily. And beyond, our block's alley stretched, aimless as fields, where watching happens by accident, by nature. They'd squawk on a streetlamp, a cedar fence, our back stoop, warning off the tabby, my two young sons, everyone stuck at home. I lost my mind with watching and thought it grief or egotism, the bruise of yesterday, not least the sky unraveling another season. It was easy to mistake the bared skeletal pinions as lawn clippings, old leaves. That circle in the grass, a massacre of feathers. That terrible cat. It was easy to lose my mind. One neighbor said, Let's not tell the children, why know the world as always fated toward remnant. Another said, Go, take the nest, set it under glass, and make it a lesson. Instead, I watched our habits pass, the honeysuckle fade from sickly sweet to nothing but heat. Call it science. It's summer again, and then everything's remnant. What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.
July 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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New summer issue

Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social
Sixth Finch
Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Katie Berta, Conor Bracken, Ava Chen, Andrew Collard, Sofia Fall, Kelle Groom, Katie Kemple, W. M. Lobko,...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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New piece up at Wild Roof Journal’s Substack. Big thank you to @aaronlelito.bsky.social for all he does for writers. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/getting-aw...
Getting Away: On the question of writers traveling to write
A guest post from Kelly R. Samuels
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July 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Megan Merchant, from Hortensia, in winter. #booksky
July 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Lucie Brock-Broido, from Trouble in Mind. #booksky
June 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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David Gregory Welch, from The Book of Echoes. #booksky
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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🧶 e(i Issue 6: yarn is LIVE! 🧶

Our #spotlight is on Kelly R. Samuels' @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social epic time-traveling poem on family lore.

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June 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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“If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution—“

—Carl Phillips in THEN THE WAR 💙
Fixed Shadow, Moving Water One friend tells me everything's political, another says nothing is, we just make it political. By "we"" he means human beings, I assume-what's political to a fox curled in sleep, or a pond, or a sycamore in winter with no leaves left to stop the snow falling through it? I have loved you for less time than I have loved some others, but none more deeply than you; no one more absolutely. Which, as if inevitably, amounts to a hierarchy of sorts, doesn't it? Value, then the power that comes with it-soon enough, the distribution of power, who gets to do the distributing... But if we make of tenderness a countervailing force, the two of us- If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution-
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM