Lisa Zerkle
@lisazerkle.bsky.social
Poet•Editor•Reader
•MFA from Warren Wilson
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcaster on PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
•MFA from Warren Wilson
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcaster on PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Reposted by Lisa Zerkle
The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.”
“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.”
“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
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🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Submit — Susurrus
susurrusthemagazine.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
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Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press
www.glass-poetry.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
I’m thrilled my poem “High Sierra Incantation” is featured over at Glass Poetry today. Huge thanks to Tony for his generosity. #booksky #poetrysky
Today on Glass!
"High Sierra Incantation" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"High Sierra Incantation" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
September 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m thrilled my poem “High Sierra Incantation” is featured over at Glass Poetry today. Huge thanks to Tony for his generosity. #booksky #poetrysky
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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"as we walk past neat green lawns. Bless you, I say,
clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures
who do not respond is an echo of something earned,
of time spent teaching."
"I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)
clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures
who do not respond is an echo of something earned,
of time spent teaching."
"I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)
I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes — Susurrus
www.susurrusthemagazine.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"as we walk past neat green lawns. Bless you, I say,
clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures
who do not respond is an echo of something earned,
of time spent teaching."
"I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)
clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures
who do not respond is an echo of something earned,
of time spent teaching."
"I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Huge thanks to @susurrus editors CJ, Maddie, & Michelle for launching this poem into the world alongside such fine company. And check out that gorgeous cover!
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Huge thanks to @susurrus editors CJ, Maddie, & Michelle for launching this poem into the world alongside such fine company. And check out that gorgeous cover!
What a delight to return to Kelly Hoffer’s debut “Undershore.” It’s unlike any collection I’ve read—a unique and creative elegy that hits hard. If you’re looking for your next Sealey Challenge read, reach out to Lightscatter Press and add this one to your stack.
#poetrysky
#booksky
#poetrysky
#booksky
August 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What a delight to return to Kelly Hoffer’s debut “Undershore.” It’s unlike any collection I’ve read—a unique and creative elegy that hits hard. If you’re looking for your next Sealey Challenge read, reach out to Lightscatter Press and add this one to your stack.
#poetrysky
#booksky
#poetrysky
#booksky
A new episode of Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile is out now, featuring three ekphrastic poems by Janée Baugher. Listen now wherever you find podcasts!
pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...
pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...
August 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A new episode of Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile is out now, featuring three ekphrastic poems by Janée Baugher. Listen now wherever you find podcasts!
pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...
pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...
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Let's show 'em how it's done, poets 😎
July 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Let's show 'em how it's done, poets 😎
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We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery.
Details below:
buff.ly/DAqhZOi
#writingcommunity
Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery.
Details below:
buff.ly/DAqhZOi
#writingcommunity
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery.
Details below:
buff.ly/DAqhZOi
#writingcommunity
Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery.
Details below:
buff.ly/DAqhZOi
#writingcommunity
Today’s used book store find. Definitely worth four dollars. Thank you, gods of poetry!🤩 (Bonus vintage Prairie Lights book mark) #booksky
July 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Today’s used book store find. Definitely worth four dollars. Thank you, gods of poetry!🤩 (Bonus vintage Prairie Lights book mark) #booksky
Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
Opinion | Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything
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June 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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Need honest, constructive criticism? Consider working with one of our professional editors that can offer detailed feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social team is here to help you refine a short piece or a full manuscript.
Meet the team and get details here:
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#writingcommunity
Meet the team and get details here:
buff.ly/AxPccv2
#writingcommunity
June 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Need honest, constructive criticism? Consider working with one of our professional editors that can offer detailed feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social team is here to help you refine a short piece or a full manuscript.
Meet the team and get details here:
buff.ly/AxPccv2
#writingcommunity
Meet the team and get details here:
buff.ly/AxPccv2
#writingcommunity
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"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
June 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
Mother’s Day is a tough day for those of us who have/had complicated relationships with our mothers.
I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world
#writersky
#poetsky
I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world
#writersky
#poetsky
May 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Mother’s Day is a tough day for those of us who have/had complicated relationships with our mothers.
I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world
#writersky
#poetsky
I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world
#writersky
#poetsky
Poets— helpful and encouraging submissions advice here. Plus a reminder that sometimes publishing takes time (Tracy K Smith’s first book came out 8 years after her MFA).
Literary submissions are sometimes mysterious to folks, so in this episode, we're giving some of our favorite advice to people submitting to literary journals and book publishers (mostly poetry).
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Poets— helpful and encouraging submissions advice here. Plus a reminder that sometimes publishing takes time (Tracy K Smith’s first book came out 8 years after her MFA).
Big Table Press put out a call to write about one day in your life. Their idea is, by year’s end, to gather a snapshot of how people spend their time. Link below to see how I spent my time with St. Vincent and on the AT. Thank you, Mo & Big Table!
bigtablepress.com
@this_year_project
#writerssky
bigtablepress.com
@this_year_project
#writerssky
April 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Big Table Press put out a call to write about one day in your life. Their idea is, by year’s end, to gather a snapshot of how people spend their time. Link below to see how I spent my time with St. Vincent and on the AT. Thank you, Mo & Big Table!
bigtablepress.com
@this_year_project
#writerssky
bigtablepress.com
@this_year_project
#writerssky
Same👇👇👇
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
April 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Same👇👇👇
My favorite novel of the year so far—sweeping in scope, charming, funny, and heartbreaking. A testament to what the novel can do. Well done, Daniel Mason.
April 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My favorite novel of the year so far—sweeping in scope, charming, funny, and heartbreaking. A testament to what the novel can do. Well done, Daniel Mason.
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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!