Max Minckler
@maxminckler.bsky.social
Poetry peddler, book nut, recovering marketier. Poems in Atlanta Review, Okay Donkey, Interpreter's House, Krax, Ambit, Obsessed with Pipework. http://NewWriters.org.uk.
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Max Minckler
@maxminckler.bsky.social
· Sep 27
"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it.
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
okaydonkeymag.com
Absolutely chuffed that one of my favorite lit mags Okay Donkey have published my poem Hot-Desking! OKD is hilarious and wonderfully off-the-wall, have a read if you fancy a chortle or two. Huge thanks to the whole editorial team! #poetry
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We're excited to announce this year's judge for our annual Poetry Contest, Leila Chatti!
Until the end of December, we will accept submissions for our annual Poetry Contest. For all guidelines and to submit, visit our website or follow the link in our bio.
kenyonreview.org/submit/poetr...
Until the end of December, we will accept submissions for our annual Poetry Contest. For all guidelines and to submit, visit our website or follow the link in our bio.
kenyonreview.org/submit/poetr...
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We're excited to announce this year's judge for our annual Poetry Contest, Leila Chatti!
Until the end of December, we will accept submissions for our annual Poetry Contest. For all guidelines and to submit, visit our website or follow the link in our bio.
kenyonreview.org/submit/poetr...
Until the end of December, we will accept submissions for our annual Poetry Contest. For all guidelines and to submit, visit our website or follow the link in our bio.
kenyonreview.org/submit/poetr...
I'm tickled to have a new poem "Rapture" in the latest issue of The Interpreter's House - check it out along with all of the other wonderful poets, and thank you to the editors! #poetry
theinterpretershouse.org/minckler-84
theinterpretershouse.org/minckler-84
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm tickled to have a new poem "Rapture" in the latest issue of The Interpreter's House - check it out along with all of the other wonderful poets, and thank you to the editors! #poetry
theinterpretershouse.org/minckler-84
theinterpretershouse.org/minckler-84
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ICYMI: "Hot-Desking," poetry by @maxminckler.bsky.social:
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
okaydonkeymag.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ICYMI: "Hot-Desking," poetry by @maxminckler.bsky.social:
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"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it.
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
okaydonkeymag.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it.
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
I have a new poem in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it. The entire mag is a hoot, weird and wild and wonderful and one of my absolute favorites. Check it out #poetry
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
okaydonkeymag.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I have a new poem in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it. The entire mag is a hoot, weird and wild and wonderful and one of my absolute favorites. Check it out #poetry
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...
Absolutely chuffed that one of my favorite lit mags Okay Donkey have published my poem Hot-Desking! OKD is hilarious and wonderfully off-the-wall, have a read if you fancy a chortle or two. Huge thanks to the whole editorial team! #poetry
"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it.
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."
"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …
okaydonkeymag.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Absolutely chuffed that one of my favorite lit mags Okay Donkey have published my poem Hot-Desking! OKD is hilarious and wonderfully off-the-wall, have a read if you fancy a chortle or two. Huge thanks to the whole editorial team! #poetry
One of my all-time favorites from James Tate "She looked at me as if I were insane, and then she started to undress, and so did I" #poetry
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
One of my all-time favorites from James Tate "She looked at me as if I were insane, and then she started to undress, and so did I" #poetry
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"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
okaydonkeymag.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
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www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Today's Wobbly is all prose poems, backache, and mushrooms, mushrooms!
My Wobbly Bicycle, 325 — Fleda Brown
My back’s been painful all summer. Finally, after MRI and x-rays, the source has been identified, cortisone injected last Thursday, and I’m feeling much better. For now at least. But still, there’s li...
www.fledabrown.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Today's Wobbly is all prose poems, backache, and mushrooms, mushrooms!
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"To clarify, wild turkeys are not doomed, domed butterballs perfect for stuffing in late November. They are snood-engorged gang goons focused on street domination."
Excerpts from The Believer: Animal: Wild Turkey
FEATURES: Runs almost as fast as Usain Bolt, albeit in bursts Flies faster than most hummingbirds, albeit in bursts Gobbles, purrs, yelps, chi...
buff.ly
August 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"To clarify, wild turkeys are not doomed, domed butterballs perfect for stuffing in late November. They are snood-engorged gang goons focused on street domination."
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items 76. and 97. are my favorites
inevitable meets surprising (...but tasteful!)
inevitable meets surprising (...but tasteful!)
"20. My family is small and not very nice to me but I still don’t want to see them die.
21. I saw my twin brother die
22. When we were kids
23. I was not a fan.
24. I doubt he was, either."
"98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
21. I saw my twin brother die
22. When we were kids
23. I was not a fan.
24. I doubt he was, either."
"98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
98. by Jordyn Damato
There’s something wrong with my head It’s not a bump I wish it was a bump Even if it was a gross, protruding bump that made people afraid to look at me I could handle that I would dress…
okaydonkeymag.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
items 76. and 97. are my favorites
inevitable meets surprising (...but tasteful!)
inevitable meets surprising (...but tasteful!)
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I am beyond excited to share Inkfish Mag's eco & nature writing edition which features my flash fiction THE LAST TWO! A big thank you to the editors for including my first published fiction.🥳 inkfishmag.com/the-last-two/ #shortstory #WritingCommmunity #amwriting
'The Last Two’ by V. Kate Hutchings
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inkfishmag.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I am beyond excited to share Inkfish Mag's eco & nature writing edition which features my flash fiction THE LAST TWO! A big thank you to the editors for including my first published fiction.🥳 inkfishmag.com/the-last-two/ #shortstory #WritingCommmunity #amwriting
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For anyone who sometimes forgets a name and worries about it, there's a poem for that: Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins.
"The name of the author is the first to go..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"The name of the author is the first to go..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Forgetfulness
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of...
www.poetryfoundation.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For anyone who sometimes forgets a name and worries about it, there's a poem for that: Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins.
"The name of the author is the first to go..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"The name of the author is the first to go..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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I just submitted my short fiction to @theoffingmag.bsky.social ! Subs open until May 1 for "writing of any length & genre which relates to, or draws on, science & the natural world." theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit #amsubmitting #amwriting #shortstory #poetry
April 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I just submitted my short fiction to @theoffingmag.bsky.social ! Subs open until May 1 for "writing of any length & genre which relates to, or draws on, science & the natural world." theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit #amsubmitting #amwriting #shortstory #poetry
I was pleased as punch to place second in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 2023 poetry contest with The Fork, a serious meditation on cutlery🍴now included in a new 2025 Anthology dishing up so many amazing poets. Humbled and honored! newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...
#writing #poetrycommunity
#writing #poetrycommunity
April 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I was pleased as punch to place second in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 2023 poetry contest with The Fork, a serious meditation on cutlery🍴now included in a new 2025 Anthology dishing up so many amazing poets. Humbled and honored! newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...
#writing #poetrycommunity
#writing #poetrycommunity
So proud to be included alongside so many talented poets! #poetry #authorcommunity
We're delighted to present the inaugural New Writers Anthology: newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...
It features a selection of prize-winning and shortlisted stories, poems and book reviews from the competitions we ran between 2022 and 2024.
We hope you enjoy it!
#newwriters #writinganthology
It features a selection of prize-winning and shortlisted stories, poems and book reviews from the competitions we ran between 2022 and 2024.
We hope you enjoy it!
#newwriters #writinganthology
April 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So proud to be included alongside so many talented poets! #poetry #authorcommunity
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✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
Today's prompt is (...)
Today's prompt is (...)
April 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
Today's prompt is (...)
Today's prompt is (...)
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