Taylor Franson-Thiel
@taylorfthiel.bsky.social
POET | she/her
Bone Valley Hymnal 2025 ELJ Editions
EIC of BRAWL
Asst. Poetry Editor of phoebe
GMU MFA Poetry
taylorfranson-thiel.com
Bone Valley Hymnal 2025 ELJ Editions
EIC of BRAWL
Asst. Poetry Editor of phoebe
GMU MFA Poetry
taylorfranson-thiel.com
Also, #submissioncall for @phoebejournal.bsky.social
We are currently running a fee-free week for marginalized writers. PLEASE use this window to submit if you need to.
(We will also have a fee free weekend in February for everyone!)
Send me poetry (:
#poetry
We are currently running a fee-free week for marginalized writers. PLEASE use this window to submit if you need to.
(We will also have a fee free weekend in February for everyone!)
Send me poetry (:
#poetry
January 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Also, #submissioncall for @phoebejournal.bsky.social
We are currently running a fee-free week for marginalized writers. PLEASE use this window to submit if you need to.
(We will also have a fee free weekend in February for everyone!)
Send me poetry (:
#poetry
We are currently running a fee-free week for marginalized writers. PLEASE use this window to submit if you need to.
(We will also have a fee free weekend in February for everyone!)
Send me poetry (:
#poetry
I am abysmal at checking BSKY lately so my apologies if I haven't followed you back or interacted. (Working on it!)
Recently I had the opportunity to be featured through @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's What Sparks Poetry essay series. You can read that here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Recently I had the opportunity to be featured through @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's What Sparks Poetry essay series. You can read that here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Taylor Franson-Thiel on "Those Who Can't"
These gaps in my history are a kind of grief I work through in the poem as I honor the women of “whom we know nothing.” The lack of early archival research allows for a kind of volta when information ...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I am abysmal at checking BSKY lately so my apologies if I haven't followed you back or interacted. (Working on it!)
Recently I had the opportunity to be featured through @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's What Sparks Poetry essay series. You can read that here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Recently I had the opportunity to be featured through @poetrydaily.bsky.social 's What Sparks Poetry essay series. You can read that here:
poems.com/features/wha...
thank you so much Tracie!!!
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
thank you so much Tracie!!!
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new issue of Cutleaf! Featuring short fiction by @ladiwoods.bsky.social, nonfiction from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, and poetry courtesy of @taylorfthiel.bsky.social
cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19
cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
new issue of Cutleaf! Featuring short fiction by @ladiwoods.bsky.social, nonfiction from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, and poetry courtesy of @taylorfthiel.bsky.social
cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19
cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19
thank you so much!
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
thank you so much!
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This poem by @taylorfthiel.bsky.social really hit me hard in a beautiful way.
Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.
www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2025/12/5/sacred-vows
www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2025/12/5/sacred-vows
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December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This poem by @taylorfthiel.bsky.social really hit me hard in a beautiful way.
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Issue 41 features work by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social @taylorfthiel.bsky.social @meldoly.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social ...
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
look at this you haven't yet it's kinda fun kinda weird
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
look at this you haven't yet it's kinda fun kinda weird
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this is so sweet I'm gonna die
got another cover letter with 5 faves, and so gonna share so they can become some of your faves too
links in replies...
links in replies...
August 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
this is so sweet I'm gonna die
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got another cover letter with 5 faves, and so gonna share so they can become some of your faves too
links in replies...
links in replies...
August 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
got another cover letter with 5 faves, and so gonna share so they can become some of your faves too
links in replies...
links in replies...
After finishing my last reading for my debut poetry collection in Utah, I have a few signed copies left!
$15 (includes shipping)! Happy to send these out to whoever wants a debut with dinosaurs on the cover!
$15 (includes shipping)! Happy to send these out to whoever wants a debut with dinosaurs on the cover!
July 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
After finishing my last reading for my debut poetry collection in Utah, I have a few signed copies left!
$15 (includes shipping)! Happy to send these out to whoever wants a debut with dinosaurs on the cover!
$15 (includes shipping)! Happy to send these out to whoever wants a debut with dinosaurs on the cover!
(I do social media for a lit mag, so I find myself way too exhausted to even look at my own most days but...)
I hope everyone here is doing great and is reading some poems today. In my lil heart I do think poetry can save us. Stay safe.
I hope everyone here is doing great and is reading some poems today. In my lil heart I do think poetry can save us. Stay safe.
June 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
(I do social media for a lit mag, so I find myself way too exhausted to even look at my own most days but...)
I hope everyone here is doing great and is reading some poems today. In my lil heart I do think poetry can save us. Stay safe.
I hope everyone here is doing great and is reading some poems today. In my lil heart I do think poetry can save us. Stay safe.
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"Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters @taylorfthiel.bsky.social weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity."
Bone Valley Hymnal | ELJ Editions
Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters Franson-Thiel weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity.
elj-editions.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters @taylorfthiel.bsky.social weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity."
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New flash nonfiction piece up with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today:
"To The Wendy's Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying"
jakethemag.com/to-the-wendy...
"To The Wendy's Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying"
jakethemag.com/to-the-wendy...
May 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New flash nonfiction piece up with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today:
"To The Wendy's Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying"
jakethemag.com/to-the-wendy...
"To The Wendy's Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying"
jakethemag.com/to-the-wendy...
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Today's Featured Poem:
"To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony" by @sonytonaime.bsky.social, from Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, published by Paloma Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/to-be-y...
"To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony" by @sonytonaime.bsky.social, from Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, published by Paloma Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/to-be-y...
To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony
Behold! The same hands that broke our backs
have come for the earth.
poems.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony" by @sonytonaime.bsky.social, from Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, published by Paloma Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/to-be-y...
"To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony" by @sonytonaime.bsky.social, from Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, published by Paloma Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/to-be-y...
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Today's Feature:
In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Our Readers on Poems from Poetry Daily
“Between the Night & Its Music” by A.B. Spellman invokes a deep consideration of the connections between people and music. Whenever I read this poem, I am reminded of all the stages and complexities t...
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April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today's Feature:
In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
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Today's Featured Poet:
Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.
Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.
April 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Today's Featured Poet:
Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.
Grace Schulman was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and was awarded the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, presented by the Poetry Society of America, in 2016.
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteor/
"Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteor/
Meteor
That night the wind-chapped table shouted, new
peaches, bread, still warm, and consecrated
by watery breezes on the shore
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April 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteor/
"Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteor/
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Today's Featured Poet:
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).
April 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Today's Featured Poet:
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).
thank you for including BVH in this !!!!!
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for including BVH in this !!!!!
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A NEW round of shout-outs is up on our Substack:
wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...
@nupress.bsky.social @middlecreek.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @taylorfthiel.bsky.social @tintjournal.bsky.social @42milespress.bsky.social @evaalterpoet.bsky.social @counterpointlit.bsky.social
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@nupress.bsky.social @middlecreek.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @taylorfthiel.bsky.social @tintjournal.bsky.social @42milespress.bsky.social @evaalterpoet.bsky.social @counterpointlit.bsky.social
Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 19, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Today’s Featured Poet:
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (b. 1981) is author of 7 books of poetry, most recently Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat finds an 18th century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (b. 1981) is author of 7 books of poetry, most recently Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat finds an 18th century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder.
April 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Today’s Featured Poet:
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (b. 1981) is author of 7 books of poetry, most recently Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat finds an 18th century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (b. 1981) is author of 7 books of poetry, most recently Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat finds an 18th century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder.
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Today’s Featured Poet:
Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.
Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.
April 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Today’s Featured Poet:
Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.
Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.
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"I now see how much more powerful stamina can be than talent; or, to say it another way, how powerless talent is, on its own, without stamina—rather like what is said about the body once the soul has left it."
- Carl Phillips, MY TRADE IS MYSTERY
(Reading now... loving it!)
- Carl Phillips, MY TRADE IS MYSTERY
(Reading now... loving it!)
April 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"I now see how much more powerful stamina can be than talent; or, to say it another way, how powerless talent is, on its own, without stamina—rather like what is said about the body once the soul has left it."
- Carl Phillips, MY TRADE IS MYSTERY
(Reading now... loving it!)
- Carl Phillips, MY TRADE IS MYSTERY
(Reading now... loving it!)