Michael Beard
@themichaelbeard.bsky.social
Poet | Educator | Editor-in-Chief of @paraselenemag.bsky.social | he/they
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"We confirm what is left of our beauty
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."
from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2
read here:
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/05/17/l...
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."
from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2
read here:
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/05/17/l...
Laurie Kuntz
Leaving We invent our own ways of leaving.It is morning in Manila,we begin to dress, surveyour bodies as friends can.Our lives are revealed in scars we have acquired.The accident slashed across the…
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May 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"We confirm what is left of our beauty
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."
from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2
read here:
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/05/17/l...
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."
from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2
read here:
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/05/17/l...
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💜 Issue #2 is UP and waiting to be READ on our website! 💜
This is an absolutely incredible issue filled with amazingly talented poets y'all, from top to bottom. Fill your poetry bucket and read the newest issue here:
paraselenemagazine.com/issues/curre...
This is an absolutely incredible issue filled with amazingly talented poets y'all, from top to bottom. Fill your poetry bucket and read the newest issue here:
paraselenemagazine.com/issues/curre...
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
💜 Issue #2 is UP and waiting to be READ on our website! 💜
This is an absolutely incredible issue filled with amazingly talented poets y'all, from top to bottom. Fill your poetry bucket and read the newest issue here:
paraselenemagazine.com/issues/curre...
This is an absolutely incredible issue filled with amazingly talented poets y'all, from top to bottom. Fill your poetry bucket and read the newest issue here:
paraselenemagazine.com/issues/curre...
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Issue #2 coming this Saturday. Mark your brain calendars.
May 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Issue #2 coming this Saturday. Mark your brain calendars.
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‼️Contributors for Issue no. 2‼️
On its way. Thank you all for your patience. ❤️
On its way. Thank you all for your patience. ❤️
May 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‼️Contributors for Issue no. 2‼️
On its way. Thank you all for your patience. ❤️
On its way. Thank you all for your patience. ❤️
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New review: DANGEROUS BODIES/ANGER ODES by stevie redwood (@sundresspub.bsky.social)
"this book's major achievement: to personalize survival amid capitalist decay vividly enough to celebrate the 'uppercut to the fascist' as a logical act of righteous anger."
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"this book's major achievement: to personalize survival amid capitalist decay vividly enough to celebrate the 'uppercut to the fascist' as a logical act of righteous anger."
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Rage and Roses: On D A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S by stevie redwood
In the fifth line of “It’s San Francisco Summer,” poet stevie redwood calls readers to imagine “a fist of rage; a fist of roses; the fist erected / in solidarity or demand.” Like much of redwood’s …
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April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New review: DANGEROUS BODIES/ANGER ODES by stevie redwood (@sundresspub.bsky.social)
"this book's major achievement: to personalize survival amid capitalist decay vividly enough to celebrate the 'uppercut to the fascist' as a logical act of righteous anger."
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/04/08/d...
"this book's major achievement: to personalize survival amid capitalist decay vividly enough to celebrate the 'uppercut to the fascist' as a logical act of righteous anger."
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/04/08/d...
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A new review is up on our website! Click here to read "Rage and Roses: On D A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S by stevie redwood" by contributor @lowermelody.bsky.social!
paraselenemagazine.com/2025/04/08/d...
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Rage and Roses: On D A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S by stevie redwood
In the fifth line of “It’s San Francisco Summer,” poet stevie redwood calls readers to imagine “a fist of rage; a fist of roses; the fist erected / in solidarity or demand.” Like much of redwood’s …
paraselenemagazine.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A new review is up on our website! Click here to read "Rage and Roses: On D A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S by stevie redwood" by contributor @lowermelody.bsky.social!
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April 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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We're always open for submissions in poetry and book reviews (on poetry)! Consider sending us something :)
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
March 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We're always open for submissions in poetry and book reviews (on poetry)! Consider sending us something :)
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
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I'm officially giving my poem feedback service a go!
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
March 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm officially giving my poem feedback service a go!
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
I'm officially giving my poem feedback service a go!
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
March 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm officially giving my poem feedback service a go!
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
Want close reading feedback on a poem (or three)? I'm offering zoom-recorded verbal feedback AND copies of my handwritten notes, along with any other materials I create for you.
Info at my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/michaelbeard...
Collecting data... ⤵️
*For Personal Research Purposes*
Poets,
How much would you realistically pay for a close reading of your work--zoom-recorded feedback + handwritten notes--on a per poem basis from a caring poet with an MFA and professional editing and teaching experience? Comment or DM us with answer <3
Poets,
How much would you realistically pay for a close reading of your work--zoom-recorded feedback + handwritten notes--on a per poem basis from a caring poet with an MFA and professional editing and teaching experience? Comment or DM us with answer <3
March 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Collecting data... ⤵️
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Check out our new monthly newsletter, MOON FYRE! We cover updates on the magazine and give a little writing prompt at the end ❤️💜
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MOON FYRE (March '25)
A new monthly newsletter...
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Check out our new monthly newsletter, MOON FYRE! We cover updates on the magazine and give a little writing prompt at the end ❤️💜
open.substack.com/pub/parasele...
open.substack.com/pub/parasele...
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We've changed up how we accept submissions. Check out our website's "Submit" page to get the link for our Poetry and Book Review calls on Duosuma!!
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
March 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We've changed up how we accept submissions. Check out our website's "Submit" page to get the link for our Poetry and Book Review calls on Duosuma!!
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
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We're in the process of making the switch to Duosuma! Using this submission manager will help us keep submissions more organized and allow us to have everything in one place, which is much needed. We're also introducing optional, paid "Expedited" and "Editorial Feedback" options!
March 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We're in the process of making the switch to Duosuma! Using this submission manager will help us keep submissions more organized and allow us to have everything in one place, which is much needed. We're also introducing optional, paid "Expedited" and "Editorial Feedback" options!
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Paraselene seeks to publish work that achieves both a high level of craft and a sense of self-assuredness. We are drawn to work that is emotionally resonant and challenges conventional form and ideas.
Our Submit page: paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
Our Submit page: paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
February 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Paraselene seeks to publish work that achieves both a high level of craft and a sense of self-assuredness. We are drawn to work that is emotionally resonant and challenges conventional form and ideas.
Our Submit page: paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
Our Submit page: paraselenemagazine.com/submit/
Added some more designs to my Redbubble shop if anyone is interested :)
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February 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Added some more designs to my Redbubble shop if anyone is interested :)
www.redbubble.com/people/MAB-S...
www.redbubble.com/people/MAB-S...
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"I carry an apology on the tip of my tongue
for being happy
and meaning to be."
from Maëlle Keita's "Ghost Puppet" in Issue One:
paraselenemagazine.com/2024/11/21/m...
for being happy
and meaning to be."
from Maëlle Keita's "Ghost Puppet" in Issue One:
paraselenemagazine.com/2024/11/21/m...
Maëlle Keita
Ghost PuppetI carry an apology on the tip of my tonguefor being happyand meaning to be.A pretend seer,I already had made-up memoriesto survive a future without you.Still, their lack is a special br…
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February 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"I carry an apology on the tip of my tongue
for being happy
and meaning to be."
from Maëlle Keita's "Ghost Puppet" in Issue One:
paraselenemagazine.com/2024/11/21/m...
for being happy
and meaning to be."
from Maëlle Keita's "Ghost Puppet" in Issue One:
paraselenemagazine.com/2024/11/21/m...
Adding my Redbubble link and a couple designs here in case anyone is interested in what I'm doing? Still figuring things out with the whole Shop thing over there. I'm having fun doing these little things :)
mab-stickers.redbubble.com
mab-stickers.redbubble.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Adding my Redbubble link and a couple designs here in case anyone is interested in what I'm doing? Still figuring things out with the whole Shop thing over there. I'm having fun doing these little things :)
mab-stickers.redbubble.com
mab-stickers.redbubble.com
In my sticker designing era
January 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In my sticker designing era
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JUST ADDED a couple of books from @querenciapress.bsky.social's wonderful catalogue up on the DRL: Milk Sickness by David Greenspan and i have wrestled with the way clouds weep by Judy Nahum. Consider giving them a review!
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January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
JUST ADDED a couple of books from @querenciapress.bsky.social's wonderful catalogue up on the DRL: Milk Sickness by David Greenspan and i have wrestled with the way clouds weep by Judy Nahum. Consider giving them a review!
paraselenemagazine.com/digital-revi...
paraselenemagazine.com/digital-revi...
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January 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Check out this interview with Michael Beard, editor of new-lit-kid-on-the-block @paraselenemag.bsky.social. (They are open for submissions, by the way!)
A Few Questions for Lindsay D'Andrea [Interview] open.substack.com/pub/parasele...
A Few Questions for Lindsay D'Andrea
About her poems "states of matter" and "the path"
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January 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Check out this interview with Michael Beard, editor of new-lit-kid-on-the-block @paraselenemag.bsky.social. (They are open for submissions, by the way!)
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A day late on this, but officially goodbye to 2024, forever the year Paraselene was created. Cheers to everyone that has submitted to, subscribed to, read, and shared the magazine. Here's to a big 2025!
January 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A day late on this, but officially goodbye to 2024, forever the year Paraselene was created. Cheers to everyone that has submitted to, subscribed to, read, and shared the magazine. Here's to a big 2025!
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The cold moon is here, and would you look at it? Such magical company, a darling of spheres, and it has lots to share with you!
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December 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
The cold moon is here, and would you look at it? Such magical company, a darling of spheres, and it has lots to share with you!
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...