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Publishing diverse, distinct poetry since 2012 - and, in 2024, creative nonfiction and more! @KrisBigalk.bsky.social - executive editor; @NatashaKane.bsky.social - marketing/acquisitions editor
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Oct 27
On November 1, submissions open for our Trio Award & Bogan Award! We are honored to have @kinsaledrake.bsky.social and January Gill O’Neil as our judges. Click the link to our Substack to learn more about them! open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
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We are celebrating the upcoming release of @susanlleary.bsky.social’s More Flowers by offering you a special deal! Get a copy of Dressing the Bear for 50% off with every order of My Flowers this January: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Meanwhile, in #Paris, @triohousepress.org author @mauchmauch.bsky.social is reading poetry at Spoken Word Paris! 💛💜💛💜

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Matt Mauch is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, January 5th! Monday’s Theme: OPENINGS
Matt Mauch is the author of five books of prose and poetry, including the hybrid memoir A Northern Spring, We’re the Flownover. We Come From Flyoverland., Bird~Brain, If You’re Lucky Is a Theory of…
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January 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Jane Hirshfield 💙

Happy #smallpoemsunday!
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A Cottony Fate Long ago, someone told me: avoid or. It troubles the mind as a held-out piece of meat disturbs a dog. Now I too am sixty. There was no other life.
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Happy First Birthday to LOST FOUND KEPT! So much gratitude to everyone who has helped it take off! Here’s to lots more in 2026! @triohousepress.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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“Trust me. I, who have neither / head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl.”

the opening poem in More Flowers by @susanlleary.bsky.social, coming soon from @triohousepress.org
susanlleary.bsky.social Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10d
Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺

#smallpoemsunday
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Pseudo Myth Again, I've confused the horseman for the horse, the artillery of a muscle for a minor hero's sling. What we do in the name of obedience, not thinking wonder has anything to gain over wit. The wheel, at times, will envy the hands that clutch it. The horse, the inoperable reigns. Trust me. I, who have neither head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl. What's torn through the center is as good a guide as any.
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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“ — Why not move like light, reflected, across the snow?”
A snowy yard with woods in the background, and sunset breaking through the trees
January 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Qualtagh [KWAL-tahk] or [KWAYL-tehk]
(n.)
-The first person to enter a house on New Year's Day; known as the “first foot.”

Used in a sentence:
“I have to scurryfunge before my qualtagh arrives... I just hope he can make it over that pile of rubbish on the stoop!”
A sepia-toned, Victorian-style illustration designed like an antique dictionary page. At the top, an ornate banner reads “Grandiloquent Word of the Day.” Below it appears the word “Qualtagh,” with phonetic pronunciations and a definition explaining it as the first person to enter a house on New Year’s Day, also known as the “first foot,” or the first person one meets after leaving home. To the right, a finely detailed line drawing shows three figures in 19th-century dress on a doorstep: a well-dressed woman and a gentleman facing a visitor who tips his hat in greeting. Beneath the definition is a humorous quotation about hoping the qualtagh arrives without stepping in rubbish on the stoop. The overall look evokes engraved illustrations, aged paper, and classic Victorian typography.
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Thanks to @leslielindsey.bsky.social for the reminder today about her 5🌟 review of my book for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/inte... @triohousepress.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Happy New Year! We had an amazing 2025 at @triohousepress.org. Check out our highlights reel and recap on Substack!

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December 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Did you catch our BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2025? Head to Debutiful's site to discover them all!

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December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Proofs sneak peak of the ToC from DEAR DEAR, book work is going swimmingly thanks to the lovely folks @triohousepress.org
Table of Contents I Self-Portrait as the Cowboy in a Mitski Song 3 Jellyfish 4 The Clapping Lights 6 Rave :: aver 7 Give 8 Smear in the Shape of a Crescent moon // (Un)faithful Poem Containing White Lies Purely for the Sake of Narrative 9 I Put on Julius Eastman 11 Endearing tunes :: ear ending unset 12 Your Melodies 13 Euphoria 14 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) 16 Re: Timothée Chalamet Staring off into the Distance as Sufjan Stevens Plays Moody Indie Shit at the End of Call Me by Your Name 18 Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy 19 Everything You Find Goes Back to the Sea 20
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Pseudo Myth Again, I've confused the horseman for the horse, the artillery of a muscle for a minor hero's sling. What we do in the name of obedience, not thinking wonder has anything to gain over wit. The wheel, at times, will envy the hands that clutch it. The horse, the inoperable reigns. Trust me. I, who have neither head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl. What's torn through the center is as good a guide as any.
December 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE by Lisbeth White. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out White’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @earthmaven.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Is 2026 the year you will publish your poetry book? Enter your manuscript in one of our contests! We can’t wait to read it. 💜💛💜💛

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December 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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& please consider pre-ordering here: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...
Pre-order More Flowers by Susan L. Leary
NOTE: This book releases on February 1, 2026. Copies will be mailed in late January. Quiet tensions drive this collection: the ox walking on ice and the voice box buried in a meadow, frayed wings gras...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Loving this incredible & absolutely brilliant endorsement of MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org) from Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer (@kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social)! Kathryn, thank you for blessing MORE FLOWERS with your abundant spirit & with everything that makes you, you! I am so grateful! 🌸🌺🌼
If books were flowers, distinct and awesome in their beauty, Susan L. Leary has given us a bouquet of wonders. More Flowers toes the line between fiction and unrequited love, the Creator and the Mother: ruthless and meticulous constructions all. In this collection, girlhood is a trial by fire, a bullet aimed at the head, a girl rubbernecking the scene of herself, counting herself dead. With lyric deftness, Leary's poems in More Flowers bristle with beasts: the swan, the ox, a bird named Ego, and at the center of it all, the animal woman folded in on herself while God watches, impassive and inscrutable as His miracles. Leary's speaker is twin to that of W.B. Yeats, going out in search of her own face and yearning for a world uninterrupted by the illusory safety of marriage and the societal pressures to have children, more girls churned out into the charnel house. Leary's poems are dark; good. To examine girlhood is to live in its inherent darkness: feathers pulled from the wings of birds; mothers apologizing to their girls through broken mirrors; the heads of flowers hanging low over their snapped necks. KATHRYN BRATT-PFOTENHAUER, AUTHOR OF BAD ANIMAL
December 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The @triohousepress.org pizza from Emily Brooklyn in Clinton Hill, it's delicious and all proceeds go to the press!!
A half pizza pie on a stand at a restaurant
December 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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For your Monday, one of the best poems you'll ever read.
From Dressing The Bear - Clean
~ Susan L. Leary
-I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies — ❤️
Clean By: Susan L. Leary I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies, all the good clothes in the house are clean. So I tell myself to get on with it. & later, standing over my brother, I think whoever prepared his body must love what they do. Because he looks so clean. Cleaner, even, than when he'd doze on the couch midafternoons to Hank Williams or Johnny Cash. The fatigue of living wiped from his cheeks. & today, as then, the same stillness stretched across his eyes. The same tiny shovels for thumbs. & when I find the strength to rest a hand atop his, I shake him a little to tell him I wore his favorite dress: summery & sand-colored with splotches of blue. & while it seems so symbolic, it's all rather simple. I wear a blue-patterned dress because my brother loved the ocean. & because my brother was lonely & broken, he couldn't kick drugs. But I love my brother & the morning he dies, all the good clothes in the house are clean. So I tell him: Clean.
December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Lit matters: Many literary nonprofits lost grants this year because they would not defund programs that were deemed “DEI”; donations from individuals went down, book sales are down. Even $10 helps a small press like @triohousepress.org or a large org like AWP. Please give to the orgs you love. 💛💜
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Heartfelt gratitude to kind, brilliant, & extraordinary poet, Allison Adair (@fascicles.bsky.social), for her generous endorsement of MORE FLOWERS! I still can’t believe it! Friends, MORE FLOWERS drops Feb. 1st with @triohousepress.org! Pre-order at the link in the replies! 🌺🌸🌼
Quiet tensions drive this collection: the ox walking on ice and the voice box buried in a meadow, frayed wings grasping at the updraft. Leary offers More Flowers, pulling us close enough to inspect paradox, awareness, and the limiting roles women must play, all the while asking, "What, of any of this, is holy?" But these poems make a map toward a new kind of survival, warning us not to feed the stray cat, as her hunger is what keeps her alive." In the distance, Leary promises, is the waft of a glorious perfume-we're simply asked to be careful as we advance, to remember “what the flowers have endured, before they were flowers.” —Allison Adair, author of The Clearing
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Hey, if you know any nonprofit administrators, please be nice to them this time of year. (Well, all the time would be okay as well. 😉) Most of them are under a lot of pressure to meet fundraising goals at the end of the year, and this year has been a doozy.
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Check out Elline Lipkin’s upcoming readings and appearances featuring Girl in a Forest on her Substack — and subscribe!

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The Proem | Elline Lipkin | Substack
What leads you to the page. Click to read The Proem, by Elline Lipkin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM