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A journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Submissions open.
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8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
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Find samples of this fascinating work, Apoems, first published here:
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January 24, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Find samples of this fascinating work, Apoems, first published here:
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Many thanks to Version (9). An interview about what went into writing the apoems and how this works for future projects.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Many thanks to Version (9). An interview about what went into writing the apoems and how this works for future projects.
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Linguistics, subjectivity, and the ethics of the contemporary and digitally mechanized ‘everyday’— Q and A with prose poet mwtempleton.bsky.social around his latest work, Apoems.
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Apoems-Michael Templeton
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January 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Linguistics, subjectivity, and the ethics of the contemporary and digitally mechanized ‘everyday’— Q and A with prose poet mwtempleton.bsky.social around his latest work, Apoems.
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8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
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All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
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January 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
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All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
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The practice of poetics and the involvements of publishing—Q and A with poet @seangmeggeson.bsky.social around his latest work, soma synthesis
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December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The practice of poetics and the involvements of publishing—Q and A with poet @seangmeggeson.bsky.social around his latest work, soma synthesis
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&non2 by Sean G. Meggeson
&non2 by Sean G. MeggesonDownload
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December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Blues by Sean G. Meggeson
Blues by Sean G. MeggesonDownload
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Ten sonnets in volume 8 of Version9 magazine. @version9magazine.bsky.social
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December 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ten sonnets in volume 8 of Version9 magazine. @version9magazine.bsky.social
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"So — a determined indignation
Well — a sheepish hesitation
Okay — a resigned capitulation
Anyway — an annoyed continuation"
Turns of phrase and the poetics of wordplay; discover the work of Lucien Levant in this our latest--
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Well — a sheepish hesitation
Okay — a resigned capitulation
Anyway — an annoyed continuation"
Turns of phrase and the poetics of wordplay; discover the work of Lucien Levant in this our latest--
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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"So — a determined indignation
Well — a sheepish hesitation
Okay — a resigned capitulation
Anyway — an annoyed continuation"
Turns of phrase and the poetics of wordplay; discover the work of Lucien Levant in this our latest--
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Well — a sheepish hesitation
Okay — a resigned capitulation
Anyway — an annoyed continuation"
Turns of phrase and the poetics of wordplay; discover the work of Lucien Levant in this our latest--
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Once
John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end
by Mark Saunders
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John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end
by Mark Saunders
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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025
Vol. 8 Autumn 2025Download
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November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Once
John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end
by Mark Saunders
version9magazine.com/vol-8-autumn...
John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end
by Mark Saunders
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"What is
revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."
Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.
Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
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revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."
Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.
Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025
Vol. 8 Autumn 2025Download
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November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"What is
revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."
Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.
Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
version9magazine.com/vol-8-autumn...
revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."
Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.
Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
version9magazine.com/vol-8-autumn...
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Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social ! A recontextualization of language into an altogether unfamiliar form. Read the book for free!
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Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now!
We here at C22 are proud to bring to you Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer, the latest in our Open Editions chapbook releases. In PARABOLIC ALTERITY Vernon Frazer creates a remarkable blend of te…
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October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social ! A recontextualization of language into an altogether unfamiliar form. Read the book for free!
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Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social
Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
Ice Floe is open for hybrid submissions on the theme Process/Marginalia/Otherworlds.
I'll be curating with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social🔥
Send your expansive visions. Hybrid = 2 mediums at least. Include an element of your PROCESS🙏
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I'll be curating with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social🔥
Send your expansive visions. Hybrid = 2 mediums at least. Include an element of your PROCESS🙏
@icefloepress.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social
Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
"That nothingness, peripheral, erring,
Hath, final jest, turned into everything."
Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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Hath, final jest, turned into everything."
Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"That nothingness, peripheral, erring,
Hath, final jest, turned into everything."
Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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Hath, final jest, turned into everything."
Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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My review of Joshua Martin's newest book, Mutations. @c22press.bsky.social
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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."
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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."
October 19th, 2025
𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: I’ve long admired Joshua Martin not only for his work with C22...
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My review of Joshua Martin's newest book, Mutations. @c22press.bsky.social
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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."
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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."
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Good morning.
This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.
Ready or not— I am.
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This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.
Ready or not— I am.
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Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Good morning.
This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.
Ready or not— I am.
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...
This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.
Ready or not— I am.
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...
"Membranous ringlets drip, expelling flesh from legacy."
Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Membranous ringlets drip, expelling flesh from legacy."
Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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“The sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”
Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“The sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”
Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Issue 8 of Version (9) Magazine is now live. Heartfelt thanks to all contributors, without whom its manifold display of poetry contemporary, avant-garde, and experimental could not occur.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Issue 8 of Version (9) Magazine is now live. Heartfelt thanks to all contributors, without whom its manifold display of poetry contemporary, avant-garde, and experimental could not occur.
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Hi, friends. If you read Record of Dissent and it resonated with you, we’d be grateful if you took a minute to leave a review. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop, wherever you like. It helps the book find its way to new readers. Thanks for the support. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...
Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age
A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hi, friends. If you read Record of Dissent and it resonated with you, we’d be grateful if you took a minute to leave a review. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop, wherever you like. It helps the book find its way to new readers. Thanks for the support. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...
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Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape
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Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape
like the sharp point of her nose or the way her softness fades into angles as she loses her mind to the tide pools of thick water pl...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape
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recently at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Laura Kerr : Unfixed Readings : Fugue, Fire, Fish ; Buck Downs : How to Be Alon...
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Thank you so much @wildtwin.bsky.social x:) There are tons of wonderful Nightjars available @nightjarpress.bsky.social: nightjarpress.weebly.com including @arthurmandal.bsky.social's excellent Old Tutor, New Tutor
August 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thank you so much @wildtwin.bsky.social x:) There are tons of wonderful Nightjars available @nightjarpress.bsky.social: nightjarpress.weebly.com including @arthurmandal.bsky.social's excellent Old Tutor, New Tutor
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NEW EPISODE
sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?
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sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?
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Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/1I01...
poetry against the infection
Podcast Episode · The Line Break · 07/29/2025 · 1h 2m
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NEW EPISODE
sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?
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sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/1I01...