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ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
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“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
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But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...
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so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜
Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex
by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the ...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜
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Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
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- Lauren Mills
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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
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- Lauren Mills
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
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- Lauren Mills
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“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”
- Alexa Vallejo
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- Alexa Vallejo
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”
- Alexa Vallejo
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- Alexa Vallejo
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More of the Fall issue awesomeyamazingyness over at Voice Mail Poems. Hearing this poem by Juniper Danger is chef's kiss and visceral.
“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”
- Juniper Danger
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- Juniper Danger
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November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
More of the Fall issue awesomeyamazingyness over at Voice Mail Poems. Hearing this poem by Juniper Danger is chef's kiss and visceral.
“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”
- Juniper Danger
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- Juniper Danger
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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”
- Juniper Danger
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- Juniper Danger
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“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”
- John Muro
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- John Muro
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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”
- John Muro
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- John Muro
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“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”
- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”
- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
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November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!
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Thanks to @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for including a poem of mine in this issue. Listen up!
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thanks to @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for including a poem of mine in this issue. Listen up!
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
last call for submissions for our fall issue! ⌛️ call & send in a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered ✨
one week left to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 👻
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
one week left to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 👻
September 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
“But dawn,
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“But dawn,
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
two more weeks to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 🎃
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
September 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
two more weeks to submit! ⌛️ send us a poem 🎃
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A poem that’ll be in my forthcoming book, This Elegance, in the summer issue of @voicemailpoems.bsky.social ☕️
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
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We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A poem that’ll be in my forthcoming book, This Elegance, in the summer issue of @voicemailpoems.bsky.social ☕️
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
“sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life / so you do the next best thing / and you cut your hair”
- Sarena Brown
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- Sarena Brown
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September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life / so you do the next best thing / and you cut your hair”
- Sarena Brown
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- Sarena Brown
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we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
September 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
voicemailpoems.org/submit
🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡
“There was happiness in 1930s Germany and at the end of Rome, too."
- Jill McLaughlin
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- Jill McLaughlin
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August 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“There was happiness in 1930s Germany and at the end of Rome, too."
- Jill McLaughlin
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- Jill McLaughlin
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“we talked about the final moment
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
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and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“we talked about the final moment
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...