Anna Abraham Gasaway (she/her) **IT'S THE GUNS**
@annagasaway.bsky.social
xvangelical, disabled poet of the body. MFA SDSU. Words in Cream City Review, Poetry International, Literary Mama, One Art and others, Black, Brown, Trans and Palestinian Lives Matter.
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This striking story from a former student is what can happen when you lean into the weird (CW: gun violence)
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Child Shooting – Harpy Hybrid Review
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April 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This striking story from a former student is what can happen when you lean into the weird (CW: gun violence)
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@annagasaway.bsky.social
www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works...
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102 #Poetry Publishers
#SubmissionCall: No fee required to submit your manuscripts to these poetry #publishers.
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#SubmissionCall: No fee required to submit your manuscripts to these poetry #publishers.
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January 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
102 #Poetry Publishers
#SubmissionCall: No fee required to submit your manuscripts to these poetry #publishers.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/102-poetry-m...
#SubmissionCall: No fee required to submit your manuscripts to these poetry #publishers.
Link 👇
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Thank you New York Attorney General!
🚨NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced she will be suing the Trump Administration over his illegal freezing of federal aid, becoming the first official in the U.S. to take action.
REPOST to thank Attorney General James for standing up for our democracy!
REPOST to thank Attorney General James for standing up for our democracy!
January 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thank you New York Attorney General!
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Doing a whole bunch of illegal things to expand executive power with a pliant legislature fawning as he breaks the law is what authoritarianism looks like. This is how it starts.
January 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Doing a whole bunch of illegal things to expand executive power with a pliant legislature fawning as he breaks the law is what authoritarianism looks like. This is how it starts.
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polish up your darlings for this #SubmissionCall #callforsubs
Ok, let's do this. The 1st submission window for Stanchion's Online Weekly Features will open at 12pm ET, Monday Jan 27th. Only 40 submissions will be accepted. Each author may submit only one piece of writing. Shout with any questions.
stanchionzine.com/submissions
stanchionzine.com/submissions
January 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
polish up your darlings for this #SubmissionCall #callforsubs
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another #SubmissionCall #callforsubs - as you can see, Scrivener Creative Review has an enviable list of poets in their back catalogue. This is there return to publishing!
Scrivener is accepting submissions to our return issue, no. 46. The call lasts till February 19. Send everything excellent.
#callforsubmissions
#callforsubmissions
January 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
another #SubmissionCall #callforsubs - as you can see, Scrivener Creative Review has an enviable list of poets in their back catalogue. This is there return to publishing!
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
January 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
I just started reading up on the 1918 epidemic due to a short story that I was writing in the December before the COVID outbreak. And I was like WOW, I never heard of this!!
Artists, writers, filmmakers: Please integrate COVID into your cultural work. Avoiding COVID in your content erases critical history. And we all know what horrible things can happen when we as a society fail to learn from history.
After watching researchers try to recover bodies from the 1918 flu in the Arctic, I went back to school to study the social history of epidemics. I couldn't understand why 1918 sparked no major memorials, no novels, no plays. How could societies collectively agree to forget mass death?
Welp.
Welp.
January 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I just started reading up on the 1918 epidemic due to a short story that I was writing in the December before the COVID outbreak. And I was like WOW, I never heard of this!!
Our 15-year-old dog died when we were traveling. He was with his favorite person surrounded by loving family, but we were not there. My son keeps waiting to hear the clicky-clacky as he walks along the hardwood floor. I could have sworn that I heard him whining from outside to be let in. #puppy,#dog
January 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our 15-year-old dog died when we were traveling. He was with his favorite person surrounded by loving family, but we were not there. My son keeps waiting to hear the clicky-clacky as he walks along the hardwood floor. I could have sworn that I heard him whining from outside to be let in. #puppy,#dog
Don’t be shy, #carers. You have until 1st March to submit short fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Everything you need is on the site, but if you get stuck and it’s not in FAQ and you have accessibility needs, there’s an email address upfront - thecuraeprize.uk
January 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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are YOU working on your submissions for year end? #SubmissionCall. And a huge thank you to @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social for her extraordinary efforts in compiling this fantastic resource.
Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2024. Best of luck & pls share!
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December 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM
are YOU working on your submissions for year end? #SubmissionCall. And a huge thank you to @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social for her extraordinary efforts in compiling this fantastic resource.
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Good review of the latest @samantharhill.bsky.social book on Arendt, with evocative sample lines from poems, interesting discussion of how Arendt’s writing in different genres can be seen as interrelated, and praise for and summary of some points in the introduction
"In Arendt’s poems, darkness and the night aren’t bad—they’re the terrain of thinking, the plain of existence, the place we live." Katie Peterson reviews "What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-pl...
A Place, Not a Refuge | Los Angeles Review of Books
Katie Peterson reviews “What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt,” translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill.
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December 15, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Good review of the latest @samantharhill.bsky.social book on Arendt, with evocative sample lines from poems, interesting discussion of how Arendt’s writing in different genres can be seen as interrelated, and praise for and summary of some points in the introduction
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Of course: the third thing that brought us together, and shone at the center of our lives and our house, was poetry—both our love for the art and the passion and frustration of trying to write it.
Donald Hall, “The Third Thing”
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Donald Hall, “The Third Thing”
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December 15, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Of course: the third thing that brought us together, and shone at the center of our lives and our house, was poetry—both our love for the art and the passion and frustration of trying to write it.
Donald Hall, “The Third Thing”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Donald Hall, “The Third Thing”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Twelve years ago today. 💔
December 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Twelve years ago today. 💔
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Editor Amorak (uh-MOR-ack) on the slow down this morning! ☕️ ☀️
1260: Fade Away by Amorak Huey
Podcast Episode · The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily · 12/13/2024 · 6m
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December 13, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Editor Amorak (uh-MOR-ack) on the slow down this morning! ☕️ ☀️
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amy Stuber / @amystuber.com ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amy Stuber
Amy Stuber’s writing has appeared in The New England Review , Flash Fiction America , Ploughshares , The Idaho Review , Witness , The Commo...
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December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amy Stuber / @amystuber.com ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/12/12-o...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/12/12-o...
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Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
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watch me and Ben read! potentially win our books! witness the debut of Ben's new cocktail The Linebreak! Tell me that you love me in the chat!
Variant Lit is hosting a GIVEAWAY! One of tonight's attendees will be randomly selected to win a copy of IWNSTB & Ragnarok. See you at 9pm EST! Register here: tiny.cc/zehvzz
@toddedillard.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social
@toddedillard.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 4:09 PM
watch me and Ben read! potentially win our books! witness the debut of Ben's new cocktail The Linebreak! Tell me that you love me in the chat!
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It's hard to "move on" from a book that is so tethered to my mother's memory and the ongoing nature of my grief for her loss. Much gratitude to Cody Stetzel for this recent, smart review on BUFFALO GIRL for Salamander, and for keeping me there today.
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salamandermag.org/encased-in-m...
Online Exclusive: Review of Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q. Stark – Salamander Magazine
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December 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
It's hard to "move on" from a book that is so tethered to my mother's memory and the ongoing nature of my grief for her loss. Much gratitude to Cody Stetzel for this recent, smart review on BUFFALO GIRL for Salamander, and for keeping me there today.
salamandermag.org/encased-in-m...
salamandermag.org/encased-in-m...
Such a wonderful essay by Wendy Hudson. Just heart-rending. monthstoyears.org/things-of-my... #writingcommunity, #essay, #guerrillamemoir
Things of My Mother’s that Disappeared After She Died - Months To Years
Photos from her childhood. I don’t recall ever seeing photos of her as a baby, or as a girl growing up in North Toronto with her mom and two brothers. Did I look like her? Her family had no pictures o...
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December 13, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Such a wonderful essay by Wendy Hudson. Just heart-rending. monthstoyears.org/things-of-my... #writingcommunity, #essay, #guerrillamemoir
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Small press directory 2.0 (cont in comment)! U.S. 50ish bks max/yr. Who's missing? Point them to www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress.
If u suggested a press & it's missing, they didnt list contact info online.
Next wk: guidelines to reviewers for "100 notable small press bks 2025" #100smallpress
If u suggested a press & it's missing, they didnt list contact info online.
Next wk: guidelines to reviewers for "100 notable small press bks 2025" #100smallpress
December 13, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 13, 2024 at 12:26 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget