John Wise
@central2nowhere.bsky.social
Husband, father. Teacher, poet. Thrilled to be published in Midsummer Dream House, JAKE, Teach. Write., Moonlit Getaway, Abyss & Apex, among others.
"Riding the Hellevator" published by 7th-Circle Pyrite: www.7thcirclepyrite.com/post/riding-...
Riding the Hellevator
As Aeneus carried Anchises out of burning Troy towards the stars and away from crisis, their creator cradles you, old boy, from the frozen core. Ascend fallen light! From grief to joy, Wisdom Supreme,...
www.7thcirclepyrite.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Riding the Hellevator" published by 7th-Circle Pyrite: www.7thcirclepyrite.com/post/riding-...
My poem "Zodiac" was published by 7th-Circle Pyrite back in August. www.7thcirclepyrite.com/post/zodiac
Zodiac
The alphabet is not enough to convey the complexity of a mind. Rounded subtleties express ennui where there should be evocations clawing their way out of living rock. Which came first? the desert on m...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My poem "Zodiac" was published by 7th-Circle Pyrite back in August. www.7thcirclepyrite.com/post/zodiac
Loving this issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Link for those interested: service.qfie.com/doorisajar/c...
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Loving this issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Link for those interested: service.qfie.com/doorisajar/c...
New issue of Door is a Jar Magazine out this Friday!
I am so proud and grateful to have four poems published in this issue :)
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@maxwellbauman.bsky.social
I am so proud and grateful to have four poems published in this issue :)
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
@maxwellbauman.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New issue of Door is a Jar Magazine out this Friday!
I am so proud and grateful to have four poems published in this issue :)
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
@maxwellbauman.bsky.social
I am so proud and grateful to have four poems published in this issue :)
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
@maxwellbauman.bsky.social
"Morels"
First published in "Roots and Leaves" by Wingless Dreamer Books
First published in "Roots and Leaves" by Wingless Dreamer Books
July 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Morels"
First published in "Roots and Leaves" by Wingless Dreamer Books
First published in "Roots and Leaves" by Wingless Dreamer Books
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It’s publishing day! Our latest issue Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2025) is now live on our website.
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
coolbeanslit.com/vol-2-issue-2
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
coolbeanslit.com/vol-2-issue-2
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
June 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It’s publishing day! Our latest issue Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2025) is now live on our website.
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
coolbeanslit.com/vol-2-issue-2
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
You can view it 3 ways online:
1. Interactive PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf
3. Hyperlinked pages by author
coolbeanslit.com/vol-2-issue-2
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors! 🙏
Poem published last year in a really cool online magazine produced by E. Kwak called Disjointed Lit. online.fliphtml5.com/jhhxg/rbom/#...
DISJOINT'D 1.2
disjoint'd press<br>Issue 2: October 2024<br>edited by e. kwak<br>
online.fliphtml5.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Poem published last year in a really cool online magazine produced by E. Kwak called Disjointed Lit. online.fliphtml5.com/jhhxg/rbom/#...
The revised version
Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Three photos from Seedlings IV: Winter
June 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Three photos from Seedlings IV: Winter
Beyond grateful to Will J. Wood and Corran Green for their time, energy, and talents put into issue IV of Seedlings. My poem "A Thousand Leaves Between Us" is beautifully printed alongside "November Burning" by Sarah Humby. www.seedlings.studio/shop
Shop — Seedlings
www.seedlings.studio
June 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beyond grateful to Will J. Wood and Corran Green for their time, energy, and talents put into issue IV of Seedlings. My poem "A Thousand Leaves Between Us" is beautifully printed alongside "November Burning" by Sarah Humby. www.seedlings.studio/shop
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Consider backing a very cool magazine!!
Haven Spec Magazine's Kickstarter is now live!
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
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Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
Haven Spec Magazine, 2025
A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing five issues in 2025 and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!
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February 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Consider backing a very cool magazine!!
“Animals” by Maggie Smith
February 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Animals” by Maggie Smith
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In @whaleroadreview.bsky.social I published "Icon/Graph" a poem about writing and meaning-making. I'm not sure it qualifies as speculative, but if you think it does, it is also eligible for the Rhysling (Short Poem)
www.whaleroadreview.com/beiter/
www.whaleroadreview.com/beiter/
Icon/Graph
Stand in. The map is not the territory.So we have been told. Have you entered by the door and walkedwithin? Roses carved into a wooden screen, the painting of the saint.The speech is not the writin…
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January 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In @whaleroadreview.bsky.social I published "Icon/Graph" a poem about writing and meaning-making. I'm not sure it qualifies as speculative, but if you think it does, it is also eligible for the Rhysling (Short Poem)
www.whaleroadreview.com/beiter/
www.whaleroadreview.com/beiter/
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Welcome to our Winter 2024 issue! This marks the 9-year anniversary of Whale Road Review, and publishing the fantastic work in this issue on a Friday the 13th feels like a scarily good way to celebrate!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37
December 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Welcome to our Winter 2024 issue! This marks the 9-year anniversary of Whale Road Review, and publishing the fantastic work in this issue on a Friday the 13th feels like a scarily good way to celebrate!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37
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#Ranger Mag just dropped another double issue (#8 and #9). As usual, it's jam packed with the best experimental poetry, art and music of the international avant garde. Check it out!
rangermagazine.net/issue8
rangermagazine.net/issue9
rangermagazine.net/issue8
rangermagazine.net/issue9
February 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#Ranger Mag just dropped another double issue (#8 and #9). As usual, it's jam packed with the best experimental poetry, art and music of the international avant garde. Check it out!
rangermagazine.net/issue8
rangermagazine.net/issue9
rangermagazine.net/issue8
rangermagazine.net/issue9
My poems "An Anecdote for $5 and a Bottle of Water" and "Sex is Water" were published in issue 8 of #Ranger. You can find issue 8 here: www.rangermagazine.net/issue8. Really happy to have a home for these two works.
Ranger magazine
www.rangermagazine.net
February 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My poems "An Anecdote for $5 and a Bottle of Water" and "Sex is Water" were published in issue 8 of #Ranger. You can find issue 8 here: www.rangermagazine.net/issue8. Really happy to have a home for these two works.
“High in the Mountains, I Fail to Find the Wise Man” by Li Po (translated by David Young)
February 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“High in the Mountains, I Fail to Find the Wise Man” by Li Po (translated by David Young)
“Passing the Temple of Accumulated Fragrance” by Wang Wei (translated by David Young)
February 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Passing the Temple of Accumulated Fragrance” by Wang Wei (translated by David Young)
So many brilliant, moving poems in Ruth Awad’s “Outside The Joy.” Lately, I keep coming back to this one.
January 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
So many brilliant, moving poems in Ruth Awad’s “Outside The Joy.” Lately, I keep coming back to this one.
Reposted by John Wise
Wanted: Fiction Editor
Apparently, it’s really hard to be both Executive Editor and Fiction Editor at a growing literary journal (@mgliterary.bsky.social).
Please help. Contact us via MoonLit Getaway’s website for details. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub
Apparently, it’s really hard to be both Executive Editor and Fiction Editor at a growing literary journal (@mgliterary.bsky.social).
Please help. Contact us via MoonLit Getaway’s website for details. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub
January 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Wanted: Fiction Editor
Apparently, it’s really hard to be both Executive Editor and Fiction Editor at a growing literary journal (@mgliterary.bsky.social).
Please help. Contact us via MoonLit Getaway’s website for details. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub
Apparently, it’s really hard to be both Executive Editor and Fiction Editor at a growing literary journal (@mgliterary.bsky.social).
Please help. Contact us via MoonLit Getaway’s website for details. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub
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Issue 4 submission guidelines are up on our website.
thehooghlyreview.com/issue-4-subm...
Please read full guidelines before sending work.
Submissions open January 16.
Please help us spread the word.
thehooghlyreview.com/issue-4-subm...
Please read full guidelines before sending work.
Submissions open January 16.
Please help us spread the word.
January 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Issue 4 submission guidelines are up on our website.
thehooghlyreview.com/issue-4-subm...
Please read full guidelines before sending work.
Submissions open January 16.
Please help us spread the word.
thehooghlyreview.com/issue-4-subm...
Please read full guidelines before sending work.
Submissions open January 16.
Please help us spread the word.
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• "𝗩𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮" was rejected by 17 previous journals.
• "𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟮" was rejected by 13 previous journals.
• "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲" was rejected by 3 previous journals.
And I already received three rejection letters for seven other poems in the last three days.
• "𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟮" was rejected by 13 previous journals.
• "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲" was rejected by 3 previous journals.
And I already received three rejection letters for seven other poems in the last three days.
January 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
• "𝗩𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮" was rejected by 17 previous journals.
• "𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟮" was rejected by 13 previous journals.
• "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲" was rejected by 3 previous journals.
And I already received three rejection letters for seven other poems in the last three days.
• "𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟮" was rejected by 13 previous journals.
• "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲" was rejected by 3 previous journals.
And I already received three rejection letters for seven other poems in the last three days.
Reposted by John Wise
"The Inflated Graveworm," a dark literature magazine, is open for submissions! And it pays!
-- $10 per #poem
-- $20 #nonfiction (900 words)
-- $40 cover #art (5.5" x 8.5")
-- $40 #fiction (4500 words)
Details:
www.graveworm.com/ig/subs.php
Please help spread the word!
#callforsubmissions
-- $10 per #poem
-- $20 #nonfiction (900 words)
-- $40 cover #art (5.5" x 8.5")
-- $40 #fiction (4500 words)
Details:
www.graveworm.com/ig/subs.php
Please help spread the word!
#callforsubmissions
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
"The Inflated Graveworm," a dark literature magazine, is open for submissions! And it pays!
-- $10 per #poem
-- $20 #nonfiction (900 words)
-- $40 cover #art (5.5" x 8.5")
-- $40 #fiction (4500 words)
Details:
www.graveworm.com/ig/subs.php
Please help spread the word!
#callforsubmissions
-- $10 per #poem
-- $20 #nonfiction (900 words)
-- $40 cover #art (5.5" x 8.5")
-- $40 #fiction (4500 words)
Details:
www.graveworm.com/ig/subs.php
Please help spread the word!
#callforsubmissions
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"Moments exist when the mundane inspires awe"
Read "The Morning After the Day of" by John Wise: https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/poem/the-morning-after-the-day-of
#MoonLitGetaway #LiteraryJournal #OpenForSubmissions #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
Read "The Morning After the Day of" by John Wise: https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/poem/the-morning-after-the-day-of
#MoonLitGetaway #LiteraryJournal #OpenForSubmissions #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
The Morning After the Day of | MoonLit Getaway
Remarkable poetry from around the world.
www.moonlitgetaway.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Moments exist when the mundane inspires awe"
Read "The Morning After the Day of" by John Wise: https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/poem/the-morning-after-the-day-of
#MoonLitGetaway #LiteraryJournal #OpenForSubmissions #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
Read "The Morning After the Day of" by John Wise: https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/poem/the-morning-after-the-day-of
#MoonLitGetaway #LiteraryJournal #OpenForSubmissions #Poetry #PoetryCommunity