Haley
@haleydirenzo.bsky.social
Attorney, Writer, Coloradoan. Find my work here: https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/hmd0224
Honored to be nominated for my poem, Mother, and to be among these other nominees! 😊
Kudos and congratulations to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. Find their work and the other great literature of 2025 at doesithavepockets.com <3 #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Honored to be nominated for my poem, Mother, and to be among these other nominees! 😊
Thankful to Does It Have Pockets for being the perfect place for these two poems. Check out the rest of the new issue now!
"looking for that crimson stain of belonging/
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thankful to Does It Have Pockets for being the perfect place for these two poems. Check out the rest of the new issue now!
Delighted to havea new piece up with Rogue Agent and love their focus on poems of the body.
RA 128 is here! Ft poetry by Emily R. Daniel @haleydirenzo.bsky.social Heather Emmanuel @loriaharris.bsky.social Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, @carynmg.bsky.social @leepotspoet.bsky.social Sonya Schneider, and @fairingforward.bsky.social w art by Donald Patten // rogueagentjournal.com/issue128
Issue 128 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Delighted to havea new piece up with Rogue Agent and love their focus on poems of the body.
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Sending this around again bc it just makes us SO happy. I reread it and marvel at the things said, at how we are perceived — we really are doing what we set out to do! This recognition is so special and encouraging. Thank you so so much.
One of the most quietly powerful presses out there, @epistemiclit.bsky.social, has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025.
Big thanks to Jennifer (@einetogi.bsky.social) for the heartfelt nomination—this one hit us deep.
Read the full feature here:
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#SmallPressLove
Big thanks to Jennifer (@einetogi.bsky.social) for the heartfelt nomination—this one hit us deep.
Read the full feature here:
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#SmallPressLove
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: Epistemic Literary - The Broken Spine
This isn’t a competition. It’s a celebration.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sending this around again bc it just makes us SO happy. I reread it and marvel at the things said, at how we are perceived — we really are doing what we set out to do! This recognition is so special and encouraging. Thank you so so much.
Honored to have my poem, In the Hot Spring Locker Room, included in @thimblelitmag.bsky.social newest issue alongside some other incredible poets! www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/24/i...
In the Hot Spring Locker Room
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September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Honored to have my poem, In the Hot Spring Locker Room, included in @thimblelitmag.bsky.social newest issue alongside some other incredible poets! www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/24/i...
Excited to have my poem, Longevity, out in this new issue!
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 — 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟔, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟐 (𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓) 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐱 issue available now. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover art "Nude" by Kim Suttell
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Cover art "Nude" by Kim Suttell
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September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Excited to have my poem, Longevity, out in this new issue!
Delighted to have a series of poems up at @eunoiareview.bsky.social over the last few days. They published one of my first ever published poems last year and will always be special to me! This prose poem is one of my faves of the bunch 🥰
Young Summer
My body remembers the salt sweet of summer. Relief of the ice cream truck singing its siren from several blocks away. Digging quarters out of the communal change jar. Popsicles melting down sun-slick elbows. Remembers the perfume of July. Long grass and thick weeds lapped behind knees…
My body remembers the salt sweet of summer. Relief of the ice cream truck singing its siren from several blocks away. Digging quarters out of the communal change jar. Popsicles melting down sun-slick elbows. Remembers the perfume of July. Long grass and thick weeds lapped behind knees…
Young Summer
My body remembers the salt sweet of summer. Relief of the ice cream truck singing its siren from several blocks away. Digging quarters out of the communal change jar. Popsicles melting down sun-slick elbows. Remembers the perfume of July. Long grass and thick weeds lapped behind knees and ears. Sizzle skin stuck to the basketball pole if you left a limb on black metal for too long.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Delighted to have a series of poems up at @eunoiareview.bsky.social over the last few days. They published one of my first ever published poems last year and will always be special to me! This prose poem is one of my faves of the bunch 🥰
So glad this piece found the perfect home in @epistemiclit.bsky.social 's latest issue, Nostalgia. Check out the rest of the issue and the amazing writing there! And if you hear me mess up the Italian accent in the recording of this...no you didnt 👀
So, so many quotable lines in this piece by @haleydirenzo.bsky.social but I think this one contains so much: “It was not so much the money, but how it had allowed me to accomplish a dream, born
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
THE GIFT OF A NEW LANGUAGE -
Near the end of his life, my grandfather lost his language, then gained his mother tongue. A fewmonths after dementia had taken all but his childhood
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September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
So glad this piece found the perfect home in @epistemiclit.bsky.social 's latest issue, Nostalgia. Check out the rest of the issue and the amazing writing there! And if you hear me mess up the Italian accent in the recording of this...no you didnt 👀
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So, so many quotable lines in this piece by @haleydirenzo.bsky.social but I think this one contains so much: “It was not so much the money, but how it had allowed me to accomplish a dream, born
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
THE GIFT OF A NEW LANGUAGE -
Near the end of his life, my grandfather lost his language, then gained his mother tongue. A fewmonths after dementia had taken all but his childhood
epistemiclit.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So, so many quotable lines in this piece by @haleydirenzo.bsky.social but I think this one contains so much: “It was not so much the money, but how it had allowed me to accomplish a dream, born
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
from the regret of him missing out on one.” #Nostalgia across generations, a force for good
Honored to be nominated for this award and the continued support for this story, which is a favorite of mine ❤️
More awards! Congratulations to our @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards nominees!
@haleydirenzo.bsky.social
@jameslilliefors.bsky.social
@gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Allison Zaczynski
@brokenwingpoet.bsky.social
Arti Jain
Chelsea Allen
Mac Carey
Luis Lopez Galan
@haleydirenzo.bsky.social
@jameslilliefors.bsky.social
@gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Allison Zaczynski
@brokenwingpoet.bsky.social
Arti Jain
Chelsea Allen
Mac Carey
Luis Lopez Galan
September 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Honored to be nominated for this award and the continued support for this story, which is a favorite of mine ❤️
Thank you to @epistemiclit.bsky.social lit for nominating my fiction piece, I'm so honored to be nominated amongst these other great works and to have another piece coming out with them soon!
I linked all the pieces and tagged the authors/artist below the announcement post. Happy reading/viewing!
Please congratulate our Best of the Net 2026 nominees!
August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Thank you to @epistemiclit.bsky.social lit for nominating my fiction piece, I'm so honored to be nominated amongst these other great works and to have another piece coming out with them soon!
Been wanting to share some work on social without first getting the validation of publication, so before I talk myself out of it, here's something timely. Happy Fourth and holding on to stupid hope.
July 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Been wanting to share some work on social without first getting the validation of publication, so before I talk myself out of it, here's something timely. Happy Fourth and holding on to stupid hope.
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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While Republicans celebrate the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in history, the Curtis Medical Center in Nebraska announced it will shut down as a result of these horrific cuts — the first of many hospitals to close.
This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.
This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.
July 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
While Republicans celebrate the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in history, the Curtis Medical Center in Nebraska announced it will shut down as a result of these horrific cuts — the first of many hospitals to close.
This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.
This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.
Thrilled to have these two poems in January House about long ago by a girl (me) who's never gotten over anything in her life, aka a poet.
Two Poems by Haley DiRenzo
Betta FishMy senior year of high school, I pulled a betta fish from a bag. Licorice candy scales reflecting through the glass. An exercise in incorporating an object into a speech: just keep swimming. I tried to return the fish to the teacher, but she told me it was…
Betta FishMy senior year of high school, I pulled a betta fish from a bag. Licorice candy scales reflecting through the glass. An exercise in incorporating an object into a speech: just keep swimming. I tried to return the fish to the teacher, but she told me it was…
Two Poems by Haley DiRenzo
Betta FishMy senior year of high school, I pulled a betta fish from a bag. Licorice candy scales reflecting through the glass. An exercise in incorporating an object into a speech: just keep swimming. I tried to return the fish to the teacher, but she told me it was mine. On freedom's cusp, I did not want even the weight of a small creature.
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July 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Thrilled to have these two poems in January House about long ago by a girl (me) who's never gotten over anything in her life, aka a poet.
My flash story, Upending the Garden, is featured in Epistemic Literary's first physical Anthology! Really enjoyed working with these folks and excited they put this together.
Guess what's now available on Amazon?
That's right! Epistemic Literary Magazine Volume i! 253 pages of absolutely brilliant writing and art from our contributors in issues 1-4. And the best part is, your purchase directly helps us pay future contributors!
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ISBN: 979-8282184129
That's right! Epistemic Literary Magazine Volume i! 253 pages of absolutely brilliant writing and art from our contributors in issues 1-4. And the best part is, your purchase directly helps us pay future contributors!
a.co/d/cRXlgEp
ISBN: 979-8282184129
June 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
My flash story, Upending the Garden, is featured in Epistemic Literary's first physical Anthology! Really enjoyed working with these folks and excited they put this together.
My flash story Dreams is up at Flash Fiction Magazine today. I wrote the first draft in 2020 well before I started to take writing more seriously. That only happened in the last year, but I'm so glad I found my way back to this piece. I'm very proud of it and would love if you gave it a read!
Dreams
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June 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My flash story Dreams is up at Flash Fiction Magazine today. I wrote the first draft in 2020 well before I started to take writing more seriously. That only happened in the last year, but I'm so glad I found my way back to this piece. I'm very proud of it and would love if you gave it a read!
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Oh hey, there is a poetry party going on over at that new club Four Score 84! It has everything, poetry about aging, red lipstick, floor sleeping and mountain lions. Read “College Girls” by @haleydirenzo.bsky.social right here!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
April 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh hey, there is a poetry party going on over at that new club Four Score 84! It has everything, poetry about aging, red lipstick, floor sleeping and mountain lions. Read “College Girls” by @haleydirenzo.bsky.social right here!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
Excited to be featured in this issue. Check out my four poems and the other amazing contributors! Mine are here: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
April 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Excited to be featured in this issue. Check out my four poems and the other amazing contributors! Mine are here: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mountai...
Loved the story referenced here, Empty Bag - flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/02... and learning more about the thought process behind it!
March 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Loved the story referenced here, Empty Bag - flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/02... and learning more about the thought process behind it!
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3 poems from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social!
"At least we don’t have to watch the dog die first,
at least we can quit our jobs, read books
until the end of time, which is actually
the end of time this time."
- 'When They Tell Us the World is Ending This Year'
www.godscrueljokelit.com/haley-direnz...
"At least we don’t have to watch the dog die first,
at least we can quit our jobs, read books
until the end of time, which is actually
the end of time this time."
- 'When They Tell Us the World is Ending This Year'
www.godscrueljokelit.com/haley-direnz...
January 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
3 poems from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social!
"At least we don’t have to watch the dog die first,
at least we can quit our jobs, read books
until the end of time, which is actually
the end of time this time."
- 'When They Tell Us the World is Ending This Year'
www.godscrueljokelit.com/haley-direnz...
"At least we don’t have to watch the dog die first,
at least we can quit our jobs, read books
until the end of time, which is actually
the end of time this time."
- 'When They Tell Us the World is Ending This Year'
www.godscrueljokelit.com/haley-direnz...
Little micro out at 50 Word Stories today fiftywordstories.com
50-Word Stories
Brand new bite-sized fiction every weekday!
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January 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Little micro out at 50 Word Stories today fiftywordstories.com
"My whole childhood was his emergency," from Fathers is sticking with me. What a great line!!
Poetry party sequence engaged so hold on as we go full throtle. “Depression” by @robertallenpoet.bsky.social is one of many by this same author in 80 Matey! Read them here
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January 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"My whole childhood was his emergency," from Fathers is sticking with me. What a great line!!
Excited to have had two pieces published with 101 Words in December, available here: 101words.org?s=Direnzo
It's a great place for bite-sized flash, and I found a great writing community through them!
It's a great place for bite-sized flash, and I found a great writing community through them!
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January 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Excited to have had two pieces published with 101 Words in December, available here: 101words.org?s=Direnzo
It's a great place for bite-sized flash, and I found a great writing community through them!
It's a great place for bite-sized flash, and I found a great writing community through them!