If the poem can create a sense of wonder or it clings to my sleeve and I carry it with me for days on end - that is the poem.

Learn more about the review and how to submit here: www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-lit...

#booksky #submissionscall #poetry

Announcing my editorial internship w/the Santa Fe Literary Review, now taking poetry, fiction, CNF, & visual art submissions for their 2026 issue until November 1st. Here's the 2025 issue with cover art by Stephen Abban Jr.
Website: Sfcc.edu/santa-fe-literary-review/
#litmag #submissioncall #SFLR

The Summer 2025 issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, the second of three issues dedicated to gardening as creative process, is now available open-access (free) online. Edited by @giovannialoi.bsky.social www.antennae.org.uk

Can holding a COMB help you manage pain in childbirth?

Apparently so! It won't take the pain away of course, but it seems to truly help - via the theories of the acupressure & the Gate Theory of pain management.

Can you guess what it's for?

It's a cord burning bowl - you use candles to burn through the umbilical cord, an alternative to severing it with sterile scissors. This bowl was handcrafted by my friend Renee, the talented ms_potter

#cordburning
#cordburningbowl
#thirdstage
#pottery

Have you heard of the Santa Fe Literary Review? Now in our 20th year, we publish annually online and in print! This year's suggested theme is "Resistance: Grit, Rebellion, and Dissent" 📚Submit in all genres for free through Submittable 💫https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Hi 💛 I'm landing here after wrapping up a book about birth as a threshold—with home as the ground beneath. More soon..... 💫 #homebirth