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Margaret Wack
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Poet & tea enthusiast

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shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
Cover reveal: Shō No. 8 | Winter 2025/2026
Cover art: “Hopi Leia” by Sikuyva Dawavendewa.

Our winter issue features 72 poems by 48 poets (names threaded below).

Pre-order link: tinyurl.com/shono8

The winners and runners-up of the editors’ prizes will be announced this week!
Hopi Leia, black and white relief print by Hopi artist Sikuyva Dawavendewa. Behind her is a village but in the style of Tatooine's Mos Eisley town, with the two suns as well. The border is also symbolism to rain clouds with rain falling on the side. The graphic is laid over a pale lavender background. Back cover of issue listing 48 contributor names. The graphic is laid over a pale lavender background.
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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sixthfinch.bsky.social
New summer issue

Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social
Sixth Finch
Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Katie Berta, Conor Bracken, Ava Chen, Andrew Collard, Sofia Fall, Kelle Groom, Katie Kemple, W. M. Lobko,...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
He got shot in the head by a tear gas canister, but @acatwithnews.bsky.social reported on three days of escalation and violence by the feds in Los Angeles for Hell World anyway.

www.welcometohellworld.com/it-is-happen...
It is happening here
Three days of escalation by the feds in Los Angeles
www.welcometohellworld.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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theonion.com
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery
May 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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haydensferryreview.bsky.social
Summer is here (100º in Phoenix today! 😅) and so is HFR’s Spring/Summer Issue! Featuring #fiction, #poetry, #translation, and #cnf by @joshuanguyen03.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @mnisinson.bsky.social and more, you can pick up a copy in our store now: haydensferryreview.com/purchase-iss...
May 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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artfultea.bsky.social
30. Daily Darjeeling Black Tea & The Body Problem by our own Margaret Wack (@mhwack.bsky.social)
Daily Darjeeling Black Tea & The Body Problem by Margaret Wack
April 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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artfultea.bsky.social
Is there a better match than a good book of poems and a good cup of tea? To celebrate National Poetry Month, we've paired up some stunning volumes of poetry with our loose leaf tea blends. Discover new books paired with your favorite teas, or try out a new tea matched with your favorite poet!
Poetry & Tea celebrate National Poetry Month with our favorite tea & poetry pairings
April 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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haydensferryreview.bsky.social
OBSESSED with the gorgeous cover of our new issue, with art by Phoenix artist Antoinette Cauley and incredible work by authors including @mhwack.bsky.social @mnisinson and so many more!
April 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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dinalrelles.bsky.social
Linda Gregg 🖤
The Presence in Absence Poetry is not made of words. I can say it’s January when it’s August. I can say, “The scent of wisteria on the second floor of my grandmother’s house with the door open onto the porch in Petaluma,” while I’m living an hour’s drive from the Mexican border town of Ojinaga. It is possible to be with someone who is gone. Like the silence which continues here in the desert while the night train passes through Marfa louder and louder, like the dogs whining and barking after the train is gone.
April 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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alinaetc.bsky.social
Every April, I revisit Donika Kelly’s “Love Poem: Centaur” — a creature of marvel in its construction and articulation. Repetition rules.

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/4/...
"I said confetti": Poems, birds, and metaphors. — alina Ştefănescu
“A gargoyle in the shape of a man, whose spinal column and brain have been taken out to make a path for the rainwater” — Franz Kafka in his 1911 travel diary, while on a trip to Paris with Max Brod ...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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maeveynot.bsky.social
anne boyer (i feel like we all know this here but i screenshotted it for a discord i’m in so it seemed like an opportunity)
Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave bc it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, w/perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn't!"
April 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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redwallfeasts.bsky.social
Quince pie, blackcurrant tarts, rye biscuits, and almond cake with candied lilac buds—everything needed for a lovely celebration.
March 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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opossum.bsky.social
Opossum picture: 473.jpg
March 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
how you respond to the illegal kidnapping of a lawful permanent resident is a pretty good litmus test for your politics and principles. do they extend to someone you view as in the out-group? do you actually believe in the whole "disagree with you but will defend your right to speak?"
March 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
a lot of people have said, now is when you find out how you would react to incipient fascism. and what you do is important! but a more salient point might be, how do large institutions, like say, columbia university, react. not looking great so far!
March 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.
February 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
Margaret Wack, Finalist for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize.
February 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
mhwack.bsky.social
Honored to have been a finalist for @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social’s inaugural Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize! “The Invention of Arithmetic” is live on their beautiful site: www.onlypoems.net/contests/leo...
The Invention of Arithmetic by Margaret Wack — ONLY POEMS
Explore the haunting beauty of impermanence in Bob Hicok's poem "Forecast." Through vivid imagery and introspective lines, the poem reflects on loss, identity, and the passage of time. Originally publ...
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February 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
The moment you all have been waiting for!! Check out our Instagram for the full list— we have some truly wonderful poets!
February 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
happy new year to those around the world already celebrating—

returning, yes, to this Clifton classic—
i am running into a new year by Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me
December 31, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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catespice.bsky.social
Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing schedule is a MOOD
5:30 a.m. - wake up and lie there and think. 6:15 a.m. - get up and eat breakfast (lots). 7.15 a.m. - get to work writing, writing, writing. Noon - lunch. 1:00-3:00 p.m. - reading, music. 3:00-5:00 p.m. correspondence, maybe house cleaning. 5:00-8:00 p.m. make dinner and eat it. After 8:00 p.m. - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.
December 31, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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somtoihezue.bsky.social
Forever obsessed with this poem by Ada Limón.
WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW BEFORE was how horses simply give birth to other horses. Not a baby by any means, not a creature of liminal spaces, but already a four-legged beast hellbent on walking, scrambling after the mother. A horse gives way to another horse and then suddenly there are two horses, just like that. That's how I loved you. You, off the long train from Red Bank carrying a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two computers swinging in it unwieldily at your side. I remember we broke into laughter when we saw each other. What was between us wasn't a fragile thing to be coddled, cooed over. It came out fully formed, ready to run.
December 18, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
“All the Hurry” by Joe Wenderoth
I am the marrying kind. Though these muscles will not us make. The carriage will stay empty, empty and surer. I am fast, I’m sorry. Dreams don’t start. Love won’t end.
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM