Porcupine Literary
@porcupinelit.bsky.social
A journal by and for teachers.
We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world.
Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world.
Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
Hey, it is our co-founder's birthday today. Show @writesloud.bsky.social a little love and visit one of her babies (our site) and share something you love.
If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching!
www.porcupineliterary.com/blog
If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching!
www.porcupineliterary.com/blog
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November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Hey, it is our co-founder's birthday today. Show @writesloud.bsky.social a little love and visit one of her babies (our site) and share something you love.
If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching!
www.porcupineliterary.com/blog
If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching!
www.porcupineliterary.com/blog
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We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read!
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We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read!
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We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read!
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porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We could use some more submissions! Give our editors @mehpoeting.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social some great things to read!
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If you’re in NYC and want to see an awesome reading, this is this afternoon!
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you’re in NYC and want to see an awesome reading, this is this afternoon!
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Thanks to Porcupine Literary, for sharing my #poem “The Issue With The Bee.” I don’t often write about teaching, so this is a fun one. @porcupinelit.bsky.social
#academia #highered #englishprofessorproblems #writingcommunity #theyogapoet
#poetrycommunity
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#academia #highered #englishprofessorproblems #writingcommunity #theyogapoet
#poetrycommunity
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The Issue With The Bee
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations worldwide. Her collections include How We Make Amends and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Ast...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thanks to Porcupine Literary, for sharing my #poem “The Issue With The Bee.” I don’t often write about teaching, so this is a fun one. @porcupinelit.bsky.social
#academia #highered #englishprofessorproblems #writingcommunity #theyogapoet
#poetrycommunity
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#academia #highered #englishprofessorproblems #writingcommunity #theyogapoet
#poetrycommunity
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@christinamrau.bsky.social has a wonderful new poem in Porcupine! Come read it!
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The Issue With The Bee
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations worldwide. Her collections include How We Make Amends and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Ast...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@christinamrau.bsky.social has a wonderful new poem in Porcupine! Come read it!
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Still true! Keep sending your work!
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Still true! Keep sending your work!
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Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman!
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Rural Teachers
Laurie King Billman is a poet and essayist. Her written work draws on her life experiences with diverse people and places, as a licensed professional counselor in schools, group homes, and on Native r...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman!
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman!
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
Rural Teachers
Laurie King Billman is a poet and essayist. Her written work draws on her life experiences with diverse people and places, as a licensed professional counselor in schools, group homes, and on Native r...
www.porcupineliterary.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Check out this great new fiction piece by Laurie King Billman!
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/rural-t...
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Thrilled to have a new teacher poem up at this week at @porcupinelit.bsky.social.
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MS. MARGERY’S LAST DAY
David Rosenthal is a public school teacher in Berkeley, California. His poems and translations have appeared in Rattle, HAD, Rust & Moth, Birmingham Poetry Review, Eclectica Magazine, Teachers & Write...
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October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thrilled to have a new teacher poem up at this week at @porcupinelit.bsky.social.
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Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
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The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary
A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure
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October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
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Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary
A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
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You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!?
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A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer
A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer. Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!?
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Still true! Keep sending your work!
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Still true! Keep sending your work!
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I'm Poetry Editor at @porcupinelit.bsky.social, and I just got to give someone their first acceptance! I think that's a first for me, so it's just a very exciting night all around
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm Poetry Editor at @porcupinelit.bsky.social, and I just got to give someone their first acceptance! I think that's a first for me, so it's just a very exciting night all around
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Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
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Send us your work!
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Send us your work!
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I'm the poetry editor of this terrific journal by and for teachers, and I'd love to read your poems.
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm the poetry editor of this terrific journal by and for teachers, and I'd love to read your poems.
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
Porcupine Literary Submission Manager
We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...
porcupineliterary.submittable.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit
We came back this week after a short hiatus with this amazing poem from Violeta Garcia Mendoza titled "Teaching Romeo & Juliet"
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Teaching Romeo & Juliet
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant from the Sustai...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We came back this week after a short hiatus with this amazing poem from Violeta Garcia Mendoza titled "Teaching Romeo & Juliet"
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
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A visceral poem on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ❤️🔥 Poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social published this piece in @porcupinelit.bsky.social on the frustrations of teaching through censorship: buff.ly/CWNbSZc
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A visceral poem on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ❤️🔥 Poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social published this piece in @porcupinelit.bsky.social on the frustrations of teaching through censorship: buff.ly/CWNbSZc
Our EIC @readinstead.bsky.social , our Poetry Editor and contributor @fklein907.bsky.social are in @asteralesjournal.bsky.social Issue 3.
Go check it out:
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Go check it out:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
Current Issue (Jul 2025) — Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters
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July 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our EIC @readinstead.bsky.social , our Poetry Editor and contributor @fklein907.bsky.social are in @asteralesjournal.bsky.social Issue 3.
Go check it out:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
Go check it out:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
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Thanks to @porcupinelit.bsky.social for publishing this poem about teaching during a time when research funding is pulled, and being on the job market when people give you advice like, "don't say diversity or inclusion in your job interviews."
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TEACHING AT THE END
Emily M. Goldsmith (they/them) is a queer Cajun-Louisiana Creole poet originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. ...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks to @porcupinelit.bsky.social for publishing this poem about teaching during a time when research funding is pulled, and being on the job market when people give you advice like, "don't say diversity or inclusion in your job interviews."
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...
www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teachin...