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Mack
@rogerthatmack.bsky.social
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Poems | Earthseed | Black trans lives matter | All Colors Are Beautiful | Staff Critic - Pencilhouse | Poetry Reader - Split Lip Magazine | Poetry Editor - Zero Readers Magazine
h/t | Raleigh, NC
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rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Hey that’s me! Ty ty for the nom, this honestly might be my favorite poem that I’ve written so far! 🤗🥲
theoffingmag.bsky.social The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 25d
Best of the Net 2025 Nonfiction and Poetry nominations (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social, @rogerthatmack.bsky.social)
White text in a blue background that reads: NONFICTION Geetha Iyer (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social), "Exquisite Corpus" Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, "Ngoại and the Coral Reef" White text on a blue background that reads: POETRY Kristin Gustafson, "Horse Poetica" Lauren Saxon, "if I could give you the moon" Mack Rogers (@rogerthatmack.bsky.social), "My mother's scrapbook found while I was looking for inspiration" Maya Salameh, "EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER'S PSYCHOSOMATIC EFFECTS ON ARAB AM. GIRLS" Tim Seibles, "So, After A While," Shasparay, "Judgment Day"
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Omg yes please read this gorgeous novel!!! Highly recommend!
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 10
📚 Your mid-week book rec 📚 Poetry reader @rogerthatmack.bsky.social recommends I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall!
I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall.
September 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
💖 We are THRILLED to announce that Emily Goldsmith, Aether Henry, John Lapine, Max Pasakorn, & Shalini Rana are joining the SLM FAM as Poetry Readers! 💖

Please help us welcome them! We are so 💫 LUCKY ✨ to have such talented and interesting people on our poetry team!
Welcome! To Our New Poetry Readers! Emily Goldsmith Aether Henry John LaPine Max Pasakorn Shalini Rana
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Splash into summer with us! 🌞

Here are a few gems from our archive that capture this season’s heat and heart: buff.ly/Ulgbyjy
A wave crashes onto the beach under a blue sky
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Here it is! Our ✨amazing✨ MAY ISSUE!

As always, much love & gratitude to our contributors 🥰
WORDS: John Jodzio, @joshdenslow.bsky.social , @cindyhouse.bsky.social & theoceanisgay.bsky.social
ART: Natalie Christensen
PLUS: Barrak Alzaid reviews noam keim

Start reading now! buff.ly/h13a7FK
Minimalist photograph of an adobe wall. Its sunlit, coral-and-salmon surface is etched with dancing cracks. Geometry and shadow are in sharp play against a boundless blue sky.
May 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
The Split Lip FAM’s work over the past two months has been sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always important. Take a moment to enjoy this batch of good news and great publications from our community. buff.ly/zQNZ5yN
A small bundle of white flowers resting on an open page of a book
April 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
A new month, a new issue of beautiful work we are PROUD to showcase ✨ May we present: our APRIL ISSUE 😍

WORDS: Vincent Perrone, Neeru Nagarajan, katiehrob.bsky.social, & Amy Thatcher
ART: Shannon Louise Barry
PLUS: @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reviews @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social buff.ly/a8ZJANg
Black and white image of two masculine figures in a clearing with trees in the background. One is slouched, the other is mid-stride with a stick in hand. Their upper bodies are replaced with cutouts of green grass and tiny wildflowers.
April 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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taylorbyas.bsky.social
The form calendar for National Poetry Month is hereeee, courtesy of myself and @sfeycreates.bsky.social! Follow along with us next month to get some poems written, to have some fun, and to be in community together!
March 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
It’s my birthday! So absolutely shameless plug! My upcoming chapbook from @diodeeditions.bsky.social! Preorder! Ok bye!

www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
Hindsight by Mack Rogers pulses with raw lyricism, fearless introspection, and a deft fusion of personal and cultural history. At its core, the collection interrogates Blackness, queerness, memory, and inheritance through an intimate yet expansive lens. Rogers writes with a poet’s precision and a storyteller’s rhythm, crafting work that moves between moments of tenderness, rage, humor, and revelation. From the haunting presence of visual snow syndrome to the layered complexities of familial love, masculinity, and belonging, Hindsight is as unflinching as it is deeply human. Rogers builds a world where the glow of a computer screen, sifting through a mother’s scrapbook, or recalling a slur scrawled on a dorm door become charged with poetic weight and historical resonance. These poems live between memory and myth, between what is seen and felt. Rogers’ work blends formal innovation with sonic play, wielding language as a weapon and balm. Whether in the deft structure of a duplex or the staccato urgency of a list poem, each piece in Hindsight pulses with undeniable energy, a refusal to look away. This is poetry for those who seek work that is unapologetic in its truth-telling yet attuned to the beauty and pain of being alive. Hindsight is a necessary addition to the contemporary poetry landscape. PRAISE FOR HINDSIGHT Mack Rogers' Hindsight is a glimpse into a word-world that pushes the boundaries and possibilities of form and the lyric. The speaker's movements through space/place/time, seemingly impaired by a neurological disorder called "visual snow," at first seem to go backwards, sifting through memories, both beautiful and painful, of growing up Black and queer—but only to reach toward a future of joy and freedom. Rogers writes "I am afraid of the dark because I am the dark," and yet "see[s] further than any person." At once pensive and whimsical, solemn and celebratory, Hindsight is a testament to the necessity of remaining curious and brave, taking in what the world can offer—even when at first it seems you cannot see. — Ina Cariño, 2022 Whiting Award winner and author of Feast (Alice James Books) Mack Rogers is a queer Black writer whose work appears in Foglifter, The Offing, Glass, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. Mack is a poetry reader at Split Lip Magazine, staff critic for Pencilhouse, and poetry editor for Zero Readers Magazine. He has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. He lives with his partner and their three cats in Raleigh, NC. Contact: Patty Paine, Editor diodeeditions@gmail.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Hello! I have a pre-order link! 💜💜💜 www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
February 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Hello! My first chapbook is coming out soon! And it’s got a BEAUTIFUL cover! If you’re interested, I’ll share the preorder link when we’ve got it 🤗
diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode @diodeeditions.bsky.social · Feb 4
COMING SOON!

HINDSIGHT

Mack Rogers

www.diodeeditions.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa
Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.
January 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
The holiday season brings the gift of our DECEMBER ISSUE!! 💝

A big thank you to our contributors🥰:
WORDS: Vanessa Blakeslee, Nini Berndt, Brooke Randel, & Kaitlyn Airy
ART: Vónbjørt Vang
PLUS: Jamey Baumgardt interviews Richard Mirabella

Start reading here: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
A jewel-toned collage: warm retro colors against an emerald background. A buttoned, blue maxi skirt in the center “opens” near the top, with a black triangle thrusting out. Small flowers and snippets of large, black-and-white texts form accents.
December 15, 2024 at 2:47 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
I baked this pie for Thanksgiving.

(Cranberry Pomegranate Mousse Pie)
It’s a cake that I baked. It’s Cranberry Pomegranate Mousse.
November 29, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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karismaprice.bsky.social
Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).
November 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
So happy for this lil poem! It’s one of my favorites and this means soooo much to me 😭😭😭
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Nov 19
We're proud to announce our 2024 Pushcart Nominations!

Congratulations to @macksamillion.bsky.social, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Remi Recchia, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Brooke Sahni, and Carly Joy Miller!
2024 Pushcart Prize Nominations: Mack Rogers "On an early morning flight, I saw a shadow that reached into space" Anthony Thomas Lombardi "the sparrows, the sparrows" Remi Recchia "Walking with You in Ohio" Wendy Wisner "If Mother" Brooke Sahni "For the wild lavender" (forthcoming) Carly Joy Miller "Theater of Inheritance" (forthcoming)
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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inacarino.bsky.social
For those in or near the Triangle area of NC: my poetry reading series for marginalized creatives, Indigena Collective, is holding its next event at So & So Books in Raleigh on 11/24 at 6:30 pm! Feat. Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Carlina Duan, and Mack Rogers. Come thru! ✨
November 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Please help us welcome our gorgeous new 💫 NOVEMBER ISSUE 💫
https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖
WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes
ART: Zhuo Xiong
PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES
A vivid, abstract art piece. Bright orange pigment forms a rectangular block with fluid edges. Black pigment melts into the top edge. The block is gashed by strokes of pink which are—in turn—slashed with smaller, linear strokes of black.
November 15, 2024 at 2:45 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Hey that’s me!
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Aug 25
We're proud to announce our 2025 Best of the Net Nominations!

Congratulations to @macksamillion.bsky.social , @adamg.bsky.social, Saida Agostini, and Shiyang Su!!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
Image of wet glass Text: "Glass: A Journal of Poetry's 2025 Best of the Net Nominations Adam Gianforcaro "Room Capacity" Saida Agostini "georgia is a lesson in how to steal prayers or prathia hall becomes martin luther king’s ghostwriter" Shiyang Su "Prayer to Deep Time" Mack Rogers "On an early morning flight, I saw a shadow that reached into space" www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html"
August 25, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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zeroreaders.bsky.social
Next up, let's get to know our very own Mack Rogers (He/They)! If you want to see more Mack, keep an eye on Patreon and check out their piece "Sonnet for the Queer and Light-Skinned" here: shenandoahliterary.org/732/sonnet-f...
July 9, 2024 at 2:35 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
ICYMI !!
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Jun 11
Brand new poem tomorrow by Shiyang Su! Until then, spend some more time with @macksamillion.bsky.social's "On an early morning flight, I saw a shadow that reached into space"

www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
June 11, 2024 at 4:57 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
New poem live on Glass! Wake up! We’re so gay and joyful today!
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Jun 5
Today on Glass!!

"On an early morning flight, I saw a shadow that reached into space" by Mack Rogers (@macksamillion.bsky.social)!!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
June 5, 2024 at 1:39 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Oh hey that’s me! Look at me go! Read my gay poem tomorrow!
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Jun 4
Tomorrow!! Glass: A Journal of Poetry returns! We're dropping a brand new, brilliant poem by @macksamillion.bsky.social Hope you'll stop by and celebrate with us 🎉 🎉
June 4, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Can you believe AWP24 is almost here?! We'll be at Table 3105 with limited edition throwback merch, our gorgeous 10th Anniversary Postcards, and more. Don't be a stranger! buff.ly/3MopkwE
See you in Kansas City! Going to #AWP24? Visit us at Table 3105 for limited edition merch & friendly SLM FAM faces! AWP24 Merch Alert! Caps that say "Form Reject" and back issues! anniversary postcards!
January 22, 2024 at 4:42 PM
rogerthatmack.bsky.social
Saw a new hair stylist today and I said I feel like my skin tone is a curse bc I never fit neatly into any one group & she said “with your skin tone and hair texture, you are what America’s gonna look like in some years” and that shit fucked me up ngl flipped my whole perspective
December 20, 2023 at 9:23 PM