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A journal of collaborative poetry | https://www.s2fjournal.com
Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).
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July 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
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“Draught” by @giadapesce.bsky.social (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.
“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”
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“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
July 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“Draught” by @giadapesce.bsky.social (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.
“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and @giadapesce.bsky.social (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and @giadapesce.bsky.social (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.
Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?”
Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).
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Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity 📝
July 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?”
Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity 📝
Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark).
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak.bsky.social (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!
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July 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak.bsky.social (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!
Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity 📝
Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody.bsky.social (Flame) and @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social (Spark):
“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”
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“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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July 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody.bsky.social (Flame) and @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social (Spark):
“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity 📝
“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“The radio songs all distilled the same sweetsick shit / about the shaky meatblood heart.”
The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.
Check it out, page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.
Check it out, page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“The radio songs all distilled the same sweetsick shit / about the shaky meatblood heart.”
The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.
Check it out, page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity
The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.
Check it out, page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…”
“fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns.
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“fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns.
Check it out, page 7: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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June 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…”
“fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns.
Check it out, page 7: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity
“fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is a poem that burns.
Check it out, page 7: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity
I love “The Truth About Mushrooms” by @mithalanis.bsky.social (Flame) and @savvofragments.bsky.social (Spark):
“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”
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“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”
Check it out! Page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝 #poetry
June 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I love “The Truth About Mushrooms” by @mithalanis.bsky.social (Flame) and @savvofragments.bsky.social (Spark):
“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”
Check it out! Page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝 #poetry
“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”
Check it out! Page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝 #poetry
First up from Issue Five is “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark):
“this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses”
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“this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses”
Check it out, page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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June 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
First up from Issue Five is “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark):
“this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses”
Check it out, page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity 📝 #poetry
“this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses”
Check it out, page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity 📝 #poetry
We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
June 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
“Sun-psalm” by Ana Reisens and Eartha Davis is like a meditation on dawn and dusk and ends our issue in the most beautiful way.
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#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
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January 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Sun-psalm” by Ana Reisens and Eartha Davis is like a meditation on dawn and dusk and ends our issue in the most beautiful way.
Check it out, page 15: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 15: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
“The Cave Mouth Yawned” by Luigi Coppola (Flame) and Angelica Urquizo (Spark) tells the story of humanity from the perspective of a cave!
Love the use of language & bits of playfulness.
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
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Love the use of language & bits of playfulness.
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
January 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“The Cave Mouth Yawned” by Luigi Coppola (Flame) and Angelica Urquizo (Spark) tells the story of humanity from the perspective of a cave!
Love the use of language & bits of playfulness.
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
Love the use of language & bits of playfulness.
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
“Uprooting” by Lauren E. Burrow and Mahailey Oliver combines puns with the human experience of growing up.
“If a girl falls in her journey to independence, / does she even make a sound?”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“If a girl falls in her journey to independence, / does she even make a sound?”
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January 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Uprooting” by Lauren E. Burrow and Mahailey Oliver combines puns with the human experience of growing up.
“If a girl falls in her journey to independence, / does she even make a sound?”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
“If a girl falls in her journey to independence, / does she even make a sound?”
Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
“The Call Center for Grief” by @mithalanis.bsky.social (Flame) and Ashley Varela (Spark) is an incredible study in grief and humor, animal and human.
“like a chimp hugging / a baby’s body / to its heart…”
Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“like a chimp hugging / a baby’s body / to its heart…”
Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
January 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“The Call Center for Grief” by @mithalanis.bsky.social (Flame) and Ashley Varela (Spark) is an incredible study in grief and humor, animal and human.
“like a chimp hugging / a baby’s body / to its heart…”
Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
“like a chimp hugging / a baby’s body / to its heart…”
Check it out, page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
“We have always loved / this way, in metaphors…”
That line from “Break up {after Valentine}” by Angela Yap (Flame) and Luca Fois (Spark) continues to stick with me.
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
That line from “Break up {after Valentine}” by Angela Yap (Flame) and Luca Fois (Spark) continues to stick with me.
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
December 31, 2024 at 3:24 PM
“We have always loved / this way, in metaphors…”
That line from “Break up {after Valentine}” by Angela Yap (Flame) and Luca Fois (Spark) continues to stick with me.
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
That line from “Break up {after Valentine}” by Angela Yap (Flame) and Luca Fois (Spark) continues to stick with me.
Check it out, page 11: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#Writingcommunity #poetry 📝
I love how “When It’s Time To Leave” by Annie Klier Newcomer (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) plays with mirrors in both form and theme.
Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
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December 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I love how “When It’s Time To Leave” by Annie Klier Newcomer (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) plays with mirrors in both form and theme.
Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 10: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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December 29, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“The broken things I love” is an absolutely delightful abecedarian by the collective, The idea of absinthe.
I love the use of space, the playfulness.
Check it out on page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
I love the use of space, the playfulness.
Check it out on page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
December 28, 2024 at 5:03 PM
“The broken things I love” is an absolutely delightful abecedarian by the collective, The idea of absinthe.
I love the use of space, the playfulness.
Check it out on page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
I love the use of space, the playfulness.
Check it out on page 8: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
“Purge” by Angelica Urquizo (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark) is an intense journey:
“When we wake, you will / know me by the texture / of the roughened walls…”
Check it out on page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝
“When we wake, you will / know me by the texture / of the roughened walls…”
Check it out on page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝
December 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
“Purge” by Angelica Urquizo (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark) is an intense journey:
“When we wake, you will / know me by the texture / of the roughened walls…”
Check it out on page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝
“When we wake, you will / know me by the texture / of the roughened walls…”
Check it out on page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity 📝
First up in our fourth issue is “here in the dreaming” by Ashley Varela (Flame) and mk zariel (Spark):
“in which care transcended all & the whole world faded | into the soft oblivion of the queer”
Check it out on page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
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“in which care transcended all & the whole world faded | into the soft oblivion of the queer”
Check it out on page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
📝 #WritingCommunity
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
First up in our fourth issue is “here in the dreaming” by Ashley Varela (Flame) and mk zariel (Spark):
“in which care transcended all & the whole world faded | into the soft oblivion of the queer”
Check it out on page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
📝 #WritingCommunity
“in which care transcended all & the whole world faded | into the soft oblivion of the queer”
Check it out on page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
📝 #WritingCommunity
We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Four: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝
In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝
December 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Four: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝
In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝
We are excited to announce our Best of the Net 2025 Nominations!
Congratulations to @cyvilizations.bsky.social, Aisha Al-Tarawneh, @gretchenfilart.bsky.social, Shikha S. Lamba, Emily Winters, @terrilinndavis.bsky.social, Abigail Hora, Jamie Anderson, Jose Jay, Alice Agro-Paulson, and Julio Rainion!
Congratulations to @cyvilizations.bsky.social, Aisha Al-Tarawneh, @gretchenfilart.bsky.social, Shikha S. Lamba, Emily Winters, @terrilinndavis.bsky.social, Abigail Hora, Jamie Anderson, Jose Jay, Alice Agro-Paulson, and Julio Rainion!
August 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM
We are excited to announce our Best of the Net 2025 Nominations!
Congratulations to @cyvilizations.bsky.social, Aisha Al-Tarawneh, @gretchenfilart.bsky.social, Shikha S. Lamba, Emily Winters, @terrilinndavis.bsky.social, Abigail Hora, Jamie Anderson, Jose Jay, Alice Agro-Paulson, and Julio Rainion!
Congratulations to @cyvilizations.bsky.social, Aisha Al-Tarawneh, @gretchenfilart.bsky.social, Shikha S. Lamba, Emily Winters, @terrilinndavis.bsky.social, Abigail Hora, Jamie Anderson, Jose Jay, Alice Agro-Paulson, and Julio Rainion!