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Some Important Changes:

Dear readers, friends, and supporters of @WriteNowLit, in our commitment to bringing you vivid writing(s), the newest and best voices, we recently had some updates on our website.

Our website has a new extension (now https://t.co/L7kzvmraf9)

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“To Set Love Alight” by Saleah Yusuf

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New fiction, “To Set Love Alight” by Saleah Yusuf

“The fire ate the curtains first. It ran along the furniture like a child in a race. There was a small,
satisfying sound when the TV blew. I had expected more noise when the gas cylinder went…”

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Nonfiction, “Your Father Is Just a Boy” by Adetutu Adedoyin is live

“To hold this image of your father is not to diminish him. It is, if anything, to make him larger, to restore to him the full complexity of personhood that the roles we assign people…”

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Read “Blue Hours” by Diane Wilson Parks

“Our prayers fade into clumps of silence,
the darkness stands in between the blue hours
and the blue souls crossing the night,
we prune the sky of dark clouds, we remove
the wintered arrows returning to tear...”

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Three Poems by Herb Kitson

“Secret thunder.
Reason inimical
 to memory.
You can't suck
honey from a rock.
Honor cannot erase
the onslaught
of tainted dream, 
scars  
on the soul,
 sharp 
as gray sky in winter...”

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9 years ago, @WriteNowLit started in our founding editor’s heart. Today it’s reached 95,762 hearts. Grateful for all of our readers who trust the work we do and all the artists and writers whose work found a home with us. Send us your best work. We’d love to read.

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Photography by Claudia Wysocky: Celestial Nights

Claudia Wysocky is a Polish poet and photographer based in New York, celebrated for her evocative creations that capture life's essence through emotional depth and rich imagery.

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Read “Nap” by Paul Smith

“Today’s nap
was like no other
in other naps
you dream about
the life you lived
the lives you didn’t live
this one was different…”

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Flight and The Wonder of Things: Three Photographs by Larena Nellies-Ortiz

Mountain Ridge; Sea View; Bird Flying High

“Whether it’s the lift of wings against an open sky, the slow endurance of a high altitude…”

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“The Woman” by Holly Day

“I used to wonder if I’d recognize her
if I passed on her on the street
if there would be some spark of recognition
in her eyes…’”

Day currently teaches classes at @MuseWritersCntr in Virginia.

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“Revelation” by Howard Brown

“It was only a dream, and I was fully
aware of that fact, even as I dreamed
it.  Yet the absolute verisimilitude of
the nocturnal fantasy was such that, 
moment to moment, I was enmeshed
in its unsettling narrative…”

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Re-reading a Classic: Bashō by Ronald Tobey @Turin54024117

“Basho became a servant to a poetry-writing samurai, but was never himself promoted to the samurai caste. His lord died in 1666. Bashōapparently renounced any samurai ambitions…”

#criticism

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@HiramGLarew We loved reading and publishing this. Thanks for sending it our way.

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“It’s the third time this week he saw her, sitting on her small stool in front of her portable easel painting the view across the Seine. The first two times he’d seen her…”

Short fiction, “Pisco on the Quai de Montebello” by Julian Gallo @JulianGallo66

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“And I’d defend the moon with longings 
With anything I could muster 
No limits --
To keep it up over
In harvests or phases 
Even for no one…”

Three poems by Hiram Larew @HiramGLarew

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“I have built an ethereal monument of
Immortality, a universal museum of
The human heart, where the most
Treasured mainstay is my thought of you…”

Five Poems by Yuan Changming. See bio @poetswritersinc

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“In the morning, 
the dog sniffs out 
some rabbits 
in our planters, 
and it’s all we can do 
to keep them 
out of her jaws.

Later, hawks circle above…”

Three poems by John Brantingham @JohnBrantingham

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@JoseHernandezDz Douglas Cole’s The Cabin at the End of the World is a flight through “heating ducts and beast parades” on a slowly sinking tanker, because “Who wouldn’t want their illegal cargo sunk / without a trace?…”

—Scott Ferry, author of Sapphires on the Graves

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Our contributor, Cole Douglas, whose five poems was published earlier this year has a new poetry collection coming out this Fall with Unsolicited Press called “The Cabin at the End of the World.”

Prepublication orders can be made through the press:

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Blurbs for The Cabin at the End of the World:

“Douglas Cole paints with an imagist’s clarity, a minimalist’s precision, and a poet’s sense of Duende... Well done, poet!”

—Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American. @JoseHernandezDz