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biannual lit mag focused on trauma, mental health, social justice, & marginalized voices.

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Thanks to everyone who submitted to issue v! We are busy reading submissions & will send out notices soon. ✍️

[Pat Foran @pdforan]

"I am indebted to the nameless and the named, the symphony of tractors chased and unchased, the amber waves of grain which assault us in lyrics and postcards." Barns & barn-like & hearts & heart-like & Missy & mystery & meaning. @aliner at @_tapmag_

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@jskuiken We believe in you 💕

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@Jilltalbo You misspelled "brilliant"

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Great thread: https://t.co/nt5fOC2zma

[Shira Erlichman @sheer_awe]

Today I’m teaching middle schoolers “Ode to the Letter B” by Aracelis Girmay & their own odes are fireeeee. This kid just said Z is “a broken hourglass.” 😱🔥

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@annasshole Never been more proud

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Happy Follow Friday! Might we recommend you follow some of our friends: @SinkingCity @reservoirlit @BlackWarriorRev @APublicSpace @CrabFatMagazine @thebrownorient @five2onemag @DreamPopPress #FF

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

"No matter where we go, there's a history of white men describing a landscape so they can claim it." From @HieuMinh's @Coffee_House_ NOT HERE

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"I’ve never been much of a salesman.
Though I skid on the dark turns, I don’t crash." https://t.co/RUVkeH166f

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

“First termites, then woodpeckers come.
I was left behind by the glacier.
A boulder in the field too big to move.
The stream runs in thick blue ballpoint.”

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@zclavoie omg

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Called out https://t.co/lRwdRAGK52

[Madeleine Wattenberg @topazandmaddy]

Poets in the spring 🌸

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Submissions close today! Don't forget to send us your work 🔥 https://t.co/yBBfmGQzMY

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SEEKING: the gutsiest & gussiest writing fit to print. |tap| is accepting submissions until Saturday!
https://t.co/3UmGQwf77H

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"Sometimes the spools of our words shoulder a responsibility to this joy making." https://t.co/j2qLAJXlFK

[Nina Sudhakar @ninasudhakar]

This is why we pray so heavily for stacks upon stacks of ordinary feeling and do things with such care.

-Muriel Leung, from BONE CONFETTI

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SEEKING: the gutsiest & gussiest writing fit to print. |tap| is accepting submissions until Saturday!
https://t.co/3UmGQwf77H

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

if someone dares publish another “is poetry dead” article, please just tell them they could’ve used that space for a poem, probably a couple poems. and stfu.

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Because the world is at the window
we cannot wonder very long.

-Gwendolyn Brooks

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Thread. https://t.co/7kS18brVGR

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"I was
in my bed, around my bed America

was falling: invisible house by invisible
house by invisible house." https://t.co/qxG6B361fM