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Nice little April for me, unlike stupid March. Started with this lil piece in @bloominonionlit

https://t.co/7RTWzUWp9n

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@abbisynths @bruisermag Really dug this one - great work!

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@justin_karcher @PitheadChapel Love the Karcher Congrats - thanks!

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Proud to have a piece in one of the great purveyors of prose poetry @PitheadChapel

[Pithead Chapel @PitheadChapel]

Our June issue is here!

https://t.co/ZHaXUr76jW

cover art
JANELLE PAULINO

words
KEITH WOODRUFF
SUTTON STROTHER @suttonstrother
TRAVIS FLATT @WriterLeeFlatt
ANTHONY BROWN
LAUREN GIARD
REBECCA WATKINS @rwatkinswriter
JESSE LACY
BEN STARR @benjaminstarr
ELENA ZHANG
JOY YIN

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@JulianD86666247 @PitheadChapel Thanks Julian!

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Full issue here:

https://t.co/xql2BeuBpD

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ICYMI in @PitheadChapel

https://t.co/ifQOEv4BCm

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@MeanerHarker Thanks Zoe!

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west coast lunch bump

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The June issue of @PitheadChapel ! Happy summer everyone!

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https://t.co/ifQOEv4BCm

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@claudinelitmag @ThatOlAngela Loved this!

[Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart]

“There are two ways we can end this, my therapist says. The first is by putting your brain in a pasta jar. The second is by lying down on a bed that no longer exists.” (Closure // @ashleyvarela_)

Read more: https://t.co/1M1GVr79GH

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@brecht_dp Right! Perhaps you start at 20, produce drivel, get no response, quit before you’ve grown into the writer you are now

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@michigancityrev @damon_hubbs Damn!

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“The sky burls all pink along the horizon, / then purple, then deep blue to black, and / a nighthawk chases mayflies across open space” (Slow it Down // @jackbedell)

Read more: https://t.co/PqtQCDu1mW

[Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart]

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: sheep, houseplants, minimum wage jobs, mysteries, spoons, owls, heat, new beginnings, Celeste, love in all its many nebulous forms, queer joy, the sky, prose poems, witchcraft, doorways, and geology

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@amhcrane87 Love this

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Lovely, lovely, lovely piece up today. Curl up with your dog, or cat, or corn snake and enjoy "A Beginning with No End" from @joeltomfohr

Link: https://t.co/jNVUXhRKmL

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

Poems are art. They are not diaries or advocacy. If you want to "write about it," then write essays or do journalism. Poems aren't supposed to come out the way you want them to. Poems should surprise you. Poems are how you discover things. If you know what you want to say ahead of time, poetry is the wrong venue. Everyone is in pain. Everyone has content. If you want a good poem, make good images. Make good sentences, metaphors, line breaks.

[Travis Shosa @travis_shosa]

This is not now but it is soon. And since we missed May so as to make sure dates worked for everyone, Dodo Eraser will have TWO readings in June before I toddle off to Chicago for some readings.