Spark to Flame

A journal of collaborative poetry (Active on Bluesky)

[Spark to Flame @s2fjournal]

We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: https://t.co/o5hIUCNtEV

In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.

[Alex Carrigan @carriganak]

I'll have a second poem in Inlandia's next issue! My prose poem "Pining for Radha" will also be included, so I can't wait to have this ekphrastic piece in the next issue.

[Alex Carrigan @carriganak]

My poem "Estrangement Bop" is live in the new issue of @VagabondCityLit. Check out my first Bop poem here: https://t.co/YfCOCD6xFs

[Spark to Flame @s2fjournal]

Thank you to all who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this issue 😎

[The Child and Its Enemies @childenemies]

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[Spark to Flame @s2fjournal]

Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!

[Spark to Flame @s2fjournal]

Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.

What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎

Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!

#poetry #writingcommunity

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[ICEBREAKERS 🦄 @icebreakers_lit]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!! Thank you for trusting us with your work and howling at the moon with us for three whole years. To celebrate, we’re opening subs! 🌙🦄

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[Spark to Flame @s2fjournal]

Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by @karinawrites25 (Flame) and Michael Kellichner (Spark).

Check it out, page 14: https://t.co/o5hIUCNtEV

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“Draught” by Giada Pesce (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.

“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”

Check it out, page 13: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

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“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and Giada Pesce (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.

Check it out, page 12: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

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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 Angela Heiser (Spark).

Check it out, page 11: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

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The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!

Check it out, page 10: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

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Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody (Flame) and Angela Gonzalez (Spark):

“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”

Check it out, page 9: https://t.co/o5hIUCNtEV

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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 @karinawrites25 (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.

Check it out, page 8: https://t.co/o5hIUCNtEV

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“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…”

“fire” by @gr8earlofhell and @lowermelody is a poem that burns.

Check it out, page 7: https://t.co/o5hIUCNtEV

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I love “The Truth About Mushrooms” by Michael Kellichner (Flame) and Van Rung (Spark):

“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”

Check it out! Page 6: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

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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: https://t.co/o5hIUCMVPn

[Alex Carrigan @carriganak]

I have two poems in the new issue of @TwinBirdReview. You can read my MST3K-inspired poem "I Have Terminal Enchantment Right Now" and my prose poem "Entombed" here: https://t.co/oYJQds2DZl

[D.W. Baker @lowermelody]

I am grateful to my collaborators for the poems we made in this issue of @s2fjournal: "Pour one out for my unreliable narrator," with Angela Gonzalez, and "fire," from a series with @gr8earlofhell. Both texts combine prose blocks with verse fragments

[Alex Carrigan @carriganak]

The new issue of @s2fjournal is out! My poem "Adultery Pantoum" is included, based off a spark from Mahailey Oliver, so check it out: