Contemplations #4
A Dream Apart I dream beneath a moonlit night, The air is thin, earth wrapped pale within its light. Behind my eyelids, folding many years, As distant bells give voice to fallen tears, …
poem
Myth, No Myth I remember the book mobile would visit our little reservation town once per month and I’d check out four books, the maximum amount. But my siblings don’t remember that book mobile and none of my cousins do, either. I text all of my childhood friends— those who stayed on the rez …
bright black-eyed Susan caught within the garden’s web pinning down sunbeams Anne's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Oliver’s poem is perfection; it’s also perhaps the single best writing advice out there — not only explaining how but why.
Be ordinary, say nothing
A poem cannot be owned. A poem has no home. A poem is a childless ancestor.
@Unsaid Silences 💗 wild birds take to flight through a prism of light caught in the setting sun anyone fancy a haiku @Drown the Thought @Type of Poet -D. VanderHouwen @The Quiet Hour Poet @EJOD @JRB Haiku
(Haiku) Are we poets just seeking approval before the loneliness grows?
haiku a day 010 can we take a walk? no need for words; just please spare one of your moments.
night cereus is done all energy has been drained big yellow tassel The night cereus has big blooms that flower for just one night. Even when the bloom is done, I’ve still admired the tassel that is left. www.haikutim.com Instagram: haikutim
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share your poetry with me! share your poetry with me! crush me, soften me, make me tumble over your words, just let me read it!
I put my grief in the spine of a poem it grew legs & walked away
A poem
Soon as this sun begins to shine on us Arguments await the things we discuss A wise man in this age of stupidity To know the meaning of humility All the times death came for a casualty You hate my wounded vulnerability Disrespectful, I know, it comes naturally My heretical angel The best and worst, so playful …
it hurts to write this, perhaps because every word carries a part of me that i have never truly let go of. maybe that's why i wanted to turn this into art—not to romanticize the pain, but to give a voice to the kind of longing that quietly lives inside people who loved someone they could never have. not because the…
If you are not my boyfriend, please scroll. Thanks.
Remember you asked me to write. This is me, writing. Trying to write you into existence in lines, trying to close up the distance through words, while struggling to break free from the chokehold of the block—from the poet's prison. This is my creative attempt, Fiyin, to make our long distance just a line long. …
first, get hurt, and not the clean kind that heals over in a week and leaves a thin white line you can point to at parties, but the kind that settles into your teeth and stays there for years, so that you taste it every time you try to say a name out loud. …
A poem written to my 14-year-old daughter.
If you could see what I can see, When I look across the room at you You’d never have to wonder once, If you are loved the way you do I know that fourteen isn’t easy, Though sometimes I forget it’s true How heavy life can start to feel, When you’re still learning to be you Caught somewhere between little girl, …
By: Tom Russell
October in the Railroad Earth is a critically acclaimed studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Russell, described by Russell himself as “Jack Kerouac meets Johnny Cash... in Bakersfield.” The title track draws heavily from Jack Kerouac’s prose-poem and his time as a railroad brakeman in San Francisco. I hope…
MY FAVOURITE LOVE POEM
MY FAVOURITE LOVE POEM . . .is one uttered by Janice the last time I was able to visit her on her ward. Her stroke had left her mostly bereft of words but she kept on trying to break through. She knew what time I’d appear and the fall of my footsteps. She was alone behind the blue curtains of her bed and she cried out…
Some more of my haiku
Here are the attempts I made writing haiku that do not conform to the 5, 7, 5 rule. As a quick summary, I’ve absolutely loved writing haiku and will continue to do so. I’ll release them as notes while I continue my journey into the world of poetry. My next stop: Limericks. 1 . Still forest. Meditating… Achoo! 2. …
It is I who have changed
My watercolour haiga for my haiku:” ~: in the pandanus a pair of ibis bicker the ocean, just waves ~
You said write haikus Im not interested in that Or your syllables. Fuck
the shortest poem i know is your name
Part of the purpose of Rabbit Room Poetry is to not only nourish your creativity with excellent featured work but also give you actionable steps for moving forward with your own poetic projects. At the beginning of every month, we share a roundup of poetry prompts to whet your imagination and launch you into the…
Turn of the season
Haikus for the turn of the season Poetry Pepper Miller <peppermiller3011@gmail.com> Tue, Sep 22, 2:36 AM (9 days ago) Haikus for Autumn 1. Crimson leaves let go, falling without bitterness— soft courage in gold. 2. Wind folds the daylight, tucking summer into dusk— autumn hums low songs. 3. Bare branches whisper, …
A Catalogue of Poetry with Commentary
Editor’s Note: Dana Gioia is preparing a comprehensive catalogue of Philip Larkin’s books. New Verse Review is honored to share the poetry section of this catalogue below. Other sections in the catalogue cover fiction, jazz criticism, literary criticism, and librarianship. A Personal Preface …
Division
A world inflamed, ornery from intense pain. The antidote: love A haiku by Ene © 2026 Thanks for reading Ene’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Share Share Ene’s Substack Leave a comment
Returning to Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek reminded me of this gorgeous poem by Kandace Siobhan Walker, “Three Mangoes, £1,” from Season 8 of the Poetry Unbound podcast. Kandace’s poem ends with “…its a day / neither fine nor good / just a day.” …
Down to my last renewal. Somewhere a librarian is wondering if she’ll ever see this book again.
"Writing about real people is a challenge. I would not have written this memoir if my parents were alive, for example. "
Since 2010, in various publications , I’ve interviewed authors—mostly memoirists—about aspects of writing and publishing. Initially I did this for my own edification, as someone who was struggling to find the courage and support to write and publish my memoir …
“I’ve got my theories.
“I’ve got my theories. My theory is that a vigorous, free, outdoors life is good for people. It fills them with cheer and high spirits, leading to health and a long life.” —Edward Abbey Wilderness complements and completes civilization. I might say that the existence of wilderness is also a compliment to civilization…
H.D., Merwin, Berrigan, Dugan, Gregg
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“Restrained in many prisons, I've had to pay, shamefully, for all that I've done wrong.”
Prison by Luís de Camões translated by William Baer Restrained in many prisons, I've had to pay, shamefully, for all that I've done wrong; and even now, I seem to drag along my chains, though Fate has taken them away. I sacrificed my life to satiate my selfish whims, but Love was never content …
“This book is a disgrace.”
Last week, an extract from Dana Gioia ’s new catalogue of Philip Larkin’s work was published on New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry . Today I am delighted to bring you a second extract, this one from the section of Dana’s catalogue about Larkin’s anthology— …
poem
Myth, No Myth I remember the book mobile would visit our little reservation town once per month and I’d check out four books, the maximum amount. But my siblings don’t remember that book mobile and none of my cousins do, either. I text all of my childhood friends— those who stayed on the rez …
Ryan Ruby close-reads the final poem of the final chapbook by J. H. Prynne, a dense and difficult poet who, Ruby writes, “saved poetry for me.”
By Ryan Ruby Whenever I find myself in London, the first thing I do is go to the London Review Bookshop, down the street from the British Museum in Bloomsbury. I ask a bookseller to take me to the basement floor and open the supply closet. There, along with the shop’s buckets and mops and other cleaning supplies, are…
Robert Francis gets into the heads of two ballplayers
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Poem and recording links from today’s creative writing session using the work of Ruth Padel
Good morning! We had 55 writers in the live session this morning, looking at three poems by Ruth Padel from her book Girl (above). We began today’s workshop looking at the poem “You Girl ” and spoke a little about effect of the form and longer spaces in the poem, as well as how a semicolon at the start of the line…
The list poem, and two writing exercises to try this week
Dear Friends, I love a list poem, especially one I don’t see coming. My high school English teacher, the wonderful writer Christine Schutt, argued that there were two temperaments in American poetry—the Dickinsonian (here she drew her arms in) and the Whitmanic (arms spread far out). One seemed to work by subtraction…
BUT-MOST-OF-ALL-I-LOVE-WRITING-ALPHABETISED-LISTS
A is for altar cloths, apricots split with thumbs, ants carrying something three times their size, abandoned shopping trolleys in fields, apples with bite-marks, afterparties in hotel rooms, alphabetised lists B is for bread, butter, bread doused in butter, brown eyes like brass in low light, bumblebees in lavender…
Thinking about the Parsifal story
In the Grail legends, Parsifal, or Perceval, is raised deep in the forest by his mother who doesn’t want him to become a knight. She has lost her husband and her other sons to that madness. Inevitably, the boy sees King Arthur’s knights riding through the dense forest and demands to be released from his safe but…
“Wallace Stevens on His Way to Work” by David Wagoner and “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” by Wallace Stevens
That’s a photo of poet Wallace Stevens who was also Vice President of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. It was taken in July of 1950 by Walter Sanders for LIFE magazine. Stevens didn’t have a driver’s license and for 40 years would walk, weather permitting, the 2.4 miles to his office in Hartford, Connecticut…
issa trap
Well. You could always be more well . (“ Better”, if I’m using High School English.) You can design, not despite the ailment, or the blues, or the anger, but because of them. Things don't have to feel very beautiful at all for you to make beauty, and anyway, most things are double-pronged, many-sided/opaque/not what…
Or, What the dying woman told me...
At dawn I will dress myself in white light in the rawest fabric of day; Not dressing like the draping of a robe, dressing like the wrapping of a wound. You have heard me say in a voice not my own, “this house is a haunted place.” But I think when I said it, you did not understand. …
from issue 101
REMAINS It was like being dead It was like being stupid It was like making a terrible mistake It was like catching a bad glimpse of yourself in a security camera monitor A security camera monitor grabbed …
A Look Inside the Printing Process of a Small-Press Edition of the Late Poet’s Work
During the mid-1990s I began to apprentice at Larkspur Press, a rural Kentucky-based letterpress operation run by Gray Zeitz. All the type at the press was set by hand and (for the most part) printed on a Chandler & Price clamshell press, retrofitted with an electric motor to replace the original foot treadle. Gray…
Only kindness … goes with you everywhere
There’s a poem that gives celery a harder time than it gives you. It allows for doubt, silliness, and being spectacularly wrong. Yet it asks quite a lot of you, empathy, generosity, warmth. How does it get away with that? Look at the small word that keeps returning before each wish. …
Making art is a spiritual practice
The act of creation is a dance between worlds. Think about it. The artist, the poet, the musician send their imagination or intuition into an unseen landscape to bring back what they find in the form of expression. People often ask me how to become a better writer, and I tell them to start meditating. The mind needs…
Collage as a form of inspiration and integration
I first saw the idea of “The Edge Effect” in a Tiktok by Sophie Ansari a few weeks back Sophie describes that the places where two geographical or ecological environments meetcreate a uniquely rich environment for growth: where a forest meets a meadow, or a river spills into the sea, for instance. At these boundaries…
“Before him stood the Tree, his Tree, finished.
“Before him stood the Tree, his Tree, finished. If you could say that of a Tree that was alive, its leaves opening, its branches growing and bending in the wind that Niggle had so often felt or guessed, and had so often failed to catch.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, from Leaf by Niggle We’re over half way through the …
In which I answer the questions you asked about structure...plus a new anthology of poems of illness.
Happy August, all. I just got some very happy news: week, Publisher’s Weekly reviewed my new anthology, The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery, calling it “excellent” among other things and featured it as the cover review–one and only time I’ll get to be on a magazine cover. Shoutout to my amazing…
When Friday comes and the living room is empty, shadows lurking in the streets, the lanterns casts a static, flickering light, as the world outside is fast asleep. The wind howls through the trees with no soul to play with, scratching branches against the glass like fingernails on a chalkboard, pier
When Friday comes and the living room is empty, curtains closed the house falls quiet as the world outside is fast asleep. Streetlights cast a static, flickering light, stretching shadows across the streets. Silent windows stare like empty eyes, while the wind howls through the trees scratching at the glass, …
One Poem Only
Up by Ventry Beach Keelin Sheppard While history argues and gods change names, someone is washing a cup carefully because it belonged to the dead. While the universe expands, a woman pauses in a doorway, forgetting why she entered, feeling suddenly watched by time. Nothing announces itself as important. Love arrives …
I'll swim in your absolute presence. When your water muffles my ears, And the sun illuminates up the darkness behind my closed eyelids, Right there, Right there, I'll experience your being With all my senses.
Two waters Look at me Gaze into the direction of my eyes. Undress me with those two shining spheres of yours, That turquoise lake hidden in two ancient forests. Undress me, I'll do the same to you. But never take your gaze off me. Let the hidden lake stay visible to my attraction. Let me bathe in it, …
A Poe-nanigans retelling Poe-m of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
(lyrics and voice sample - Martin Maenza, music by Suno) “With Every Beat of the Heart” (A Poe-nanigans retelling Poe-m of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”) With every beat of the heart Let me start from the start I came to despise the look in his eyes For I recognize an evil in his eyes To his room every night …
Practice
When people say “practice makes perfect” do they know about the times the pen smudged I pressed snooze I overslept missed the recital. The hardest thing to do is “get out of bed” let alone write every day for fifteen minute’s yet here we are— I can’t wait to say my prayers make my lunch get dressed …
'The Bitter Sting Of Betrayal'
For your reading pleasure: Here is my poem for today 'The Bitter Sting Of Betrayal' A friendship forged with bonds of steel; a brother to the last; at least that what I thought; but now that friendship's passed For what you did was no small thing; and that I won't forgive; you sold me down the river; now I can't let…
Poem
The less I read, the more the pages remain blank my voice in silent mode and I find it hard to believe in truths words tangled up in lies Goodbyes echo yet paralyse me lie after lie I used them all; building blocks to make a castle and lock hope inside. Once more I cover my face in my hands The less I read …
Travel the globe by haiku from Haiku Heaven
a cold blast carries the shiver of open doors a missing jacket Travel the world by Haiku: “Minimal words, Maximum impact.” At Haiku Heaven, words become footprints - small, deliberate steps towards a visionary and mindful living. Welcome to the Daily Haiku - a space for poets, thinkers, and world-shapers who see words…
In the evening, I sit alone, wondering what all I should talk about with myself
In the evening, I sit alone, wondering what all I should talk about with myself Some conversations will hold me together, while others will take me somewhere far away I sat down to remember memories along with the life we have lived And somehow, the life of I became famous …
RESISTANCE & RECEPTIVITY
RESISTANCE & RECEPTIVITY Nope. Can’t. Won’t. I cannot bring myself to say yes to this broken world. To accept rampant cruelty and greed. To abide self-centered meanness. But, this planetary body is also comprised of columbine and cosmos, roses and raspberries, cashmere and silk. Includes Lindy Hop dancing …
A poem about the one place we all (eventually) arrive at
they’d lost it all so long ago, they walked in still with ankle socks. A flex of the wrist revealed a watch, and headphones, braided cord. In other reports, they were the laughing stock; Lacoste’s crocodile was even eating its own tail. But still the thrill of aftershave, the close shave of a TV tray, …
I guess I’ll shoot for a poem a week....
I took the first verse and chorus of a song and wrote different lyrics Song: Void by Alan Walker and Sorana Lately I’ve been dreaming of your love Wishing for some help from up above Are your eyes gray green brown or sky blue What’s your favorite color that’s mine too What’s your story can you handle mine …
This poem is for anyone that has lost a loved one without telling them how you feel.
I keep rehearsing what I’d say, As if you hadn’t gone away Like I could still turn back somehow, And say the things I can’t say now The words come easy in my head, All the things I never said They line themselves in quiet rows, Too late for you to ever know I thought there’d be another day, …
a fading poem
What Age Erases Age dims your eyes, your smile, your strength, your light, your hope. it blurs the future, makes reason clear, and then it makes your heart disappear. Rolando Andrade, 2026 Leave a comment
A poem about getting what you thought you wanted.
I don’t know where to go from here. I don’t know what to do. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published How do you continue to grow if all your dreams have come true? Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published …
Poetry for a scattered heart
I Thought You Were The Perfect Drug Replacement (Interlude) When I pull you closer Don’t mistake that for me being healed I just got done crying Over someone else *** You’re not her And you’re not supposed to be It’s case by case Though I have no room to grow *** I don’t wanna build this house with you …
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it hurts to write this, perhaps because every word carries a part of me that i have never truly let go of. maybe that's why i wanted to turn this into art—not to romanticize the pain, but to give a voice to the kind of longing that quietly lives inside people who loved someone they could never have. not because the…
considerations of winter
four fires, lit in this round house in the hills - the stove and the three candles melting there beside the linen-covered baskets, full of branches and miracle sprouts of autumn - abundance grace stillness, and gratitude like light, dancing quiet beside the circling chores of life, this inner world is rich …
CT scans usually require the removal of all metal and sometimes also involve an IV, so when i went in the first time dressed in long sleeves, jeans, and high-tops, i was immediately asked to change out of all of it. the next thing i know i'm in a tiny broom closet of a change room, contorting as i struggle to escape…
Merrillton - My grandmother’s house Sitting on the top step of the third floor landing, I listen to the silence of alone, Not quiet, but alone. I have just turned eight. There are others in the house, somewhere - all asleep. Margaret, the maid, and Agnes, the cook, are in the forbidden wing, …
The slaughterhouse is gorged with blood The big macs turned into a flood I guess I just got used to it. The land I now own once was theirs With logic we all crushed their prayers I guess I just got used to it. The older buildings built on chains Mortared with their faint remains I guess I just got u
The slaughterhouse is gorged with blood The big macs turned into a flood I guess I just got used to it. The land I now own once was theirs With logic we all crushed their prayers I guess I just got used to it. The older buildings built on chains Mortared with their faint remains I guess I just got used to it. …
Dear Friends: The news in this newsletter is sparse: the semester is rolling along. What am I reading? Annie Ernaux’s The Years , Laleh Khadivi’s Female Life on Planet Earth , T.S. Leonard’s Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival , and the memoirs in my memoir seminar (this week we’re talking about Terese Marie Mailhot’s…
Spent too much time on LinkedIn and TikTok Wasting ticked clocks, checking boxes proving to robots that I’m not a robot Rearranging resumes and writing cover letters that will never be read by corporate emperors Instead, they let the artificial find the perfect ass kissing cogs to fit their frugally oiled machine …
Pray
There are moments you scratch out like a cancelled appointment when you want to burn the memory in your mind. When you were left destitute full of despair and an aching loneliness when unlit beeswax candles promised hope but you didn’t have a match. Someone hurt you with words as daggers …
Questions I Never Got to Ask
Will we ever meet again? After all these years Will this pain ever end? My eyes are out of tears Will you still remember my name? I still remember every inch of you Will our bond still be the same? Like how we used to admire the view Will you ever come back? I’ll never get tired of waiting …
Stood on dead lawn. Thinking about the rubber of escalators with the kind of face people keep asking, “Are you okay?” to. Been watering the same patch for weeks; trying to imagine that sooner or later something will grow. A quiet breeze blows. Anything can happen in dark comedies.
'A Heart-Wrenching, Gut-Wrenching Poem'
For your reading pleasure: Here is my poem for today 'A Heart-Wrenching, Gut-Wrenching Poem' A heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching, soul destroying poem; written just to break your heart and make your tears flow; it will have you crying from the moment that you start; to read the words upon the page; bled from the poets…
Pedestrians Forever Bikenonces Never
Shouldn’t be on the pavement I say thanks for reading my poem short one for ur busy day love you don’t work too hard xxx Frightening Electric Bicycle (6 October 2026) bristol zoo, before it went (keeping on-keeping on) so zealous to tell you to avoid direct eye contact testing reveals mild disdain or big …
Poem by Chazz
Just like the first day of spring - She radiates a warmth glow, To hold her gaze is - it is paralyzing How do you do it? Just like the autumn leaves, I’m falling against my will - My heart aches at the thought of never knowing what your voice sounds like directed to me, …
Short poem in Dutch and English
English below elke ander vloekt bij mij er zijn geen passende puzzelstukken alleen een voortdurende poging tot samen horen mijn kinderen misschien maar ook zij sluiten hun deur in mijn gezicht no other person fits me there are no matching pieces only a constant attempt to belong my children perhaps but even they …
I don’t have a story tonite. Instead I am going to write a poem. I don’t ever do rhyming. It’s my least favorite form of writing but I was listening to a song called Shivers. A happy pop song about someone who gives you shivers. Then I thought hmmmm I know someone who gives me those… so here’s my attempt at it. I do…
A melancholic afternoon, cozy bed and some notes. If love was a red flower blooming in spring or light drizzle on a summer afternoon I wasn't I was the cold ash dead of heat in the winter and Autumn's leafless tree. My heart wasn't beating for a memory, but a lulled anguish A dulling season of endless ruminations, …
re st less bodyinbed like sleep is not coming arm yourself for a long night ahead facing the regrets in the twists and turns of life and the medicine renders you unconscious if you just stop fighting and thinking about it more than fuel in the machinery of the brain …
poets are miserable beings
loving a poet is hard they said, like having a snowball’s chance in hell, but you wished for falling for one, when you threw a coin in the well. we capture..every presence, the tone of your voice, the look in your eyes, the way you walk or the way you talk, we capture..every essence. …
Travel the globe by haiku from Haiku Heaven
winter uniforms crunching of sweet chestnut husks under scuffed school shoes Travel the world by Haiku: “Minimal words, Maximum impact.” At Haiku Heaven, words become footprints - small, deliberate steps towards a visionary and mindful living. Welcome to the Daily Haiku - a space for poets, thinkers, and world-shapers…
We’re going to start off with a poem I wrote and then have a little chat about it. Let’s go. God-Lamp Lord, I’ve built myself clean. Cut all my warts off and drink water only. No more mistakes - I know that dirt road well. It’s been eleven years since I built myself clean …
Box of Nerves
The Box of Nerves Inside a small, dark box of nerves, where no light should live, thoughts burst — colorful, unruly. A red thought — sudden anger, flickering like a wire touched wrong. A blue one — deep and quiet, the memory of rain you never felt. Yellow laughter, spilling over logic. …
TO KNOW MY TRUE AGE
TO KNOW MY TRUE AGE "Let me know my true age in kisses..."~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, By The Numbers Let me know my true age in kisses , not in wrinkles. Turning moistened lips towards yours, offering my tongue to slick skin, licking your limbs with affectionate purrs, anointing your glistening cells …
You never read my poetry. Not really. at least not the parts that weren’t about you. at the start you read what I handed you, even the parts that weren’t about you then some days you didn’t want to, even when I offered. I’ve stopped trying to guess why. I just know I’ll never find out. I never waited to be asked. …
on the world turning
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Blessing: Everything has a season, and everything turns Or so the common wisdom claims There is a constant changing that brings Fresh vision and grace Or so the knowledge of the world promises …
15-min guided writing session
Another guided writing session led by David Joey . We’ve been reflecting on what is a good life and what has formed our own idea of it. This is what I felt in a 10-15 minute session. —- I’m here sitting with myself But not in the sense of just thinking about things It’s like I’m out of my body …
A poem about what They Say.
They say it’ll be better next year, every year. Those that get to say it are always living proof. Those that don’t make it had their best year. They say that at their funeral. This is strange proof for uncertain times. Certainly timed to cut through if it can. Can it mean as much as is hoped? Hope so! Tune in and find…
reflecting on it, i knew all too well from the start,
reflecting on it, i knew all too well from the start, and maybe that’s why i wouldn’t stop; a desperate aching in my bones for something destructive and pure, a knocking on my door that i could not ignore, a face behind it with hungry eyes searching for a loose stitch. did you find it in me? that stitch to unravel? …
I know my time with you is temporary, but I will love you every day for the rest of my life.
For Bella, and anyone who’s grieving or grieved their soul cat. I wrote this poem for my soul cat, Bella, who was the love of my life and my whole world. I lost her last Wednesday. This audio is from me reading the poem to her the day I took her to the vet. It’s a raw recording and you can hear the pain in my voice…
So I know I told a lot of my bs fam about my poems so I’ll put a few on here so y’all can read and give me some opinions and n what you guys all think THE MAP THAT KEEPS AND THE HOLLOW THAT LEAVES They trace the map of you with soft careful hands and for a moment the world hushes …
“discover what never was”
I’m sorry about my need to unpubish an earlier version of this post. Thanks to Lotte Kestner and Roger Scott for your kind comments on that poem. There was a slight problem with the audio, which I’ve corrected in this new post. This new piece, a double sonnet, was meant to be the pentultimate poem in the Substack …
for every acidic big-little girl
Sharp nails and a scampered fox! glittery holiday strands and weapons Secondhand lung irritant as decor It’s always sunny in heaven …not on earth? can’t I pick? Pastries that can be very sweet, Sometimes a brief anomalous expression of endearment “Good Job” only once? christ, the redeemer showed some …
Writing, especially writing poetry and writing poetry from the heart is the echo of the world. A glimpse into the lives of people, into the things that keep them awake at night. A look at what touches their heart in a profound way and what gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of community. …
I’m sitting down to write a poem My laptop open. My coffee full I’m waiting for inspiration to flow Nothing yet No worries I’ll take another sip ;lbvfgderwbcvx mn;l’l’’qwehjkhkmn, nfghj,.;”?,.m/;’/.;./,l;k;./,l;kjhgfdsadxzcdseqwertydfghjiuyoyghj My coffee spilled All you see above Is my frantic cleaning …
I wrote this poem simply because I was inspired and my emotions were running rampant.
Dear Dad I’m sorry, Thanks for reading JANE00! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I’m sorry for what happened between you and Mom I’m sorry that you moved away from us, that you had to leave your girls behind I’m sorry that you live on your own, with only your photos of us to keep you company …
'The Cruelty Of Existence In A World Full Of Despair'
For your reading pleasure: Here is my poem for today 'The Cruelty Of Existence In A World Full Of Despair' There is nothing left to live for Yet we continue to persist And eke out an existence In a world that doth consist Of nothing but the horror Of a cruel and unjust state Leaving only the despair …
This poem was written during a hiking trip in the French Alps in October 2025. Just a week before we started the trip, winter arrived. What was supposed to be a trek with a tent in some still decent weather turned into walking through snow for a big part of the journey. …
Crash course in long drives to drink cream free double cream from a bottle of milk. Your favourite stranger not having a name nor wanting yours. Endless aisles of tissue paper. They bus us through stair-rods of heavenly water and silver, grey mist; unknowing where we’re going, or what the reason is. Jaunty clouds of…
A poem about writing a poem
to write a poem for a song for a moment in the future for right now a rhythm In the world around A piece, a moment to appreciate In 10 minutes A few deep breaths A pen, a page, a poem Design Ritual is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
I wrote a poem for my friend’s zine.
One of my friends at my favorite coffee shop published a zine titled “End of Summer,” after inviting the baristas and a few of us regulars to submit a photo, artwork, or piece of writing. I wrote a poem for the zine called “The Cost of Coffee.” …
Short poem on my idea of me around love
I guess I am the love that feels like... The love that feels slow... The love that feels magical... The love that feels emotions... The love that feels intense... The love that feels a song... The love that feels like a poem... The love that feels like pride... The love that feels easy... The love that feels light... …
by Yehuda Amichai
Temporary Poem of My Time by Yehuda Amichai Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west, Latin writing, from west to east. Languages are like cats: You must not stroke their hair the wrong way. The clouds come from the sea, the hot wind from the desert, The trees bend in the wind, …
In the crowd I felt the birthing energy Of 2 million people "HEGEL, STALIN, CHAIRMAN MAO!"
I’m a poet looking for inspiration.
I’m a poet looking for inspiration. where do I begin? I write to find peace Outside is chaotic A pen in my hand. Each line tells a story every verse I write is felt alone on stage. A walk in nature. Time to reflect and recharge. Nature is healing. A poem written. An open ear to listen. What is left to feel? …
Baz’s poem is featured in Issue 1 of Loose Thread, available now for digital purchase.
i know it’s my turn, but come again to my place. it’s not even mine, either rented or parental. take the bed: i’ll put on fresh sheets and break pink pomegranates open in time for your arrival, expose their secret caviar. i’ll throw walnuts on lavish salads, take you to taste cake …
Poetry Pause with William Stafford
Thinking About Being Called Simple by a Critic I wanted the plums, but I waited. The sun went down. The fire went out. With no lights on I waited. From the night again— those words: how stupid I was. And I closed my eyes to listen. The words all sank down, deep and rich. I felt their truth …
Hello people today i have a love poem that i did in class yesterday and i want to release it today so enjoy ☺️
Things That i couldn’t explain, how that is you so loving, kind, respectful, And a fun woman to be around. ?,HOW IS YOU, really, How you is so fine to me that i remember you in the perfect form that put my heart and head when i see you ,woman sometimes i just wanna dance you tango within your arms , and fleeing and…
Accept this (not so) apology poem of mine
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October
Hello friends, I was in a conversation yesterday with a friend that reminded me of the fun of found poems. Found poems are when you create a poem using the words of another. Kind of like a poem collage. It could be the words of another poet, or anything — a newspaper article, a letter from a friend, a page from a…
MY FAVOURITE LOVE POEM
MY FAVOURITE LOVE POEM . . .is one uttered by Janice the last time I was able to visit her on her ward. Her stroke had left her mostly bereft of words but she kept on trying to break through. She knew what time I’d appear and the fall of my footsteps. She was alone behind the blue curtains of her bed and she cried out…
working-class free verse, “ars poetica”, a love poem, and a Sonnet
I. rich man’s gold i robbed Bruster of his millions today, his cocaine mines were Fair Trade for my stratified blood and sweat drained down to skin-surface pits of yellow, purple, black and pockets of blues he’s picked clean from deep within my bones by vultures starving for ambergris formed behind massive ocular dams …
anger attached to my sorrow like a shadow or how light follows a casket into the earth i watched you lowered into the dirt and i was like this is so fucking stupid. how can you be gone offered to the ether like fruit on the tip of a knife i thought you were the tree i felt you were the grove …
of birdsong, at dawn, from my front porch
Hey friends! Here’s the poem I started back in early March this year. It’s crazy to me to think I haven’t published any poems here since then. But I understand why, as I’ve been rethinking my careers and goals. More on that at another time. …
Poems from my past - this one from 9/17/87.
Welcome to Martin’s Poetry Corner. Still walking through my old folder of poems from my Creative Writing: Poetry class. These are the original, unaltered works from my college years. After the poems, I will include any comments my poetry professor gave me on the works (some are very unkind - thus why I probably…
Read today's poem
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PRAISE FOR OCTOBER
PRAISE FOR OCTOBER “I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.” ~ Virginia Woolf Today’s blessed betwixt and between is gracing our good land with droplets of luminous gladness, interlacing fragrant sun baked …
on repenting, sorrow, being brave etc.
Gossamer glory hole Poor taste and a fat lip, She got what she deserved. The carnivores condition rendered useless in the eyes God who sees all things whole. I took a bite out of life and soon lost. If I could wish on every star, I’d choose any one but my own. If I could love anyone, I’d choose anyone but myself. …
A Poem a Day - 05/10/26
Ash flies off a book, twisting in a broken pocket of air. Giving a little love like Bugsy Malone, all alone, a leaf of fire is caught in a closed fist. Teeth exposed, seconds peel off into disinterest. Intellect falls into a heap of repetition. Small brick, drilling up the nose. What thoughts?
i smelt you before i saw you; vanilla glow on the bedsheets, stunning just for me. shine on just for a second, please, and rain it down on me, let them blend with my tears until there are none left, pick me up and let me rest. if it was all a test i know i’d fail for my heart is yours to no avail. …
By Sarah Lienard
I havent posted in a while so here are some random unfinished poems I have been compiling for the past few months. The House A Trespasser has come to The House? Somehow snuck between impenetrable doors? What key? As if I wasn’t in attendance the very day the Door itself was made and fashioned from the dead earth …
2 poems I wrote in the wake of Ellie’s funeral which I think captured a raw sense of grief.
A sentiment that me and Ellie liked to discuss is that, ‘and in 6 months, everything will be different again.’ At the beginning of the year we made a list of what we think will have happened by the year’s close. Obviously, her death was not one of the things we had imagined, because how do you imagine the loss of…
A poem of gratitude for the people that I have met on Substack that have made my life better.
To those whose names I softly know, Through words you chose that helped me grow You found me somewhere in the thread, From thoughts I wrote, but never said You met me not in time or place, But in the quiet, written space Still you paused, and still you stayed, You let my words not go to waste …
NOTES POETRY ROUNDUP - September 2026
9.2 waves I so adore This ocean / waves I so adore vast mystery / of mine strange compass / uninterpretable skin most delicious / fleshy impossibility what is this door / that has been opened in me / that I can see the whole world / now / with this body? ~ 9.7 My Favorite Blessing …
Are you Alive or just existing
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A poetry poem
Poetry can be whatever you want it to be. And that versatility is poetry too. In fact, everything is poetry when observed with open eyes. Today, during my walk, I took this photo, and life immediately presented me with this poem. Poem Tree Beneath the poem tree I see myself merged with the sea, I feel your presence …
Original Poetree
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this one is a couple weeks old
Untitled Safe at home watching Bourne All alone Why not porn Nervous system’s shot Guess I’ll smoke some pot Just another day Time to hit the hay playing with rhyming, working on not needing to rhyme all the time
Love is all about what you see
Wasn't I too broke, For love poetry? Wasn't I too snatched, For admiring ? Wasn't I too naive, For being loved ? Until i met you, What's that changed ? The way it looked Or you looked at me differently.
One Poem Only
A Dream William Blake Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, wildered, and forlorn, Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over many a tangle spray, All heart-broke, I heard her say: “Oh my children! do they cry, …
i hope my depth won’t be my death
i think we have all asked ourselves the same question over and over again. how long must i plunge myself drowning underneath the ocean until i finally float dead on the surface? how drowning it is to also be someone who feels deeply, not just deep—but a little too deeply. …
If you are not my boyfriend, please scroll. Thanks.
Remember you asked me to write. This is me, writing. Trying to write you into existence in lines, trying to close up the distance through words, while struggling to break free from the chokehold of the block—from the poet's prison. This is my creative attempt, Fiyin, to make our long distance just a line long. …
Yet somehow, I keep reading you with love in my eyes.
Maybe, we are both blind, You can't see me, And I can't see anyone but you, And still, I call it beautiful. You are the poem I didn't write, But read everytime with love in eyes. The more our distance, The more I cherish you. These feelings are so fragile, Now, I don't even hope, That we could cross our paths, …
now, what are my words worth?
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written a few months ago
rick & morty & me & you i've never written a good poem about heartbreak it's not glass shattering, a dried-up riverbed, or walking home alone not in my calf or fingertips not fog or sea or colored contact lens i've laid out a hundred sculptures with green tentacles, lime petals i'm carrying a hammer …
Sebab puisi yang paling indah adalah lagu
Lipstick stain on my cigarettes My eyes are a garden can you water it Bless me with something Does everybody got the same type of message? Must be the poet To fix all the broken But girl you don’t have to Cause you are the poem and I’ll be your poet You should see you through my eyes …
lil insight what writing does to humankind
I turned to poetry with wounds to heal, with peace for hearts to feel, and grieve to let go. From the clouds of pain to the flowing oceans of gain, my words sing gently or tremble fiercely And molds me thoroughly Until I learn to live again.
Dear Friends and Wordsmiths—during the next few weeks, I will be sending out some short pocket poems, some dark and some a bit ecstatic. You don’t have to do anything if you wish to stay on this path with me. If you would prefer not to receive these emails—no problem. Just click “unsubscribe” at the bottom of this…
by Callie J.A. O’Brien
If you need me, I’ll be down the path on the rocks next to the water Looking over at him at the top of that hill Wondering what the world may have been like Before I see her again in the reflection of the water while it ripples I see her Again & again …
by Callie J.A. O’Brien
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a poem about dads.
“Land or sea?” “Land.” The words form themselves into mountains in the darkness, a guessing game for the gullible. “Big or small?” “Small.” Two bodies in a tiny bed; father-and-daughter-shaped, big and small. “A hamster?” “No.” Cigarettes and sandpaper stubble chafe my cherub cheeks. …
The regret we feel after wasting the precious time
Though knowledge called me, something rooted in me wouldn't let me. Though I feared I might fail, I kept saying, "later." Though I knew I would regret it later, I still kept scrolling. My pupils moved with every new, colorful video. Every movement of my thumb counted, every moment wasted. The regret in me grew huge …
'A Quick Poem'
For your reading pleasure: Here is my poem for today 'A Quick Poem' Just a quick poem To show I'm still here I hope it is one You hold very dear For I write everyday Though not all are good And some don't get finished In a way that they should © Olaf Sturlasson 2026 …
My first ever poem
As I was sitting outside counting the bright stars in the dark sky Thinking what should I scribble on my note in the name of poem. Notification from my hand phone was louder in the dark night.
A Poem and Self-reflections on self-discovery, becoming, identity
𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 A Poem As the clock strikes three at night, I walk away somewhere into the woods with my soul, with the sensations of my body carrying a few of my stories and a few of my poems I sit beneath a tree, touching the earth beneath me. I bend the grass with the passing breeze, moving back and forth…
Oh, the irony: a poem about unrequited love, ten years on
Ten years ago, I wrote a poem called Unrequited Love. This year I had to rewrite it. Her eyes Sending messages, And she cried, Showing her love In so many ways. I wrote a poem about it, called “Unrequited Love”, In my guilt. Now, a decade later, Her eyes are avoidant, uninterested, And she no longer cries, …
To find your place in the world you first have to find your place in yourself, peace in your presence and win your fears. You have to talk to your monsters, face them, look that darkness in the eyes until you bring out the birght side. — x.eren Share …
a poem about poems
Belly down on the hard plane of my stand-up paddle board, my hands trail in the cool water below me, a drifting turtle. Here I am, unseen and unknown by all except the sky. I feel the compulsion to write a poem. “Belly down on the- I wonder how many artists have laid in this exact spot …
poem
The best poem I could write hasn't been written it's in the stars waiting to be found like Atlas who starts over On my own, I start again and again. Are there ever new beginnings or just endings dressed as new dawns? Around friends live grains of dust which float around the music of the wind Like Prometheus …
a poem about poetry. ahh yes, what a classic.
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A poem
Skin like velvet , Lips like silk Your eyes deep pools of honey And in them , I desperately desire to drown. I’ve heard them speak of this milk and honey - But I am convinced there is no sweeter taste than Your lips on mine. Your body is the refuge I have sought, I try to sink beneath your skin and bury myself there. …
No matter how many troubles come my way I will get through them I will make myself shine like a bright star when I learn from that sky in the darkness of life I will fall like a waterfall but when I meet the flowing river I will find my journey within it I will rise like the mountains whenever I find a peak …
23/09/26 - A Poem a Day
Hazy days, nothing is real. ‘Have you ever been stoned before?’ The world pulses like my heart. Yeah I have, just not like this. ‘Didn’t think so.’ Crashing into darkness, lids meet together and a world unravels. Thousand of people screaming. My eyes sharp like a knife, hair trails down my ankles. Violet. …
A poetry pause with Wislawa Szymborska
Some People Like Poetry Some people – that means not everyone. Not even most of them, only a few. Not counting school, where you have to, and poets themselves, you might end up with something like two per thousand. Like – but then, you can like chicken noodle soup, or compliments, or the color blue, your old scarf, …
Will you
Poetry! Will you give me the chirruping birds as they eavesdrop on our love with wanton abandon? Will I ever be enough to elicit that smile I left my heart in Carthage, with roses and thorns Enmeshed in the bloody conquests of 65 BC The throes of passion emanated as you moaned …
You insisted I share the bad poem I wrote yesterday. So, here it goes. Read at your own risk.
My stomach is a washing machine, moaning with complaints, with a wet sports sock stuck inside, all tangled up with ramen noodles. Oh, the agony! And also oh, the laundry... Oh, the tragedy of the radiation oven beep. It screams at me like a wounded seagull that has gobbled up my French fries. …
(Redux)
Be careful when you speak to me of time and how to make the most of it, my love. Remember that for years I skimmed the stars at close to the speed of light in search of life— and finding nothing, came back to a world that thought me gone for seven centuries. I ought to be so alien to you. …
A Sonnet for my New Beloved
Special thanks to Kyle Ryan for including me in his annual Fall Of The House Of Scarestack , where every day in October brings at least one original piece devoted to a Halloween/Fall/Spooky-themed movie. Below is my contribution from the movie The Witch. …
I am haunted
I am haunted by the prospect living under living water drowning in the deluge of love eternal and full of laughter Subscribe for Free Daily Poetry.
Nine
Nine Here we are— October nine, again. You loved Nine. I didn’t know, at first, what it was about you that I loved— I just knew I felt something. Yours was a world of contradiction, of fragile glasses on a fighter’s face. I didn’t feel anything before rock ‘n’ roll. Then you brought all that strangeness …
From Series #070 the altered score of Meditations on Permafrost meets the haunting orbit of Martin Lane, moving from an unresolved key to seeking what remains in a stranger’s gaze
A Minor / Accidental — Meditations On Permafrost Darling? What did we dream of last night? We dreamt of a deep drum filled with stars. And every time the drum was struck a star would fall from the sky and fill the drum. Until all the sky was blackness and all the darkness silence, save for the sound of drumming. …
A poem
I found the peace of the dead, in Flanders fields — the soldiers’ eternal bed. I took the torch from bone-hands, fueled by rage and revenge, “Spread it across all the lands!” I stared in his empty eyes and swallowed the flame — the torch of enmity died. I found the peace of the dead, in Flanders fields — …
it’s the human with soft hands...
ancient currents toss my shell body I fight to find a glistening sunspot. my theatre, my ocean my circle of light my black pearl eyes shine and my pincher hands cast a menacing shadow beckoning death to clams, mussels, crabs. but all underwaterlings know it's the humans with the soft hands that really kill.
a bedtime poem for your sorrows.
The Goose By Seren Liu I am the goose hanging over the moon Belly up and gutted I am a loose cannon without much to lose The way your grandma speaks to your daddy I am the truest of all blues And I've got blues and blues enough to make you itch There is a spot above your cheek Where all the sadness pools …
poetry
Guest The shaving cream has run out. Not even one last squirt. The blade has lost its edge. There are no more in the box. The last oatmeal pack is gone. There’s plenty of coffee. But the pot is broken. Junk mail lies all over the study where you used to read and write. Several ads for work in off-the-map …
the lilies, the birds
when did we decide our lives must be seen to mean anything? our attention bought and sold through a glowing screen. give me my husband my daughter in my arms God beside us. teach me again to look at the lilies to watch the birds and know I have been looking in the wrong direction. while the whole world sleeps …
Image: Art by Anima
The practice never stops the barre is there she will always find it her bony knuckles gripped tight on cold salty mornings while old sailors sleep and the red sun rises in her vast theatre of dust and haze and smoke on warm nights the tenderest of touch balances her against steel railings …
A Poem
Plight of the Witch-Maker The theater is abandoned to the darkness, Emptied with the blunt edge of exhaustion, Haunted by ghosts of faint applause, Slick with the residue of my labor. The phantoms still watch me, Blurry silhouettes on an orphaned sea. An ovation’s breeze brushes back my hair, …
a poem
if you've had 52 good Tuesdays congratulations you're a winner if you've had 52 hard Tuesdays congratulations you're 52 Tuesdays stronger if you've had 52 Tuesdays blur together congratulations you're alive if you had 52 more Tuesdays? Leave a comment Share Ricardo Guzman Jr
On never being homesick
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road West Texas skies—smell of sulphur and night spread out like tar smeared along a heavy horizon. The stars are plastic and hang over polyester trees, sun-bleached…
Little Vienna of the East | The Romanian Dimension| Weaponizing German Against a Genocide | Deathfugue: Music of the Death Camps| Eros & Thanatos | Surving the Holocaust but not its Aftermath |
Paul Peisah Antschel [Pa-wool Pay-sah Ahn-tschel], better known as Paul Celan [Pa-wool Che-lahn], occupies an unparalleled position in 20th-century European literature, and bestowed upon him are great titles such as the most significant German-language poet of the post-World War II era, Kafka of modern poetry, Rilke’s…
a poem
The Falconer Take nothing of the former. Behind you, the old shack in shambles can only watch you with its hollow eyes and the slack-jawed door must only gape at your leaving. Take up your life from here; carry it as though you’ve never held a thing so eager. Carry it through the whistling grass …
This will fester in my chest
Trying to trick myself into believing it means nothing Biting my hand from writing Don’t write about it Don’t write about it Maybe if i keep my fist shut long enough— Words will slip from the cracks between my knuckles It’s not that important I repeat to the tears that itch to fall How can it be Can it be ? …
A desperate breeze whispers again disparate voices, tangled harmonies, muted verse leaves a bitter taste. Hidden things are revealed in violent flashes. In the agony of darkness existence unfolds. We sing with the multitudes. Faces like windows, eyes on the walls. Number me with them. With fear fait
A desperate breeze whispers again disparate voices, tangled harmonies, muted verse leaves a bitter taste. Hidden things are revealed in violent flashes. In the agony of darkness existence unfolds. We sing with the multitudes. Faces like windows, eyes on the walls. Number me with them. With fear faith is written. …
meet Isabell, one of the skeletons in my closet
Them Bones skeletons in my closet don’t act their age one wears red shoes even though they have no feet proof the impossible can be done with style some wear short-shorts or no clothes at all change the words to songs don’t care if they sing off key they will lend a finger or even an entire hand …
Hello friends,
Hello friends, Three poems this week. Enjoy! And please consider purchasing either The Robots of Babylon or Slate Petals from the Penteract Press Store , where everything is currently 40% off!!! Alternatively, buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi ! This first poem, a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter, is composed of…
communion
a mouthful of bread each sabbath a sip of wine micro-dosing God
do it for yourself
do it for yourself because nobody gives a shit you think anyone gives a flying fuck? everyone’s got their own problems, their own complicated worlds to worry about — not a single soul is agonizing over your creative decisions… I’m sorry, but no one out there will be more invested in you, deep down, …
at 1:07 a.m.
I noticed you. You’re here. I am here too, in this poem as you read it at 1:07 a.m. I saw you standing, so long ago, by the grey photocopier on the middle blue carpet, waiting, with your whole future before you. I came in and said, Can you give me a piece of paper? I need something to write a poem on. …
I came here with a heart full of cobwebs, clinging onto old wounds like luggage I could not check in. The sea is offensively blue, and unfolds endlessly. The sun touches everything with an obscene cheerfulness that ignores what it was.
I came here with a heart full of cobwebs, clinging onto old wounds like luggage I could not check in. The sea is offensively blue, and unfolds endlessly. The sun touches everything with an obscene cheerfulness that ignores what it was. I walk these unfamiliar streets and let the Mediterranean heat …
a seminar style online reading course of great 20th century poets
Poets Anne Waldman & Bernadette Mayer, 1970s I’m teaching a seminar style online reading course starting October 25th, and meeting on November 15, December 13, and January 17. Each meeting we’ll discuss a different poetry movement from the 20th century: the Confessionals (Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell), the Beats…
Reading poetry is just smoking
The newspaper is for the cigarette man or cigarette woman. Get the beat. Feel the buzz. Crumple. On with your day. Maybe swig some coffee to wash out the stale residue on the roof of your mouth, but then it’s back to the rat race. Not the cigar. Not poetry. Poetry is for the cigar smoker, the pipe toker. …
My mailbox is flooded with mailers from colleges trying to take my daughter and most of my money. If Noah were still alive, God would instruct him to build an ark to escape this apocalyptic deluge.
My mailbox is flooded with mailers from colleges trying to take my daughter and most of my money. If Noah were still alive, God would instruct him to build an ark to escape this apocalyptic deluge. “Your future is waiting!” “Launch your tomorrow!” “You belong here!” “Welcome to your next home!” …
from Yeats
Decline: A Golden Shovel from Yeats After the summit’s crested, an old mountain goat knows how aged scramblers must give way to gravity. Man alive! there is glory in the climb, yet is there not relief in the decline? But only a little farther, into the mist gathered a -round the cole, between the first, paltry …
So here is something.
It's clear I have not been put on this earth to complain or wage war or to make peace. I have been planted as a tree, hosting birds, shedding bark, killing leaves yearly. Growing small tender shoots Digging into the place where I was born with brown roots I have been made to endure seasons of deadness …
Poem #122
The stretching ring roads, long as a tapeworm, lead toward a place where the LED lights would cease to exist. There is no turning back, no hard curve to make. You can only keep moving forward. For a minute, your legs begin to lead themselves, toward wherever the vibrations feel strongest, …
Three Poems at the Harvest Threshold
“Through the empty branches the sky remains. It is what you have. Be earth now, and evensong. Be the ground lying under that sky. Be modest now, like a thing ripened until it is real, so that he who began it all can feel you when he reaches for you.” — “Onto a Vast Plain” by Rainer Maria Rilke …
Sympathy for Calypso
Feet in the shallows, tight-lipped, horizon-turned, you gaze across wine-dark meridians, as on nostalgia's urn, where lion skins embrace a girl you loved of old...and without end. I know you see her as she was, preserved like amber glass, and me as she is now— with hair like ash long after the fire's out. …
156 Words !!
“Coyote” I could've had you when the sky was orange, before dew dried on your clover yard. I waited for you to come back. I watched the day wash blue, yellow, black. Your bacon-pink tongue, all dry and dumb from hanging, panting, barking. I like to hear you whine before you’ve got a reason. But I'm starving now. …
an old stone gargoyle, three stories of tendrils choking the brickwork inside paperback spines calibrated by spectrum, a framed punk high priestess reigning over checkerboard tile, German steel lined along a magnetic bar a split fruit, acid bleeding into maple, oil whisked into emulsion out of the s
an old stone gargoyle, three stories of tendrils choking the brickwork inside paperback spines calibrated by spectrum, a framed punk high priestess reigning over checkerboard tile, German steel lined along a magnetic bar a split fruit, acid bleeding into maple, oil whisked into emulsion …
Part 3 of the San Francisco Cycle
Wanderer, lost in a compound of God Were you drawn to its holy white paste A luminescent awe The starry cross that fatefully cried– Junipero, bring your tunics, their bulbous heads Yank the natives from their innocent kin And ‘fore their furies ferment You must infiltrate their stems Pluck them of their roots and …
Two Poems
Joy's Lie I'm a pair of glasses I will help you see. If you want the truth then all you need is me to count on. I'll never decieve you I will never die. I will be the source of every tear you cry from now on. If you need a home you can live in me. I'm built to withstand all uncertainty, any diaster. …
This Is Not For Tears
Black hawk White hawk djinn down ancient pain jewelled dew lashings of day bring down rain a stark shadow lighting the dark and may meet Over fields, green, or below teals of skies, Or in dayless eyes, fill them with a sudden FLASH, phos-phoros, The black hawk, white hawk meet, and must meet …
two birds flew down the street one soared and one was crushed underneath a tire on the driveway I forgot my name I picked up old rags and washed my father's car I dreamt of angels underneath the sun the golden eight ball rolled down the drain and the light went out the wind was gray the wind was blu
two birds flew down the street one soared and one was crushed underneath a tire on the driveway I forgot my name I picked up old rags and washed my father's car I dreamt of angels underneath the sun the golden eight ball rolled down the drain and the light went out the wind was gray the wind was blue …
(Fiction) Lyrical Flash
“His blue eyes, glistening, ask only one question, and that’s where their clean water will come from in a few hours.” Paid Subscribers : Please scroll down for author narration. The top “Listen” button is Substack’s text-to-speech feature. This post has bonus content for paid subscribers. Upgrade to get full access. …
Erasure poems
Long coming follow up to the last time I poked through a Nat Geo for some erasure poems. I found myself drawn less to monkeys and wildlife and more to the trials of lonesome roads, harsh winters, and air travel this time around. A strange change of pace, but I liked it. Lonesome car lights pierce the road. …
Velvet steam
( Pexels ) My poems lately have mostly been water-bound, and I’m sticking with that theme. I wrote the first draft of this years ago, and it feels appropriate that after a whole summer stuck indoors in near-constant rain and lengthening, crazy heat (Southern natives here said it was the rainiest season in years), I…
a translation of the epic Cretan poem
Erotokritos is a chivalric romance written in the early 17th century by Vikentios Kornaros. This is Part 2 of an abridged translation, but if you haven’t read Part 1, you should start here: This section of the poem is filled with scenes exploring the tortures of love. It completely overwhelms our protagonists, binding…
A poem based on the ending of Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro (2018)
Black nights in la citta Candles scarce, as are standing buildings positioned higher on the hills, enduring the least The wealthy's decaying foundations heirs depart in disgust wives outlive their career money dispersed All the while, Rising from the rubble In the square, concentrated by worried survivors …
O
The shortest poem is: O Solar eclipse the ring that incubates O The MOon: MirrOr that shOws PhOebus' face O The eclipse is Apollo staring at itself O The sun illumines the SO{u}L, the inner sanctum of V O I D envelops his resurrection O Through reflection the horizon closes upon its self O …
That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘beautified’ is a vile phrase…
That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘beautified’ is a vile phrase… - Polonius ( Hamlet , Act II, II, 111). Beautified. — Verb. Past participle. To have made beautiful. Hamlet writes / he addresses his love letter to “beautified Ophelia.” His careful verbiage : Polonius’ reactionary reaction. …
I am breathless in the lowlands
Velesian crimson ringlets packed neatly in towering twilight, you are a cornflower beneath the cedar. The balsamic hask holds me, marinating in the glacial spring with no breath left to spare. The Moon Chapel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or…
I didn't stop wanting sweetness. I stopped reaching out for it.
Subscribe Mangoes are heavy on the tree, children gathered like a prayer below. Some hurling stones at sweetness, some reaching, climbing, daring the branches. Sticky fingers, stolen bites, laughter spilling like juice on a summer afternoon. I stood by the window, sipping warm tea, …
Ronald turned his Frisbee over and put in it two tablespoons of water, one of kitty litter and a plastic palm, and now three turtles call Ronald's Frisbee home.
Ronald turned his Frisbee over and put in it two tablespoons of water, one of kitty litter and a plastic palm, and now three turtles call Ronald's Frisbee home.
Essay - 1
I started this blog 15 months ago, and have had a wonderful time sharing my poetry. This post is, obviously, not poetry. I took the leap in 2025 to release what I’d been writing for the prior two years, with the goal of one entry a week to see what might happen. It was a great experience, and I hoped to receive…
Returning from his memorial
Bamboo groves wave Reaching past metal guardrails The heavenly flower that blooms in a hidden place Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies A valediction forbids mourning But if it dies it bears much fruit And so may flights of angels Sing thee to thy rest
a love poem
isn’t it always in this way— having gone out for a cold one and coming home with a wife; being in that place, at that time when all the world conspired against it—that we cry magic? deliverance would be better, though the thought of going out for cold ones now sends greater shivers …
Renga Sequence
clouds gathered in the tea room leave no trace moonless dewdrops line the garden path down night cliffs a sweet wind carries into ink black rustling boughs these scattered leaves a chrysanthemum that nobody cut collecting frost its white face in the weathered mirror peeking sun caught in a net …
Poem and Artwork
Glorious urchin. I’m not sure who you are. But I’m captivated by your porcupine face and the inquisition of your eyes. I’ve been searching for something that resembles a dumpster fire. A mindless worm ablaze under a magnifying glass. The cursive hand writing of passionate days. …
Lest we forget
Cobwebs snagged on feather dusters sweeping the blue of the sky clean. ☕ keeps my engine running... Subscribe now Share
A poem about deep cleaning
Empty now. The hangers in my closet. The blouse you like, that skirt you said you hate, tumbling out in some invisible haze less dust than perfume worked through the stitchlines. Sublime: the taste of a needle — in appleflesh, a porcelain chip in swallowed tea — it was a lovely gift, you know. …
A stream of consciousness poem
Modern life is psychosis A steady flatline keeps me going as white noise Motion blurs in peripheral surrealest paintings Reality is surrealist I live in psychosis Is what I think real if nobody else can hear them speaking Noiseless noise My head is crowded but there's no one here Everybody is screaming …
Poem & Statement
Sunlight dies upon dried grass while hawks lord over the steppe searching for mice to steal screaming from the fields That is the way of it That is how the skin drum beats That is how the sheep horn sings Each blade of grass shaking the summer wind howling War is near A shepherd boy sleeps …
Yellow eyes at the surface.
Yellow eyes at the surface. Its scales warm as the sun travels overhead. Light filters through canopy, settling behind the oaks. Their leaves catch the last of the day’s rays. On the hill, lights flicker. Figures emerge. Voices travel across the water, seeping into stillness. Metal clinks. …
O
Drunken ramblings poured into the machine, little betrayals of the hand. Forsake the touch, marry the ticking gears. I give myself to you, technology— I lift my face to the glowing glass, peek behind a pane that never quite reflects me, like attic static after late-night HBO. Here it is again, …
Contemplations #4
A Dream Apart I dream beneath a moonlit night, The air is thin, earth wrapped pale within its light. Behind my eyelids, folding many years, As distant bells give voice to fallen tears, For mem’ries sweet of sorrow, one I knew, Wishing now to see how loved yet grew. Moonlight pours upon this in between, …
Some Haiku, Senryu & Lune
001 Oh full moon as if all this snow came from you 002 On wintry days I also clench my hands - Snow covered branch 003 White seeds fall we harvest the fruit in snowballs 004 High noon sun - Today I can’t melt this snow either 005 Fat birds roosting above unmelting ice. I button my coat 006 Evening winter wind …
2026 winter Haiku Collection
the winter crossroads burned lunar frost of change in the growing soul blood skies blue veins blistering winds sublime mountain mist eccentric phantoms danced the steamy earth chanted the bloody thorns writhed coalescent carrion the soft shadows swarmed frail sun cast over …
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Poet Notes
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For the love of poetry... On writing poems with love and intention, nurturing community, navigating the great non-linear path, and creating time to create.
Pepper Miller
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I'm an eighty-year-old white man, married to my lovely wife for 56 wonderful years. I teach two Poetry and Creative Writing classes at the Senior Action Center in Greenville, SC.
Practice Writing
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Anything under the sun is interesting, and everyone should write anything about it.
LeMel Firestone-Palerm
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Couples therapist and interspiritual spiritual director and minister. Helping to build connections in interpersonal and spiritual life through relationship building tools as well as spiritual development tools and support.
Rogue Literary Society
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"The new bull of meaning" in literature, poetry, and critical book reviews.
x.eren
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I'm x.eren and I'm an artist that hopes to heal the human heart with kind words and drawings cause I do believe that art, made with intention, has the ability to save the world! e-mail: serew212@gmail.com
williamphaynes/elliott
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I'm an ancient beat writer trying to find a new audience for my work
Scott Brennan
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Exploring a holistic Way of Life inspired by Celtic Christian spirituality
The In Between
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The In Between is a place to explore the world from the outside in.
Habibi Means Beloved
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How tenderly we can name our place among each other, affirming our passing existence, one writhing heart of a planet in an otherwise empty universe.
Corey Ryan Forrester’s Rants and Such!
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Hello all! On this here Substack I not only write essays and do podcasts, but I have also created my own little world called Chickaluki! Think "Lake Wobegon" but with a southern twist! Subscribe today and become a full fledged citizen of Chickaluki!
Laura's Night Stack
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Writer, Poet, Former Indie Bookstore Owner (yay for indies), water spirit, breast cancer survivor. Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, Midwest Book Awards Finalist
Caitlin’s Newsletter
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Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.
intersection of a disability and a faith
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I like to read, a lot, and it gets me into trouble. I like to write about all that trouble.
West of the Moon
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West of the Moon is a publication of poems, or rather, trifles, written by J.Z Schafer
Sullen Star
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just an intermediate of extra-terrestrial and human sharing her poems and such
Eager Mondays
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Current events, personal reflections, wise quotations, and trivia questions from a university writing teacher, Dr. Andy Jones. Sometimes some poetry.
Signal Fire by Tyler Knott Gregson
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Signal Fire is a weekly beacon for the seekers, dreamers, and quiet rebels — poetry, essays, and photography by Tyler Knott Gregson. A small fire, lit for you, warmth against the dark.
Mantras & Coffee
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A newsletter that embodies what I like to create…helping souls explore and chronicle their lives through memoir, journaling, creative writing and other things. Just think about the kind of paperback your life is? Your story matters because you matter.
Gregory Blair - Scribbling Entertainment
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Movie nerd, book lover & theater geek. I also create all of the aforementioned art forms. Weaknesses: chocolate and martinis. And my forename is polysyllabic, dammit! More at: www.gregoryblair.info
Heal & Hope Poetry Meditations
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Heal & Hope Poetry Meditations is a podcast featuring poetry and guided meditations on nature and grief, hope and healing. Hosted by Kristin Yates, PhD.
Rhyme n' Metre
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New poetry in classical forms, and the discovery of the English poetic tradition.
Poetry & Ponderings with Julia Fehrenbacher
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May this space feel like a poetic pause, like a shelter of kindness, like a deep, nourishing breath in the midst of the noise—a space where, together, we can plant & grow the truest things.
Poems for Persons of Interest
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The Substack home of PFPOI, featuring poems and other writing from Editor-in-Chief Alex Rettie
You Live Your Life as if it's Real (Ray’s Substack)
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Let there be poetry (mine and others), serialized fiction and satire. Making Vespuccia Great Again is available now in book and chapters here. Auhor's webite: https://raysweatman@carrd.co
Remy's Ramblings
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A freelance autistic journalist who specializes in movie, book, and streaming television reviews and is an occasional poet and fantasy writer.
Kimmy Win she/her 🏳️🌈🫶🐾
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Hi there! I'm friendly, free to subscribe. 54 y/o ADHD, anxiety, depression. Pan/bisexual. I'm new to writing poems and stories. Topics include dreams, love, relationships, loss, desire, depression, anxiety, identity, more. 💜💜💜
Tiny Avalanches
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Creative Writing, Poetry, Essays, Nonfiction and more. Always writing
JRB Haiku
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Husband & father. Reader of fiction and non-fiction. Lover of wisdom. Life long learner. Mediocre haiku poet. Did someone mention wine?
Threadworthi
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With voice & purpose, I am a big spirit in a big body taking up big space. I created this account to encourage others to do the same.
Poetic Encouragement
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Poetic Encouragement is here to inspire, uplift and encourage women, who are tired of putting everyone else’s needs before their own needs without feeling guilty.
Poetry, Art & Life
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Intelligent Erotic Poetry, Prose & Short Stories. I write stylish, arty smut for adults who want more than just the mechanics of sex.
Dan Owings
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I'm intentionally pretentious, unintentionally contentious but always conscientious.
JANE00
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New poet (rookie), this is simply to just express my works and creativity. I enjoy creating poetry, photography, movies, books and music! Might include some of my other works!
From The Quiet Middle
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Liminal. Still. Present. Aware. Reflective.
A quiet rebellion against noise, speed, and certainty. A space where awareness and attention resist a world that moves too quickly to notice itself. Pause here with me. <3
Lotte Kestner
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Seattle based poet Anna-Lynne Williams, and singer in the bands: Lotte Kestner, Trespassers William, Ormonde
The Light That Remembers
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If this reaches you, you can stay.
A space for poetic and contemplative writing on presence, silence, and the subtle movement of being.
Philip Precious
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I write about faith, growth, people, purpose, and the lessons life keeps teaching me. Just a young woman thinking deeply, asking questions, and sharing what she learns along the way. 🤍
My Voice. Health. Nature. Love.
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Nature, life, my take on it. Wellness tips, meditation practices, living a joyful life. Think outside the box.
James Patrick de Manbey
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Confessional, literary essays about love, ego, and the strange mess of being human.
Sudip’s Newsletter
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News, politics & culture from a MARXIST-LENINIST anti-colonial Desi perspective + cool nerdy humor and NOT uncool nerdy humor!!
Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration
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A newsletter about my investigations into prisons, jails, and police. Here I'll share the stories and backstories behind my journalism.
Salt & Pomegranate
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Poet, essayist, and novelist-in-progress writing about womanhood, grief, love, desire, identity, and transformation.
Kimberly Unscripted ✨
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart" 💗. On this journey of finding myself again✨ I ❤️ all things journaling/planning, literature, books, travel, history, Victorian era.
Kelly Trost
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I am a published poet and author of children's stories. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in violin performance music composition from UCSB. Currently, I am primarily involved in the creation of my Poetic Improvisations.
Jennifer Hayes
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Writer, Poet, Proud Cat Mom I am currently stepping back into becoming an author after almost two decades away from the path, so I hope you enjoy my new creations as well as some of the buried ones from my past incarnations.
The Fortnightly Review
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The object of THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW is to become the organ of the unbiassed expression of many and various minds on topics of general interest in Politics, Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Art.
David Newhouse
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The Adventures of Dré – Private Eye, created and written by David G. Newhouse, plus original writing on boxing, philosophy and more.
Hilary Layne
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Writing about storytelling and the culture of fiction.
The home of The Book Club (more information inside).
You can also find my essays and poetry.
Ricardo Guzman Jr
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Writer. Enthusiast of art, lover of literature, and endlessly curious about too many things. I try to bring the fire in my poetry. Scared of heights.
ozzie and his masks.
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the poetry, essays, fiction and plays that circulate the many minds of ozzie.
ATLANTIC SAINTS
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Atlantic Saints is an exercise in pondering life, art, faith, style, and all else worthy.
Diary Poems
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Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).
Red Paper Poems
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Poems and writings on resistance, grief, magic, ancestry, and creatively coming to grips with the horrors of the world.
The Winged Moon Literary Magazine
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poetry and art magazine with a passion for work that intersects ecology, the human, folklore and the metaphysical, edited by Jai Michelle Louissen and Saraswati Nagpal.
ghost among herbs
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I am a tree. More specifically, I’m a tree that writes fiction, poetry, poetic prose, dream and astral travel accounts, imaginal essays, and whatever else comes to mind.
Ramon Presson's Substack
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The poetry and newspaper columns of Ramon Presson. Weekly feature will also include work by other well-known poets whose poems you'll understand, enjoy, and resonate with.
The Talking Pen
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Stories to warm your heart, sharpen your mind, challenge your thinking, and deepen your faith.
Original Poetree
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Original Poetree is a poet and spoken word artist Original Poetree's work explores themes of healing, identity, emotional release, and personal transformation.
Saira The Poet
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Helping others heal through poetry. Sharing the latest in the world of Saira.
Sacred Word with Jaiya John
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Freedom Work. Medicine Words. Books. Creative Life. Sacred Healing.
Kate Clanchy
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Cancellation stories, poems, and teaching from the the UK's most famously cancelled poet teacher. Names named, lines broken, jokes cracked.
Loose Thread Literary Magazine
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Loose Thread is a Nashville-based literary magazine seeking to publish everyday works that unravel us and knit us together.
Naomi’s Heart
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This blog is for dreamers, romantics, and those seeking healing. May you find what you're looking for. All love and light to you.
Selected Works
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Selected Works:
A collection of stories, essays & poems.
By Tom S. Mahoney
26th Avenue Poet
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Poems that greet you with "Hey, look at that."
Created with 100% organic intelligence.
Towards Embodied Living by Florence Ukpabi
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Creatrix mother writing from the threshold of life, creation, and the body.
For women navigating change and birthing what’s true in life and biz — without bypassing.
Khan Eagle
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Published Author & Poet. Writing contemporary English poetry, novels, philosophical essays, and reflections on the modern world.
Peter is the Intermittent Poet.
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I started by revisiting old writing and distilling old jottings into a readable format in the hope that it encourages me to write more poetry. It seems to have worked, though the output is still intermittent, but enjoyable when my brain is rhyming.
Daisy and Mushroom
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The story of a girl called Daisy and a girl called Mushroom. A queer literary archival project told through poems, photos, critical essays, recovered text conversations, memory, memes, queer history, and archival objects.
From the Mountains of the Sun
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Poetry from the Sonoran backcountry. The sun lives here.
A Dangerous Old Woman (and The Writer's Sherpa)
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Transform the world around you into words and actions. Through active contemplations & writing, join those of us dedicated to igniting engagement, living with intention, and positively impacting the world through our writing & actions.
Bader Amer
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I AM BADERSTIC AND i will talk about other things now because pro wrestling is out of the window
Eustea Reads
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Writing from my phone.
Bookish musings, crochet updates, and anything that comes to mind.
The Emergent Spiral
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Drummer, writer and photographer, curating an offering of soul as The Emergent Spiral.
man of aran
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man of aran is alan girling of Canada who writes poetry that responds to or is paired with visual creations of all sorts.
Diandra Manoppo
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Just a person living in a boring city, yet still love and appreciate it every time she came back
A.J.’s Poetry Substack
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As a follower of Jesus and as a poet, I combine the two to write prophetic poetry, or poetry of encouragement, and so this place is to encourage all who read it. Everything will be free to read as we get started. Not sure where God will lead later.
Weirdo Poetry with Jason McBride
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An email & snail mail newsletter
that invites you to smell the calm of
an early summer zephyr and to hear
the wonder of singing stars
Whistling to the Boneyard / TC
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Writer, artist, teacher, musician. "Just trying to beat death to the boneyard."
small wounds
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small wounds is a living poetry project about love, transformation, and what lingers after.
The Poetry Posse
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This publication is the collaborative effort of a tribe of poets and voices.
Crystal Lamas
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Unfiltered and Honest ramblings of my life. Includes subpar poetry. Proceed with caution
Polli 🏳️🌈👁️🏳️🌈
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MM literary erotica 18+ gay fiction. Independent, non-binary, ND hobby writer. Premium, uncompromised fiction as never seen before on Substack. Intimacy written with truth. Spice that bites. Heat with real sweat. AI used (plot anchor/edit/research)
For Fun And Then Some
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Poetry and prose, sometimes playful, sometimes reflective. Enjoy my poetry book, ILLICIT CROISSANTS AT DAWN, available on Amazon.
In The Middle
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A weekly publication exploring randomly-generated themes, and what it means to be "in the middle," through essays, poetry, and art.
David Whyte
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Poems, essays and commentaries as well as insights from my Three Sundays Series.
The Writer's Journey with Laura Davis
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A safe, creative sanctuary where people use writing to connect deeply with themselves, their stories, and each other.
The Cultivated Amateur
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"People have been created by God with an aesthetic faculty that demands cultivation." Leland Ryken
"The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye
Organised Overthinking
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Observations, patterns, and the occasional flawed conclusion.
Asinine Pasiphae
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“wildly amusing & explicit queer poetry” “with elements of swagger & sex” that “luxuriates in the labor of the real” & “juggles truly absurd comedy & frank body talk with overwhelming tenderness & genuine corporeal joy” by “the best kind of pervert”
The Word Emporium
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A curated exploration of beautiful, curious, overlooked words, language reflections, and literary wisdom past and present.
Feifei’s Substack
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I ghostwrite Romance Novels, Newsletters, Emails and Social Contents for Founders, brand execs, personal brands, romance authors and literally anyone who wants to build an audience, convert them to sales, or get their story written but just can't write
Gaza Poets Society
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The Gaza Poets Society is a literary community devoted to literature and poetry in Gaza, founded in 2018 by Mohammed Moussa.
Blackstack
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A corner of Substack for the Black community.
We can call this a little safe hub F.U.B.U.
If you don't check the box for Black on applications, don't click the subscribe button to this publication.
They not like us!
Maisie-Jane
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Dont follow SUBSCRIBE. Human, fae aspects- mystical, playful, nature-loving, a little eccentric, spiritually curious, deeply romantic, ambiguous, fluid. Through creative alchemy, using poetry, music and art I seek healings connection, understandings
Silken Mouli
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Writing to make you laugh, cry, and cum; not necessarily in that order.
yael
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There’s a writer dwelling within me. I write in English, Spanish and Italian… (Welcome to my humble tiny little masterpieces)
Partial Glimmers
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Partial Glimmers is the substack of poet & mindful companion Callahan Gobble. He shares poems, meditations, & recommendations weekly.
Your Buddy T-GOB
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Partial Glimmers is the substack of poet & mindful companion Callahan Gobble. He shares poems, meditations, & recommendations weekly.
Poems for Liberation
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Updrafts - Seeking the Lift Bands of Humor & Meaning. Poetry. Social & Cultural Musings.
i think we’ll be okay
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hi! thank you for giving me a place to put all my words and love
Denise
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This is where I tell my truth about healing, heartbreak, growth, and learning to love myself more deeply. I write from both the light and the shadow, honoring the full human experience. Through reflections from my own journey.
The Writer's Journey
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The Writer's Journey chronicles the ongoing creative projects of author Bradley Ramsey, as well as his personal thoughts on the craft of writing, and exclusive short stories for subscribers.
Welcome to Poerotica
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Erotic poetry and the creative process behind every dangerous line.
Aurelia Literary Magazine
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Digital magazine for teen writers and artists to share their work!
Catching Shower Flowers by Tess Guinery
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Catching the clearer thoughts that mostly arrive in the shower and making art with them.
wyn has poems in their head
Active: 3 days ago
25 yo queer brazilian with a lot of love for human creativity
26 Letters By Noelle Cope
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26 Letters rearranged time and time again to share poems, personal essays, prose and more.
Based in Los Angeles | Made in Telluride
Benjamin Sampson Joseph
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Raw poetry and emotional fragments about love, loss, and everything people don’t say out loud. New writing regularly.✨
Poetry Is For The Mornings
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Notes on motherhood, sobriety, desire, film, and the poetry of life.
Poetry Outdoors
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A poetry community devoted to restoring our relationship to the natural world through poetry, storytelling, and environmental stewardship.
Chad Taylor
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A poetic flashlight flickering into the closet, dispelling shadows and monsters.
Donavon’s Substack
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I explore life's big questions with simplicity and depth, seeking to edify heart, mind, and soul.
Wildwood Writer
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Welcome to the place where my bones speak first.
This is my Substack, where I’ll be laying poems down like open wounds and strange prayers—some polished, some still bleeding. Purchase my poetry books through the link in bio.
Poems by Jonna
Active: 3 days ago
This is a space for poetry that lingers.
I’m Jonna – poet, listener, and seeker of language that holds what’s hard to name.
Here, I share poems shaped by memory, silence, nature, time, dreams, and the quiet ache of being human.
Continued Conversations with Megan Gill
Active: 3 days ago
Conversations about self-image, self-compassion, and self-acceptance.
Postcards, poems and random thoughts by Sotiria
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Postcards, poems and random thoughts by Sotiria
thoughts from a hospital bed
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I write what I rethink.
psychology and modern society short stories / essays
I hope you relate :).
Poetry Tracks In Snow by Holly Lamond
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Poetry that celebrates the beauty of life, nature and love and holds a quiet reverence for the ways hard things shape us. Daily inspiration - the Northwoods of MN and Lake Superior.
"it's all that deep" (to me).
Active: 3 days ago
essays on life, love, & everything else they tell you isn't that deep.
Mark Crutchfield
Active: 3 days ago
Writing from the moment before you have words.
Poetry. Prose. And notes on why certain language lands in the body before the mind catches up.
Around the Campfire
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Welcome all seekers and travelers!
Welcome to my little campfire. Grab a chair and make a S'more. I know it can be so cold out there in the wild. You are safe here. Can I share a story with you? It's all about how fear is no match for love.
Poem of the Week
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A weekly email through I which share my poems that I hope will help you find more beauty, laughter, joy, insight and self-compassion. Thanks for subscribing!
the dream journal
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art and essays about dreams, memory, tarot, and related ephemera
Poetry & Life (Notes from an Old Lesbian)
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Poetry & Life is a weekly dose of perspective by poet Diane Silver. From original poems to writing exercises to experiences designed to blow the fog out of our minds, Poetry & Life seeks to enable us to blossom wherever we're planted.
The Metropolitan Review
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
Walking poetry.
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poetry, writing, photography, all join It is what it is, let it ALL work out ✌🏾
Raiders of the Lost Arts
Active: 3 days ago
Raiders of the Lost Arts is about rediscovering the great stories of the past and celebrating the literary and theological treasures of antiquity.
T. Vale ⎹ Fiction for Adults
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T. Vale - character-driven NSFW erotic stories, poetry, and fiction.
Wing Chair Musings
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creative writing + thoughts on writing & publishing + musings on life + craft secrets + poetry + insights into what it's like being an autistic person in the world (& the publishing world) + books + an occasional look at my special interests
While We're Here
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For the things we feel, the lives we imagine, and the moments we almost overlook.
Home Soil
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I write about grief, love, and starting all over again. Blending stories of travel, relationships, and the silly, whimsical moments of life alongside its harder truths. Thank you for being here.
Against Reduction’s Substack
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Literature, leadership, and systems written without concession.
Lighthouse
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Here you will find articles about faith, spirituality, family, psychology, as well as writing prompts, podcasts and videos. Come and engage in meaningful conversations dealing with our world and wellbeing.
PREVAIL by Greg Olear
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PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.
Lovesick
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Welcome to Lovesick! This is my newsletter where you’ll find my deepest thoughts — a diarist with fictional bleed. It can get mysterious in here. And steamy ofcourse.
Studio Shyama
Active: 3 days ago
Essays, poems, and fragments on memory, the felt, and the unseen. Weekly reflections to inspire, unsettle, and invite conversations.
Rob Vaughn
Active: 3 days ago
Ruminations on news, faith and culture from a retired TV news anchor and theology nerd.
Lorraine Schuchart
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Brand strategist and storyteller sharing reflections on writing, ethical marketing, purpose, leadership — and how to build a brand that lasts. Founder, Prosper for Purpose, a Certified BCorp | Host, Brand for Good 🎤
Soulful Witness
Active: 3 days ago
Where else can you get: soul challenging poetry and essays from a defrocked pastor, aging senior and a 25+ year recovering addict?
A Gentle Quill | CoraLynn 🌿
Active: 3 days ago
Dreamer, poet, mental health warrior, and mom ✍️✨. Navigating the therapeutic balm of poetry, creativity and inner growth and sharing my musings on the entire journey 🌿✨
Divine Nature
Active: 3 days ago
a poetry series - focusing on the glory of the Trinity in nature - by Sara Oyela
Bee Halton 🇬🇧/🇩🇪
Active: 3 days ago
Human, Bee of all trades, Mistress of none, bilingual (English/German)
Mohammed Moussa
Active: 3 days ago
Meet Mohammed Moussa, an accomplished poet hailing from Gaza who doubles as a journalist and has established both the Gaza Poets Society and Gaza's Creative Allies.
Rivers of Reflection
Active: 3 days ago
Rivers of Reflection is a collection of my art and poetry, thoughts from my journal, and an invitation for you to join in my journey.
Words From My Heart
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Cultivating, compassion, empathy and kindness with stories and verse (and maybe some humor every once in awhile!)
It's all in Poetry
Active: 3 days ago
A little corner for poems, stories, thoughts, and everything in between. ✍🏽
I’m here to share my writing, discover other poets and writers, and make space for the conversations that happen when we put our words out into the world.
Come for the poetry.
Apple Smith
Active: 3 days ago
Hello! I write about heartbreak, grief, friendships, and faith through Bible-based content. My closest friends mean the world to me, and I was inspired to start writing by my very best friend. 🤍
Mother of Hope
Active: 3 days ago
Rambles, sweary rants, stories and poetry on life, love & liberty.
michael röbbins's stash
Active: 3 days ago
Author of Walkman and other books of poetry (Penguin); Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music (Simon & Schuster). Work published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, &c.
Jerusa
Active: 3 days ago
I am picking up the pen again. What beautiful things may come, I can only imagine.
Messages from The Deep
Active: 3 days ago
Short stories, poetry, and essays that unravel dark side of human existence in effort to lighten your day. Any and all genres.
Shannon Vanne
Active: 3 days ago
I'm a writer with years of play by post experience trying out some of my own ideas. Please let me know how I'm doing and any suggestions you might have to help me improve!
much ado about being
Active: 4 days ago
Making a wonderful fuss over the perks and perils of existing.
Henry's Substack
Active: 4 days ago
Domestic Mysteries, Dreams, and Memories— A place for poetry, spoken word, short stories, essays, art, and photography.
Rae
Active: 4 days ago
Hi! Just a teen girl exploring different perspectives and deep diving on this app. I love poetry, writing, researching, reading, drawing, coloring, diamond art, listening to music, hanging with my friends and family, and watching movies.
An unspoken symphony
Active: 4 days ago
If I stab myself with the very pen that I write this with, am I poetic enough?
Short Story
Active: 4 days ago
Teaching writer. Mid-life MFA graduate student. Ashley's wife. Childless cat lady with 3 stepsons and 2 dogs. Friend maker. Working-class socialist. Retired spoken word poet. Never not tired. Running 5 minutes late, sorry.
Word Witch
Active: 4 days ago
Join me (Kate Belew) for weekly rituals, musings, and prompts for the Word Witches, spell casters of language, and creative magic makers. Here, you'll learn how to call upon and cultivate the creative magic within you.
Stephen K Ames
Active: 4 days ago
A seeker of wonder and wisdom, I walk the path between the seen and unseen. Guided by love, transformation, and curiosity, I embrace life as a sacred journey—discovering beauty in every moment and finding magic within the depths of the soul.
Dispatches From the Basement
Active: 4 days ago
I offer poetry that seeks out the sacred in the ordinary, accompanied by original photography. No politics, no hot takes, just poetry.
Writing from the Ashes
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This is a space to experience poetry as prayer, to tend the fertile soils of our grief, and to remember the wildness that lives within us all. Subscribe to receive my poems + writing prompts straight to your inbox.
from the open spaces
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Publication announcements, upcoming events, reflections, reading recommendations, and more.
Marcus Miranda
Active: 4 days ago
Hi, I'm Marcus. And I only want out of life the opportunity to paint with words.
Max Parthas
Active: 4 days ago
Co founder of The Abolish Slavery National Network. National Campaign Coordinator (ASNN). Acting Director of the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center.
Chicago Writers Association
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Chicago's premier writers' organization, focused on the art, craft, and community of writing.
Spencer’s Cult of Forbidden Horrors
Active: 4 days ago
Horror. The cosmic and Body kind and anything else I want to write about I guess.
Dr. Lunatic Stranger Prescriptions
Active: 4 days ago
A lunatic doctor prescribing revolutionary verses — to shatter chains and heal souls.
Tori Makes Sense
Active: 4 days ago
sensemaking as in trying to put words&meaning to the clutter in my head&heart. doing that in the form of poetry, essays, short stories, all that jazz
Sarah Liénard
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Esoteric Researcher, AfterlifeRoad Productions, Documentary Filmmaker
Poetry by Sam Aureli
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Writing from the quiet edge, where language meets landscape, and the search for meaning walks beside wind, water, and wild things.
Marjorie’s Cosmic Gumball Machine
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Weekly Gum Balls, different flavors of haiku, visual poetry, sci-fi short stories, & stuff that catches my eye will drop into your inbox on Mondays. I write into the VOID because that is where stars are born. My posts will always be FREE!
Reclaim Our Names
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Reclaim Our Names! is an intersectional trans storytelling project that features narratives rooted in a commitment to define ourselves, for ourselves.
Scheming Rhymes
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Formal poetry is a beautiful art getting lost in the digital age. Let's write and learn about it to keep it alive!
The Yellow Table
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My personal Substack is where you can read and listen to my newest poems, enjoy my photographs, and read my notes about my writing process.
Kari Redmond
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Kari Redmond is a Fort Collins–based writer of literary fiction and essays. Her personal essay “Remains” was selected for Roxane Gay’s The Audacity. Her flash fiction is on Medusa Rising. Editors can reach her at kariredmond@hotmail.com
Mark Nepo
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With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world. Mark's work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Rhythm's
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🍵 The Write to Poetry
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Build your creative life. One poem at a time. We provide the prompts!
Third Place Poetry
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Third Place Poetry is a gathering space that connects people to poetry and people through poetry.
Nahthan Paul
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Hi, Nahthan here. I am a writer, artist, and musician from south coast Massachusetts. Welcome to my Substack!
Smiling Through the Tears
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I write emotionally uplifting fiction stories that might just make you cry.
Democracy Defender
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I am an anonymous federal government employee whose job is in danger from Trump, DOGE, and fascism. My Substack is called Democracy Defender. I write about what public servants like me are doing to resist and save democracy.
black
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black is a beginner writer and poet without a heart. i’d rather write my thoughts instead..
Crane's Eye View
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Ray Zimmerman's personal Substack includes nature writing and comments on day to day living.
The Poetry Hotline
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A biweekly poetry newsletter, pep talk and podcast. Poetry as a life preserver.
Poems you don't have to be a poet to love
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Poems, literary excerpts, opinionated opinions.
Bhums.in.between
Active: 4 days ago
life, love, and the inner workings of a girl who notices too much
On The Train to Koh-Riley
Active: 4 days ago
There's so much awesome stuff out there, haven't you seen it? Cool leaves, strange people, beautiful rocks... I'll write about it, let me share it with you.
Devyn Leighton
Active: 4 days ago
Writing on love, loss, and finding home in unexpected places.
Thank you for being here 🖤
Tracy's Nordic Light
Active: 4 days ago
A quiet literary space devoted to reading and learning as a way of life—where books, reflection, and the inner life meet. Written from Norway, shaped by decades of reading, and guided by a love of beauty, nature, good light and creative living.
Rotary Writings
Active: 4 days ago
Revolving poems. Like a thousand small combustions powering an engine.
pHotonic🧿phoEniX
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Power Delay Profile ⚡ Parallel Distributed Processing 🤯 Piecewise Deterministic Process 🧭 Passion Driven Prosperity 🏴☠️ Third Helix 🧬 Hex•Agon 💫 "H2O won't kill me. But CO2 might" 🍉 Never attempt to touch the flames. Fan them.
Molly Sullivan
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come swim in my stream : words on nostalgia, existentialism, mental health, love & more 🦢
All Words Bright & Beautiful
Active: 4 days ago
Finding the true, good, and beautiful in rare words and poetry. ⟢
Morning News/Evening Notes
Active: 4 days ago
Connecting through books and writing, considering soulfulness--noticing nature and creatures great and small...
b.
Active: 4 days ago
my mind is a labyrinth. who we are becoming is forever unfolding through the maze that is life. welcome to my space filled with poetry & the occasional deep dive <3
keshawndevon
Active: 4 days ago
Born and raised Southwest Ohioan artist who left the state to see the world, create art, and pursue his passion. Writes stories, acts in them on stage and screen, and moves through them as they happen in life.
Marinarena Travel & Poetic Deep Dive
Active: 4 days ago
Musings, Observations and Journeys by Marinarena, fellow wanderer and wonderer. File under: blogs, commentaries, listicles, poetry, prose, travel
Joel Gunderson
Active: 5 days ago
A sommelier in Portland, Oregon who enjoys very good wine and food and engaging theological and literary discussions—preferably with 90’s hip hop playing in the background.
becoming that girl
Active: 5 days ago
love letters, personal thoughts, story dumps, and the virtual diary of a girl in her twenties starting over and figuring life out, piece by piece.
Gopher Farm
Active: 5 days ago
Poetry, fiction and memoir coming from Santa Cruz every Sunday. It's free!
The Art Hoe Archives
Active: 5 days ago
Hello! This is Bonbon and these are just the ramblings of a pretentious high school student with a passion for art history but cursed with AP Chem
Liza Blue Humorist
Active: 5 days ago
Humor, wit, wonder, wisdom.
Curiosity and humor-driven essays about everyday life.
Sabine R. Byrd
Active: 5 days ago
Come on in, the water's warm---I swear. But I can't promise I won't bite.
Subscribe for poetry, fiction, essays, and erotica from Sabine's writing lair.
This Blessed Plot
Active: 5 days ago
Sermons, Teaching Manuscripts, Reflections, Meditations, Prayers, Poems, and Thoughts about Christian Living from Pastor Hardin Crowder.
North Sea Poets
Active: 5 days ago
We are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life.
ponyXpress
Active: 5 days ago
writers & artists who are incarcerated —
published in Portland by Bridgeworks Oregon
The Poet’s Report
Active: 5 days ago
A weekly report on the state and spirit of the world and the life upon it, through the lens of a poem.
The Clayjar Review
Active: 5 days ago
The Clayjar review is a Christian literary journal dedicated to publishing human works housing the presence of God.
Brilliantly Dark
Active: 5 days ago
I write...I think...I feel...trying to cope with life with humour. And I'm still trying to understand myself.
augmented’s journey
Active: 5 days ago
“The Power of Poetry” is a place to show the world your creativity, your imagination and passion for writing.
Garbage Notes
Active: 5 days ago
from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes
Christian Baker
Active: 5 days ago
I am a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, honing my prose and craft skills in the UNCG workshop setting. I talk through the craft elements more mystical than practical when starting out writing, and how to implement them.
Seánfhocail
Active: 5 days ago
Perspectives of an animist herbalist, poet, and priest on things new and old, human and wild
Intensely Specific
Active: 5 days ago
A teacher's endless search for purpose in the past, present, and future
HER
Active: 5 days ago
Hi 👋 If you’re here welcome! I’m a Mama, Poet, all the things. I don’t have a particular style of writing, I just write what I feel. ♥️
Sunday Poem + Prompt
Active: 5 days ago
sharing a poem with an accompanying writing prompt every Sunday
The Art of Good Enough
Active: 5 days ago
Gentle words and imperfect practice exploring what it means to cultivate a more loving relationship to ourselves and the world around us. All perfectionists welcome.
Gathering the Pieces of Me
Active: 5 days ago
A quiet place for remembering and becoming. I’m writing slowly toward what is still unfolding, gathering the parts of myself that grew quiet. For women rediscovering their worth, and the courage to bloom again.
Accented J
Active: 5 days ago
I share my short stories, poems, and thoughts about the things that make us human.
the noctuary
Active: 5 days ago
thank you for pausing in your whirlwind of a day to find me here. i hope all your tomorrows are infinitely softer than your yesterdays <3
The Poetry Federation
Active: 5 days ago
Poetry on events past, present, and whatever is flying at the seat of the imagination with inspiration in the passenger. Experimental musings on the philosophical and surreal on what's already been said and seen because you never run out of words.
notes on bewilderment
Active: 5 days ago
a chance to work through some ideas about the creative process.
Poetic Inclinations
Active: 5 days ago
Poetic Inclinations publishes poems of memory, landscape, and persistence, often shaped by the shadowed histories and haunted beauty of the Australian goldfields.
Tender Oscillations
Active: 5 days ago
Poems, stories, literature, fiction - not always in that order
Beloved Hikmahhhh 🤭💙
Active: 5 days ago
Content creator | Arabic calligrapher | Pharmacy student. Writing about faith, love, nature, creativity, and life's quiet moments
The Eminent
Active: 5 days ago
The Timidity of Omnipotent Is The Begining Of Sagacity. Pedagogue|Prodigy|Punditocrat.
Y'know That Journalist
Active: 5 days ago
A place where I'll dump my thoughts about politics, economics, and New Zealand (and other stuff as well).
Zineloos
Active: 6 days ago
Heartfelt content from a girl who wants to create more and consume less.
Shaw and Moore
Active: 6 days ago
We are Clare Shaw and Kim Moore - poets, essayists and friends. We share essays and articles about writing and other things which interest us, along with new poetry, writing tips and exercises, live readings and workshops.
My Way Back
Active: 6 days ago
I almost died. Now, I’m finding my way back. Poetry + prose for YOU at the intersection of art, faith, + belonging. Home to Poetry University.
Fragments of my Mind
Active: 6 days ago
Fragments of my sometimes scattered mind: poetry, diary excerpts, prompts - pieces of my soul.
Notes-app leaked
Active: 6 days ago
Poems and stories crammed between shopping lists and a brownie recipe - my notes app
Amanda Lee
Active: 6 days ago
Writer, holistic bodyworker, bibliophile, and naturalist. Poetry and reflections on the human experience, nature, art, healing, and the uncanny.
kamalini keerthi
Active: 6 days ago
i am kee, about me : non stop yapper • love story telling • huge poem reader • passionate abt creativity • rebellion
Sincerely Seb Poetry
Active: 6 days ago
Sincerely Seb Poetry publishes poems about the world, the more entertaining or bizarre experiences that I have in Slumberland, and the occasional musical composition. Poems include live voice overs by me, Sincerely Seb.
Wunderkammer
Active: 6 days ago
Finding a sense of wonder again through writing, art, literature, movies, theater and other curiosities.
Caro’s Writing Perspectives
Active: 6 days ago
Unleash your imagination and immerse yourself in a world of captivating stories, heartfelt poems, and more.
Haley’s Half-Baked Thoughts
Active: 6 days ago
A newsletter about—well, anything I have enough motivation to write about. And baked goods.
Whiskey & Flowers
Active: 6 days ago
Whiskey & Flowers is my quiet rebellion—an acceptance of flaws, a celebration of cracks. It's about honoring the rough edges and recognizing beauty not despite our brokenness, but precisely because of it.
jejune
Active: 6 days ago
currently doing a daily poem series where every poem is "under 30 words" :) feel free to check out day 2!
Laura Wifler
Active: 6 days ago
Thoughtful writing on Christian faith to help you find the holy mystery in daily life. Poetry, essays, podcasts, and of course, the beloved Monthly(ish) Newsletter. It's a fun time, come hang.
I use repetition, silence, and non sequiturs.
Active: 6 days ago
UK Author looking to put some things on the web. Some strange. Some weird. Some sad. Some humorous. Some horrific, and some poetic. Come and visit www.daniilfrolov.com for even more stuff.
Amarachi 🦄
Active: 6 days ago
I overshare for educational purposes.
Expect essays about men (unfortunately), feminism (fortunately), language, healing, and the occasional existential crisis that could've been a diary entry.
A Room of Someone Else's
Active: 6 days ago
Poetry, books, culture, politics, history, etc. I've been economically displaced from my longtime home & am rebuilding, now with long Covid. My new book, 'Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle', is out now with CB Editions. katyevansbush.com
Awaken The Legend Within
Active: 6 days ago
I'm Chad Osinga. Been a sniper, a combat instructor, a broken man, and now a guy just trying to help others find their way. Through my stories, philosophy, and simple practices, we awaken the legend—the God inside you.
Earth and Verse
Active: 6 days ago
Get out of your head and onto the page! Writing circles and creative prompts for poets, artists, and writers who are ready to take their practice to the next level.
A Cinnabar Stone-Leafed Grimoire
Active: 6 days ago
The Alchemico-Hermetic celestial elixir of the true Light which enlightens all men who goeth into the earth.
The Christo-Poetic Goetic of a Cinnabar Stone Grimoire.
Myrrh. Frankincense. Gold.
eva chapaeva
Active: 6 days ago
Rootless Poetry. Figuring out how to write poetry in my second language
The Slower Explorer
Active: 6 days ago
Stories, reflections, and the realities of my life as a retired, minimalist, solo, full-time, slow traveler.
Love, Allegedly
Active: 6 days ago
Hot takes on love and dating. Started this cause a friend said writing about heartbreak is therapeutic. This is also anonymous by the way
Lee D. Gibbs — Dark & Speculative Fiction
Active: 6 days ago
Speculative, historical, gothic horror rooted in New Jersey. An interconnected universe of Slow Drip novels serialized weekly, plus the growing short fiction anthology, Demons. New here? Start with Leeds Devil or Lost Grounds.
The Raft
Active: 6 days ago
The online community of author Phyllis Cole-Dai, including The Raft Weekly "goody bag" (Saturdays). Ride the river of a creative life, buoyed by Phyllis's latest writing, nudges for your expressive practice, boosts of curated poetry and music, and more.
Guerrilla Literature and the Avant-garde
Active: 6 days ago
Scottish-born storyteller in the Carolinas. Writer. Poet. Vampire with a holy heart. Author of Musings of the Teenage Vampire. I feed on curiosity and craft worlds with blood and fire. Join the Kerr Clan, and let's build something unforgettable.
The Light Within
Active: 1 week ago
Remember your inner light and find your always accessible peace within. Your thoughts do not define you, and I'm here to share my journey and my poetry with you as you remember who you are. I hope you find some light here.
Aimee Gemini
Active: 1 week ago
I love to write, make art and just explore my creative side. When not doing that enjoy a good book, movie, show or game to get lost in.
The Beauty of Things
Active: 1 week ago
Posts about arts and culture from a classically-minded poet.
Tumbleweed Words
Active: 1 week ago
Original poetry and short fiction by David Moran — Pushcart-nominated, internationally published. Minimalist verse and literary prose, written on trains, in bedsits and strange cities across the globe.
The Ghost
Active: 1 week ago
On writing and life. Long-form musings on the nature of creativity and the essence of everything. Some poems, too.
How to Love the World
Active: 1 week ago
Sharing my poems, stories and art.
This is how I love the world. ♥
Kolade Peter
Active: 1 week ago
Helping you grow in faith as I also grown in faith by following the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ, one post at a time. ✝️🙏🏽
Tea for a Druid
Active: 1 week ago
Appreciating nature is understanding our selves.
Always human-created, never artificial intelligence.
Slowing Down with Ryan Pennington
Active: 1 week ago
An ordinary pastor sharing everyday experiences of following Jesus and inviting people into the theological curiosities of my mind.
Patricia Crow Herlevi Writer
Active: 1 week ago
Literary food from several decades of writing poetry, fiction, and memoirs. And a monthly newsletter for writers.
Anushka
Active: 1 week ago
I'm someone who was rescued by the pen when speech failed me. I'm fascinated by the unsaid, the subtext, and the 'in-between the lines'. This is my way of giving back to the world that gave me words.
The Digital Journey of Becoming an Author
Active: 1 week ago
Following August Rose Crothers on her Writing Endeavors
To Be Livin' Poetry and Prose
Active: 1 week ago
Words! L-O-V-E THEM! You, too?! Join me at the table to share what's on the Menu: poetry, prose, discuss featured writers, and more. Taste the daring to the divine! It'll be YUMMY!!!
Checking In
Active: 1 week ago
If you've caught yourself on autopilot, this was written for you. I share short personal essays about life, trying repeatedly to teach me something. They start with a story and find a thread worth pulling. (Warning: Humor is my coping mechanism.)
In no time at all
Active: 1 week ago
A collection of poems on the balance between needing each other and letting go
The Poet's Circle
Active: 1 week ago
A welcoming place for the poetry curious to discover and discuss poetry, form, and craft
Birdie Larkspur🌸🕊️✨
Active: 1 week ago
I’m like if a girl was your weird uncle ~ 21 and oh so lost ~ Slice of life/Ramblings/Poems
Paulomi Dutta
Active: 1 week ago
Introvert personality who write poetry about ordinary life, longing, love, and so on.. poetry is an art of expression and l enjoy exploring that art
Pissing In The Press Pool
Active: 1 week ago
Weekly poetry and essays from a lucky heartbroke writer trying to get by in the end of times.
CocoaTea Poetry
Active: 1 week ago
CocoaTea Poetry TT is a creative space rooted in faith. All readers and writers welcome to enjoy poetry, reviews, art and exploration of Caribbean literary culture. You are blessedly welcome✨
Poetry Is Life
Active: 1 week ago
Each week I share poems, essays, and writing prompts meant to open the heart and nourish the soul.
Beverley’s Substack
Active: 1 week ago
My Cinquain Corner -
I write 5-line poems (Cinquains) to capture nature, the seasons, a thought for the day, for my well-being in grief and healing in life.
PerfectMistStudio
Active: 1 week ago
An archive of projects, observations, and highly questionable conclusions.
The Friday Poem
Active: 1 week ago
Poems, reviews and features. Aiming to publish without fear or favour. Probably unfashionable.
Truly & Madly by Madison Morton
Active: 1 week ago
growing into yourself, loving deeply without losing yourself, telling the truth even when it’s uncomfortable, and occasionally letting poetry say what prose can’t.
Allie
Active: 1 week ago
I write reflections and reviews on music, books, films, and television, with a focus on meaning, subtext, and emotional truth. This archive is an attempt to slow down, pay attention, and follow the connective tissue between us and media.
Going Solo at the End of the World
Active: 1 week ago
Solo traveler and New York Times bestselling author goes rogue to bring readers a first-person report from the far reaches of the American road.
Old Improvidence
Active: 1 week ago
Poetry and prose about identity, memory, community, and whatever else I feel like writing about.
The ReKindled
Active: 1 week ago
Re-igniting the creative spirit and deepening the creative soul in our increasingly soulless times.
ley lines to nowhere
Active: 1 week ago
just a guy navigating life in his late twenties. I write poems and post about my life experiences from early childhood up to where I'm at now and how one has impacted the other
Shahad Dahlan
Active: 1 week ago
I find in poetry and prose a refuge to express my feelings and thoughts, the stories of our daily lives, and our dreams that never fade.
I write poems leaning toward literature and prose,
I hope you will give me the opportunity to share my work with you.
The Midlife Sonnet
Active: 1 week ago
Poetry, planted in Midwestern soil, that seeks the beautiful in the ordinary.
The Music Week
Active: 1 week ago
The Music Week is a place to share, explore and discuss music. Every week I publish album reviews and recommendations, discussions, deep dives and more!
Silly Games to Save the World
Active: 1 week ago
Politics, Philosophy, Poetry, and Silly Games - new ways to wonder WTF just happened
Bucky Sinister
Active: 1 week ago
I'm a poet, self-help author, novelist, kettlebell athlete, and pop culture nerd. Likely you know me from one of these descriptions if you're here. Hopefully, I'll share the rest of my world with you.
On Purpose
Active: 1 week ago
How to build a beautiful life that you can’t get enough of & the art of CHOOSING that life
Ginosko Literary Journal
Active: 1 week ago
Ginosko is dedicated to prose, poetry, and creative non-fiction that inspire and challenge. Discover more at www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com
Musings From A Broken Heart
Active: 1 week ago
Theology, poetry, reflections, and restful meditations from a Black man in process
my secret online diary
Active: 1 week ago
2002 style online diary, b-sides, close friends story. For real fans only.
Rose Rivers Writes
Active: 1 week ago
Between worlds, I write — weaving stories of memory, myth, and becoming.
The Guelph Poet
Active: 1 week ago
Writing toward the beauty of ache. Subscribe to get a free poetry workshop (and pic of my kitten) in your inbox <3
the sacred art of becoming HER
Active: 1 week ago
Welcome to the Front Porch — a quiet, spacious place for women who cherish beauty, savor simple pleasures, and are drawn to a softer, more sacred way of consciously becoming.
Kae tea aych bea
Active: 1 week ago
a girl in a woman's body. I want to know and experience everything and the sadness I have is that I cannot.
Rand Barcelo
Active: 1 week ago
artist, poet, board game developer, owner of a speaker. I am not actually six years old.
No Whale In Sight
Active: 1 week ago
This is Ryan Scott Nance’s premier collection, with poems appearing in Graffit Rag, the diagram, Hinchas de Poesia and Mantis.
Launching June 1, 2026
Building A Path
Active: 1 week ago
I like to write. I like the way words feel on the page and on the tongue. But more importantly I’m seeking the word as a fulcrum these days. Let’s move this madness together
Seasoned with Salt
Active: 1 week ago
A creativity-filled life as a wife and mother, with Christ at the center.
Kyle Ryan
Active: 1 week ago
Hey..I’m a husband, dad, and film fan. I love to read about and discuss movies good and bad (especially bad). I may post some of my own from time to time (with an emphasis on horror) that I hope to get better at as I go.
Newbell Poetry
Active: 1 week ago
American poet trying to carve my own path. Lover of books and music. Futurist. Also have a YouTube channel for history: https://www.youtube.com/@westonthehistorian2817
King Kat Poetry
Active: 1 week ago
My name is katlego molefe. I am an amateur South African poet. I am here to share my life story through poetry.
Tim @ North and South
Active: 1 week ago
Culture, wellbeing, politics and community, photography, poetry...
A DOSE OF EVERYTHING
Active: 1 week ago
In a very vast world of literature, I enjoy exploring diverse writing niches while maintaining my creative freedom.
Melissa “justME” Ellis
Active: 1 week ago
Black Woman Poet, GodMaMa/Auntie Supreme, Brand Ambassador, fitness enthusiast, lover of Blackness, dope ass person. #IAmjustME ❤️🖤💚
Mac Mitchell
Active: 1 week ago
English Teacher writing about Encounters with Literature that transformed my thinking, lit up the dark, and led to new discoveries for my own creative work.
Vivian’s poetry and musings
Active: 1 week ago
A place for bad poetry, terrible writing and horrific stories, and some songs and paintings.
Jo McKinley
Active: 1 week ago
I'm writing about the struggles of labor, infrastructure, and money, all from a perspective around the food and retail industries.
C'est Levi's
Active: 1 week ago
Isaiah 60:22. Sharing my various thoughts and views on faith and life. I write about anything and everything... I write not to teach you but to remind you that you're human
Pisces Press
Active: 1 week ago
Fair Maiden transcribing the literary and poetic genius of Pisces, the Fish of the Substack Sea.
Christopher Van Name
Active: 1 week ago
Observer. Ponderer. Over thinker. Lucky man. Beneath the cracks that time reveals Still live the dreams that age conceals” -“This Old Clown” CVN Copyright (c) Songbay 03/07/2018
The Poetry Salon with Tresha Faye Haefner and Friends
Active: 1 week ago
What does it mean to be a poet or even a person in the world today? Poet and creativity expert Tresha Faye Haefner interviews fellow poets about their writing, shares her take on their poems, and gives you honest stories about her journey towards poetry.
Tipsy Sofa Poems & Stories
Active: 1 week ago
Sharing sofa thoughts, mild and wild reflections about ups and downs in life.
Poetry & Theology
Active: 1 week ago
This substack tracks my incredibly scintillating thoughts on poetry and theology (yawn).
Galaxies Within
Active: 1 week ago
I talk about all the things that come to my mind, hope you find what you're looking for here. :)
A Billet-doux
Active: 1 week ago
A Billet-doux is an online literary commonplace filled with penning of maddening obsessions, keen observations and becoming. part diary, part fever dream.
=^Alicat^=
Active: 1 week ago
I am just releasing pieces of my heart to my readers. I want to build a community!
The Great Beyond
Active: 1 week ago
Site of a driven artist looking to become bona fide, this is The Great Beyond - this is where I will make it
Austin's Myth
Active: 1 week ago
Here is where I post poems mostly and other things periodically and continuously with occasional breaks due to travel and block.
Poetry Apothecary
Active: 1 week ago
A community for poets and lovers of who poetry who want to explore the human underbelly, tender, aching parts of ourselves often relegated to the shadows.
TJ Tells Tales
Active: 1 week ago
Twice weekly short story series from random stories that I've had in my head.
Don Your Cape by Lindsay Sfara
Active: 1 week ago
I write poetry and adult superhero fiction full of self-love and mental health awareness. You'll receive posts with personal reflections, a self-care exercise, poetry, and book updates; all as a call to honor your core values and own your true identity.
Namra
Active: 1 week ago
i write , For the tender minds and overthinking hearts.💌 And the feeling we struggle to put into words.~
On Being and Timelessness
Active: 1 week ago
On Being and Timelessness is about literature, translation, and ideas. Topics include how the ancient and the present connect; Jewish poetry and prose; why translation matters; and people who are worth a closer look.
Alli Bauck
Active: 1 week ago
Just like the writings posted here, I too am a work in progress. | Poet, spiritual writer, artist | Coffee/tea drinker, stay-at-home-mom, and redeemed daughter of the King 👑
Buzzy Johnson
Active: 1 week ago
Entering the Crone Years means stepping into the Archetype of the Wise Woman. With old ancestral patterns broken and some hard lessons learned, I am a Crone who is an encourager, and a fledgling photographer 🐝
On Breath and Belonging
Active: 1 week ago
Longtime seeker for home and belonging. Gradually finding it here, here in the Earth and on the inward path that reveals that I never left home to begin with.
Alias April
Active: 1 week ago
"Flights" is already taken -but I traveled a lot, and I continue to, including falling down the rabbit holes. Thoughts and rants about being on the go and staying put, whatever it means. PS scratch it I have no idea. Not yet.
Sensory Cafe♨️
Active: 1 week ago
Aspiring psychologist using synesthesia to explore human connection across disciplines. Founder of Easy Rococo Community (X & Discord).🛠️Building BookQuest, a gamified reading companion that makes reading active. In crypto since 2021.
Inner Algorithms
Active: 1 week ago
Words don’t bite, judgment does. Curiosity is my code, swaying between flashes of genius, feminine grace, untamed edge, and Chaplin’s stumble.
Pixie’s Substack
Active: 1 week ago
Pixie Bruner is a writer, editor, and cervical cancer survivor and patient advocate. Her joints bend backwards due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She lives in the Event Horizon of Atlanta, GA with her doppelgänger and the most deranged cats.
Your Ignorance is their Power
Active: 1 week ago
Short stories and serialized novels, across genre boundaries.
Amadeusz’s Library
Active: 1 week ago
A raw literary journal blending poetry, myth, and reflection—exploring human fractures, silence, and meaning through an untamed, uncompromising voice. Written by Amadeusz Motyl
Lach Stuff
Active: 1 week ago
Welcome to the organic (no AI), unfettered words, cartoons, radio shows, podcasts, music, songs, and art by Lach. In other words, Lach stuff! Onwards!
Soul Notes
Active: 1 week ago
I'm Mel Dela! Guiding young minds toward purpose, peace, and personal growth — one step at a time.
Scott Cairns
Active: 1 week ago
Librettist, essayist, translator, and poet, Scott Cairns is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at University of Missouri, now living in University Place, WA.
Hacking at Poetry
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A hack's hack at writing poetry - and an illustration or two to go along with it. Currently building a collection that started at a bus stop in Costa Rica, when I ran out of things to draw. Follow along as the pages in 'Nothing to draw' are filled.
Chloe Yelena Miller, writer and writing teacher
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Follow me for posts about writing, books, upcoming events and more! Subscribe for The Writing Jar: Weekly posts in 2026 to help you fill your (metaphorical) jar of writing, revising, submitting and reading all year. Let's write!
KHÔRA
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Khôra is a dynamic online arts space showcasing the work of polyphonic, multi-genre writers and artists. Each issue features six carefully curated pieces — artwork and writing selected for the way they speak across forms. Every issue is a conversation.
Helen Higgins
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I write about the erotics of intelligence, the long shadows of lust, modern romance and relationships, and the quiet seductions in literature, longing, and love.
This is creative writing, creative nonfiction, and reflective musings.
Mary Oliver's Drunk Substack
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Bonus french fries (poems! jokes! insider info!) in your inbox
achingsoul
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This space is filled with quiet confessions written in blood and love.
The Deep Waters
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a space where we're not afraid to sink and drown into the deepest and darkest depths
Three And A Possible
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i write poems. i am the author of "how to bloom... and other acts of guerilla warfare."
La Rotonde Review
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La Rotonde Review is an online indie literary magazine devoted to passionate poetry and prose poetry, with a timeless sensibility.
arunima Misra
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my publication is a reflection of my learning and and experiences as a young girl
i share a love for poetry, literature, political and analytical writing
Writing Alone and With Others
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Amherst Writers & Artists' (AWA) core belief is simple: every person is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and develop craft.
JT’s Substack
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I write to forget. Then I surrender again to the vast empty page, fearful of the fresh word. Curious of what I'll discover next.
Poetry and Miracles
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I write poems, take photographs, and occasionally make art. Always in search of joy.
Dear beloved
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Beloved is my corner to you for honest reflections, inquiries, and my sharings that are raw in this slow work of becoming more tender.
Jebet🌀
Active: 1 week ago
i believe in ubuntu (literall tatted)
passionate reader and writer
lover and sucker for african FEMINIST litreature .
Write Conscious
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Daily podcasts, book clubs, and courses on the best books and authors ever.
Ashir Intishar Taseen
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I turn silence into words. Conversations that ended, feelings that didn’t, and poetry that lingers… 🖤
Kevin's Substack
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Writer, reviewer, avid fantasy reader, talking Tolkien and other great novels
Ideas on ink
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Ideas mean nothing until they are put down. This space exists to share process and insights in real time. It’s equal parts brainstorm and digital journal. Thanks for stopping by to read between the lines.
Good Thing Going
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A considered collection of book recommendations, along with behind-the-scenes glimpses, favorite links, important Etsy discoveries and whispered dreams from Lena Dunham and the Good Thing Going team—published with intention rather than routine.
Bowie Snodgrass
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The Rev. Bowie Snodgrass is an Episcopal priest, parent, and poet. Rector of Christ Church in Short Hills, NJ. I’m writing poetry with the Gospel of John as my muse, revisiting poems from other periods of my life, and sharing new work.
Blind Eyes Could Blaze
Active: 1 week ago
Wrestling with faith in a postmodern world and seeking Christ among the ruins.
Literary Feast: Poetry and Prose
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Poems and prose about beauty hidden in the mundane, the hunger to bear witness, and books that help us taste and see.
Poetic Purpose
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Poetic Updates - A Free Monthly Newsletter
Personal Poetics - For Paid Subscribers
lauren oliver
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poetry, prose, and philosophy from the raw, unfiltered edge of the feminine psyche; a sanctuary for the soul that feels too much and not enough. this is where the shadow meets the light. this is where we remember divinity.
Leaf and Lamp with Jared C. Wellman
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Leaf and Lamp explores Tolkien, storytelling, and Christian imagination through essays on sub-creation and original works of poetry, fiction, and art.
The Haiku Garden
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Making sense of life in 5-7-5 form. Prompts to inspire your own haiku.
The Maple Moon
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Courtenay Schembri Gray writes from an eldritch womb: ft. poems, plays, diaries, and essays.
Manashree Manohar
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A literature student who reads, researches, writes and edits not to escape from reality but to escape deeper in reality.
everything is an experiment
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rambling inspiration and creative practice from hope amico
4 Esoteric Eyes Only
Active: 1 week ago
My digital composition book. Original Poems, Articles, Interviews, & more from me, Jahmed Williams.
et marginalia
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Essays and poetry on girlhood, grief, and God, every Wednesday and Sunday.
Reaching Light Together
Active: 1 week ago
Through telling our stories from our hearts, I believe that we can inspire each other on our paths. We can reach for the light together. I self-published a book by this title, and continue to share my poetry and nature photography here.
Sentiment in Several Syllables
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Writer of poetry, picture books, chapter books, novels and lists. A lot of lists. Here are some of them.
Adrienne Veronese
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Warrior Poet, essayist, podcaster and author of Bring the Wu, Tales of a Drunken Shopping Cart, and The Good, the Bad & the Secret Squirrel.
Gathering Thoughts
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My personal Substack of my diverse range of interests. Expect poetry, reading recommendations, critical theory, symbolist analysis of culture, formalist close readings, and takes on the state of contemporary culture and politics.
She Speaks Softly
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Reflections on identity, personal evolution and metamorphosis from a soft-spoken soul that survived corporate.
LeeAnn Pickrell ~ Poetry & Prose
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On LeeAnn Pickrell ~ Poetry & Prose I share poems and short essays about this extraordinary ordinary life we're living.
Embers & Ink: Creative Doings, Then and Now
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Sharing my writings, offering reader and author exclusives, and exploring what it means to apply the creative process to everything in life. Fuel your fire, make your mark!
1000 Ways In
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Philosophical essays & poems on memory, relationships, culture, language and the embodied masculine. Writing to understand myself and others, one way in at a time.
Who Made The Eyes But I?
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The related Substack account for my poetry blog, featuring regular poetry and articles on Beauty, Christianity, formal poetry, and more. View my personal blog for all of my content!
David Rizzo
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I am the father of an adult daughter with autism. I have written several books about the spiritual journey of special needs parents and their children.
Oxford Poetry’s Substack
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Dispatches from our latest issues and our century’s worth of archives, as well as exclusive new writing by some of today’s leading poets and critics.
Capturing Beauty
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...in photos and words.
From an Australian mum who loves to share.
The New Stylus
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A literary journal specializing in poetry that is well-crafted, transcendent, and full of emotive power.
Life at the Bottom of the Canyon
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Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.
OP Membership Portal
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The official membership portal for ONLY POEMS | Join a joyful, creative community
The Quiet Hours
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We spend our lives encountering stories. Some entertain us. Others quietly rearrange the way we see the world. The Quiet Hours is about those encounters.
The Circus ༘⋆
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just jumping around, having a good time ♧ essays ♧ poems ♧ digital/physical media ♧ pop culture
Lennon Saige B. ☄ ੈ✩‧₊˚ ✿
Active: 1 week ago
Whimsical valedictorian of the earth. Curious savant, unique analytics of the fourth kind. Space, science, literature & more. Come have an existential crisis with me :) (yearning is hard when you’re tired)✨🖤🧡
theinkspilled
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Writing that lingers, an ink-stained corner for poetry, essays, and incandescent thought. Gothic reflections on literature, philosophy, and psychological inquiry.
The ink is spilled🖋️
THE EDEN PROJECT
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writing post digital gothic poetry exploring intimacy, obsession, trauma, and identity. I write to disassemble the architecture of human collapse
Caro’s Writing Perspectives
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Unleash your imagination and immerse yourself in a world of captivating stories, heartfelt poems, and more.
Rachtale
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bear with me just now finding out what this social platform is, still new.
Off-Piste on Mount Parnassus
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Poems by a pseudonym in San Diego. Special emphasis on repeating forms, sonnets, and verse translations.
Off Mic
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Off Mic is a weekly newsletter where creative women come to feel understood. I write about culture, creativity, and everything in between.
Walking in Circles with Catepa
Active: 2 weeks ago
Travelogue of a part-time mystic on the road with Jesus through labyrinths, geocaching, family, failure and hope.
The Canvas Chronicles
Active: 2 weeks ago
A living archive from an artist in search of beauty, meaning, softness and a more poetic way of living.
Marjorie Cohen Vera
Active: 2 weeks ago
Mother to two adult sons. Mujer de un Boricua, viviendo en Puerto Rico. Wisdom seeker, teacher, dharma rebel. I play with words, images, music, mantra, mudra, breath, & movement. Musings on life, love, yoga, basketball, the state of the world.
The Writings
Active: 2 weeks ago
A curated collection of poetry, creative writing, and spiritual thoughts.
The Zed Review
Active: 2 weeks ago
Humor, poetry, and rants on being a human, a women and a mother staring into the abyss of the American dream. Writers are Elizabeth Howard, Eric Vajentic, and others.
The Convulsion Doctrine
Active: 2 weeks ago
Dark poetry. Feral love letters. Dream logic. Horror stories. Your intrusive thoughts, twisted just right.
Letter of Little Things
Active: 2 weeks ago
Sharing inspiration for curiosity, creativity, and connection.
melissa broder
Active: 2 weeks ago
Author of Death Valley, Milk Fed, The Pisces, So Sad Today, Superdoom and Last Sext. NEXT: Empty and Marvelous (Scribner / 2027)
Naomi's Substack: Nature Bowl Haiku
Active: 2 weeks ago
Frequent postings of my haiku/short poetry inspired by immersing in nature--in the spirit of a nature bowl of things found from time outdoors.
Corie Feiner
Active: 2 weeks ago
As a poet, performer, and lover of yoga, I am here to help guide us through the wilderness of our times using the power of poetry and embodied presence. My Substack features poems from my evolving yoga poetry collection A Poem for Every Pose.
poetry in motion
Active: 2 weeks ago
poems and visuals all by me! just a little place to put my thoughts & poetry
Forgotten Poets
Active: 2 weeks ago
A living anthology of short poems and pictures from the late-1800s and early-1900s.
The World in the Evening
Active: 2 weeks ago
Strange how writing a thousand words about something else is easier than writing a hundred about myself.
Golden undercurrent
Active: 2 weeks ago
the deformed uncoordinated, unaesthetic and-illogical banality of things.
poems, essays and mini book reviews.
A broken tulip by Maaike
Active: 2 weeks ago
Every Thursday, an offering: a lyric essay, a poem or a deep dive into an art piece. Each one a question that hovers like bees around the hive of place and rupture. We'll do our best to follow the questions home.
The Unfolding Path
Active: 2 weeks ago
the playful mystic—sharing my personal journey. I write about spirituality, self-love, how imagination creates reality and the illusion of separation. I empower you to master your inner reality so you can create fulfillment and meaning in your life.
Subhash's Substack
Active: 2 weeks ago
My personal Substack
Welcome to my Substack. I am Subhash Roy Choudhury, a contemporary haikai poet.
My work has been selected four times by the Asahi Haikuist Network, and has appeared in DailyHaiga, Shadow Pond Journal, and Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry).
Sarah Baker
Active: 2 weeks ago
I believe in writing, in giving words to those still finding the right ones for themselves.
The Treasure Collective
Active: 2 weeks ago
Collecting what makes life beautiful. A home for creative dabbling.
WritingWithWater
Active: 2 weeks ago
I am a dreamer, a creator, a lover of life who wants to catch and ride the waves of possibility that emerge beneath the drama and noise of this time.
I Don't Give a Hoot
Active: 2 weeks ago
I gave to much of a hoot last year, and no I don't have any left to give (:
Ella's Archived Journal
Active: 2 weeks ago
Personal essays and journal fragments about love, longing, memory, nostalgia, and the beautiful absurdity and arcaneness of being young.
Wildmuse Portal
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poems, Spoken Word + Songs exploring the wild, wandering, creative life. Moving with authentic relationship and nature connection.
Changemakers’ Handbook
Active: 2 weeks ago
Your front-row seat to PhD findings into changemaking and no-holds-barred insight into my experience across 6 continents. Join me in fueling dialogue on the why, the how, the how not to, and the personal toll of creating regenerative transformation.
Dabney Baldridge
Active: 2 weeks ago
A busy mom of four who writes from the messiness of life to make beauty out of chaos.
To all the words I couldn't utter,
Active: 2 weeks ago
Stories about self-discovery, love, loss, and healing.
Aster solenne
Active: 2 weeks ago
Through words, I reach for those who’ve ever felt lost, broken, or unheard. May my poetry remind you that your feelings are valid, and your story matters."
Roger Browne
Active: 2 weeks ago
Did you ever read something in a novel and think no, that's not how it should go. And then dream re-writing it? Maybe it's just my curse. But, it led me to take up fiction writing myself, so there's that. Here to Learn. Share. Connect.
Keala A.
Active: 2 weeks ago
Writer, Photographer, Artist, Intuitive Channel doing my best to share love, joy and beauty into the world while appreciating all that's already here. Continuously on a treasure into the depths of my heart to see what wants to be explored and shared
Poetry, Art, and Unseen Things
Active: 2 weeks ago
I share my poetry, prose, and digital drawing. Monthly critique of one poem per month for paid subscribers.
Coffee Grounds Publication Co.
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poetry, Short Stories, Flash Fiction-- Welcome to the Coffee Shop!
In the Beautiful Middles of Nowhere: Roselle’s Substack 1
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poet, author, psycho-mythologian, vegan, in love with the wild mysterious cosmos & our other-than-human kin. Exploring how best to live in our Wasteland times. Growing a biodiverse holistic future on a few wooded acres in Brittany. I write about this+.
Kath the poet
Active: 2 weeks ago
Writer and poet, Catholic and lover of life. Mom to 3 boys under 4. Married to Max. Musician in Cimorelli with my sisters for 16+ years.
Carah Amelie
Active: 2 weeks ago
This is a place to get a peek inside the poem. I believe the process is just as poetic as the final piece.
Sarah Blondin
Active: 2 weeks ago
Words that bite at the bone and stumble toward understanding, for those seeking stability only the heart can provide.
Bishop of the East Wind
Active: 2 weeks ago
Words like palms pressed together, tethering time to halt times harrowing.
Thomas Kneeland Poetry
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poetry is a home, and my hope is that we can see poems as a way of finding home after wandering for so long. Come for the poetry. Stay for humanity.
Lit Angels
Active: 2 weeks ago
An Online Literary Journal Edited by Francesca Lia Block and Linda Davis
Chaos & Kismet
Active: 2 weeks ago
the underbelly of poetry, essay and fiction - read for a kick in the chest or a kiss on the lips. OR if you're lucky — both.
Darci Snode
Active: 2 weeks ago
Living with the sole goal of reflecting, glorifying and serving my God and my Savior. You can find me writing, reading, dreaming, or gazing at the stars ✨
The Love Café
Active: 2 weeks ago
A space to come together to collaborate, co-create, connect and calm the mind. This is for the literature lovers, the poetry ponderers, and those who are ready to re-discover the sacred power of the heART.
Francia McCormack
Active: 2 weeks ago
A writing, painting, and photography memoir reflecting on inspiration and social consciousness.
Steve Werkmeister
Active: 2 weeks ago
My first project on here is 95 Theses, short essays, related but unconnected, on the poison streams that led us to this moment in history. I’ll post occasionally, and no promise I’ll get to 95. Thank you for reading!
The Writing Life of J.S. Crawford
Active: 2 weeks ago
Flash work, essays, and behind-the-scenes updates by author J.S. Crawford
Mourningstar Poetry Substack
Active: 2 weeks ago
A space for poetry rooted in lived experience, where love, desire, memory, and repair are given time.
Carnation Lifetime
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poet & grad student writing about gratitude, craft, & everything that catches my eye in Charlottesville, VA.
holes of beauty in the grit: poetry aloud
Active: 2 weeks ago
history is in your mouth.
poetry & prose aloud and/or in translation.
The Victory Palace Poetry Stack
Active: 2 weeks ago
Counterculture poetry about illusion, power, and spiritual awakening.
Aporia Flops
Active: 2 weeks ago
A publication predominantly about failure. Meanderings include miscellaneous writings on cinema, literature and love. Of course, love.
Francine ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poetry/warm word soup beyond what my skull can contain. Thx for being here! <3
A Lizzie Birdie Told Me
Active: 2 weeks ago
Think voraciously. Write relentlessly. Perspectives on life, faith, medicine, and the human condition. An ordinary girl in pursuit of beauty, truth, and excellence.
she says what she says
Active: 2 weeks ago
24 y.o. lesbian in deep red south trying to survive white christian supremacy and bigotry and facism just like everyone else; survivor, chronically ill, disabled and trying to improve myself every single day.
letters I wrote while smoking
Active: 2 weeks ago
the thoughts I dump in my notes app while smoking, just polished and kinda has meaning now
A Carpenter's Point of View in Poetry
Active: 2 weeks ago
A lifelong carpenter, mostly retired but poetry still whispers to me.
The Monday to Friday Poet by Otilia Jones
Active: 2 weeks ago
Poetry must have been invented on a rainy day.
lcrt_ dvn
Active: 2 weeks ago
A shared heteronym for a songwriting duo. It has maintained open collaboration with other singers, musicians, sound producers, and creatives connected to literature and the fine arts.
You had me at Hello
Active: 2 weeks ago
You are the embodiment of the sun. We all feel the warmth emitted in your presence, we all see the light exude from the cracks on your skin, one day you will too.
Thy Echoes Of Eden
Active: 3 weeks ago
Finding Eden in the everyday. Devotions from a soul seeking Jesus, through pain, stillness, and peace.
Bad Poetry and Big Questions
Active: 3 weeks ago
Practicing imperfection and befriending our whole selves.
Delphic Archive
Active: 3 weeks ago
This is an archive of the future / of poetics in their suspended state. There is no single hidden order to discover, only a multiplicity of possible configurations. Each act of reading collapses one into determinate form.
Taro Bahar
Active: 3 weeks ago
Actor/Writer and general creator 💫 On here, I’ll be writing stories/poems/thoughts and reflections.
Musings from the Street
Active: 3 weeks ago
Words from Old Town Winchester and beyond. Upcoming events. Notes I have left on my typewriter. Favorite poetry. Philosophy. Beauty. A little bit of everything.
Life Over Coffee
Active: 3 weeks ago
Essays on personal stories, oddities, small mysteries, , culture, media, and history.
Written by someone with many personal stories of triumps, losses, grief, and more.
R. H. Snow’s Deep Thoughts from the Dubble-wide of D00m
Active: 3 weeks ago
One does not simply write about Texas - one must live it.
Thoughts Across Bostonia
Active: 3 weeks ago
essays & poems; public ponderments, poetry portfolio; climate anxiety, current events, musings of a creative 20-something. Welcome!
Experimental Poetry (Translation etc.)
Active: 3 weeks ago
I turn paintings into poems, articles into poems, experiences into poems, other poems into poems, and sometimes I just play around with pictures and words
TWBH- The Way Back Home
Active: 3 weeks ago
Long essays on the inner work of recovery, poems from the forthcoming Anthology, and notes from the body of work that is The Way Back Home for readers crossing their own territory, alongside whatever professional care is indicated for them.
Renee Publication
Active: 3 weeks ago
Welcome to my personal journey of all the poems that have aided in my survival over the years. May the words birthed from burden be a delight (or a least a small comfort) to your joy.
We are not alone!
Katerina
Active: 3 weeks ago
a digital journal writen for hungry brains, curious minds and souls seeking comfort
Still Here: A Grief Journal in Poetry
Active: 3 weeks ago
How a non-writer learned to grieve, one poem at a time.
A Crow At The Beach Is Like A Seagull At A Funeral
Active: 3 weeks ago
What If Poetry Could Change the Way You See the World? This is a space for reflection, healing, and growth. EXCLUSIVE newsletter directly to your inbox. Every Wednesday you will receive a new poem.
Ept
Active: 3 weeks ago
A slice of Ettie-brain with absolutely zero purpose. Maybe it’s life-affirming? Maybe it’s voyeuristic? Who knows. Certainly not me.
Starving Lovers
Active: 3 weeks ago
Writing of all kinds (or at leas a few kinds) aiming to keep in mind the powers and limitations of words, as well as those of perception.
Feelings, Inc.
Active: 3 weeks ago
Something like feeling around in a dark room for the light switch.
JayReeWrites
Active: 3 weeks ago
JayRee (she/her)
writing poetry for me.
for you.
for the sake of art.
EmberUnsaid
Active: 3 weeks ago
𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒎 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔. ❀♡
Wander Words by JL Tooker
Active: 3 weeks ago
Wander Words by JL Tooker is a space for storytellers, deep thinkers, and curious minds to explore the intersections of wonder, reflection, and the written word.
Benjamin Sajo
Active: 3 weeks ago
Hello, I am a Canadian poet. Also, a teacher and music composer--both avenues influencing my current quest. I love with pragmatic optimism, and the Millenial experience through a mythic syntax. My Muses are many: The North, glimmers, and maybe you
Stirred, Not Shaken
Active: 3 weeks ago
Poems, stories and photos inspired by what stirs me here in the woods and surrounds of the Salish Sea.
The Poetry Moth
Active: 3 weeks ago
Trisha Leigh Shufelt is an award-winning poet/artist. Her style is confessional poetry with emphasis on nature imagery. She’s authored several poetry books and appeared in many anthologies. You can find her work at thepoetrymoth.com.
The Poetry Moth
Active: 3 weeks ago
Navigating life through my love of reading and writing poetry while drinking excessive amounts of coffee and overthinking just about everything.
Lori Anna Conzo
Active: 3 weeks ago
Exploring contrasting perspectives and how faith shapes our connection to nature, to ourselves and to each other.
Read - Fiction
Active: 3 weeks ago
Poems, short stories, novellas, novellotes - and updates of Mayu ash debut novel.
Vela ash
Active: 3 weeks ago
Aspiring author - currently working on my Frist fantasy novel ; reading , writing and poetry has my heart - will love to share some of my short works and writing process
dfcarbbaa
Active: 3 weeks ago
All my poems are originally written in English, pls read them in the original format. Thanks
Mike Snyder
Active: 3 weeks ago
Mike Snyder lives in Western NY and doesn't believe you actually care what his hobbies are. He is quite likely drooling into his keyboard with a half smoked joint hanging off his lip right this very moment. He is currently working on his debut novel.
The Raging Poet
Active: 3 weeks ago
I write for those, like myself, who have danced with their devils, passed trauma the blame, dressed up their skeletons and know their demons by name.
a warm cup of tea
Active: 4 weeks ago
writing has brought me great comfort, and so i hope my words bring you the same sense of ease. like a warm cup of tea. xx
a small spectacle
Active: 4 weeks ago
Nature poems & short essays about finding wonder, healing & connection.
A.J.S(torming)
Active: 4 weeks ago
a creative space for poetry & prose formed from the catalysts that woke them
Nicholas Trandahl
Active: 4 weeks ago
Award-winning Wyoming poet. Simplicity, slow-living, service, goodness, and mountains.
Confessions of Poetry Witch: Matriarchy, Meters, & Magic
Active: 4 weeks ago
Poetry, Meters, Matriarchy, & Magic from Annie Finch
Singing, each to each
Active: 4 weeks ago
poetry, literature, art, and all the beautiful things through which heart sings to heart
Night Work: From Mark Gulino
Active: 4 weeks ago
Burning the midnight oil to bring writing, poetry, and additional content from my desk to yours.
Withlove,Dammy🤍🌸
Active: 4 weeks ago
Welcome to my safe space,
I write..... You read and share your unfiltered thoughtsss too🥹🥹
Kai
Active: 4 weeks ago
I’m not a feminist. I’m a misandrist. I don’t want equality, I want revenge.
Looking for the Light
Active: 1 month ago
Poetry and prose from a person wanting to live the ordinary days noticing the wonder in it all.
randy heintz
Active: 1 month ago
The Circuit Breaker, chain breaker and lightbarer, urban shaman, witness, seer. "I’ve seen the loop, and I’ve packed my bags. Most people are waiting for a storm; I’m teaching the next generation how to navigate the one that’s already here."
A Poem A Week by Anagha Smrithi
Active: 1 month ago
A newsletter about the poetics of everyday life. Weekly poetry, straight to your heart and inbox. By poet and writer, Anagha Smrithi.
Within Change
Active: 1 month ago
Welcome to a life-change journey that begins within. Where awareness and growth become transformation and intention becomes action. Let’s build a meaningful, joyful life by unfolding our potential with curiosity, honesty, courage, and love.
The Manic Romantic
Active: 1 month ago
essays, poetry and prose on love, decay and the stubborn beauty of being a human being
Poems & Prayers
Active: 1 month ago
If, like me, you need poetry of faith, doubt & beauty, and if you love verse, Poems & Prayers is for you. Subscribe and receive your free introductory download, A Skeptic's Psalms: 7 Poems for the Thinker's Soul.
The Studio Rulam
Active: 1 month ago
Welcome to my creative space! Curation of photography, poetry and floral arts with occasional Gobi tales and European romance, from Sweden.
The Soul of Rob
Active: 1 month ago
For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of, and so too, the hand types.
Gritty Coffee Talks 𔓘
Active: 1 month ago
Reflective essays, short stories, and tips to help writers grow their craft.
Twishi Pabreja
Active: 1 month ago
Creativity is my language—through books, poetry, music, mandala art, photography, travel, and public speaking, I express emotions, heal, inspire others, and turn thoughts into meaningful stories and connections.
Gonza's house
Active: 1 month ago
Art, philosphy, history, personal reflections of the world and literally anything I choose to reasrach about because I feel like it.
Curiosity is the mother of intelligence!
AJoyfulPoet
Active: 1 month ago
Hi everyone! I’m going to be using this to post my notes app poetry, so enjoy! Some may be drafts or just late night thoughts like a brain dump.
Contanam
Active: 1 month ago
Contanam is basically a sandbox for the idea that everything is interconnected. (atp its just poetry and weird ramblings tho tbh)
Lexie is writing to remember
Active: 1 month ago
I’m Lexie (he/him). I write queer, emotional poetry about the people I almost loved, the ones I still do, and the moments I haven’t lived yet but already feel. Based in Belgium. Still remembering. Still writing.
What Comes Next?
Active: 1 month ago
Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction
Things That Don't Suck
Active: 1 month ago
One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention
MR AANDO G
Active: 1 month ago
Educator, researcher, writer, and lifelong learner passionate about education, social impact, sustainability, youth engagement, interdisciplinary research, and knowledge-sharing.
Lanterns in the Dark
Active: 1 month ago
One poem a week, paired with a light-filled painting or photo. No noise, just poetry and joy. My words can be found at The Rabbit Room, Calla Press, Linebreak, and elsewhere. For grace and beauty!
Cretia Marsha✨
Active: 1 month ago
Leading change by day, writing through life's chaos by heart. Vice President of a nonprofit organization sharing articles, poetry, life lessons, and honest reflections on navigating the mess and meaning of life in real time.
Anthony Signorelli
Active: 1 month ago
Living into the Rapture of Being Alive! Imagination, curiosity, ideas.
the dead birds in my thoughts and feelings
Active: 1 month ago
Strongly worded essays and poetry written by an ambivalent man, refusing irony without sincerity nor pretending everything is fine.
poem and cat
Active: 1 month ago
poems and illustrations to your inbox every friday (look out for the hidden cat!)
Jem’s Substack
Active: 1 month ago
My personal Substack for short form poetry about friends, strangers, and things I find on the internet.
Unpsychology Voices
Active: 1 month ago
Unpsychology Voices is the online home of Unpsychology Magazine, in which we explore mind, culture, ecology, psychology and soul. We publish an annual FREE digital anthology of writing, art and creativity of all kinds, and online content on this site.
figmargarita
Active: 1 month ago
a place where I post my sharable journal entries or poems, thoughts, and favorite quotes, vignettes, whatnot.
words i’ll take to the grave
Active: 1 month ago
An archive of unsent letters, unfinished conversations and everything left unsaid. Poetry, prose, and truths that refused to stay buried. Consider this my paper trail. Sincerely, B 💌
The Poetic Pause 🌄
Active: 1 month ago
Poetry, fiction, and somatic meditation to help you move through creative blocks.
George Brooks' Poetry
Active: 1 month ago
Mythic, uncanny, and emotionally honest poetry by George Brooks — exploring transformation, identity, and the strange places where folklore meets lived experience.
Victoria L Mead
Active: 1 month ago
I am a writer from England. I write poetry, fiction and anything else that comes to mind. I can write very dark subjects, and very light subjects. I don't hold back and aim to share my unfiltered thoughts on here in a way I can't on other platforms.
Spaces in Between
Active: 1 month ago
Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?
No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.
Jude's cup of coffee
Active: 1 month ago
“And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
Noen
Active: 1 month ago
Law student. Poet. Writer. Philosopher. I write about love, loneliness, ambition, existence, philosophy, and the darker corners of the human mind. — NOEN
Grumpy Liberal in Peru
Active: 1 month ago
Stories that span the Americas. Life in Peru, environmental policy, urban planning, birds...
Tudorbeth
Active: 1 month ago
Hello I am Tudorbeth, author of many books on magic, witchy stuff, nature and everything elemental. I wrote for Chat It's Fate, Kindred Spirit, Soul & Spirit, and Spirit & Destiny magazines - I miss them so much.
Lapis Manalis
Active: 1 month ago
I am a Norwegian writer. I write essays and poetry to the world whilst working on my novel away from the world.
lista
Active: 1 month ago
poetic stylings often likened to Sylvia Plath if she were given unlimited internet access as a child
Chi Emmanuel
Active: 1 month ago
Poet. Storyteller. Observer of human fracture and survival. Writing truth in fragments and rhythm.
a blue jay called kay
Active: 1 month ago
Avid societal impacts of WW1/WW2 nerd // Christian Skeptic // Dabbles in fiction // Has a chronic habit of making circular arguments
Fireproof Pages
Active: 1 month ago
This is my space to blend accountability, deep reflection, psychology, gaming, learning and humour, because if I'm going to unpack the hard stuff, I'm damn well making it entertaining.
Carelessly Unfiltered
Active: 1 month ago
My personal Substack where I talk about everything from love, to feminism, to mental health, to living your best life!
Laura’s Writing and Illustrating
Active: 1 month ago
What I'm learning in the world of writing and illustrating children's books.
T.F. Burke watcher of tv
Active: 1 month ago
My name is T.F. Burke, author of Waves of Clarity, my poetry collection, but there will be no poetry here!🤯 I want to do something different, TV has always been a huge part of my life! Heck, it basically raised me! Welcome to the fun!
Lyre & Wine
Active: 1 month ago
Fairytales and rhymes to accompany you through the rollercoaster of life, best enjoyed with a strumming lyre and a couple glasses of wine.
Elijah van der Fluit
Active: 1 month ago
Lover of film and literature. Aspiring to be a film director and writer. Right now, I want to improve physically, socially, and artistically
Stranger Strands
Active: 1 month ago
Poetry, music, fiction and essays; exploring the stranger strands.
Spicy P Poetry
Active: 1 month ago
Sometimes my poetry will turn you on, sometimes it'll make you cry, and sometimes it'll bring a smile to your face on a shitty day!
Xicanotl Moreno
Active: 1 month ago
From the ancient Mexico that vibrates in time. Look at my collection of buried temples and invisible greatness. The cherished collection of bloody stones from the civilization left from fallen empires and forgotten messiahs.
Even the Stones
Active: 1 month ago
Ushering saints into the ongoing conversation of creation through poetry, storytelling, and cultural analysis. If we keep silent, even the stones will cry out. So since we've been given a voice, let's employ the gift wisely and wildly.
Pathetically Intense
Active: 1 month ago
"I'm so pathetically intense. I just can't be any other way." - Sylvia Plath
the last pavilion poems
Active: 1 month ago
i could be bound in a nutshell and count it as infinite space if not for these bad dreams
Luca Faith
Active: 1 month ago
I’m a Christian teenage girl who loves reading (especially fantasy or dystopian), writing in those same genres, and blogging abt all bookish things! ✝️📚💗
Daniel Kenneth
Active: 1 month ago
I’m a writer sharing my thoughts in plain sight—using words to help readers see the world as I see it. This space is for clear ideas, honest reflection, and perspectives shaped slowly, meant to be read, considered, and carried forward.
sisyphusatrest
Active: 1 month ago
What hurts more: having no dignity left to lose, or carrying an ocean full of superiority while you drown?
Brooke Nicholls
Active: 1 month ago
TRIGGER WARNING: trauma's no joke, but mine is hilarious. I treat my experiences irreverently, and will continue to do so. If you like dark humour, plucky anecdotes and weird poetry, you're my people. Please subscribe - every reader matters deeply to me.
writing from the kitchen table
Active: 1 month ago
Writing my way back to self love. Poems and essays that talk late diagnosed ADHD, becoming a therapist and friendship grief. Grab your brew, lets chat.
A Traveler Out of Place
Active: 1 month ago
Just a traveler at the weirdest part of the journey, the in-between, painfully out of place. I write about social media anthropology, fantasy, 3 am crises, poetry, and a myriad of anecdotes.
ylime
Active: 1 month ago
I love sunflowers, concerts, key lime pie, coffee, and smiling at dogs. Seeking joy in life's small moments. Come on this journey to find my way back to myself! 🌻 🧿 🪩
The Lost Quill
Active: 1 month ago
for all those who thirst for knowledge, whether sporting, philosophical or literary.
ThePoetGatherer
Active: 1 month ago
If you know me already as Kelly Trost, you may be familiar with my Mirror Poems collaborative series. Gathering Poets is what I do. Come, let me gather you and help you find the audience you have been searching for.
Ethereal Twilight Poetry
Active: 1 month ago
Horribly in love. ❤️🔥 I write poetry from the cosmic, the ethereal and the grit of cold earth. I live between the aching, yearning, loving and surviving. ❤️🩹
Joshua’s Poetry Substack
Active: 1 month ago
Hello and welcome, I'm Josh. I died on January 31st, leaving behind many files of poems, now edited and shared by my beloved fellow writer and fellow substacker @Veronika Bond
Pieces Of K The Smacked Edition Newsletter
Active: 1 month ago
Pieces of K: The Smacked Edition is a revamp of my old blog. This time, more Smacked. More poetry, more stories, and behind the scenes of life as ThtSmackedPoet. All glory goes to God.
Timeless Muse
Active: 1 month ago
by Yorlene Vega | poetic insights for the curious, tender-hearted, and truth-seeking
The Effusion
Active: 1 month ago
Nature poetry and writing. Searching through the smallest stones of the world.
Yash Bajpai
Active: 1 month ago
For every soul that chose to stay, When dreams and daylight slipped away. I weave my heart in every line, Perhaps your story echoes mine.
Dream of ElectricScapes
Active: 1 month ago
I am Malrik Raithmoor — The Liturgist. Creator of Liturgicwave: a genre where pain becomes poetry, and story becomes ritual. For heretics, seekers, and saints of rupture. This is not comfort. This is catharsis.© 2026 Malrik Raithmoor | All rights reserved
So It's Come To This
Active: 1 month ago
Fiction and aesthetics from me, Violet, noted literary celebrity.
absence and other shapes
Active: 2 months ago
poems and reflections inspired by a dual reality of lived & imagined experiences🌛
Terrific Daily Pieces
Active: 2 months ago
Most mornings I write a poem or a short essay to warm-up my brain. Quantity gets you quality.
The Memorious
Active: 2 months ago
An independent literary magazine that showcases moving meditations, forward-thinking fictions, and profound works of poetry.
The Slowest Thread
Active: 2 months ago
Writing about my creative process as a disabled multidisciplinary artist working in fibre arts, writing, and music, and maybe some deeper dives into other things too.
Solarion
Active: 2 months ago
Cat Woodward's poetry Substack. New poems, criticism, writing insights, eclectica.
Carrick Press
Active: 2 months ago
Carrick Press is where stories, stillness, and structure intertwine: a space for those who want to think deeper, feel more, and build something meaningful from the quiet moments in between.
paulina ༉‧₊˚✧
Active: 2 months ago
what you water will grow; be mindful about the seeds you plant. 🌱
Romy’s Substack
Active: 2 months ago
Check out my book, The Art of Floundering by clicking on the link https://a.co/d/dUJfAlO
Hawtorn V. Rabot
Active: 2 months ago
I'm a guy who writes. I was never supposed to. I never really learned how. Somehow, it's become a part of who I am, and I need it. I'm a father, teacher, and somehow, I'm published.
Nicheless. Thumb Confessions™. Read Too Soon et Pero Too Late.
Mat Does Horror & Poetry
Active: 2 months ago
Mat Does Horror & Poetry is a space to explore the emotional side of literature. Come for the thrill of horror, or the indulgence of casual poetry. Short stories, poems, and essays from a new author, writing between Teams meetings and diaper changes.
ULM StoryHouse
Active: 2 months ago
Emotional Cartographer | Author of The Edges of Me | Developed the Body • Heart • Self™ framework | Deep Thinking Empathic Introvert 🖤
Talayah Rose
Active: 2 months ago
A passion for reading and writing literature with a particular focus on academic style essays and poetry <3
the laurel letters
Active: 2 months ago
thoughts, poems, opinions, musings, writing for the sake of writing, writing for no reason and every reason.
mundane
Active: 2 months ago
classic literature fiend and avid overthinker (vote for me for presidency)
The World of Ma'Tulu
Active: 2 months ago
A worldbuilding exercise with free to use D&D content included
Sometimes: A Poem Arrives
Active: 2 months ago
Classic poems for weather, time, and quiet hours. The iPhone app brings one fitting poem at the right moment.
Peregrine Notes
Active: 2 months ago
Scribblings and prayers along the road to being reconciled with Time.
my soul cried out
Active: 2 months ago
Weekly echoes on spirituality; prayer and poetry formulated in the Divine Pool of Inspiration; and spiritual practices to dust the inner lantern to discover the light of Divine LOVE.
Jess Ray: Pray in the Dark
Active: 2 months ago
"Tell the crowd to leave your house, go in and shut the door.
With all your heart, pray in the dark, for miracles and more."
PRAY IN THE DARK is short entries, prayers and poems shared weekly, to inspire readers to pray to God in their own voice.
Konstantin
Active: 2 months ago
I write because silence is sometimes too heavy to carry alone. My poems are about loneliness, love, suffering, nature, and the strange journey of being human. No masks. No monuments. No perfect endings. Just words trying to reach another soul.
And Other Stories
Active: 2 months ago
Like a small cafe where you can kick back and sip a beverage, And Other Stories is a place of creative vagaries where I share my poetry, flash fiction, and serialized novel, Strands.
𝙴𝚟𝚊𝚗 シ
Active: 2 months ago
“Not all those who wander are lost.” -(INFP-T) - 17 ≽(◉˕ ◉ ≼マ —@diamondoo is my Anne 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪
Lucy.folds.birds
Active: 2 months ago
Welcome to this substack, where you can enjoy monthly essays and weekly poems about, death, love, writing and how i learned to be a person :))
Laney's Words Poetry
Active: 2 months ago
My name is Laney Mills, a poetic voice in this crazy world. I write love poems, poems about the sea, and poems about all things human. Please join me as I delve into life...Laney
Brontë
Active: 2 months ago
🖤🥀✨ · Poetry, short stories, random thoughts, books I’m reading, rants, whatever I’m in the mood for · ✨🥀🖤
Haiku Pause
Active: 3 months ago
A free collaborative newsletter showcasing the best of formal haiku on monthly themes. Current editors: Resa Alboher, Sandra Filippelli, Mariya Gusev.
mnemonixART
Active: 3 months ago
Part II of artistically explored and inwritten approached in written. Part I was to be seen and forgot. Lost like Loss it was. Burn it. Here is where Love and Existence were expressed as what they are for me. May-be only as and find you in Love.
Bewildering Offspring
Active: 3 months ago
Essays, poems and other loose collections of words aiming to smooth out my own rugged investigations into the realities and virtualities of person-hood. Because life is bewildering.
Naima’s Den
Active: 3 months ago
Writer and poet. Founder of NH Scribes. Naima’s Den is a quiet space for reflection, creative writing, and honest conversation. A place to pause, reconnect with your voice, and stay awhile.
Nalani
Active: 3 months ago
we cry unto paper and turn pain to poetry, in a language only the softest of hearts can understand
For Want Of
Active: 3 months ago
My name is Lewis Peterson, I'm a husband, father, writer, poet, and teacher of English Language Arts. For Want Of began as a platform for my music opinions, and has since evolved into a space for my short poems as well.
Her Rose Diary
Active: 3 months ago
Rose scented poetic reflections & prose on divine love, beauty & Truth, a return to the eternal garden within and the rhythms of the deep Earth.
GSK
Active: 3 months ago
the lonely nights hit us the hardest. Its where our mind is most productive. deepest thoughts catered from self empowerments to philosophy/game/5d perspective.
A Crow At The Beach Is Like A Seagull At A Funeral
Active: 3 months ago
What If Poetry Could Change the Way You See the World? This is a space for reflection, healing, and growth. EXCLUSIVE newsletter directly to your inbox. Every Wednesday you will receive a new poem.
Donald Paul Owens II
Active: 3 months ago
Donald is a poet and carpenter who lives in the forests of PA surrounded by his children and grandchildren. His work is found in Good Work Magazine, Cantus Christi 2020, A Treasury of Psalms and Hymns, and other collections.
A Matt Starr Reader
Active: 3 months ago
Founder of Dream Baby Press & Writer Relations Producer @ Substack.
Tayrytespoemansdreams
Active: 3 months ago
I translate the sounds of my heartbeat into words and call it poetry..✍️🏽🍃
Clues, from Lillian
Active: 3 months ago
I'm the kind of person you break your own rules for. I collect secrets, tell stories and find bliss. It's my dharma.
Under the Omnipotence
Active: 3 months ago
A confluence of verse and essays; seeking the green high country.
Chronic Insights
Active: 3 months ago
I'm James, a spoonie with axial spondyloarthritis. I like to write poetry to help me make sense of the absurdity of life with chronic pain. Subscribe for calm, cameraderie and poems. I also created a privacy-focused symptom diary app, Chronic Insights.
Tœf
Active: 3 months ago
Writing what I feel before it consumes me Poetry, Love, Loss, Becoming..... ~Tœf
Impulses of a poet
Active: 3 months ago
Page of all random thoughts and opinions expressed in form of poetic proses or full fledged poetries.
Wayfarer Magazine
Active: 3 months ago
Since 2011, Wayfarer Magazine has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire our readers and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.
Tethered: An Anthology of Magic
Active: 3 months ago
Tethered is a seasonal anthology by Tamed Wild, sharing stories, poems, essays, and art inspired by magic, myth, and the natural world.
Frontier Verse
Active: 4 months ago
Poetry on grief & loss, anger & violence, fatherhood & childhood, homelessness & addiction, masculinity and more.
MutantSoul
Active: 4 months ago
I write poems, rhymes mainly to entertain me, hopefully you read my feed.
Ryka's Most Excellent World :)
Active: 4 months ago
Whenever you are dancing, someone else is dancing, too.
Bloodmagick
Active: 4 months ago
You are the eater of stars. Here is a place where you may delight and despair in all the rhythms of Hell.
Thomas Rist Poetry
Active: 4 months ago
I am a published poet who has won and been runner-up in poetry contests. For years I took a break, but then I found another way of being a poet: on Substack. Here I post poems as and when. Subscribe for free / Freedom is poetry.
V. K. Mundy
Active: 4 months ago
I'll write something entertaining here at a later time, so I make a general entreaty for patience.
Serenity
Active: 4 months ago
Unshared thoughts...writing the quiet things we feel but don’t say. Fragments of thoughts, memories, and everything in between.
Reminiscences of an Asian Intellectual
Active: 4 months ago
Life’s journey to come face to face with one’s self through God, time and memory.
Casey’s Substack
Active: 4 months ago
Hi, I’m Casey. This is a place for stories, poems, and sentences. Come sit by the river. Pick up what you like and let the rest keep going.
Sapphire Gray
Active: 4 months ago
Pretentious indie pop artist, now with an extra side of pretentious! ♪σ(≧ω≦*) Dumping grounds for poetry + art + photos + writings + all my non-music related shenanigans.
diary of a cyberprincess
Active: 4 months ago
A lil bit of everything coming from a third-culture kid with midwest roots. I love everything digital media culture, poetry n word play, fashion, color theory n more. ❤️
Gabriela Oliveira
Active: 4 months ago
writing essays and poems for the yearning minds about (queer)ecofeminism, life, love, literature and fiction, and our dying nature.
Phoeby
Active: 4 months ago
I write lyrical fiction that lives between shadows and light—where silence speaks, memory burns, and love leaves scars.
Moonfin
Active: 4 months ago
𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 ✨️!. 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵 | 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘳 | 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵
Amethyst's Substack
Active: 4 months ago
I am an indie author that writes fantasy adult novels and poetry.
Poet, Interrupted
Active: 4 months ago
Poet, Interrupted is a place for moments when something deeper breaks through the noise of everyday life. These poems are confessions i wouldn’t say out loud, rooted in honesty and self-awareness. If you’ve ever tried to grow from the inside out, welcome!
tiny engines
Active: 4 months ago
Poetry and short stories from Chihuahua, Mexico. Exploring what moves us, what connects us, and the stories we tell ourselves about both.
Eero's Escapades of Doubt and Stuff
Active: 5 months ago
Abstract poetry writing meditations on the brink of alienation: a newfound tomorrow
sirin
Active: 5 months ago
this is my attempt at writing a blog. everything i write here is mostly my opinion. nothing more, nothing less.
kevinlawler
Active: 5 months ago
Poems delivered Mondays. Subscribe now for a free PDF of Each Sold Separately, a book of poems from pop culture.
erine ♡
Active: 5 months ago
a slow, honest space for women in their 20s — on becoming, unlearning, healing and finding yourself through journaling, poetry, and the quiet things.
The Pastel Poet
Active: 5 months ago
a dreamy type who loves to write, fantasize through film, and paint with oil pastel. Here you will find my musings, poetry and podcast on living and thriving as a highly sensitive artist.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Substack
Active: 5 months ago
My personal Substack which I am calling 'Diary of an Irish Poet'...where I will be releasing new works of poetry and prose pieces. I'm sharing insights into my life and travels as a poet and singer in the world.
Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey
Active: 5 months ago
Hello Readers! I am a Creative Writer & Photographer. I post my Poetry, Personal and Photo Essays, Daily Affirmations, Quotes of the Day and more, all to Inspire and Enlighten my readers. My posts are digital collages encompassing the world around me.
Poetry $lut
Active: 5 months ago
I am a $lut for living a poetic life. Here you'll witness me raw-dogging the path to liberation through messy expression. Expect poems, reflections, and fragments of my world meant to invite you to awaken, nurture and integrate your inner muse.
Ancestral Whispers
Active: 5 months ago
welcome. this is a space where history and art meet spirituality, and where healing is an act of remembering. i write as a historian, poet, mystic, and scholar.
The Violet Grove
Active: 5 months ago
The mood in the forest—dark romanticism / weird futurity / profligate transcendentalism / quiet rebellion—subscribe for daily poetry and weekly short stories.
Fleeting Meditations
Active: 6 months ago
Short stories and nature poetry, striving to capture the image of the world.
On Earth
Active: 6 months ago
Writing for poets who drive mail trucks. Saints who wear high heels. Train hoppers on their way to the action. Joke tellers, dreamers, & generous hearts. For writers who put their own flaws in the text. God in the window. Shadows that speak.
Michael Burr
Active: 7 months ago
Learning how to write. My goal is to remain positive while being sincere.
Poems, Prayers, and Ponderings
Active: 7 months ago
Poems, prayers, and ponderings from a man trying to find God in the joys and sorrows of life.
Scogli di Fiume
Active: 7 months ago
Scogli di fiume è il mio nome e la mia condizione: restare dove non dovrei, scrivere versi che resistono alla corrente.
Verse Daily’s Substack
Active: 12 months ago
The largest daily poem anthology... Help us celebrate our 22nd year! ...And so much more!
Depths of Meaningful Thought
Active: 1 year ago
Find clarity and meaning in a complex world. Subscribe to Depths of Meaningful Thought for thought-provoking essays, insightful discussions on current political events, and inspirational poetry.
Wild Take
Active: 1 year ago
Honest meanderings.
Ecopoetry.
Coming out/transitioning.
Cravings.
Reparenting.
Art as ally in healing.
Radical Joy.
Body as truth-teller.
Divorce. Addiction.
Nurturing relationships with the wild.
Multitudinous offerings.
Reach into the dark and see what bites back.
An Anthology of 15 HOT Ghazals
The Summer was HOT, but so were we! These fledgling seeds of our sun-drenched season lay slumbering beneath the scorched earth, yearning for a rebellious, punk-infused spark to shatter their shells and propel them skyward toward the astral fire. In the beginning was the word, uttered by Josh, who posed the eternal query: What do you know of peace?
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A Collection of Poems
The book contains an original essay not previously published, intentional illustrations by a human graphic designer, nine of Josh's poems, and all thirty-two Bloody Sonnets translations. The digital version is pay-what-you-want. The Bloody Sonnets are of significant cultural importance to Slovakia. Because of this, Josh believes that neither price nor physical distance should be a barrier for these historic poems for peace.
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A Journey Through Poetry
Flowers in Limbo was born from an everlasting pain: the grief of feeling like you could never love or be loved. Luciana told this story through the lens of the Persephone myth, a journey in four parts: The Descent, The Seed of Hope, Queen of the Underworld, and Rising. While the poems live in a landscape of melancholy, you'll find sprinkles of hope throughout. Luciana believes they shine all the brighter for being nestled in so much shadow.
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Love Poems
This collection of poems is a treatment of matrimony, the longing for marital love, and the sacramental mysteries of marriage which reveal the Love of God in a tangible way. The poems are sensual musings on passion and how true love can conquer suffering and withstand all peril with the patience of Heaven. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Author’s Substack →A writing prompt inviting poets to write about significant moments by focusing on peripheral details and edge-of-frame observations rather than central events. Includes craft menu with five strategies (stay at edge, follow senses, gather weight, notice incongruity, delay center) and reflection questions to guide revision.
A poetry prompt inspired by two poems about the color yellow: 'Toy Aeroplanes' by Selima Hill and 'Xanthic' by John McCullough. Writers are encouraged to explore yellow as subject matter using these meditations as creative inspiration.
A weekly House of Haiku prompt inviting readers to write a haiku (5-7-5 syllable structure) inspired by the Halloween theme 'Trick or Treat.' Readers share their compositions in the comments as part of an ongoing community writing challenge.
A weekly tanka writing challenge using the prompt word 'indulgence.' Writers create 5-line poems in traditional 5-7-5-7-7 syllable form using the prompt word exactly as given, then share their work in the comments for community feedback and engagement.
A poetry prompt inviting writers to use iterations of the Latin root 'habitare' (to live, to dwell) as inspiration. The prompt encourages reflection on habits, habitats, and how one inhabits the world, with examples drawn from the author's experience moving to Spain and studying different biomes.
Two writing exercises exploring list poems and the poetic form of enumeration and accumulation. Readers are invited to try the exercises (detailed below the paywall) and share their results with the author.
A seven-line poetry prompt framework designed to help writers connect with the magic of the Libra New Moon, with fill-in-the-blank structure and an example poem provided by the author.
Write a poem inspired by Andrea Potos's 'Daily Practices,' exploring your own daily writing or poetic rituals. Share your poem in the comments of the poetry club community.
An ongoing weekly tanka-writing challenge inviting poets to write tankas (poems with 31 syllables) and share their work. Challenges #11 and #12 are highlighted as popular entries in the series with high participation.
Write a poem featuring a figure from mythology of any origin. The poem may focus solely on the figure's story or incorporate them into your own narrative, inspired by Airea D. Matthews's exploration of Icarus as a figure of transformation and disobedience.
A collection of 80 writing prompts organized into four sections: 20 poetry prompts from Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi, 20 poetry prompts from LC Lynch, 20 life prompts from Gabriela Trofin-Tatár, and 20 photography prompts from Annelise Lords. Each prompt is paired with a finished example piece from the author.
Make a list of 10 things you genuinely hate, pick one, and write about it as if it were a catastrophic injustice. Make your reaction wildly disproportionate to the offense, treating minor annoyances with exaggerated gravity and absurdity.
Write a poem about something you fear is becoming obsolete, but frame it as about an object. Start with 'Someone sets something down' and end with 'Someone picks up the same thing differently.' No explanation of the metaphor; let the reader figure out the emotional truth.
Write a poem addressed to one person you know well, without concern for a broader audience. The prompt asks writers to be brief, honest, and entirely themselves—retaining or discarding poetic tendencies as fits their natural voice—and to tell that person something true they deserve to hear.
A weekly poetry prompt inviting readers to watch a sunrise and write a poem describing both the moment light breaks through darkness and their internal response to witnessing it, inspired by Mary Oliver's 'Morning Poem.'
A weekly poetry prompt inviting readers to write a poem inspired by the theme 'Wheels,' which can be interpreted literally or metaphorically. The author shares her own poem and process for this week's prompt as an example.
A collaborative writing prompt inviting readers to work with a writing partner (or channel another writer's style) on a poem or short story centered on an animal. Writers should alternate lines (for poetry) or paragraphs (for short stories), include the phrase "And look, here comes [famous figure]" (like Santa, God, or Jennifer Lopez), and revise together. Work may be shared in comments or on social media.
A weekly writing prompt generated by spinning three wheels: Setting (a secret underground facility), Side Character (a ghost), and Conflict (attempting a polite exorcism). Writers are invited to create stories, poems, art, or 'Inklings' (small creative pieces) inspired by this combination and share them in a community directory.
A 6-week autumn series of creative prompts for poetry, visual art, collage, and mixed-media projects. Features a Tolkien-themed tie-in and a reflective practice around longing and creative beginnings. Paid subscribers receive weekly prompts in a private community space plus access to supplemental recipes and creative exercises.
A sensory writing prompt inviting readers to notice and write about autumnal visual details—colours, sights, and observations unique to autumn. Writers are encouraged to explore what these sights mean to them and what memories they awaken, in any form they choose (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, prose, or poetic prose). Entries are shared in comments or as linked posts on Substack.
A collection of writing prompts for essays and poems inspired by autumn themes, including prompts about cozy moments, memories, love, loss, and self-reflection. Suited for writers of all levels seeking creative inspiration during October.
Write a story, scene, or poem involving exaggeration—whether your character grapples with exaggerating, you write with an exaggerated vibe, or your character is suspicious of someone inflating a story.
Three poetry writing prompts designed to spark creativity: Multiplying Metaphor (layering multiple metaphors to deepen meaning), Poetry Color Palette (using color to establish emotional tone), and Persona Poems (writing from an alternative point of view or perspective). Writers are invited to share their work in the comments.
Create a villanelle using a nursery rhyme as the refrain. Choose two lines from a nursery rhyme to serve as your alternating end lines, build the villanelle structure (five tercets plus final quatrain), and edit as needed. The post provides a full example ('Saturday's Child') demonstrating the technique.
Write a poem of any length or form that combines at least three senses. Use your own memories as inspiration and take your reader on the journey you experienced.
A reflective prompt inviting writers to explore what they lose hold of and what eternities they long for, inspired by themes of impermanence and time's passage from Thornton Wilder's "Our Town."
Thirty-one daily creative prompts for October 2026, designed for drawing, writing, or any creative medium. Prompts range from nature-inspired (fallen leaves, spiderwebs, wild mushrooms) to abstract concepts (ripple effect, contours, light and shadow), suited to Inktober participants, watercolor painters, poets, or anyone seeking a grounding daily creative practice.
Two writing prompts for political poetry: write a poem responding to a headline that upsets you, or create a blackout poem from a news story excerpt. Suited to poets interested in socio-political themes and using constraint-based or found-text techniques.
Write a poem beginning with "I still remember..." that captures childhood memories through playful, whimsical imagery while building toward a deeper emotional truth. Follow six steps: create a list of silly childhood details, exaggerate one, play with sound and rhyme, introduce a present-day contrast, add a person who mattered, and end with the human relationship rather than the joke.
A poetry prompt based on the Duplex form pioneered by Jericho Brown, featured in the Draft & Craft podcast launch episode. Listeners are invited to write along with guest poets L. Lois, JeFF Stumpo, and Anne Louise Phillips as they explore the form together.
Write a hermit crab flash or prose poem using a set-of-directions structure to tell a character's life story through specific instructions. The author will read and respond to submissions in the comments section.
Five writing prompts for week 1 of a month-long fiction and poetry challenge themed around a masquerade ball. Prompts span micro/flash fiction, apocalyptic horror, sci-fi horror, and comedy-horror, with recommended word counts ranging from 100-2K words.
Monthly poetry challenge where writers create poems using or inspired by song titles. Held on the first Friday of each month as a recurring community feature.
Create a poem using only song titles about various professions (nurses, doctors, artists, firefighters, etc.). Arrange song titles to form a poem, then list the artists. The challenge celebrates work and professions through music. Participants post in comments or on Notes.
A 31-prompt poetry calendar for October featuring varied prompts: structure-based exercises (acrostics, magic 9 rhyme schemes, line breaks), reading-and-writing prompts (read a poem then write your own response), word-inclusion challenges, and open-ended creative exercises. Prompts range from formal constraints to meditative practices and thematic writing.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where readers write short poems based on daily prompts and exercises. Day 29 features a prompt inspired by subtext and emotional expression.
A weekly haiku writing challenge inviting readers to create a haiku (17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern) inspired by the prompt word 'SALE' and historical context about The Beatles' 1964 album. Readers share their haikus in the comments.
A 30-day micro poetry challenge where writers compose poems daily. Participants share personal poems, poetry responding to news headlines, or experimental micro-verse throughout the month.
Write a poem exploring the theme of wheels, using either literal or metaphorical interpretations. The author suggests angles such as the wheel of fortune, bicycles, vehicles, or concrete wheel imagery (potter's wheel, roulette, cheese wheel, Hot Wheels, etc.).
Write a poem with the express intent of giving it as a gift to someone (or a stranger). The poem does not need to be about the recipient, but should meet them in their moment and brighten their day. Examples include handwritten haikus, encouragement poems tucked in shoes or books, or poems posted anonymously in public spaces.
A collection of 30 poetry prompts curated for October and autumn, inspired by the season's themes of transformation, letting go, and rest. Prompts range from nature imagery (forest berries, crown of crows, in envy of the trees) to seasonal and mystical themes (queen of screams, confessional ghosts, magic mayhem). Writers are invited to share their poems in the comments or tag the author.
A seven-line poetry prompt framework designed to help writers connect with the magic of October through guided line starters. Writers fill in the blanks or draw inspiration from the framework to create their own poems.
Write a letter for the No Fixed Address collaborative installation at Melt Festival. Options include writing a message of hope, advice, or solidarity for the queer community to be placed in a bottle and discovered by others, or writing an undelivered letter about things left unsaid, to be displayed anonymously for the public. Letters can be written in epistolary poem form or as personal letters.
Write a poem focused on words themselves, exploring the foundation of a poet's and writer's life. Share your poem with the community; selected poems may be featured in Every Day Poems.
Day 27 of an ongoing micro poetry challenge encouraging daily poetry writing throughout September 2026. Readers are invited to write and share in the comments.
Write a poem about whatever allows you to partake in something greater than yourself, whether it's love or some other act or state of being. Inspired by Wes Matthews's poem 'Immortality' and themes of connection transcending mortality.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge encouraging writers to compose short poems each day and share their work in the community comments.
Write a short poem that stands on its own and expands in the reader's mind beyond its brevity. The prompt invites poets to find a singular image or thought layered with multiple meanings, tensions, or interpretations that resonate after the initial reading, inspired by W.S. Merwin's mastery of compression.
Write a very short poem (ideally three sentences or 3-5 lines) using dream speak. The prompt encourages surreal, unexplained language and suggests starting with ten lines then trimming to favorites. Share completed poems in the comments or on social media by tagging the publication.
A weekly creative writing prompt where three randomized wheels (setting, side character, conflict) generate a unique plot seed. This week: camping with a difficult person and mysterious aliens mistaken for celestial beings. Writers create an 'Inkling' — a short story, poem, scene, or artwork inspired by the prompt — and share it in the community directory for peer feedback and encouragement.
Write a nonet, a nine-line poem with descending syllable count (9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1). The post provides the form structure, guidelines, and examples, then invites readers to write a nonet and share it in the comments.
A weekly poetry prompt themed around seasonal change, loss of golden days, and nostalgia, inspired by Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and the changing of seasons into autumn. Readers are invited to submit poems exploring themes of memory, aging, and the passage of time.
Day 25 of an ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where participants write and share short poems in the community. Readers are invited to join the challenge, write daily, and share their work in the comments.
A sensory writing prompt inviting readers to notice and write about autumnal sounds—both obvious and subtle—indoors or outdoors, exploring their stories, feelings, and memories. Participants write in their chosen form (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, prose) and share on Substack or in comments. Engagement (likes, comments, shares, restacks) enters the writer into a draw for 3 annual subscriptions to Soullionaire.
Day 24 of an ongoing daily micro poetry challenge. Prompt: write about something specific you saw today. Readers submit responses in the comments.
A generative poetry prompt from Allisa Cherry inviting writers to explore a landscape that shaped them, prioritizing spatial details and place names to reveal emotional interiority. Writers are encouraged to move through a meaningful geography in their mind and describe that movement on the page, allowing revelations about their innermost self to emerge through the specifics they choose to name.
Write a poem inspired by Aesop's fable. This prompt is offered as part of the Chapped Season 2 series featuring poet interviews and creative exercises.
Invent your own word(s) as part of a poem, explaining or inferring their meaning somewhere in your work. Inspired by Jen DeGregorio's poem about neologisms and AI.
Write a poem inspired by Jessica Cuello's work on the experience of staff meetings and institutional absurdity, focusing on imagery and syntax.
A poetry prompt inviting writers to reflect on a recent animal encounter (domestic or wild) and write into the moment, allowing the piece to expand naturally from that initial observation into whatever feels necessary. The prompt encourages noticing details, researching the creature's history or etymology, and exploring emotions or memories sparked by the encounter.
A poetry prompt inviting writers to explore change by juxtaposing two moments (before and after) separated by an implied event, using concrete details and omission rather than explanation. Writers are encouraged to use two numbered sections and let the white space carry meaning.
A monthly poetry feature released on the first Friday of each month where writers engage with poetry prompts or themes tied to song titles.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where writers complete a prompt each day. Day 22 of the challenge is featured in this post.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where participants write short poems each day. Day 23 of the challenge is featured in this post, inviting readers to share their poems and participate in the ongoing series.
A collection of 10 inspirational poetry prompts for September, ranging from nature imagery (Fall into autumn, Sun splashed, All bark and branch) to emotional introspection (Chipped heart, Poetic hunger, These future wounds). Readers are encouraged to adapt and twist the prompts with curiosity and may optionally share their poems in the comments.
Write a haiku (5-7-5 syllables across three lines) inspired by gadgets and devices, drawing on the theme of futuristic technology and the enduring appeal of labor-saving devices as exemplified by 'The Jetsons.' Share your haiku in the comments.
Find a news story that engages you and write a poem inspired by it. The prompt encourages poets to engage with current events and their communities through poetry, whether the news is from major national outlets or local papers.
A collection of three poetry prompts inviting writers to explore their relationship with their younger selves through concrete, visual storytelling. Prompts ask writers to imagine sending objects to their past self, meet their younger self in a place that no longer exists (asking one question and answering with one memory), and return to a moment their younger self learned something untrue about themselves.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where writers compose short poems, share them in comments, and discuss their creative process. Participants write daily, often multiple poems per session.
Write a poem inspired by Mary Oliver's 'Song for Autumn,' emphasizing the theme of senescence (the biological process of growing old) and experimenting with different uses of color in your poem. Share your response in the comments by Sunday, September 27th as part of the ongoing Dream Work year-long writing journey.
A poetry prompt inviting writers to explore their associations with the word 'fall'—whether seasonal, emotional, or idiomatic—and write a poem to share with the community over the weekend.
Write a poem exploring a topic or aspect of life you tend to avoid or dismiss as unworthy of poetic form—whether mundane, undignified, political, complex, simple, or otherwise. The prompt invites writers to venture into poetically neglected emotional, thematic, or experiential territory and optionally share the result in the comments.
A 6-week autumnal creative program featuring weekly writing prompts, journaling exercises, visual art prompts, and poetry inspired by themes from Lord of the Rings. Topics include world-building, maps, songs, sentient landscapes, journeys, nature and technology, resistance, hope, and acts of courage. Participants receive weekly emails with prompts and spiritual/personal growth content.
A seven-line poetry prompt framework designed around the Autumn Equinox, with fill-in-the-blank structure to guide creative writing. Readers can complete the template with their own lines or use it as inspiration for an original poem.
Create an erasure poem by taking a journal entry or series of written pieces and erasing them down to capture what you'd like the sum of your life to be. Inspired by a question from the author's novel Otherside.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where writers share poems and participate in a community of daily poetry writers.
Write an honest tribute to yourself—intellectual, physical, or spiritual—celebrating your favorite parts of being you. Any poetic form is welcome, with you as the central focus. Inspired by Lucille Clifton's "Homage to My Hips" and Fatima Malik's "Critique of My Thighs."
A collaborative renga poetry chain prompt inviting readers to build a poem with a partner using 5/7/5/7/7 syllable structure, drawing inspiration from tarot archetypes, pop culture, classical literature, or personal observation, with emphasis on sensory imagery and focused themes.
A daily micro poetry challenge where writers participate in creating short poems every day. The challenge is ongoing and encourages daily writing practice.
A generative poetry prompt asking writers to start with a simple initial image and let it transform through a series of extended metaphors, each giving way to the next, until the final metaphor brings the reader back to the original image in a meaningful way. The prompt emphasizes finding resonance through deliberate return rather than happenstance, drawing inspiration from Terrance Hayes's 'The Whale.'
A weekly writing prompt generated by spinning three wheels: Setting (picnic party), Side Character (your twin, surprise), and Conflict (a dangerous secret). Writers create any form of creative work (stories, poems, art, scenes) inspired by the combination and share their "Inkling" in a community directory for peer feedback and celebration.
A month-long horror writing challenge featuring daily prompts Monday–Friday from September 26 through November 7, 2026. Participants write to themed weekly prompts (Soups and Salads, Appetizers, The Main Course, Dessert, and Final Sprint), with scoring based on engagement metrics. Submissions are ranked by bracket (Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight, or Unranked), and top scorers win podcast interviews and community recognition.
A multi-level fantasy writing prompt offering three combinable elements: a mountaintop kingdom setting, a squire character in training, and a missing leadership conflict. Writers can use one, two, or all three elements to create a Level 1, 2, or 3 story or poem, with optional D'veen universe variations available.
An ongoing daily micro-poetry challenge running through September 2026, inviting writers to share poems daily in the community comments or via photos, with day-by-day prompts and peer engagement.
Three thematic writing prompts inspired by autumn and seasonal transition: 'first frost warning,' 'woodsmoke, too early,' and 'a garden going to seed.' Each prompt invites poetic reflection on letting go, change, and the passage of seasons.
A warm-up poetry writing exercise inspired by Hannah Bonner's poem "This Morning." Writers are invited to compose a poem about this morning incorporating all five senses and internal senses in 5 minutes, then edit it down to 15 words and restructure it into 2 sentences using specific punctuation. A follow-up idea invites posting the poem on a postcard to a friend.
A multi-week sensory writing series running each Saturday until October 17, exploring autumnal textures and details. Each week features a sensory prompt inviting writers to notice textures around them and write their stories—poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or poetic prose. Writers share their work in Substack notes, comments, or posts. Participants who engage (like, comment, share, restack) are entered into a drawing for a one-year free subscription.
Write a poem that subtly changes forms partway through. This prompt is part of the Chapped challenge series, which features interviews with poets and creative writing exercises.
Write a poem that is simultaneously about the art of writing a poem and about something else. A meta-poetic challenge combining self-reflexive craft with external subject matter.
Write a poem in couplets about your own childhood superstition(s). The prompt is inspired by Mckendy Fils-Aimé's poem 'on superstitions' and encourages readers to use vivid imagery and repetition to create common ground with readers.
A writing prompt inviting readers to reflect on long-term devotions they have maintained, the costs involved, and how they have managed exhaustion, burnout, melancholy, or rage. Suited to poetry writers.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where participants write a short poem each day. Readers are invited to share their poems and progress in the community.
Write a poem that begins with a single sensory detail (taste, smell, sound, color) and follows it to unlock a memory, allowing past and present to blend together. The prompt models the technique using a diner memory triggered by chocolate milk and mint.
A palimpsest poem writing prompt inspired by Douglas Kearney's 'Wolves,' inviting writers to cross out words, respond in margins, or layer new writing over old text while leaving traces of previous versions visible. Writers can use their own old writing or the provided prompts, and may incorporate doodles or drawings.
A recurring 100-word micro-fiction challenge where writers create stories, poems, or creative nonfiction pieces inspired by movie titles. This month's prompt is Avatar (2009). Submissions are posted as comments; no external publication or deadline.
Write a poem using the 'hermit crab' form, where you inhabit the structure of a review (book, restaurant, clothing, Google review, etc.) but undo its conventions and transform it into something poetic, narrative, humorous, or magical. Start by listing three different kinds of reviews, then use one as the framework for your poem.
Write a poem about aging or caring for aging parents. The host has shared two published poems on the theme and invites readers to share their own poems in the comments.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where writers are invited to share their poems and participate in the community. Day 16 of the challenge as of the post date, with an active chat for sharing work and progress.
The Study Vol. 002: a collection of writing prompts, questions, and creative nudges designed to help writers explore the theme 'Beyond The Veil… After Dark' and build confidence before submitting to Smoke & Echo. Available for free download; meant to accompany the current submission round.
A weekly haiku prompt inviting writers to compose a single haiku (5-7-5 syllable structure) inspired by the theme 'OFFICE' and the history of the Xerox 914 photocopier. Share your haiku in the comments.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge where participants write poetry every day and share their work in the community. Writers are encouraged to reference current events or world topics for inspiration.
An ongoing daily micro poetry challenge inviting writers to share short poems and participate in a community-driven writing practice. Participants are encouraged to write and share reflections on their progress.
A weekly tanka writing challenge where poets craft 31-syllable poems in 5-7-5-7-7 form using the prompt phrase "erotic ache." Poems are shared in the comments section for community feedback and appreciation.
A poetry prompt inviting writers to explore the word 'reservations' and its multiple connotations—whether related to dining reservations, doubts and hesitations, or Native American reservations—and follow their thoughts into a poem.
A collection of creative prompts focused on collage-making, wild poetry writing, and integration exercises. Writers are invited to gather words and images, create found poetry, write unedited poems, revisit previous prompts, or rest as part of the creative cycle. No external publication goal; engagement is through replies or comments.
Writers are invited to use the seven prompt words (sanguine, console, bellow, idyllic, adorn, gaunt, histamine) as a starting point for creating their own poetry. The prompt emphasizes the human voice, the oral tradition, and shared vulnerability in poetic expression.
A seven-line poetry prompt with fill-in-the-blank framework designed to help writers connect with the end of summer. The prompt guides creation through structured lines about light, change, questions, and arrival, with the author's own completed poem provided as an example.
An erasure poetry writing prompt inviting readers to create their own erasure poems by selecting and rearranging language from source material—following Katie Manning's approach of treating text as a word bank to discover new meaning and imagery.
Weekly writing prompt offering a genre, setting, character, and conflict for writers to use in a story or poem however they'd like. This week's prompt features horror elements and is designed to challenge writers to step outside their comfort zone.
Day 13 of the Micro Poetry Challenge: find a random line from your notebook, notes app, or other source and use it as a micro poem. Share your poems in the comments.
A three-step poetry prompt inviting writers to accumulate sensory observations and phrases (from window textures, grocery lists, old notebook entries, and weather reports), identify connections between these findings through freewriting, and shape the results into a poem. Optional bonus steps include weather prediction and directional variations like verb-swapping or prose poem formatting.
Write a poem about an encounter with a deer in real life or in the dream realm, drawing inspiration from Mary Oliver's poem 'The Deer.' Focus on the deer's unwavering gaze and stillness, using the Animal Spirits deck's Deer card as optional guidance. Share your poem in the comments by Sunday, September 20th.
Write a poem inspired by an autocorrect moment or mishap. Explore one instance or several, examining the ramifications of what was sent versus what was meant.
A photo-inspired poetry prompt where writers compose brief poems (haikus, tonkas, or any length) in response to images provided by the creator. Submissions must be kept clean; writers are encouraged to credit the website in social media posts.
A writing prompt encouraging the composition of an action-oriented or political poem, inspired by Jane Hirshfield's 'Let Them Not Say' and drawing from a workshop on poems of trauma.
Write your own "One Easy Step" letter poem that connects two disciplines or themes you care about. Include the influence of mentors or ancestors, and end with a declaration of permission. A second "Plot Twist" variation invites writing about a pastime you enjoy and one you dislike, exploring what/who helps you endure both tasks, concluding with a request for permission to find balance between them.
An ongoing micro poetry challenge where participants write short poems and share them in the community. The current day (Day 12) focuses on eavesdropping as inspiration.
An ongoing micro poetry challenge where participants write short poems and share them in the comments. The challenge began September 11, 2026, and readers are invited to participate and post their work daily or as desired.
Write a poem from the perspective of a long-dead historical figure examining the life of another, more recent historical figure. The prompt encourages exploring unexpected kinships, moral contrasts, or shared out-of-time spaces between figures, using persona as a vehicle to explore something essential about language and lived experience.
Write a monostitch poem—a single line with a title. The poet invites readers to create spare, contrasting work in the style of Rafiq Kathwari's poem "On Receiving Father at JFK after his Long Flight from Kashmir." Readers may optionally share their work in the comments for potential resharing.
Write a poem starting with "Write a poem," or create and follow your own writing prompt, or select one of Michael Earl Craig's three assignments (kitchen island with soccer ball and parsley; drowning in a lake with boathouse and Serge Gainsbourg; changing magpie to pine siskin). Readers are encouraged to share their work in the comments or on social media.
A weekly creative writing prompt where three wheels generate a setting (Fishing Upon a Lake), side character (The Voice in Your Head), and conflict (Someone Important is Missing). Writers create short works called "Inklings" inspired by the prompt—stories, poems, art, or scene fragments of any length—and share them in a community directory for feedback and encouragement.
A weekly writing prompt featuring psychological horror. Writers choose one, two, or all three elements (setting: The Listening Room; character: The Archivist; conflict: The Missing Minute) to craft a story or poem up to 3,000 words, with difficulty levels 1-3 based on element usage.
A monthly 100-word writing challenge based on movie titles. For September, the prompt is AVATAR. Writers submit exactly 100-word pieces (excluding the title) in any genre: story, poem, or creative non-fiction.
A collection of four writing prompts designed to inspire poetic work using film as a catalyst: rewatch a beloved teenage film and write about revisiting it; explore an art film and mine it for imagery and metaphors; discover short films on TikTok for creative inspiration; or create a short film based on one of your existing poems.
A weekly sensory writing invitation exploring autumnal scents and memories. Readers write in any form (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, prose) about an autumn scent, the memories it awakens, and how it makes them feel. Posts are shared in the Substack community from September 12 to October 17, with a bonus post at the end.
A multi-day poetry challenge from the Toronto International Film Festival, encouraging participants to write micro poems daily and share in the community. Day 10 of the challenge as of the post date.
Write a poem inspired by a receipt—find any receipt (yours or someone else's) and compose a poem about one of the items purchased on it. This prompt is part of the Chapped challenge, a structured seasonal writing project.
A poetry writing prompt inspired by Maya Marshall's poem 'The Collection Room.' Readers are invited to take an existing poem (their own or someone else's) and create a word bank from recent writing, then swap out nouns and verbs from the original poem and revise until a sense-making narrative emerges, optionally experimenting with tercets.
Write a prose piece or a poem about someone surprising a friend or family member with a gift they didn't know what to do with (or made clear they didn't want it).
A writing prompt inviting poets to discover connections between two fragments from their notebooks by bringing them together in the same poem and exploring the 'seam' where they meet. Inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi and the idea that fragments may recognize something in each other before we do.
Write a story, poem, essay, fragment, or experimental piece that incorporates paranormal fiction, romantic fiction, poetry, genuinely excellent marketing advice, and a story about thriving in mid-life. Tone can be funny, strange, tender, dark, serious, or ridiculous. Share your work in the comments and tag the author for restacking.
A reflective writing prompt inviting readers to identify a memory in one sentence, then complete the sentence "What I'm really writing about is..." and write a poem from that deeper emotional center rather than the surface story.
A template-based poetry prompt inspired by Adam J. Gellings' poem 'Somewhere Else.' Writers use the provided template to craft their own poem, filling in personal details about birth, family, physical imagery, and childhood memories in nature. Readers are invited to share their work in the comments.
A five-minute blackout poetry exercise for writers experiencing writer's block. Readers select a prose text (newspaper article, magazine feature, old book), circle ten interesting words, then create a found poem by blacking out the surrounding text and connecting the chosen words. The exercise shifts the writer's mindset from producing original work to discovering meaning in existing language.
An ongoing micro poetry challenge where participants write short poems and share them in the community. Day 9 of the challenge as of the post date.
Write about a place you want to claim as home. This take-away prompt follows Marjorie's Table's workshop discussion of poems by Roshni Gallagher and Biff Smith, exploring specificity, form, and mystery in poetry.
Weekly haiku challenge: create a haiku (5-7-5 syllable structure) inspired by the prompt 'CAMERA' and the historical context of Elvis Presley's Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1956, where cameras were famously restricted to filming only from the waist up. Share your haiku in the comments.
