Matthew Isaac Sobin

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Issue 9.1 — River Heron Review

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New poem out in Issue 9.1 of River Heron Review. This is another poem from the sequence I wrote this past summer. The @riverheronreview.bsky.social editors do such a lovely job curating their issues. Just gorgeous! I’m so happy to have been included.

New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft.

Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!

SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY JOURNAL SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal is an online literary journal established in 2016 that publishes poetry, flash fiction, essays, interviews, art, photography, and reviews. There are no submissio...

You can listen to my reading on the website, and read through a trove of wonderful new poems. Thank you Michael Mackin O'Mara for publishing.

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A special thank you to lovely new poet friends who lifted the poem up in Olympic Valley @communityofwriters.bsky.social, hours after it was written. To the 8 am hike crew, that stopped at each new wildflower patch for pictures. And to everyone who has touched it so thoughtfully since.

New poem in issue 39 of @soflopojo.bsky.social.

November-Issue 39 online now & we're reading for February-Issue 40
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November Issue #39 online now
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In a Nutshell We are particularly interested in very short poems (aka. micro-poems) that transcend ordinary language through sound/symbol/image/metaphor/simile. Like the sustenance of nutmeat within a nutshell, we ...

~ Coming Soon ~

On November 1, submissions will open for ONE ART's In a Nutshell: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton

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A little late posting... Very happy to have a new poem in ONE ART. This poem took a while to write, and it took longer to be in a place where I was able to write it. Big thanks to Mark Danowsky for publishing.

New poem about some recent experiences at school, at the bookstore, at a protest, out today in cataloguing poetry magazine by editor john compton. Head over to the journal’s Substack to catch up on all the great work recently published.

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Thanks for reading!!

Love reading litmag's nominations for awards. Congrats to @mdaltoneloy.bsky.social @crankypacifist.bsky.social @bringonthelucie.bsky.social @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social @sansromeo.bsky.social 🎊🎉

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New poem about some recent experiences at school, at the bookstore, at a protest, out today in cataloguing poetry magazine by editor john compton. Head over to the journal’s Substack to catch up on all the great work recently published.

cataloguingpoetrymagazine.substack.com

This is going to be one hell of a reading, book launch & zoom party on Tuesday night.

Have you registered yet to celebrate @writesloud.bsky.social ?

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Here's one final sneak peek inside Issue 19's 92 pages. I could use a few more orders of it, in case you've got cash to burn on something real, reliable, resplendent. Here's the opening 12 lines of @glowyaquarius.bsky.social's ANTI-ODE TO GIRLHOOD. What a brilliant, blistering poem this is.

Flight: A Literary Sampler

Welcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler!

We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.

You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io

So stoked to receive a nomination for Best of the Net ! a poem about my eighth grade students, a tsunami warning, and an endangered fish... Thanks to Jeff at @stanchion.bsky.social for the deep care shown to this poem, and all the writing they receive!

June 28 was three years since my dad passed from ALS. Blue Bodies is available as a free PDF from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social. If you’re able, there's a donate button. Funds go to ALS United Greater NY—an org that supports families (they were a life raft for us) and also contributes to med research.

Always exciting to see The Last Machine in the Solar System being read in the world more than eight years since publication. Even more thrilling, and an honor, when those people are teachers overseas sharing the story with their students.

THIGMONASTY by Elizabeth Joy Levinson is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Stanchion opens in 4 hours. Closes in 28. Let's make Issue 19.

There Is a Garment Called a Fatigue you put it on to hide and go to war to leave your wife and children some match the desert and some the forest my father put his on and laced his boots morning after morning I can hear his laces whipping through the metal eyelets I am not a soldier but I put my fatigues on From Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) by Han VanderHart

in blue-milk light under pine shadow I am tired of carrying what a soldier left behind when he entered other people's countries the house of trembling the mother of anxiety the tornado moods heavy on child shoulders breakable as the wings of the atlas moth in its glass case 39

that my father lifted from an Iraqi bunker flew back to us in America

I am not a soldier
but I put my fatigues on

in blue-milk light
under pine shadow

I am tired of carrying
what a soldier left behind

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a father poem from Larks (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social)

TO MILITARY PROGRESS You use your mind like a millstone to grind chaff. You polish it and with your warped wit laugh at your torso, prostrate where the crow falls on such faint hearts as its god imparts, calls and claps its wings till the tumult brings more black minute-men to revive again, war at little cost. They cry for the lost head and seek their prize till the evening sky's red.

“You use your mind
like a millstone […!]”

Marianne Moore’s “TO MILITARY PROGRESS,” for today’s military march #poetry

Awesome! Excited to read and share this space!

Stoked to be part of this lineup! Microchap incoming this summer!

At the Cathedral’s Foot In June once, in the evening, returning from a long trip, with memories of France’s blooming trees still fresh in our minds, its yellow fields, green plane trees sprinting before the car, we sat on the curb at the cathedral’s foot and spoke softly about disasters, about what lay ahead, the coming fear, and someone said this was the best we could do now— to talk of darkness in that bright shadow.

“we sat on the curb at the cathedral’s foot
and spoke softly about disasters…”

Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanaugh

from his book “Eternal Enemies”

#booksky @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social can’t wait to read it! I think it got here very quickly!

In the spirit of Jack, he would have said it was an “is meant to be.” Jack loved synchronicity but didn’t really believe in luck. But yes, I was absolutely lucky to know him. His mentorship completely changed my creative life. No doubt about it.