6” x 6” analogue collage on paper. Vertically arranged found papers in hues of green and orange and ivory. Black and white image of a tree. Map of the moon. Aqua tissue paper. Text on bottom left in black ink reads “not a problem to be solved”.
little snowy afternoon collage
(i know i’m like the violin players on the Titanic
gluing tiny scraps of colored paper onto canvas while the world blows up)
Men make up the overwhelming majority of submitters to the journal where I am poetry editor, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social. So I share with you this timeless reminder from editor @kelliagodon.bsky.social to “Submit Like a Man.”
This Is Today | 2026-02-18
Gian Lorenzo Bernini—sculpture, marble—The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1652. White marble sculpture of an angel about to drive a thin spear through the heart of a swooning St. Teresa.
The poet Sally Read recited my translation of a poem by St. Teresa of Ávila in an interview last week. The poem riffs on Teresa's vision—being speared by an angel—captured by Bernini.
"He pierced me with an arrow
smeared with the poison of love,
and my soul succumbed
to be one with its Creator."
‘Since she insisted on pretending not to recognise me, I consented to play along and pretend I didn’t recognise her either.’
Fiction by Anne Serre.
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Jessica Dubey reads her poem "Bad Advice" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
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Happy birthday to Her Majesty Leontyne Price!
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)(S) series continues with Australian-based writer/artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
a suite of 10 haunting poems/paintings annotations night highway journey to overcome fear #self #poems #paintings
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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are".
-W. Somerset Maugham
Good poem!
2 contributor copies of Jarnal 4, published by Mason Jar Press.
The Blessing Hour In this city, we stop hunting for language, instead redeem the plainest spaces. Wade in water that makes absence personal. I don’t want to write my way through a flood. Don’t want us to split over distance, or small aberrations, unnoticed at sundown. What we miss, chimes as colours on oil slick roads, and hills that steepen by us simply climbing. It hurts to labour for love. A mother lifts her child above a ruined wall — shows him the future. Morning smooths out a street of debris. The child believes it is dusty Lego, waiting. The war hasn’t happened for 300 days, meaning our beauty has been humbly salvaged, the clarity of a single moment bargaining with broken bread on a bistro table. Grace slipping a note between the hands of a man and woman drinking coffee. They never go further than talking. Or walking, where nothing falls — except fractured light on an evening like this. A girl from a dim alley adjusts her blouse, straightens her crumpled skirt. Vanishes in fog. I tell myself she must have been loved, hard. That there was no crime. Things appear as a heart is held. As a land askew, its weapons and dresses laid to rest. This translucent city — edged with fire.
I tell myself she must have been loved, hard. That there was no crime. Things appear as a heart is held. As a land askew, its weapons and dresses laid to rest. This translucent city — edged with fire.
Delighted to see my poem 'The Blessing Hour' in Jarnal 4 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social ❤️
My thanks again to EIC Steph Sundermann-Zinger and team. The issue is a stunner with many writers I admire from the US and around the world. Available now: masonjarpress.com/jarnal
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Go!
I have six new poems published thanks to @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social and editor @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social 💙—including a poem about the polymath René Descartes for all of us lapsed philosophers👇👇👇
John Singer Sargent:
Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881)
#art #man #male
Dennis Goza reads his poem "Ambivalent Love Song" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
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Detailed wooden inlays of flowers and urns in various shades of brown. Study and apartments in El Escorial, Spain.
Is there a new book you loved? Could you give that author the gift of a book review? Cable Street is always looking for reviews of poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary fiction. Contact our editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social via email at dana.cablestreet@gmail.com.
Our consulting poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social has a translation of the work of poet Rocío Cerón in the new issue of Asymptote. ❤️
www.asymptotejournal.com
Emily Sue Sloane reads her poem "Time Change" from Issue 37 Winter 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
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"Against Ornament. Against Object." This is in Seoul. Gorgeous. The title is brilliant, like the title of a metaphysical English poem from the 17th century.
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This is such a good piece of fiction in English—AND a great German translation. The author, Eric Darton, says he likes the German version better than his original. #fiction #translation #German
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I have only one Chita Rivera story, and this is it:
"Strawberry Thief" by William Morris, was created in 1883. The design was first printed that year and registered on March 12, 1883.
Wuthering Heights? Jane Eyre? Like 19th C male authors, Emily kills off a female lead, Charlotte sticks an ‘inconvenient’ woman in the attic. But decades before Middlemarch, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne slays an inconvenient man to give a woman her right to fulfilment. Radical. Transgressive
There are still a couple of places on February’s 30/30 Challenge cohort! Come and write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. It’s a wonderful place to chronicle the times in poetry - and more than ever, these times need to be chronicled...
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periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social : #submissions (updated,
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Muhammad Ali smiling
Muhammad Ali was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, KY.
A prophetic #poem by our co-editor Moira J. Saucer a repost for ongoing struggle #minneapolis @mjseyesopened.bsky.social
People were shot by
other people in the streets
they hated.
Policemen hurled tear gas and beat
protestors with batons. Anger and
cruelty reigned.
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Times New Roman 12 point black is considered standard for all manuscripts. If a publication specifies the font, it’s almost always that—so it’s the one that’s best to use when a publication doesn’t specify.
