I can’t explicitly explain what the first sentence means but I love it.

💙 I am so honored to have my very short story about the impossibility of what nostalgia promises in the latest issue of -ette

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

Thank you Beth and Nora for including my work.

I was interviewed by Hayden’s Ferry Review about my poem “”Self-Portrait as Poem” that was published in issue #76:

haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

“The Sky’s Vast Blue” is one of three of my poems published by Cultural Daily today. Thank you Bunkong Tuon!

www.culturaldaily.com/natalie-mari...

I have several copies of my new chapbook End of Revels (Bottlecap Press) ready to mail out. Please let me know if you are interested in a signed copy.

Thank you @stonecirclereview.bsky.social and @leepottspoet.bsky.social for publishing my work!

Thank you!

My poetry chapbook, END OF REVELS, told in the voice of Sylvia Plath at the time of her death, is now available from Bottlecap Press:

bottlecap.press/products/end...

My poem “Paraphrase” was recently published on West Trade Review’s substack.

My poem “After the War” appears in the October 2025 issue of The Inflectionist Review. Thank you so much John Sibley Williams.

My poem “Weldon Kees Looks Back” has been nominated for Best of the Net 2026 by Blood+Honey ❤️💜❤️

My poem “Ode to Ocean” appears in issue #3 of Phylum Press’s journal.

Thank you Chila Woychik and Eastern Iowa Review for including my poem “Epilogue” in your anthology Best Prose Poetry 2025.

It’s life’s illusions I recall.

-Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides Now”

“IKEA pear cider
and another year knowing
you can’t feel full
from excess”

NEW POEM #264: "excuses to mark a day" by Jessica Lee McMillan (@jessicaleemcmillan.com)

"how many clinking glasses do you remember
or cigarette breaks

I remember eating watermelon in the dark one night
more than any drink
or birthday cake"

stonecirclereview.com/excuses-to-m...

Thank you @thedodgemag.bsky.social for featuring my poem “Sky as Smoke” in your latest issue!

Happy Wednesday! Today we're excited to feature more poetry from our Summer 2025 Issue, this time from Natalie Marino @nataliemarino.bsky.social ! Read her poem "Sky as Smoke" on our website (link in bio) and check out the rest of our Summer 2025 Issue!

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@anthony-martin.bsky.social
@alinaetc.bsky.social
@ifkexists.bsky.social
@neonpajamas.bsky.social
@nataliemarino.bsky.social
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I am excited to say that my poem “Sky as Smoke” appears in the summer issue of the Dodge.

This is a beautiful photograph.

I am honored to have a poem in the latest issue of Half Mystic!

I have three poems featured in the inaugural issue of Aesterion Lit, including “Elegy to City.”

www.aesterion.com/summer-2025

My poem “Train as Metaphor” appears in the latest issue of Welter (University of Baltimore). Thank you to the editors!

My very short story “A Masculine Man” appears in the latest issue of Gooseberry Pie Lit! Thank you Jeff Harvey for including my work.

“Mostly I know the comfort of gravity
held in a stone, sometimes a wide, blue silence—a swell
rising in a sea somewhere past memory” 💜

Congrats! So well-deserved!