Laura DeHart Young 💙🌈

No need to say goodbye to a cup of coffee and a good book. 🤓📚
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Big snow, warm covers…good book! 📚
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Reading is a proven way to reduce stress!
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Love is in the air! And in the books!
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Cold winter day?
Hot tea, warm blanket, good book!
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With the incoming weather it’s a great time for some poetry and fiction!
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“Books are mirrors of the soul.” Virginia Woolf
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I feel right at home in Does It Have Pockets? online literary magazine. Visit their site to read what we carry into our lives, our stories—
in pockets: large, small, messy, empty and frayed.
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"It was unanimous.
Fun didn't move us one bit."

Witty, wise, wonderful; three poems each gems form and tone, new from @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jr-wa...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I wrote down the recipe and put it somewhere I’d be sure to find it again, and accordingly, I haven’t seen it since."

Funny, timely, and hopeful, don't miss this deliciously quirky new fiction from @katemaxlow.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kate...

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"No tool has ever existed
to fix what happened to us."

Two superlative new poems from @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social -- freshly immersive and achingly beautiful | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/laura...

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Two of my poems just dropped in Does It Have Pockets?
📍Truck Stop Prayer
📍What I Couldn’t Fix
Thanks to the editors for the thoughtful space, beautiful design, and talented company.
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Happy New Year! Be joyful. Keep fighting. Read books.
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🎄 Burnt Toast and Benedictions
Contains: queer domestic chaos, emotional truth bombs, and toast that’s… well, burnt.
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🍞Burnt Toast and Benedictions, a 10-poem collection including crows as company and Oreos as comfort. 🪶🍪🍞
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The Loch Raven Review, a longstanding online and print journal, has just published two of my poems.
Visit them at: thelochravenreview.net
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Hot chocolate, a warm throw, favorite snack. Books make great gifts.
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The kind of poetry that makes you laugh, wince, then text someone you shouldn’t.
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Fourth printing!
Thank you for keeping Love on the Line alive and climbing.
Haven’t read this Alaskan romance yet? Time to catch up. ❄️📘
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Queer books are alive and well despite efforts to ban them! 🙌🏼
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Always be thankful for the freedom to read!
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This Thanksgiving, skip the family drama (well most of it) and pass around some quiet, queer heartbreak instead.
🦃🥧🍂😁
Books to read after turkey and pie.
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🎃🕸️ No tricks—just burnt toast and tender truths.🍞✨ Burnt Toast and Benedictions — my new poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press.

Link to purchase:
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Just burnt toast and tender truths.
My new poetry chapbook is out now.
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Burnt Toast and Benedictions, by Laura DeHart Young Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Burnt Toast and Benedictions is a tender, unflinching meditation on the fractures of domestic life—where humor and heartbreak share intimate spaces...

Thank to everyone who’s supported my new chapbook Burnt Toast and Benedictions! 💛
If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, please check it out. 💙📚 #poet #poetry 🌈📚 #booksky #books

BURNT TOAST AND BENEDICTIONS — available from Bottlecap Press.
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Bottlecap Features Bottlecap Features is an ongoing multi-genre chapbook series that began in April, 2021. It is used to publish poetry, fiction, mixed media, music, and more. Our goal is to publish at least one chapboo...

I'm so excited to announce my brand new chapbook with Bottlecap Press!

Burnt Toast and Benedictions is a chapbook about quiet love and the stubborn tenderness it takes to stay.

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From Bottlecap Press
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