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A new online literary magazine for poetry and book reviews on poetry. Always open for submissions. Proud CLMP member. #1,597 on the FISH list. Posts by themichaelbeard.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/paraselene

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Paraselene An Online Literary Magazine

Winter might be soon ending, but Paraselene is just getting started 😎

Submit your best work to us, here: paraselenemagazine.com

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Paraselene An Online Literary Magazine

Winter might be soon ending, but Paraselene is just getting started 😎

Submit your best work to us, here: paraselenemagazine.com

12.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am against using my magazine's platform for self-promoting my own work.

However, I am not against using my magazine's platform for self-promoting my funny posts.

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My sources tell me Satan has started using an AI algorithm to streamline the eternal damnation admittance process: "There are just too many of you."

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SUBS CLOSE TONIGHT

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Happy friday! Here’s a few places you should check out if u haven’t already!

@cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
@underscoremag.bsky.social
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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"When they love us at dinner, we respect
with stillness. Don’t chew, don’t shift.
My young brother (stretched thinner and
taller than me) is an endless vessel of love. . ."

from "Quiet" by Jamie Manias in Issue #2

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β€œA Review of Lannie Stabile’s When the Forest Finds You” by Sylvia Santiago CW: Sexual Violence Horror movies are intended to evoke intense feelings of dread and fear in an audience. In When the Forest Finds You, poet Lannie Stabile employs these movie tropes to illuminate…

Read contributor Sylvia Santiago's review of Lannie Stabile's horror poetry collection, When the Forest Finds You!

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β€œPain as Big as a Whale’s: A Review of Judy Nahum’s i have wrestled with the way clouds weep” by Cassie Premo Steele The first thing that struck me was the amazing cover. A stunning photo by Dreamtwist of an orca breaching from dark grey ocean water under brooding cloud cover speaks to the many themes in this pow…

Check out contributor Cassie Premo Steele's review of Judy Nahum's poetry collection, i have wrestled with the way clouds weep!

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Open 4 subs :)

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#FF It’s National Pie Day! To celebrate, give some ❀️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with β€œP”!
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@paranoidxtree.bsky.social
@paraselenemag.bsky.social
@parthianbooks.bsky.social
@peasantmagazine.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️

23.01.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poems feat. @miraclemonocle.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @paraselenemag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/poetry/experimental-poems-QDvl0Z2p

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poems feat. @miraclemonocle.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @paraselenemag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

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β€œThe Stingray” by Sanat Ranadive The Stingray I saw you lying on the ocean floor, motionless, your skin glinting in the cold, aqueous light. When a diver approached, you leapt up and were goneβ€” I never even looked you in the eyes.…

"I saw you lying on the ocean floor,
motionless, your skin glinting in the cold,
aqueous light. When a diver approached,
you leapt up and were goneβ€”
I never even looked you in the eyes. . ."

From Sanat Ranadive's "The Stingray" featured in Issue #2.

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β€œA Review of Kashiana Singh’s Witching Hour” by Candice Louisa Daquin The eponymous ouroboros, representative of renewal, rebirth, and the cycle of life and death, can also represent eternity, unity, and the interconnectedness of all things. With her ravishing collec…

Read the latest review of Kashiana Singh's collection, Witching Hour (Glass Lyre Press), by contributor Candance Louisa Daquin, published TODAY!

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Working on publishing some reviews in the meantime...

ALSO, we are pausing our Editorial Feedback category until we (the editors) have more time to commit to genuine and helpful feedback.

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We are BACK OPEN for poetry and book review submissions!

Visit our Submit page here: paraselenemagazine.com/submit

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Opening up for submissions again soon!

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Some small changes (good) coming soon

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A book I reviewed, stevie redwood's A N G E R O U S B O D I E S / A N G E R O D E S, is featured on this #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list. An excerpt from my review for @paraselenemag.bsky.social :

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Laurie Kuntz Leaving We invent our own ways of leaving.It is morning in Manila,we begin to dress, surveyour bodies as friends can.Our lives are revealed in scars we have acquired.The accident slashed across the…

"We confirm what is left of our beauty
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."

from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2

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Laurie Kuntz Leaving We invent our own ways of leaving.It is morning in Manila,we begin to dress, surveyour bodies as friends can.Our lives are revealed in scars we have acquired.The accident slashed across the…

"We confirm what is left of our beauty
after the years have marked us
with sons and skids down icy roads . . ."

from "Leaving" by @poetlaurie.bsky.social in issue #2

read here:
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Helen Robertson untitled for AllisonI find myself sleeping next doorTo the first look in your eyesNails ten deep in my hipsI count crescent moonsIn skin tidal lockedTo the ghost of first devotionTo the flavor of s…

Woof okay, finally off work and not trying to sneak "yays" in-between customers.

So happy that this poem found a home at @paraselenemag.bsky.social (and that they included a recording β€” always a fan of that). It feels appropriate

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In case you missed it: this new workshop will focus on the analysis of what makes poetry work stand out with β€œwow” factor and leads to publication and readership and hopefully we can employ some of these techniques to our own work. Come and join us! Starts June 7.

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Officially terminated my contract with ELJ. Anyone interested in reprinting a book of poetry about climate change?

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Submissions for our Short Story Award competition open soon! First prize is €1000, second prize €500, as well as a €300 third prize. Guest judge @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @jmcm.bsky.social and I cannot wait to read your words.
Send us your best!

Rules below:

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Yaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!

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Molly Akin 8 Postpartum Reflections in Almost Tanka 1. Melinda says sixty percent Would be prevented If we could collect The palpating liquor As it spills out of our wombs2. When there is so much Daily life i…

Sharing an intimate reflection on childbirth and our poor maternal outcomes in the US in @paraselenemag.bsky.social issue 2:
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