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…and here we have it, the last 2 poems for this month by Jonathan Hayes!
Thank you to @thearsonista.bsky.social & to all the contributors!

Go have a read!

Letter 49 by Robert Farrell Of course it’s possible to fall in love in thirty seconds. It happens every time I pass through the 81st St. station on the express and see  through the window a trapeze artist or ballet …

2nd to last feature is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social

Thank you to Robert and all the amazing artists!

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Poems by Simon Ravenscroft Lemon dose Sniff your blues away in the electric evening light Burst gold all over the sky again like every other night of late There’s not much  music in it left Give me a sky of muted grey&n…

Good morning,

Go enjoy these 2 poems by Simon Ravenscroft over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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Good morning,

Please go read these gorgeous poems by Dia Babylon over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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poems & photography by Dan Hintz live on SNL she rolled his head out of the wicker basket onto the buffed stage floor sun ra snake dance sun grabbed the  baby and tossed it high up into the mother’s arms Exif_JPEG_PICTU…

@danielhintz.bsky.social is live with 3 beautiful photographs / 3 micro-poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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2 poems by Nora Rawn Pairs Short Program Watch the backwards inwards death spiral, technical element introduced in the 1948 Olympics, the woman hovers smoothly, levitates, you recall your last time ice skating solo, a …

Another day, another great fucking excuse to read poetry at @thearsonista.bsky.social

2 by Nora Rawn

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Poems by Thom C. Addington Sibyl of Cumae Would-be lovers will not want forever. Edging feels a satin yard of inside, but its edge penknifes— so short and straight,  the letting come (and go).   They’ll gravel…

@thearsonista.bsky.social is so excited to show you some poems by Thom C. Addington!

Go read!!

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Poems by Henry Luzzatto Rubberneckin’ I passed by a church basement full of old people dancing cheek to cheek to rnb on Valentine’s Day  And all the young white single  people in the city stopped and said can yo…

Henry Luzatto has some gorgeous poems today at @thearsonista.bsky.social

Take a look!

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Some wonderful prose from Mike Barlow for your Wednesday at @thearsonista.bsky.social 🔥

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Lavender by Reza Jabrani The half-empty bottle of lavender  pure-castile soap haunting  my shower for months  after you left, the lonesome  burning sudsy mornings  moaning, masturbating…

Happy Valentine's Day!

Reza Jabroni gives us a sweet little fiery poem!

Live at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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A Good Place To Die by LaVern Spencer McCarthy “When are you going to do it?” Lenny asked Susan. “When am I going to do what?” she responded, laying a card carefully on the dining room table where she was playing Solitai…

LaVern Spencer McCarthy brings us a little story I couldn’t resist to share!

Read it now at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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as drowned by Jen Adams Jen Adams (she/they) is a UK-based researcher, feminist and writer.

Little poems are my absolute favorite!

Here’s one from Jen Adams live at the @thearsonista.bsky.social

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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …

My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. Calderón, curator

At the parade grounds of immolation,
we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to
stand up straight with
a wishbone lodged in the prism of
your throat,
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…

A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...

from wastes / wraiths by James Knight in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…

I am truly honored to be able to publish such wonderful artists...

today we have @badbadpoet.bsky.social live on @thearsonista.bsky.social with a poem that'll leave a mark.

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3 poems by Juliet Cook Sawing Through Lap dance underwater with sharks. Limbs tossed into bleeding mosh pits. Those still alive are uniform, guns, glass, hate.Won’t stop shooting,biting, spitting out splintere…

Juliet Cook is live at @thearsonista.bsky.social today with 3 beautiful poems.

Go have a look!

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The Return by a.d. For weeks she willed the horizon ablaze with word of triumph Smoke from her fires     sways lascivious in the mist She dresses the house for his return as a snake vestures …

a beautiful poem by a.d. over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. Calderón. Love the collage banner.

Hand over hand, climbing over
indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling
typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear
the news and various
other kinds of puppeteer topographies /

2 poems by Kent Kosack March Indulge yourself in a final thought as the year ends: If you leave her, the road ahead opens into a midlife reckoning. No money for the cliched convertible. The trip to Japan. Holiday shrine …

Let's keep the momentum going, shall we?

Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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SUMMER NEEDS by Sara Matson <1> my suede hand warm + gloved pinning swollen fist on  either side of ur mandible + screaming until the jaw snaps (so visceral !) my wet thigh sticky (unexpected blood) i tuck my …

Happy Sunday!

Go have look at our newest contributor @saramatson.bsky.social to this month's theme at @thearsonista.bsky.social

a gorgeous poem sure to set you right for the coming week!

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Monday is drifting into Tuesday, but before it does, here's 3 poems by Laurence Lillvik LIVE on @thearsonista.bsky.social

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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …

@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

go have a read!

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My sixth book is now available for pre order over at the Salo Press website - link below

‘Graffiti On A Burning House’

Hope you can kop a copy fam cheers xx

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Karina Longo has 3 poems up on @thearsonista.bsky.social today!

Go have a look!

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Another day, another fantastic submission!

Please go read these poems over at @thearsonista.bsky.social and follow @hubbsd.bsky.social while you're at it!

Subs are open for Love & Hate February! Guest Editor @imc1209.bsky.social awaits your magic/sendsendxx

3 poems by Sean G. Meggeson monument leaves (upon reading Pasolini’s review of the Italian translation of Osip Mandelstam) like the sun sets   in motion   a series  of actions  &nb…

Our very first contributor seangmeggeson.bsky.social is over at @thearsonista.bsky.social with 3 poems...

Go have a look!

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BHP are excited to welcome Ingrid M. Calderón as the seventh BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions!

Ingrid’s theme for the month of February is:
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LOVE & HATE

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_Where does love end
and hate begin?_

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Sendsendxx

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ULTRAVIOLET: Table of Discontents An issue replete with luscious adjectives and flights of form

ULTRAVIOLET EDITION chosen, curated and edited by BHP’s January 2026 guest editor Kawai Shen!!! @kawaishen.bsky.social

Thanks so much to everyone who sent work and made the violet dream happen! 💜 Enjoy 📕 ✨

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Massive gratitude & thank you to @kawaishen.bsky.social for a fantastic month curating the ULTRAVIOLET edition and to everyone who contributed work! Full edition coming soon! 💜