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Poetry that runs counter to the mainstream. Open for submissions in the fall. Posts by @marksirrah.bsky.social - Mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/b90f59aa2341/ornithopter-press

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XII.


You do not owe any of us anything

Blue river

XII. You do not owe any of us anything Blue river

from Reclaimed Water (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social), for Eliot Cardinaux’s #fragmentfriday

23.01.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for these thoughtful write-ups, Billy. I'm grateful for the time and consideration you gave them.

19.01.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Recent Reading January 2026: A Review In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse, Mary Mackey, Marsh Hawk Press, 2025, ISBN 9798987617762, $18.95 Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems, Kyla Houbolt, Subpress, 2025, ISBN: 9781…

New review up: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/r...

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19.01.2026 11:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Post text is repeated in the image with an orange background

Forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2026, poetry collections by Assem Bazzi and Chloe Bliss Snyder!

18.12.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aw, thank you, thank you πŸ’œ

26.11.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, so much πŸ’™

26.11.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Emma Windsor Wood- Preferred Internal Landscape from @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

26.11.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eve Luckring, Signal to Noise I hear a voice calling her name. I can’t tell how far away she is or from which side she answers.Β  I can’t tell if she knows I am listen...

Eve Luckring, Signal to Noise / @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/eve-...

24.11.2025 13:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ECHOED

: familiar but unrecognizable

: this "b" for that "v" sound

: whenever they blame the victim

: each room swarming with ants...

: how I let her down; I let her down; let her down

ECHOED : familiar but unrecognizable : this "b" for that "v" sound : whenever they blame the victim : each room swarming with ants... : how I let her down; I let her down; let her down

More from Eve Luckring β™₯️

from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)

Happy #smallpoemsunday!

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16.11.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
SCATTERED

: in my mother's ashes

: some sort of daughter

: with an unreliable sense of direction

SCATTERED : in my mother's ashes : some sort of daughter : with an unreliable sense of direction

Eve Luckring πŸ’™

from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)

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Halloween Hauntings!
An excerpt from my new book, Signal to Noise
#hearingspirits
www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...

31.10.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful, thank you rob

30.10.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eve Luckring Eve Luckring is a writer and visual artist living in Los Angeles on the unceded lands of Tovaangar. Her work questions the assumptions, and...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eve Luckring / @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ;
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30.10.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

So lucky to have Tom Snarsky as a reader!
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23.10.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
POROUS


: a mystic

: in doubt

: not unlike a cloud

: sopped up with Large Language Models

POROUS : a mystic : in doubt : not unlike a cloud : sopped up with Large Language Models

Eve Luckring, from Signal to Noise

21.10.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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SIGNAL TO NOISE, poems by Eve Luckring Signal to Noise is a haunting of the ears, a fathoming of loss, an appraisal of fragmented attention. Constructed in two parts, the book invites the reader into a state of transitional uncertainty as ...

cc: @thetenderbetween.bsky.social, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

Eve’s marvelous book is available here: www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...

21.10.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
The front cover of Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, featuring the artwork Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, a 19th century Welsh artist who created images using the eidophone - a device of her own invention.

The front cover of Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, featuring the artwork Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, a 19th century Welsh artist who created images using the eidophone - a device of her own invention.

Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, available now from Ornithopter Press:

www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...

29.09.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
the front cover of Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Winsor wood features a photo by the author or deer in front of a contemporary building in a northern California suburban landscape

the front cover of Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Winsor wood features a photo by the author or deer in front of a contemporary building in a northern California suburban landscape

Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Winsor Wood, available now from Ornithopter Press:

www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p25/PR...

29.09.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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new from above/ground press : Daily Self-Portrait Valentine, by Laynie Browne D aily S elf- P ortrait V alentine Laynie Browne $6 As if that trunk wereΒ  My torso corseted Stitched in pictures Gathering every Day is not...

new from above/ground press : Daily Self-Portrait Valentine, by Laynie Browne / @omnidawn.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

12.08.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Philosophy

I just want you to understand that if you took every jellyfish who had ever died in the sea, and not just the visible ones washed up ashore, no, even the ones who lived and perished in total obscurity, if you took all their gelatinous inertia rocked by the waves it's maybe the beginning of an approximation of how my heart has felt for fourteen years of looking at you. And of course that's like the most American thing I could possibly do, wrap mass death up in the matter of an individual heart, but like one tree alone at the height of a hill offering high noon's only shade for a quarter mile around I'm stuck with it, I'm carving secrets in the bark because I'm a dog for you, I'm backwards, yesterday I forgot my own name

Philosophy I just want you to understand that if you took every jellyfish who had ever died in the sea, and not just the visible ones washed up ashore, no, even the ones who lived and perished in total obscurity, if you took all their gelatinous inertia rocked by the waves it's maybe the beginning of an approximation of how my heart has felt for fourteen years of looking at you. And of course that's like the most American thing I could possibly do, wrap mass death up in the matter of an individual heart, but like one tree alone at the height of a hill offering high noon's only shade for a quarter mile around I'm stuck with it, I'm carving secrets in the bark because I'm a dog for you, I'm backwards, yesterday I forgot my own name

Was reminded yesterday of the opening poem of @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s RECLAIMED WATER (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)β€”thanks for this @toddedillard.bsky.social!β€”so on Day 3 of National Poetry Month, here’s β€œPhilosophy,” another poem I love from this brilliant collection! πŸ’™

03.04.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Todd, your prompt made me think of this poem, β€œSaddest Factory” by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social in RECLAIMED WATER (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)!

02.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Eve, thank you, let's do this!

15.03.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The making of this book took me through all kinds of difficult terrainsβ€”thanks so much to @ornithopterpress.bsky.social for their trust and patience with its long and winding creative process. It’s exciting to now get a chance to send it out to share and find its way into the world.

15.03.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Against an orange background, this text: forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Eve Luckring and Emma Winsor Wood

Against an orange background, this text: forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Eve Luckring and Emma Winsor Wood

Forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Emma Winsor Wood and Eve Luckring!

13.03.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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five books, arranged on a wooden table: asterisk by Jenny George, twenty-four: short form poetry, edited by A.R. Williams, The Singing River by Benjamin Morris, Reclaimed Water by Tom Snarsky, and 32 poems - winter 2024 issue.

five books, arranged on a wooden table: asterisk by Jenny George, twenty-four: short form poetry, edited by A.R. Williams, The Singing River by Benjamin Morris, Reclaimed Water by Tom Snarsky, and 32 poems - winter 2024 issue.

Going camping! Bringing some friends
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Cole Chaudhari : Close Reading of β€œGardenback” by Tom Snarsky Gardenback Things pass from me To you. I am as naked & Without down as you were When you came into the World, vulnerable, Melan...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Cole Chaudhari : Close Reading of β€œGardenback” by Tom Snarsky / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/cole...

03.02.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Graves, One Terrible Date by Jonathan Everitt β€” BIRCH BARK EDITING Site of Disappearance b y Erin Malone Ornithopter Press 88 pages Even memories buried for decades are not deadβ€”only sleeping.

I started writing #BookReviews of #poetry collections last year. Here's one volume I found especially striking:
"Site of Disappearance" by @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social, from @ornithopterpress.bsky.social.
www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

29.01.2025 01:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Jonathan

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