Lydia Rae Bush Poetry's Avatar

Lydia Rae Bush Poetry

@lrbpoetry

Free Bleeding (‘25, dogleech books) Keeper, Seeker, Dragon of the Sea ('25, Bottlecap Press) Associate Editor, Sage Cigarettes Magazine

316
Followers
345
Following
159
Posts
25.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Lydia Rae Bush Poetry @lrbpoetry

Full Mood's back ❤️🔥

08.03.2026 01:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you to @carriganak.bsky.social , @asburrispoet.bsky.social , and Flossie Hedges for the remixing!

You can find my own poem inside as well.

06.03.2026 14:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So many different form and style directions the contributors took this challenge. 👏

Shoutout to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social for all the editorial work. 😮

06.03.2026 14:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you @carriganak.bsky.social ! I loved the concrete detail and emotional honesty of your poem! I was really grateful for the inspiration and empowerment to write a poem in a similar vein.

06.03.2026 14:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

You go in. You quicken.

28.02.2026 17:00 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

Eileen Myles

27.02.2026 16:00 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

you rang? 🙂‍↕️

27.02.2026 19:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

I can be dumb, vain, clueless.

11.02.2026 18:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There are a lot of ‘rules’ for how to look genuine on social media that don’t reckon with the fact that each of us truly being authentic in how we use social media, would, by definition, each look unique. Your account’s never off-putting to me. 🩵 I share the feeling!

09.02.2026 15:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

grass roots collaborations between artists, shop owners, and presses are how we persist. through local distribution, Australian trans stories cross oceans without steep postage; and through partnership, alliances of support and mutual aid are strengthened and forged. make art. build bonds.

03.02.2026 17:53 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Are we paying our taxes this year or…

06.02.2026 16:58 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

call Chuck and tell him ABOLISH means ABOLISH and I'll give you $3 off any kith book
code: ABOLISHICE
kithbooks.com

04.02.2026 00:44 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I used to be so adamant about having the speakers of my poems all use punctuation marks one exact way so that my language could be literally dissected, but now I've got millions of speakers-of-my-poems who would never use the same punctuation marks at all let alone in the same way. 😂

31.01.2026 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The new issue of @flightlit.bsky.social is live! My poem "Ars Poetica: Tulips" is the poetry selection, so check it and the rest of the pieces here:

31.01.2026 21:13 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Post image

it's as simple as that!

31.01.2026 18:00 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

idc

30.01.2026 19:01 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: fifth wheel press ⭐ fifth wheel press ⭐ is open to submissions for 2026 Pride series. #CallforSubmissions

fifth wheel press ⭐ is open to submissions for 2026 Pride series. #CallforSubmissions

29.01.2026 23:27 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

if you're a self-pub author of eBooks looking for somewhere to host them that isn't propping up ICE, our inbox is open. give me a shout. we'll take no cut, hold no rights.

27.01.2026 19:56 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

Season's Bleatings! The deadline for ISSUE 05: FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT are now open until February 28th.

27.01.2026 21:49 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Preview
irl | Stanchion irlby Danielle McMahon irl is a chapbook cast in amber, a series of poems with a nostalgic bent, framed by clips of AOL Instant Messenger conversations. It is a love story and it is also not. It’s ab...

So what was it like growing up in the early days of internet connectivity? Did we only speak of our truest heart's desires behind the veil of instant messenger chatrooms?

Well, yes, mostly. Sincerity can be embarrassing.

Preorder my poetry chapbook irl today! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

26.01.2026 20:37 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

AND I DON'T WANT THEM

25.01.2026 18:45 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Poem with Attention and Fabric Shears

I am watching my friend live 
on a remnant of love

a swatch of fabric 
with pinked edges

and all I can think 
is that I want

the whole bolt 
of love

clumsy 
and tumbling

unwound in yards 
around my body

by Han VanderHart

Poem with Attention and Fabric Shears I am watching my friend live on a remnant of love a swatch of fabric with pinked edges and all I can think is that I want the whole bolt of love clumsy and tumbling unwound in yards around my body by Han VanderHart

… I want

the whole bolt
of love

// sending a love poem out today ❤️

24.01.2026 21:24 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0
Post image

a conversation i read years ago that still twists the knife

24.01.2026 18:00 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Returning to one of my drafting habits I had 10-13 years ago, and I love that this is a thing that can happen in one's life.

24.01.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Donate to Help a Trans Disabled Artist Make Ends Meet, organized by nat raum Hi, my name is Nat and I was fired from my job on 9/11/25 for reasons I feel are … nat raum needs your support for Help a Trans Disabled Artist Make Ends Meet

hi. i got hit with news that was absolutely blindsiding today and am unsure how i am going to pay my bills this month. i started a gofundme. this is really fucking hard for me to do; please share.

gofund.me/740396f7e

13.01.2026 02:12 👍 9 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 6

I miss when we could all "discourse" because we actually had to respect and reckon with the fact that we were a diverse community -and nuance our boundaries and evolve together-, and I've found that having both bluesky and insta helps me not be in an echo chamber of one pocket of us or another.

13.01.2026 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ME. Come back! <3
Also, um. The opposite set of strengths and weaknesses / pros and cons of bluesky? haha. I find I really enjoy using it as long as I use it totally wrong.

13.01.2026 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

what do you mean getting stuck at the top of a 23ft tree for the sake of "immersive research" for my writing is not what they meant by "method writing" help me down

12.01.2026 21:15 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The good thing about fixing a poem is you always end up with a second poem

12.01.2026 15:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

this one by Sara Anam hit like a brick, absolutely had to share this powerful one-two punch

10.01.2026 21:01 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0