Jenny Wong (@jenwithwords.bsky.social)

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 5:48 AM

Ooh! Nice!! We got snow on Saturday, but it’s all gone by today!

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 5:47 AM

You’re very welcome, Anna! And holy…have you racked up the skulls!

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:13 PM

“and then somehow we can glide in and find a beat that pulses through our flayed fishbones and we flick and school through the all the boys”

Get hooked on this wriggling, breathless piece of brilliance by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social.

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:06 PM

Wow!! Spectacular fall colors! 🍂🍁🍂🍁

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 2:53 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Save the Date! I’ll be sharing two #poeticlibrettos & the #art that inspired these hybrid collections #October22 #NorthBeachLibrary #SanFrancisco & #zoom
Meeting ID: 221 224 5102 Password: 135246

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:05 PM

Aw…Mondays…I feel ya, Sweet Mocha! 🩵

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:02 PM

“but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or interruption”

Another wonderful piece! Congrats to @anniejowrites.bsky.social on her 8th skull!!! 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀!!!!

@danbillyc.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:50 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

"even the decision to
do nothing for 50 years

while salt water eased
its way into the roots"

I love this powerful poem by @jackbedell.bsky.social! Thanks so much for sharing @pdforan.bsky.social 💙💙💙

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 6:15 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

So many directions this could have in!
#prompt: #SixInchesOfBlackThread
#doublecherita #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#fictionwriters #poets #creativewriting
#STAYCREATIVE
@madp03t.bsky.social

six

inches
of black thread

tautly wrap
this broken world
into a ball

knotted

desire and despair
swing -

pendulum moods
make us
dizzy

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

@pinholepoetry.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:08 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Our first feature from issue 5.3 is with Jan Wiezorek. You can read his interview here

www.facebook.com/share/1EwVW4...

...raw truth muscling
the bricks, hot to touch,
red-faced, alive like heat.
If l've prayed for this,
let it cool me.

JAN WIEZOREK
Holy Heat
Moles have stolen pattern from the red bricks, birdbath askew. I turned toward you, a leg, a shoulder, so you and me, as much as pattern, as socks folded, coffee pot cleaned, raw truth muscling the bricks, hot to touch, red-faced, alive like heat.
If I've prayed for this, let it cool me. Settling in,
to nothingness: going inside to place underwear in the night drawer, cool as birdbath.

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:56 PM

Thank you so much for keeping us all in mind, Rod! Happy Turkey weekend! 🍁🍂

@rodmannix.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:55 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Best wishes to all celebrating on this Canadian Thanksgiving Day. Check out the work of these authors from Canada.
@timothyforner.com
@kenstark.bsky.social
@wendybayne.bsky.social
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
@ronaldmcgillvray.bsky.social
@sylvia-rose-books.bsky.social
@taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving!
A reminder on this Thanksgiving Day that we all must take the time to recognize and be thankful for all the good in our lives. As the writing community deals with this new reality of fewer readers, sales, reviews, page reads, and social media interactions, we must also be grateful for every reader, sale, and review.
A special thanks to those of you helping fellow authors get the word out about their own work. The writing community is stronger when we stand together!
Wishing good health, and positive literary news to all!

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:55 PM

lol, it was one of those sneaky snowfalls where it was here one day and gone the next! 🩵

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:09 PM

“Here is what the water knows that you don’t: falling is not the problem. Falling is the whole point.”

When a traveler connects with a landscape, beautiful things can emerge. This story is one of them by Mathieu Parsy in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

@susanlleary.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:40 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Zoë Ryder White 💙

from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books)

I cannot get over how incredibly perfect this book is!

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Some sentences, some clauses, a word.

It took a long time to cross the room.
The room was so long.
The room had no ceiling because the house had no roof.
The floor was uneven.
Any round thing set on one side would roll to the other.
There was a collection of roundish objects to the left.
The windows were difficult to discern because there were no walls.
Some of us could hear the dead only as we started walking or just before we got there.
Others heard them all the time: singing, carrying on.
Below the floorboards, below the space below the floorboards: relics.
A cache of seeds and plastic.
Snow in a spilled globe.
The cast-off, spooned bones.
No longer necessary.
Necessary for such a short time.

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:06 AM

Agreed! 🌅 We got snow instead this morning, lol.

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:40 AMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Ok. I needed to fix a punctuation error, so here it is again.
This one's got teeth! Loved writing it (for that reason😁) #STAYCREATIVE
#prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#fictionwriters #poets #creativewriting
@madp03t.bsky.social
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An object must be used correctly for a purpose it was never designed for

His exact words:
Well, aren’t you a handy gadget?

He has no clue,
none whatsoever.

Am I an Allen wrench,
nose tip pliers,

or worse,
a 3-in-1 utility knife

that opens cans,
unscrews corks

and a blade so sharp
it can scale fish

or someone like him?

Go on, I say,
tempt me.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:25 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

Sunday story for you?

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:32 PMReposted by @jenwithwords.bsky.social

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️
Austin (Boots Stop Workin') by Dasha
youtu.be/YoNiisA5BLE

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:50 PM

“I wanted to use a quill pen too, wanted to immerse myself in heather, the spiky softness of it, the violet whirl, its mossy, clean scent.”

Enjoy this gorgeously atmospheric jaunt along the moors by @bsherm36.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social