Lydia Rae Bush Poetry (@lrbpoetry.bsky.social)

@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:15 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

Even with your eyes closed

@lrbpoetry.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:14 PM

Grateful to @dehm000.bsky.social for publishing my honest, emotional work! You can find my poem "am i allowed" inside!

@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:01 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

If I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man.

@havehashad.com Oct 1, 2026, 2:34 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

today from Guy Cramer!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hai...

October 1, 2026
Haiku
Guy Cramer

not cold enough
to ask dad
for more firewood

@glasspoetry.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:35 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

ICYMI - it's Thursday! Chapbook submissions are open!!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

@epistemiclit.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 6:45 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

#LitMagWeek

My favorite way to find new litmags to read is to follow our contributors here on Bluesky — then I read whatever you all publish, plus whatever else you’re reading and posting about.

@lrbpoetry.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:58 PM

I absolutely love this part of the indie lit community. The overlapping style, thematic, and values circles are so fun to swim through.

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:31 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about writing book reviews in my inbox, so I updated this handout from a review writing workshop I offered a few years back:

@identitytheory.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:23 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

"My parents aren’t going to be okay with it. They’re really Catholic." Read "Devout," a new essay by Laura Mullen.

@kithbooks.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:49 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

My plan for marriage
was courage
the way a plane
lands by sinking
- My Plan For Marriage, @merriandrew.bsky.social

Holds Up When Shattered writes into the hard rush of insecurity and disorientation that floods in as childhood's left behind.

kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered

$Holds Up When Shattered Merri Andrew A close up photo of glass fracturing out from an impact point near the center top of the image. The reflected image shows the interior of a parking structure painted white with sporadic graffiti in black and red. A banner of robin's egg blue spans the bottom of the cover bearing the title and author's name in very dark brown.$

My Plan For Marriage

My plan for marriage
was courage
the way a plane
lands by sinking
then with a rush of strength
flexes to kiss the tarmac
as an equal
a drama soon forgotten
as we wait to see
whose luggage is whose
looping round the lucky horseshoe
magnet pull of what will emerge
and what must be swallowed again
whole
but when I’m nearly asleep
and my hand starts
to fall from his shoulder
and I wake sick once more
with knowing I’m still
not the person I want to be
not someone who holds on
instinctively like a baby
or an animal
or a baby animal
not someone who falls asleep
and lets go
and it means
nothing
is it not a kind of courage
to lift the curse, my hand
and place it on the sheet
between us?

@anmlymag.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 3:00 PMReposted by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social

we'll be reopening for new work on october 1 💜🌀💜🌀💜🌀💜