Latest updates! 🌻
Poets & Writers listing, Boston Veg Food Fest, LitMagWeek, JP Open Studios, Poetose Journal contributions, interviews, and more!
Dear Poetose friends,
Poetose is now listed with Poets & Writers thanks to Paul Flagg’s efforts! We also have a trademark application pending thanks to Meia’s (my) enthusiasm for IP and the USPTO!
And a new initiative has launched thanks to Brett Van Emst of Midnight Mind: Mark your calendar for #LitMagWeek from September 28 to October 2, 2026. Poetose will be joining over 100 literary journals, magazines, and presses from around the world to offer discounts, share insider stories, and more. Learn more and see the many participating folks at LitMagWeek.com.
Also coming up this fall, I plan to represent Poetose at the delicious Boston Veg Food Fest. As my friends and family know, I’ve been a devout vegetarian since the age of eight when I looked down at my plate and connected the tasty morsel with the delightful chickens I liked to raise. I’ve also applied to represent the press at JP Open Studios and the Boston Arts Book Fair, though the latter is not at all guaranteed.
Keeping this short and sweet! And now to sharing all the exciting poemy things of late…
Sincerely,
Meia
Poetose Journal
“My sponsor says: get a plant / your first year sober; / no relationships.” ~“Gardening at Night” by Alex Stolis
“Jo can fly. But don’t look up, she won’t be in the sky overhead, the one we can see, the sky that hosts all things that fly...” ~“The Sky Below” by Philip Matcovsky
“...I don’t / know who I will be today— / the bird on the wire or the bird / in flight...” ~“Sighting” by Meghan Sterlin
“Long winter. How my life unfolds...” ~“Don’t Waste Sorrow” by Lana Hechtman Ayer
“Characters: A short poem in English, French, and Japanese” by Andrew Milne:
“They are everywhere, eggs imperceivable, / clinging to the bottom of cans, their webs / the same drab color as the cabinets...” ~“Grain Moths” by Anne Moore Odell
“Sometimes I pick at myself, and pull at snagged threads / of my life, words, deeds, thoughts, woven in weft and warp, / pulled against my bias, well-worn, yet form-fitting…” ~ “Threadbare” by Richard Stimac
Thank you so much to writer-bookseller Margaux Williamson for this lovely blurb on These Aren’t My Woods Anymore by Soon Jones:
“I am so glad to have read Soon Jones’ work. I appreciated how this collection spoke so unflinchingly about identity and the grieving that can come with shedding our internal and external pasts. All of it was just so beautifully haunting.”
Thanks also to Sundress Publications and Guest Editor Merrick Sloane for featuring poems from Soon Jones’ These Aren’t My Woods Anymore!
Read Soon’s poems, “Half/Slice” and “You Cannot Serve God and Mammon.”
Poetose author Miguel Eichelberger, author of Everything Is, talked about “translating the untranslatable,” adding human detail, why writers should write everything, the Stargate universe, and “don’t show, let them see” in a terrific interview with Paul Zeidman. Watch the video interview on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify.
Don’t miss this brilliant interview with Poetose author Sherre Vernon, also with podcast host Paul Zeidman, about Sherre’s book Translating Blue, loving the sound of words, striking a balance when writing, the importance of complexity, and the value of finding the right word. You can listen to it on YouTube or Spotify.
Thank you for reading! Here’s a photo of some new washi paper and book earrings to tide you over until next time:
