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Kathryn Rw Reese
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
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Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
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Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡
“The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…”

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September 28, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Honoured to have my piece “The tale of a dining table as told to itself” nominated for Best of the Net 💚

You can read it here: www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese
September 26, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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I love this issue. There are fab poems & incredible art…so many ways we can capture not just image or self but also the wonderfully messy stuff of relationship.

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social can’t wait for another cup of chai with you…is it time to start searching for my cardamom again yet?
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 24d
🗨️e(i 9: Collaboration is live!🗨️

Our #spotlight is on Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social!

Check out their work at buff.ly/ryyERAn!

Don't forget to vote for your favorite piece for our Readers' Choice Award! buff.ly/ahE8FZH
September 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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September 12, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Super thrilled that my poem about neurodiverse breakfast joy has been nominated for Best of the Net!

Read it here: templeinacity.com/poetry-kathr...

Thanks @templeinacity.bsky.social
September 11, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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Late to the party but 👀💚
September 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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This month's #FromTheCoursesMouth features @smokelong.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

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September /October 26: Upcoming courses, workshops & events
Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.
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August 31, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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ninamiller.bsky.social
A slice of life that made me who I am today! Love writing micromemoirs! Thank you @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for selecting me for this honor!
fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · Aug 31
"The Hindjew" by @ninamiller.bsky.social an Indian-American physician, epee fencer & creative. She loves writing competitions & nursing cups of chai. ninamillerwrites.com substack.com/@ninamiller. "The Hindjew" is the Editor's Pick for our A TIME YOU HAD TO ACT LIKE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT contest.
August 31, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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"The Hindjew" by @ninamiller.bsky.social an Indian-American physician, epee fencer & creative. She loves writing competitions & nursing cups of chai. ninamillerwrites.com substack.com/@ninamiller. "The Hindjew" is the Editor's Pick for our A TIME YOU HAD TO ACT LIKE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT contest.
August 31, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
Our Big 10th Issue is upon us & we’d like to introduce you to the theme…

A Day In The Life.

…like The Beatles’ song? YES!

We’re interested in the ways in which art like this exists in the world — with such wildly different fragments & contrasting energies not just coming together but over-
June 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Check out these amazing 🔥🔥🔥 works
sillygoosepress.bsky.social Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · Aug 20
As August winds down, let's give 3 big honks to our Silly Summer Web Series Contributors! You can find their work on our Flight b(Log) here: sillygoosepress.com/silly-summer

NEXT UP: Issue Seven Highlights 🤩🤩🤩
August 21, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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stanchion.bsky.social
So all Stanchion books & magazine issues are buy 2 get 1 free, forever. No code needed. Just put 3 things in your cart & 1 will be free. I'm still as committed as ever to making indie lit more affordable for everyone, while still paying authors & not charging fees. The way it should be. And is, here
August 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Stoked that this little story has been nominated for Best Small Fictions:

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Thanks to the team at Pithead & congrats to the other nominees
August 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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Poets…about those musicians…
fklein907.bsky.social Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Aug 16
Poet girlies when they finally stop dating musicians and settle down with a nice civil engineer:

At the end of my suffering there was a dork
August 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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“From outside earth is too bright to look at”

@eireneeleni.bsky.social in Electric Pink
eireneeleni.bsky.social Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · Aug 14
People! I have a new poem out in Electric Pink and have somehow neglected to inform you. How? I don’t know. Do you care? Probably not. But I do! So here it is. ✌️
www.electric-pink.org/poetry/if-we...
If we knew would we be anything but damp by Eirene Gentle 31 JULY 2026 We thought our world would flare. Not burn. But water isn't often where we need it. We dreamed of flight/plucked fragile wings from flying things. We punctured space and left Trash. From outside earth is too bright to look at. that why we burned it? There's nothing more flammable than human ambition. We torched little kids like they were sparklers. If we knew would we be anything but damp? Sprinkle us over the burning. Soothe this blistered world
August 15, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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“Anyway, this isn’t the best murder ballad” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 in Lost Balloon
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Aug 13
Friends, I took a musical poser and wrote a 💔🏳️‍🌈🥂☠️ story about it and a total bucket list journal @lostballoon.bsky.social took it and I’m so stoked. It features karipap, Thai Song (what do you mean you’ve never tried it) and Richard Marx. Can u pls read it? Tx
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August 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Thanks @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for nominating Storm Season for BOTN 💚

You can read Storm Season here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

It’s about loneliness and going home
August 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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"Gloss. An old word for tongue, or speech. The girl thinks she should go back to making glosses, little pencil notes in the margin of ancient texts"

A gem from @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

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Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
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August 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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"I know you want me to sing that here, in the translucent shell of my body, live the soft sighs of angels."

Do read this beautifully lyrical marvel from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social picked by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social as the winner of the @welkinpress.bsky.social Body Prize.
welkinpress.bsky.social The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · Aug 7
🫀🫁🦴

WINNER of the Body Prize, "Dear Walt Whitman" by
@sarahillswrites.bsky.social

A lyrical, emotionally taut gem of a micro in epistolary form:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Dear Walt Whitman | MattKendrick.co.uk
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August 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Stoked to have a poem in Glass today: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html - there’s an audio version too.
Kathryn Reese | Hush | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
www.glass-poetry.com
August 6, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Yeah, I know there’s therapy but there’s also these guys.
Two young steer in a very green paddock. One is black, one grey-brown. Both have wet noses and deep interest in their eyes.
August 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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“you've been so much/on your knees./Crumpled, your skirts between/the girl's feet” more brilliance from @kathrynreese.bsky.social in The Paddler 🧡🧡🧡
kathrynreese.bsky.social Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · Aug 4
I have 3 poems in The Paddler, here’s one: an ekphrastic I wrote after seeing a portrait of a local midwife at a local gallery.

Go grab your copy of this issue here paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-...

@paddlerpress.bsky.social
Image shows the following poem: Nurse Bertha Schmidtke of Ambleside Maternity Home Kathryn Reese After the 2019 textile artwork by Deb Twining. Your portrait, projected on a curtain. Draping to the floor. Stitches: silk. Your figure, over seams, a little fuller than you were ~ always hovering, as if there were a window, a drop of sun to bleach the cloth across your bursting back ~ you’ve been so much on your knees. Crumpled, your skirts between the girl’s feet, your hands a basket, receiving or holding cloth to torn flesh and later, in the gas-lit dim, your eyes straining at your needle, working the silk so nothing creases while newborn cries billow in from the next room ~ and now you are silk preserved away from sun and draughts. You were always on quiet nights, sure you would be summoned, if you closed your eyes. You don’t close your eyes.
August 4, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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Have a read of the next poem in our LINEAGE series — 'actually very sparkly when not always ill' by Jovy Lotus, also featuring artwork by the author titled ‘brain fog’.

Head to: enbylife.net/2026/08/04/a...

Catch up on the full Lineage series so far at enbylife.net/tag/lineage/
Artwork of chaotic swirls and lines drawn in black pen. Black text on transparent coloured backgrounds reads, ‘disability disappearing / an impossibility materializing / everything captive inside is / breaking ground on the outside.’ 'actually very sparkly when not always ill' by Jovy Lotus.’
August 4, 2026 at 1:53 AM
kathrynreese.bsky.social
I have 3 poems in The Paddler, here’s one: an ekphrastic I wrote after seeing a portrait of a local midwife at a local gallery.

Go grab your copy of this issue here paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-...

@paddlerpress.bsky.social
Image shows the following poem: Nurse Bertha Schmidtke of Ambleside Maternity Home Kathryn Reese After the 2019 textile artwork by Deb Twining. Your portrait, projected on a curtain. Draping to the floor. Stitches: silk. Your figure, over seams, a little fuller than you were ~ always hovering, as if there were a window, a drop of sun to bleach the cloth across your bursting back ~ you’ve been so much on your knees. Crumpled, your skirts between the girl’s feet, your hands a basket, receiving or holding cloth to torn flesh and later, in the gas-lit dim, your eyes straining at your needle, working the silk so nothing creases while newborn cries billow in from the next room ~ and now you are silk preserved away from sun and draughts. You were always on quiet nights, sure you would be summoned, if you closed your eyes. You don’t close your eyes.
August 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Appearing at some point today...

... the SHORTLISTS for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!!!!

Who's excited???!!!!
July 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM