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here are snippets from self portrait as a container (prev published in HS,WTIIIVN? in 2025) & is available now online in @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for their Summer 2026 Issue! 2nd set of snippets is from a poem titled marsroverlovesong.mp3 & I am thankful @manyworlds.place's for giving it a home!
August 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
here are snippets from self portrait as a container (prev published in HS,WTIIIVN? in 2025) & is available now online in @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for their Summer 2026 Issue! 2nd set of snippets is from a poem titled marsroverlovesong.mp3 & I am thankful @manyworlds.place's for giving it a home!
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☀️ summer issue's up ☀️
ft. @bluenguyen.bsky.social, @thrillandgrace.bsky.social, & more!
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August 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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☀️ summer issue's up ☀️
ft. @bluenguyen.bsky.social, @thrillandgrace.bsky.social, & more!
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August 24, 2026 at 3:28 PM
☀️ summer issue's up ☀️
ft. @bluenguyen.bsky.social, @thrillandgrace.bsky.social, & more!
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July 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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June 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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June 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Grateful to Voicemail Poem for sharing this, and for publishing a voice recording of me reading this poem!
Listen to it here: voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
Listen to it here: voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
June 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Grateful to Voicemail Poem for sharing this, and for publishing a voice recording of me reading this poem!
Listen to it here: voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
Listen to it here: voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
“Saying I love you in my mother tongue
is impossible. My mother never loved me
in words. She gave up a continent
for me, its contents traded
for a feathered hope of better.”
- @ella-b-winters.bsky.social
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is impossible. My mother never loved me
in words. She gave up a continent
for me, its contents traded
for a feathered hope of better.”
- @ella-b-winters.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
June 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
“Saying I love you in my mother tongue
is impossible. My mother never loved me
in words. She gave up a continent
for me, its contents traded
for a feathered hope of better.”
- @ella-b-winters.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
is impossible. My mother never loved me
in words. She gave up a continent
for me, its contents traded
for a feathered hope of better.”
- @ella-b-winters.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...
“I drive and I listen
to the notes dancing through the dark on the way to my ears –
the chimes and the melody and the perfect fifths –
as the night opens up ahead of me
and the rest of my life beckons from
right down the road.”
- @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social
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to the notes dancing through the dark on the way to my ears –
the chimes and the melody and the perfect fifths –
as the night opens up ahead of me
and the rest of my life beckons from
right down the road.”
- @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/t...
May 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM
“I drive and I listen
to the notes dancing through the dark on the way to my ears –
the chimes and the melody and the perfect fifths –
as the night opens up ahead of me
and the rest of my life beckons from
right down the road.”
- @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/t...
to the notes dancing through the dark on the way to my ears –
the chimes and the melody and the perfect fifths –
as the night opens up ahead of me
and the rest of my life beckons from
right down the road.”
- @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/t...
“your weary body tightens
under the blaze of light
yet your soul
remains untouched by its ray”
- Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić)
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under the blaze of light
yet your soul
remains untouched by its ray”
- Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/r...
May 28, 2026 at 3:49 PM
“your weary body tightens
under the blaze of light
yet your soul
remains untouched by its ray”
- Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/r...
under the blaze of light
yet your soul
remains untouched by its ray”
- Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić)
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/r...
“do you believe to feel safe / is the same as happiness / do you believe / everything you’re told / did you believe you’d lose nothing / when you asked / the machine to think for you”
- @birchwiley.bsky.social
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- @birchwiley.bsky.social
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May 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
“do you believe to feel safe / is the same as happiness / do you believe / everything you’re told / did you believe you’d lose nothing / when you asked / the machine to think for you”
- @birchwiley.bsky.social
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- @birchwiley.bsky.social
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“Our passionate energy rises and simmers
She whispers to me at the end of the song
A paradise blossoms from the words that I hear-
‘If music be the food of love, play on’”
- Lena Hadley
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She whispers to me at the end of the song
A paradise blossoms from the words that I hear-
‘If music be the food of love, play on’”
- Lena Hadley
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/o...
May 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
“Our passionate energy rises and simmers
She whispers to me at the end of the song
A paradise blossoms from the words that I hear-
‘If music be the food of love, play on’”
- Lena Hadley
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/o...
She whispers to me at the end of the song
A paradise blossoms from the words that I hear-
‘If music be the food of love, play on’”
- Lena Hadley
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/o...
“I am not / exactly / my body today.”
- @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
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- @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
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May 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
“I am not / exactly / my body today.”
- @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/m...
- @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
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“Sing your songs loud to your silence
& to the silence around you to halt
all silences”
- Uchechukwu Onyedikam
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& to the silence around you to halt
all silences”
- Uchechukwu Onyedikam
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/l...
May 19, 2026 at 5:29 PM
“Sing your songs loud to your silence
& to the silence around you to halt
all silences”
- Uchechukwu Onyedikam
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/l...
& to the silence around you to halt
all silences”
- Uchechukwu Onyedikam
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/l...
"I was always making
something beautiful and useless,
always pressing that rock
to your side of the wall,
wasn’t I?"
- Marissa M. Zhu
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something beautiful and useless,
always pressing that rock
to your side of the wall,
wasn’t I?"
- Marissa M. Zhu
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/i...
May 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"I was always making
something beautiful and useless,
always pressing that rock
to your side of the wall,
wasn’t I?"
- Marissa M. Zhu
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/i...
something beautiful and useless,
always pressing that rock
to your side of the wall,
wasn’t I?"
- Marissa M. Zhu
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/i...
“All things, almost, you can never
have cupped long enough to hold,
So love becomes a marriage,
and lightening a sound,
so late, so late,
In one baroque spring,
could have been this year
or sixty-five million before,
Dirt’s veins
strike it rich”
Vasiliki Argyris
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
have cupped long enough to hold,
So love becomes a marriage,
and lightening a sound,
so late, so late,
In one baroque spring,
could have been this year
or sixty-five million before,
Dirt’s veins
strike it rich”
Vasiliki Argyris
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
May 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
“All things, almost, you can never
have cupped long enough to hold,
So love becomes a marriage,
and lightening a sound,
so late, so late,
In one baroque spring,
could have been this year
or sixty-five million before,
Dirt’s veins
strike it rich”
Vasiliki Argyris
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
have cupped long enough to hold,
So love becomes a marriage,
and lightening a sound,
so late, so late,
In one baroque spring,
could have been this year
or sixty-five million before,
Dirt’s veins
strike it rich”
Vasiliki Argyris
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
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thank you for accepting my submission! ❤️
"Sometimes this place is not 192 tough, sticky, Alabama-sun-toasted bodies / Sometimes this place is 1 organism, 192 cells / Endlessly merging / Endlessly dividing / Endlessly destroying each other"
- Rene Baek Goddard (@unpeachy.bsky.social)
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- Rene Baek Goddard (@unpeachy.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/02/10/s...
May 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
thank you for accepting my submission! ❤️
"become your one unbearable wound
cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry
then fall and fall
until they smooth mountains"
- Sophia Rosenberg
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cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry
then fall and fall
until they smooth mountains"
- Sophia Rosenberg
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
May 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
"become your one unbearable wound
cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry
then fall and fall
until they smooth mountains"
- Sophia Rosenberg
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
cry tears that freeze in six-pointed geometry
then fall and fall
until they smooth mountains"
- Sophia Rosenberg
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
“Wherever we go
the marshes may dry
and the slick-calm ponds
may grow scales of ice—
they have, for centuries
but so have we persisted.
Soon, more than this,
we will know abundance
our beaks writhing with fish.”
- Laura Casteel
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
the marshes may dry
and the slick-calm ponds
may grow scales of ice—
they have, for centuries
but so have we persisted.
Soon, more than this,
we will know abundance
our beaks writhing with fish.”
- Laura Casteel
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
May 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
“Wherever we go
the marshes may dry
and the slick-calm ponds
may grow scales of ice—
they have, for centuries
but so have we persisted.
Soon, more than this,
we will know abundance
our beaks writhing with fish.”
- Laura Casteel
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
the marshes may dry
and the slick-calm ponds
may grow scales of ice—
they have, for centuries
but so have we persisted.
Soon, more than this,
we will know abundance
our beaks writhing with fish.”
- Laura Casteel
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/h...
"I want to scream so I write
I want to riot so I write
I want to break so I write
I want to burrow so I write
I want to grieve so I write
I want to stop so I write
I want to build so I write
I want to so I write
I want to I write
I want so I write"
Emma Sheinbaum
I want to riot so I write
I want to break so I write
I want to burrow so I write
I want to grieve so I write
I want to stop so I write
I want to build so I write
I want to so I write
I want to I write
I want so I write"
Emma Sheinbaum
May 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"I want to scream so I write
I want to riot so I write
I want to break so I write
I want to burrow so I write
I want to grieve so I write
I want to stop so I write
I want to build so I write
I want to so I write
I want to I write
I want so I write"
Emma Sheinbaum
I want to riot so I write
I want to break so I write
I want to burrow so I write
I want to grieve so I write
I want to stop so I write
I want to build so I write
I want to so I write
I want to I write
I want so I write"
Emma Sheinbaum
“Next month, I’m attending a wedding in a cemetery,
and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.
Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave
and then go dancing?”
- Mary Geschwindt
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...
and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.
Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave
and then go dancing?”
- Mary Geschwindt
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...
May 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
“Next month, I’m attending a wedding in a cemetery,
and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.
Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave
and then go dancing?”
- Mary Geschwindt
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...
and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that.
Who wouldn’t want to haunt their own grave
and then go dancing?”
- Mary Geschwindt
voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/d...