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✨Submissions are OPEN from today, closing June 16th ✨
This will be Dust’s twelfth issue, no theme, out in August.
Subs guidance here:
We can’t wait to read your poems! 💜
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POETS WANTED: Hello, we are a new poetry magazine looking for poems, especially under 40 lines, on any theme of your choosing. Submissions to dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com. We look forward to reading them!
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CALLING ALL POETS: Dust is back and submissions for Issue 9 will open on the 1st of February until the 28th. This will be an unthemed issue, out in the Spring. I can’t wait to read your poems! 💛🌷
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POETS WANTED: Submissions open today for our next issue, Landscape, which will run until the end of June. If you have a poem that relates in some way to landscape, Dust can't wait to read it! All interpretations welcome:
dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
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CALLING ALL POETS: Dust is back for its eighth issue and submissions will open this Saturday until the end of April. Issue 8 has no theme and will be out in May. If you would like to submit, please send 1-3 poems to: dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
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COVER REVEAL for Issue 6, Glimmer (out 16th Jan) by fantastic illustrator Liam Lefr
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Send us your sparkling new poems and your poems gathering dust ✨
Submissions are now OPEN for Dust's fifth issue, Portrait, and I can't wait to read your responses to this theme! Submissions close 28th August and the issue will be out in September. Thank you!
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DUST NEWS: Submissions will open 1st-31st of August for Issue 10, which will be out 1st of October. No theme.
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There are so many beautiful portrait poems in the Dust inbox, I am reminded how little these acceptance/rejection decisions can tell us about the value of a poem. Today it feels more like flowers chosen to go in a vase. Not a hierarchy.
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Calling all poets and aspiring editors: Dust is looking for an assistant editor (potentially more than one) to work with me on Dust for a few hours a month. Much like my role as Editor, I’m afraid this is an unpaid, voluntary position.
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Poetry submissions are open until the 28th of August for our fifth issue, on the theme of Portrait, which will be out in September. If you have a poem that relates in some way to portrait, I would love to read it! Subs by email to dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
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NEW ISSUE: Glimmer, Dust's sixth issue, is now live and you can read it here:
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NEW ISSUE: Connection, Dust's seventh issue, is now live and you can read it here:
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DUST NEWS: Submissions for Issue 11 will open for the whole month of January. No theme. The issue will be out in Spring.
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Happy New Year 🕊 Submissions at Dust are now OPEN until 31.01.24.
Please send 1-3 poems within an email or as an attachment to dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
For our full submissions guidelines go to:
We can’t wait to read your poems! 🌱
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SUBMISSIONS are now OPEN.
Please send up to four poems to dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
For more info:
Thank you!
CALLING ALL POETS: Dust is back and submissions for Issue 9 will open on the 1st of February until the 28th. This will be an unthemed issue, out in the Spring. I can’t wait to read your poems! 💛🌷
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THEME ANNOUNCEMENT: The title and theme for Dust's next collection of poems is CONNECTION. Submissions will open on Monday until the 25th of April. Feel free to go as broad or specific as you like, I can't wait to read your poems! Submission guidelines:
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A reminder that SUBMISSIONS are now OPEN here at Dust until the end of the month. No theme. Submission guidelines here:
I can’t wait to read your poems and start work on Issue 10 🤩
DUST NEWS: Submissions will open 1st-31st of August for Issue 10, which will be out 1st of October. No theme.
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COVER REVEAL for Issue 10 (out on Saturday) featuring the wonderful work of Cambridgeshire artist, Melanie Goemans:
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COVER REVEAL for Issue 7, Connection (out next Saturday 22 May) by fantastic artist, Christiane Drapela. View more of her work here:
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NEW ISSUE: Issue 11 of Dust Poetry Magazine is now live and you can read it here:
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COVER REVEAL for issue 8, out tomorrow, by wonderful abstract photographer Anette Holt.
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The theme for Dust's next collection of poems, Issue 7, will be announced at midday this Saturday. Submissions will then open from Monday 15th of March until Sunday 25th of April. 💛
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Why I hope you know a rejection isn't a comment on your work: I'm rejecting lots of brilliant poems today mainly because I have hardly any space left in the issue. I look forward to seeing them get picked up by other mags and I'm so grateful for you taking the time to send them.
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Glimmer is out at noon on Saturday (GMT) and I can't wait to share it with you! ✨
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SUBMISSIONS are OPEN for Dust's sixth issue: Glimmer. If you have a poem that relates in some way to the theme 'glimmer', I can't wait to read it! (Submission details in the tweet below)
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DUST NEWS: Submissions will open for our next issue ✨18th May - 16th June✨
This will be our twelfth issue, no theme, out in August.
We won’t read poems sent before our reading window opens. Subs guidance here:
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I'm so proud of the poems in this issue and so honoured that the poets chose Dust to feature their stunning work. So here it is, our fifth issue, Portrait. I hope you enjoy it.
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COVER REVEAL for Issue 9 (out on Saturday) by wonderful illustrator and picturebook maker, Tzu-Chun Chang:
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A reminder that SUBMISSIONS are OPEN and you can send Dust your poems until June 16th.
We can’t wait to read them! 🌻
Issue 12 has no theme, and will be out in August. Submissions guidance here:
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN for Dust's next issue, Glimmer, out in January. If you have a poem that you feel relates in some way to our theme 'glimmer', I would love to read it ✨
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Dust remains quiet, forgive me. I had my second daughter in September and looking after two small children takes up more time than I had anticipated 😂. Submissions will reopen next year though, and I have also been dreaming of one day producing print copies.
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NEW ISSUE: Dust’s tenth issue is now live and you can read it here:
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Dust will be a bit quiet for the next few months while I am on maternity leave. I’ll still be checking this account and plan to have a think about ways to improve Dust and what to do next. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them! 💛
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Congratulations to Dust’s six nominated poets for the Pushcart Prize 🎉
@maryfordneal
@CorinnaBoard
@lm2020uk
@stephenson_pj
@PoetSarahDoyle
@LouisePoetical
This is our first year nominating and it was extremely difficult to pick just six but here they are:
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Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted poems for our portrait issue! The standard of work is once again 🤩.
I'm working my way through the inbox and replies have now started to go out.
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Calling all short form poets! We would love to include some haiku, tanka, sonnet, triolet and other short forms (or your interpretation of them) in our next issues. Submissions to dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
We look forward to reading them!
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Dust's next issue, Issue 7 Connection, will go live on the 22nd of May ✨
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Submissions for Dust's next issue will open, along with a new theme, on Saturday 14th November ✨
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Dust's next theme will be announced, and submissions opened, on Friday 24th July.
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If you’d like to read some poetry this morning, our 10th issue, featuring the work of 35 fantastic poets and wonderful artwork by Melanie Goemans and Leonie Amsler is here:
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Submissions are now open for Issue 6, Glimmer, and I would love to read your most glimmering poems! Send Dust your glimmers of light, hope, recognition, sadness, joy, future, past, belonging, love, destiny, desire or whatever glimmers for you. ✨
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A reminder that Dust submissions open this Saturday, and we can’t wait to read your work. 🤩
DUST NEWS: Submissions will open for our next issue ✨18th May - 16th June✨
This will be our twelfth issue, no theme, out in August.
We won’t read poems sent before our reading window opens. Subs guidance here:
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New colours for Dust - peach and grey has been replaced by orange, lavender grey and dark red - hope you like them!
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Forty two stunning landscapes for you to read, in this issue, for free, here:
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Currently finalising the order for Dust's Portrait issue, and reading through each of these sparkling poems again, I am SO excited to share them with you.
Portrait is out this Thursday, 24th September, online.✨
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✨Issue 11✨ of Dust Poetry Magazine is out now and you can read it all, here:
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Submissions for Dust's Connection issue close tomorrow. Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to send in their poems. Decisions forthcoming! 🙏🧡
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Issue 10 of Dust Poetry Magazine goes live tomorrow at noon (BST) and we can’t wait to share it with you! ✨
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New header image courtesy of Dust's youngest member, my two year old:
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Sending love to our American friends today and to anyone else feeling anxious 💜
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Dust submission window closes tomorrow. Thank you so much to everyone who has already submitted poems for Issue 12, once again we have been overwhelmed by the response! 💖
✨Submissions are OPEN from today, closing June 16th ✨
This will be Dust’s twelfth issue, no theme, out in August.
Subs guidance here:
We can’t wait to read your poems! 💜
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Dust's fifth issue goes live tomorrow at 4pm BST. A HUGE thank you to the brilliant
@jeanann_draws
for our cover illustration. I can't wait to share the poems with you.
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Happy National Poetry Day! What have you read and enjoyed recently?
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NEW ISSUE: Dust’s eighth issue is now live and you can read it here:
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THANK YOU to all of Glimmer's wonderful contributors, and to everyone who submitted work and continues to support Dust here. There would be no issues without you and I hugely appreciate your talent, support, and kindness. 'A poem a day' from Glimmer will begin on Wednesday ✨
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CALLING ALL POETS AND POETRY LOVERS: We'd like to start a poetry-share for these strange, anxious, and potentially lonely times: What are some of your favourite lines of poetry? What are the lines that bring you comfort, joy, or make you smile or laugh?
#poetryforapandemic
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Update: Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for Issue 11. We have been blown away by the standard of work in our inbox, it is such a privilege to read your poems 🌟
We are slowly sending out decisions, and everyone can expect a response by the end of March.
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Poetry recommendations!
What are you reading at the moment, and what have you recently enjoyed?
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Thank you SO much to everyone who submitted poems for our Portrait issue. It is such a privilege to read your work. The issue will go live on September 24th and in the meantime, with over 400 submissions to get through, I will be:
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Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted poems for issue 8.
Submissions close on Saturday and I will then begin sending out responses from Sunday onwards, before the issue goes live at the end of May ✨
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“When I say that everything will be all right, what I mean is that /I’ve never asked a frozen lake to bear my weight. That the / shapes of some birds fill me with terrible joy.”
We end the issue with this fantastic poem by
@maryfordneal
, read it here:
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✨Today’s poem✨ is ‘all the boys that ever ghosted me follow me on Twitter’ by Luís Costa.
@captainiberia
Read it here:
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Beginning to think about a new issue of Dust… Are there any themes you’d like to see? Or would you prefer an unthemed issue?
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Our third poem from Issue 10, and today’s poem of the day is Terroir by Jen Feroze ✨
@jenlareine
Read it here:
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And WOW thank you so much for 5000 followers! 🙏💛🧡 You're all wonderful 🥳
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✨Poets✨, I hope the weekend finds you well. We haven’t had a poetry recommendations thread in a while...
What are you reading? What have you enjoyed recently?
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✨We’re posting one poem here every day from Issue 11✨
Today’s poem, which opens our issue, is ‘Gallop is to Horse as Fall is to’ by Jane Zwart
@_janezwart_
Read it here:
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Thank you to everyone who has submitted poetry for our Glimmer issue, the standard of work is astonishing and I can't wait to share what is shaping up to be a very special issue with you all. Submissions close tomorrow and decisions will continue to go out over the coming days ✨
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As submissions arrive for 'Landscape', I will be (re)sharing some of the highlights from Dust's last three issues. I hope you enjoy them. Thank you so much to everyone who has sent a poem, appeared in the magazine, read, shared, liked or supported us! I hope you are keeping well.
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✨Our next issue (12) will be out on August 3rd, and you can expect a submissions response by July 19th✨
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The hugest thank you to our contributors for the Portrait issue, and to everyone who has submitted work, and liked, shared and supported the issue in other ways. There'd be no magazine without you and you're all wonderful! 💛
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Our first online issue (Issue 1, January), no theme, will be rolling throughout the month, with selected poems going up on the Dust site as quickly as we can post them. We can't wait to get publishing!
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Issue 10 began with Corinna Board’s haunting swan wing “strange cradle, a memory / of feathers, now dust”, and ends not with a poem but with this beautiful hand printed swan feather by artist Leonie Amsler, bringing our issue to a close: …
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✨Dust’s next issue launches next weekend (20.04.24) and we can’t wait to these brilliant new poems with you!✨
Cover reveal noon, this Saturday 🤩
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Today’s poem is the spine-tingling and brilliant ‘Mother, the sun is trying to shine on me’ by Mary Ford Neal
@maryfordneal
, whose new collection ‘Relativism’ is out July 9th with
@PressTaproot
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Some NEWS: I am delighted to announce that the very brilliant
@C_Redford_
and
@bhaaaaaavya
are joining the Dust editorial team. After 3.5 years of running Dust solo, their many talents, expertise, care, and passion for poetry will be a tremendous addition to Dust
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Dust Issue 10 launches a week today with 35 new poems by some wonderful poets. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, it is such an honour to read your work and the tremendous quality of your poems always makes it difficult to choose only a small selection 💛
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Poets, thank you so much for your submissions! The quality and the volume has been a glorious surprise. Everyone will get a reply by the end of the month, sorry they've been slow. Submissions remain open and Dust will continue doing these rolling issue each month for now...
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Thinking about themes for Dust's next issues. Let me know if there are any you'd like to see!
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Issue 10 begins with Corinna Board’s haunting swan wing “strange cradle, a memory / of feathers, now dust”, and ends with this beautiful swan feather by Leonie Amsler. We didn’t have a theme this issue but you will find a great many birds inbetween.
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Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and much love to you all! ❄️🎄💛
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“where the road cracked,
crescents, droplets, spores –
the teacup with the blue vines,
the fleck in the lip”
Today’s poem of the day is this magical, mesmerising poem by Louise Mather
@lm2020uk
Read The Alchemy of Moss here:
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"here is what I remember:
a cloak, the sound of the waves,
mother fox, blue wool, coral,
snow, pulse, wild rivers"
Today's poem from Issue 10 is Louise Mather's (
@lm2020uk
) gorgeously captivating 'Tapestries'. Read it here:
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May her memory be a blessing.
(Illustration by Kimberly Glyder)
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Sending love to our friends in America and anyone else finding the wait excruciating or feeling anxious 💙
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN for Dust's sixth issue, Glimmer, which will be out in January ✨
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“The glow in the windows is unexpected, as is / the presence of a car in the driveway. / In school, we heard only of permafrost.”
Our next poem from Issue 9 comprises three exquisite tercets by
@maryfordneal
Read Tundra by Mary Ford Neal, here:
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Happy New Year! 💜 Looking forward to a brand new year of poetry and to seeing what this wonderful lit community creates over the coming months! 🌟
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"I dig bones from a grave carried on my back
lay them on the page – blood full-stops.
Chains are brought up next, a tangled weight."
Today's Portrait poem is by
@JennyMitchellGo
and you can read it in full here:
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Thank you for some brilliant art submissions on the theme of Connection, as I search for our next cover. I'd love to see some more! dustpoetrymagazine
@gmail
.com
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Our fourth poem from Issue 10, and today’s poem of the day, is Green Tea by Julian Bishop ☕️🍂
@julianbpoet
Read it here:
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Posting a poem a day from Issue 10 begins today ✨ and our first poem is Corinna Board’s breathtaking ‘Stone age mother and baby burial with a swan's wing, circa 4000 BC’.
@CorinnaBoard
Read it here:
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NEW ISSUE: Issue 9, which features 23 poems by 22 poets and cover illustration by
@TzuChunChang_
, is now LIVE!
Thank you to Chun and to each of our fantastic poets.
I hope you enjoy these poems 💛
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The tenth poem from Issue 10 and today’s poem is At Fifteen by Jenny Mitchell ✨
@JennyMitchellGo
Read it here:
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Dust's second issue will begin tomorrow with three new poems, and then continue to build throughout the month. Thank you so much to everyone who has so far sent poems! Submissions remain open for Feb and March issues.
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“Will you come and fry me some halloumi, / smother it in flour / and buttery goodness?”
Today’s poem of the day will leave you smiling. Read the wonderful ‘Halloumi’ by Claire Marsden
@occulife
, here:
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