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Incredibly honored to be judging Mercer University’s inaugural Anya Krugovoy Silver @poetsorg.bsky.social Poetry Prize. She once wrote in my copy of I Watched You Disappear that she thought I would do great things. What greater thing than to remember you always, in everything I do? 💜

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Mind Reading — Susurrus

"Every love I have ever known ended because of my excessive examination of it. To me, it was like some small insect underneath a microscope."

"Mind Reading" by Savannah Bell

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

I don't write every day, but I worry about my writing every day, and in this economy I think that's pretty solid.

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Vita Nuova — Susurrus

"You and I now are something warm but never again urgent. In another life, where things have lives and inside jokes and regrets and maybe even jobs, a curtain might dream of being a blanket."

"Vita Nuova" by @gregfreed.bsky.social

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Hope y'all had some fun at @awpwriter.org! Don't forget @susurrusmag.bsky.social closes for submissions in one week!

Here's another shameless plug for my photography in the latest edition of Susurrus magazine. Thank you, @susurrusmag.bsky.social

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Have You Seen This Child? — Susurrus

"There were people, sitting on plastic food court chairs, standing by the YOU ARE HERE mall map; the little girl could have belonged to anyone here but no one seemed to be looking for her."

"Have You Seen This Child?" by Roberto Ontiveros

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

State Bird — Susurrus

"A hummingbird dances among yellow honeysuckle, quick enough to evade your speedy camera clicks. I ask you how fast it moves. You left before high school, before you got to see my handwriting straighten from chicken scratch."

"State Bird" by Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Carcass — Susurrus

"The buck knew no God. Looking at it, Clay thought it might even be God. Maybe Mr. Fuller killed God and brought him into his father's garage. Maybe they were cursed now."

"Carcass" by Richie Kurt

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

⏰Two weeks remain! Submit today through March 15th!

Submit — Susurrus

Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Faster Than Your Arms — Susurrus

"Everything I say or hear, I hear in my head. Most of the time I’m quiet. I’ve learned to mask. To be normal. But nothing is normal. Normal people are ruthless and busy. I just want to step back."

"Faster Than Your Arms" by Laton Carter

📸: Scott Craig

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Yoga at Western Correctional — Susurrus

"The Black Mountains ring the little valley
where we stand. Razor wire meets a deepening
sky. They can’t decide whether it blushes
more plum or nectarine."

Yoga at Western Correctional" by Paige Gilchrist

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Ohhhh goodness I want to curl up in this one. Or bundle it up and cradle it. Can't decide.

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Nat Geo poster on the exam room ceiling — Susurrus

"I consider my toes in red water & fingers
of complaints. The speculum & my love in the waiting room."

"Nat Geo poster on the exam room ceiling" by Madison Lazenby

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Please share; my photos accompany the wonderful literature in this publication. It's free! #susurrus

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Geostationary: Marfa, Texas — Susurrus

"we mumble sentences
as bodies fade into voices voices get carried
through satellites satellites irradiate
our parametric hesitations"

"Geostationary: Marfa, Texas" by Jan Elaine Harris

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

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Weekend in Pleasant Shade, Tennessee — Susurrus

"I pick up my pen,
blend words into textures. A fawn’s furred

spots, jagged bark, leaves veined like wings.
Bodies of slick fish, bendy and alive.."

"Weekend in Pleasant Shade, Tennessee" by Annette Sisson

📸: Scott Craig

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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more:

Chasing After Henry Aaron — Susurrus

"Progress in America takes its time, like a leisurely home-run trot,
And the only thing to do is to keep working at it, like honing a good swing."

"Chasing After Henry Aaron" by Matthew Johnson

📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Submit — Susurrus

Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through March 15th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more: