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Lisa Zerkle

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Poet•Editor•Reader •MFA from Warren Wilson •Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly •Podcaster on PBQ Slush Pile •Editor at Iron Oak Editions https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle

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New Slush Pile episode up now with poems from Erin Evans! pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...

04.03.2026 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi!👋 I’m here.

02.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New pod out now!
Fiction edition with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
pbqmag.org/latest-podca...

05.02.2026 20:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New podcast episode up over at pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...

23.01.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Border Patrol left Charlotte. The damage stayed behind The Border Patrol's enforcement surge in Charlotte, N.C. lasted just about a week. Residents picking up the pieces in its aftermath say doing so is going to take a lot longer than that.

Border Patrol left Charlotte. The damage stayed behind

www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...

10.12.2025 22:04 👍 246 🔁 161 💬 4 📌 5
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My Son in the Sea by Lisa Zerkle Quickly and easily listen to One Poem Only for free!

Today is double feature day on the One Poem Only podcast. I’m thrilled to have two poems read by the magical Maggie Devers.
Maybe give a listen as you’re cooking for Thanksgiving? These poems were also featured as Poetry in Plain Sight broadsides. #booksky

player.captivate.fm/episode/aaa5...

27.11.2025 02:33 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Check out the latest
Slush Pile podcast from Painted Bride Quarterly!

pbqmag.org/latest-podca...

13.11.2025 00:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 👍 39542 🔁 14911 💬 570 📌 665

The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.”

“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

27.10.2025 18:20 👍 1050 🔁 248 💬 14 📌 13
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Submit — Susurrus

🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit

15.10.2025 11:18 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

03.10.2025 15:33 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

I’m thrilled my poem “High Sierra Incantation” is featured over at Glass Poetry today. Huge thanks to Tony for his generosity. #booksky #poetrysky

24.09.2025 17:46 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools None

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

17.09.2025 21:59 👍 2919 🔁 615 💬 110 📌 45

Thanks for sharing!

18.09.2025 18:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes — Susurrus

"as we walk past neat green lawns. Bless you, I say,
clearly, with emphasis. This speaking to creatures

who do not respond is an echo of something earned,
of time spent teaching."

"I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)

15.09.2025 14:29 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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New pod available!

pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...

#booksky

20.08.2025 21:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to be a part of this issue. Thank you!

18.08.2025 11:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Huge thanks to @susurrus editors CJ, Maddie, & Michelle for launching this poem into the world alongside such fine company. And check out that gorgeous cover!

18.08.2025 02:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What a delight to return to Kelly Hoffer’s debut “Undershore.” It’s unlike any collection I’ve read—a unique and creative elegy that hits hard. If you’re looking for your next Sealey Challenge read, reach out to Lightscatter Press and add this one to your stack.

#poetrysky
#booksky

07.08.2025 14:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A new episode of Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile is out now, featuring three ekphrastic poems by Janée Baugher. Listen now wherever you find podcasts!

pbqmag.org/podcast/epis...

02.08.2025 01:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's show 'em how it's done, poets 😎

31.07.2025 18:11 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Check out the interactive poems in Tyehimba Jess’ book Olio.

27.07.2025 18:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.

Send us work that uniquely explores August’s upcoming theme of bravery.

Details below:
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#writingcommunity

24.07.2025 16:05 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Today’s used book store find. Definitely worth four dollars. Thank you, gods of poetry!🤩 (Bonus vintage Prairie Lights book mark) #booksky

21.07.2025 22:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Painted Bride Quarterly is open for poetry submissions. Visit PBQ.org for details.

09.07.2025 00:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything

Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

30.06.2025 12:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Need honest, constructive criticism? Consider working with one of our professional editors that can offer detailed feedback. The @‌ironoakeditions.bsky.social team is here to help you refine a short piece or a full manuscript.

Meet the team and get details here:
buff.ly/AxPccv2

#writingcommunity

19.06.2025 15:07 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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08.06.2025 16:48 👍 1802 🔁 913 💬 35 📌 46
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Mother’s Day is a tough day for those of us who have/had complicated relationships with our mothers.
I’m grateful to the editors and readers over @raleighreview for putting this poem out into the world

#writersky
#poetsky

12.05.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poets— helpful and encouraging submissions advice here. Plus a reminder that sometimes publishing takes time (Tracy K Smith’s first book came out 8 years after her MFA).

07.05.2025 12:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0