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A magazine of poetry, essays, hybrid, & art. ISO: whatever makes us cry like animals. EIC/tweets by @cursetheground

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Before we send each email, we ask ourselves, "would reading this feel like a forehead kiss," & if the answer is "no," we scrap it & start over
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marina
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received an exceedingly generous rejection from @BLEATINGTHING today! i’ve never tweeted about a rejection before haha but i’ve also never received one so kind and personalized ! when their reading period opens again, i can’t recommend submitting to them enough
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!! ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN !! Necessary 🔗s in replies. We hope you've been doing your vocal warmups! The time has come to bleat.
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aNoThEr LiT mAg?! yes. do not be afraid to live in abundance.
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i, personally, love when poems make no sense, cause it's like watching a poet wrestle an angel. sometimes, we must free ourselves from the prison of being told what to think & confront the unknowable.
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Our editorial assistant hard at work sending decision letters.
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!! ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN !! We accept lyric-leaning poetry, essays, hybrid work, and visual art. Click the link in the replies for more details on what we like and how to submit.
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Here is the reveal of the front cover for our GENESIS issue, launching digitally May 3rd (print date to follow)
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As an up-&-coming lit mag, it's not every week of the submission period we get submissions in all categories. But WE DID THIS WEEK!! Thank you all & keep them coming!
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Every submission took time & thought to craft & we will answer in kind as long as it is sustainable to do so
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Ell Huang ♠️🤍💜🍉🥥
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can confirm, @BLEATINGTHING is particularly tender and intentional in their rejection letters, which I just think is neat 🖤💀🐏♥️🕯️
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Subs close at the end of this month! Have you sent yours in?
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!! ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN !! Necessary 🔗s in replies. We hope you've been doing your vocal warmups! The time has come to bleat.
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!🚨! ONE WEEK LEFT !🚨! to submit to our second issue. Send poetry, hybrid work, essays, and (please please please) visual art to the 🔗 in the replies.
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! GENSIS SUBMISSIONS OPEN til JAN 31ST ! We're especially craving some crunchy essays, hybrid pieces, and visual art. (It will be a very naked issue if we don't get more art!! 🤍🐑) 🐑Details in 📌'd tweet🐑
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people who go out of their way to thank us for our time & consideration are the reason we operate the way we do. This community has been very wonderful & we strive to be wonderful in return.
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✧・゚: *✧・゚:* ISSUE 1 THEME REVEAL ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* Genesis? For a first issue? Groundbreaking. Mark your calendars, beloveds. 22 days.
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Test print was a smashing success
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Us when no new submissions:
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the sacrificial lamb by josefa de óbidos, 1670
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receiving submission is crazy. like: you really just offered us a piece of your heart & we hold it now, beating fitfully, resiliently in our hands . . . i mean, hooves
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TODAY IS THE DAY. Issue 01 has made its way into the universe, kicking & bleating. READ IT NOW at the link in the replies
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when we get compliments on our graphic design it truly means so much bc not to be a boomer about it (cause I'm not a boomer), but I refuse to even learn to use Canva & it means a lot to me that our design feels personal & kinda hand-crafted (hence the handwritten logo)
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Get ready to bleat at us. Submissions for our Fall/Winter issue (no theme) open on Saturday! For more information, visit the 🔗 in the replies
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*newborn lamb noises*
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@BLEATINGTHING
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since some of you have started seeing decision letters from us, it's maybe worth noting that we received a small enough number of submissions that I am writing each email from scratch, not from template, & it's personal for me, too
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We would like to personally apologize to anyone who has felt further victimized by our use of the phrases "hungering for" or "craving" submissions as a lit mag. The thing is, you see, we have four stomachs & are, as a result, always hungry.
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catching up on the Naked Cat situation after Touching Grass for several days. Our hearts are with the affected authors, and we will continue to boost publishing opportunities for rehoused chaps
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manifesting: but tonight, as I stare into the inbox, there will be twice as many submissions as usual
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@BLEATINGTHING
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Wishing everyone a very Free Palestine
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@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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This was so heartwarming to read 🤍 we know how important it is for writers (& readers!) to be able to HOLD the work. Our model was designed with longevity in mind. Grateful to have so many of you on this journey with us into the future 🐑
@kmhanslik
K.M. Hanslik ✨🪰
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shoutout to @BLEATINGTHING for being one of the coolest up-and-coming magazines I’ve seen. from website design, content, ease of accessing forms, & overall vibes— *chef’s kiss* immaculate ✨ & THANK YOU for offering print versions. Rare to see anymore.
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You know you're growing as a mag when you get hybrid and visual art submissions in the first week open. What a magical feeling (don't stop don't stop don't stop)
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get in, losers. We're seeking comfort in unusual places
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Issue 1 has been read online over 500 times! You're all wild for that (just the way we like it) 🐑 💝
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are cover reveals still cool? do people enjoy those?
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Going to bed too early to post this at midnight. ONE MORE DAY to send your Genesis-themed poetry, essays, hybrid work, and visual art! 🐑🤍🐑🤍 Link in replies
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hey smaller mag friends! We're under 1k and still came across the radar of Gerard Sarnat. Since many of you are still open for subs, reminder to send submissions from this man directly to the trashbin
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!🚨! ONE DAY LEFT !🚨! to submit to our second issue. We will stop receiving submissions at midnight. Send poetry, hybrid work, essays, and (please please please) visual art to the 🔗 in replies!
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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no I did not recruit 3 other editors just so I could make jokes about having 4 stomachs & be accurate to both lambs & the amount of people on deck to read subs anyway, have you sent your submission yet
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Everyone who submitted for Issue 02 should have received a confirmation email! If you're missing a note saying we received your submission, email (bleatingthingmag @gmail .com) or DM us here and we will rectify asap 🐑🤍
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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any other lit mag editors feel immense amounts of pressure on their first issue? having to turn away good work for the sake of establishing aesthetics and tone? having to send. . . Emails???
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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I went to the personal library of my heart & everybody knew you there
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@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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for all those new to the flock: welcome! We're currently open for submissions of poetry, essays, hybrid work, and visual art! Check our 📌'd post for guidelines & links & things! 🐑🤍
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@BLEATINGTHING
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what if we were the first mag you sub'd to in 2024 👀👀 haha jk .. . . unless
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@BLEATINGTHING
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We're already halfway to the number of poetry submissions we ended with last reading period. Don't let anyone tell you poetry is dead. Thank you for being here. Keep 'em coming.
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@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Thank you for 1K followers! For the newly initiated, we are currently open for submissions. Thank you for being part of the flock 🐏
@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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!! ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN !! We accept lyric-leaning poetry, essays, hybrid work, and visual art. Click the link in the replies for more details on what we like and how to submit.
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seriously: stop telling people we're cool. we're four lambs in a librarian sweater
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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not to flex, but our submitters are so talented, they keep having to email us to withdraw because they've placed their poems (& yes, we say congratulations every time)
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Reminder that everyone who sneaks a "🐑" into their cover letter receives a forehead kiss!
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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The thing about managing the inbox after my dayjob is I lose the ability to proofread my own emails after 5pm. If you've been a victim of this, you may be entitled to compensation (profuse apology, groveling, etc.)
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Good morning! Submissions of ISSUE 1: GENESIS close at MIDNIGHT tomorrow! Do as you will w that
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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word on the street is we're a cool, hip magazine. which one of you is out here spreading lies.
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wee woo wee woo
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!! ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN !! Necessary 🔗s in replies. We hope you've been doing your vocal warmups! The time has come to bleat.
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Anyone who submits before Jan 1st gets a confirmation email signed Season's Bleatings
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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We grind slowly, doing everything as people, by hand, & sometimes it means we lose pieces we love to other magazines, but to us, that's an opportunity to celebrate your success with you. & That can be a wonderful feeling.
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Not our photo, but our prayer
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hey um I checked our website analytics & all they said was "you're all awesome & beautiful"? & Maybe submit something if you haven't, but the sentiment remains
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I am still a dancer made of song.
@Joseph_Fasano_
Joseph Fasano
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oh my god
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Having to stagger confirmation emails due to a carpal tunnel flare-up, but they should all be out before the weekend starts in earnest. Thank you to all who sent. We're preparing to build something beautiful.
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The response opening weekend has been incredible. Thank you for your support submitting and boosting our call! We 🤍🐑 u
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Who's ready to meet our editing team?
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Decision emails for Poetry, Hybrid, and Visual Art have all been SENT. If you submitted in any of these categories and feel like you haven't heard from us, give me a shout.
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how many submissions is it healthy to read in a day? Asking for a friend
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Our EIC's mom Joy is bragging about receiving her copy of Issue 01 all over her social media. Be like Joy.
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Popping on to unequivocally state that Bleating Thing condemns the genocide of the Palestinian people. We join our voices with those demanding an immediate ceasefire and Palestinian liberation.
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@BLEATINGTHING
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If you've got a lyric essay that's hungry, yearning, desperate, or in any way straining against the edges of language, you should send it to us! we're open 🐏
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Gonna start a scrapbook where I collect all of the loveliest things people say in their cover letters. Heart v full this morning.
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Who's ready for an Issue 1 theme reveal soon?
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Update for anyone who sent submissions over the weekend: we monitor the inbox & confirm submissions manually, so confirmation emails go out the Monday following the weekend they were received. Thank you for your patience, and you should be hearing from us shortly!
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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if you're reading this, take a moment to breathe & be at peace
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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our love language is receiving submissions, jsyk
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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If any simultaneous submitters place poems elsewhere: you still have to tag or link us when the poem comes out! Don't think another magazine accepting your poem gets you out of us reading & sharing.
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We're officially "building an infrastructure that's made to last" 🐑🤍
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going stir-crazy from wintering. can't wait until spring to touch some grass. roll in it, perhaps. . . chew on it, even
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i'd love to see more exclamation points in poems in the new year
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going to Church (sorting submissions)
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Holding your submissions & all art close these days. Makes everything that much more bearable.
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Every day, I put on my clown makeup & I check the hybrid submission form, and I will not stop until submission close (Jan 31st)
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If anyone is brave enough to submit in every single category, you get whatever the multi-disciplinary artist version of an EGOT is
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the thing abt Krampus is he's kind of the bad boy of cloven-footed creatures, & I could fix him
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we really do send forehead kisses to anyone who adds a 🐑 to their cover letter & every time I see them I giggle & kick my feet
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Question for artists! What draws you to a submission call?
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excited to be moving into the "building the issue" phase! Feels very Springtime/Genesis coded
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Wake up, babe. new Partially Shy.
@partiallyshymag
partially shy 🍉
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🚨🚨🚨ISSUE 2 IS LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE🚨🚨🚨✨💕😘🎀❤️🥰
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we are the children of the lambs they couldn't silence
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not Twitter asking us to prove we're human when we're literally four lambs in a trenchcoat
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Interested in submitting but haven't read our first issue? Find it here!
@BLEATINGTHING
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TODAY IS THE DAY. Issue 01 has made its way into the universe, kicking & bleating. READ IT NOW at the link in the replies
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Today, we are spotlighting @sweatermuppet 's study of transness as an act of participation in your own creation "two questions." Read the full poem (along with other gorgeous works by other gorgeous people) in our first issue (🔗 in replies)
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@BLEATINGTHING
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having four stomachs means we're always ravenous for submissions (don't Google it)
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print proof came back & I'm tempted to do a photoshoot with it later today cause it's just so sexy. Soon, my darlings
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when lucie brock-broido said "I am sick of not loving and not / Sleeping well" I really felt that
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just found out cows mourn the loss of family, don't text (You can keep submitting tho)
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Today, we are spotlighting Irina Tall Novikova's portrait of a haloed woman with Earth's one true unicorn in her hands, "Girl and Unicorn." View the full painting in full color (alongside other gorgeous works by other gorgeous people) @ The link in the replies
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@BLEATINGTHING
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Your daily reminder that the cracks are how the light gets in
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all of these seconds - the ones that have passed & the ones that are coming - are precious. let this year go with love. begin again.
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@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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GENESIS SUBMISSIONS are OFFICIALLY CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who has sent work. The last round of confirmation emails will go out later today, but the tldr is: our editors will now be reviewing submissions until March 31st. Query any time: bleatingthingmag @gmail .com
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the one good thing about my regular data entry (adjacent) job is that is has prepared me to manage submission spreadsheets
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Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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Let's start with our poetry editor, @thalierr ! She's looking for your palpable pleasures & undying desires. Tag a poet you think Thalia should see in our inbox when submissions on December 1st
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@BLEATINGTHING
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Don't ever let anyone stop you!! This is how language evolves
@fklein907
Frances Klein
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These poets out here just lOvE to take a noun and make it verb. (It’s me, I’m poets)
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We 💝 ewe too
@SophieBebeau
Sophie Bebeau
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New poem out in @BLEATINGTHING SELF-PORTRAIT AS ARS POETICA Read it here (and buy a print issues) 👉 It’s seriously such a pretty magazine. I love it so much. 🥹
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@BLEATINGTHING
Bleating Thing Magazine || CLOSED
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just got back from the doctor. apparently, when you have four stomachs, poetry is not a complete meal
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@BLEATINGTHING
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Get yours now for the low, low cost of a submission and a 🐏
@bdcutkomp
Bethany Cutkomp
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Receiving a virtual forehead kiss from @BLEATINGTHING was everything I never knew I needed. 🐑💖
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