Our Halloween-adjacent issue (Oct. 30) is full. Our last issue of the year will be Dec. 4, and we will close for submissions when this issue is full and then reopen in the new year. If you have some words for us, submit sooner than later trampset.org/submissions
Holy cow! RAINBOW ROAD is officially IN THE LIBRARY system! I LOVE the library! If you're under 30, these places are where all the magic used to happen. thank you so much to my favorite librarian @wetblnkt for making a small dream from a small man come true. 🌈🦄
I came across this delightful book of children’s concrete poetry by Brad Burg at my library—such fun!
I’ve read several excellent concrete poetry books for kids lately and I’d love to check out more. Do you have any favorites?
#kidlit#poetry#childrensbooks
ALT October 7, 2026
HaiCubicles
Johannah Simon
copy room kink is
my soft flesh firmly fastened
by the stapler’s maw
bitch-ass ice machine
she’s frigid, gelid, aloof
yet melts on my tongue
desk near the air vent
proximity is power
I own the weather
ALT October 7, 2026
HaiCubicles
Johannah Simon
copy room kink is
my soft flesh firmly fastened
by the stapler’s maw
bitch-ass ice machine
she’s frigid, gelid, aloof
yet melts on my tongue
desk near the air vent
proximity is power
I own the weather
Good morning and coffee cheers. It’s time to make books by hand
This is a hardcover case that will be paired with a 96 page gray parchment interior. Watch for the next video showing the casing in.
Northeast Indian poet Ananya S. Guha at @icefloeP
Art work by yours truly
You can never tell the fireflies,
chanting death strains of a long time
memory,
the myths of these hills.
Raiment of Rain - A Poem by Ananya S. Guha / Image - Robert Frede Kenter icefloepress.net/2026/10/07/…
2015: They told me I couldn’t create my own thing, that writing in Spanglish was a bad idea, that I needed to stop mixing genres.
2026: Talking about barrio noir on RFI (Radio France Internationale) while on my third tour in France.
Do what makes you happy.
Today Ananya S. Guha at Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle: An ancestral poem of ecologies & loss. Art: @frede_kenter
Solitude is a song,
skies are murky, stones
pave way for dying.
Raiment of Rain - A Poem by Ananya S. Guha / Image - Robert Frede Kenter icefloepress.net/2026/10/07/…
Delighted to have a new poem "On Culture: An Assay" in Poetry Online's October 2026 issue — and in wonderfully talented company too! 🤍 🍂
My thanks to editor Tarik Dobbs for giving this piece such a beautiful home 🙏
Read and listen to the full piece:
poetry.onl/read/vikki-c
We all like a lit mag that doesn't charge fees AND pays, right? Well, Revolute, the Randolph MFA lit mag, is open for FREE submissions of poetry (3 poems) and prose 6000 words) until 16 November. Pay is $50. Link below ⬇️