A journal of collaborative poetry (Active on Bluesky)
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We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
ALT Spark to Flame Issue Five cover art by Maria Taibo showing a painting of a forest, with warm browns and greens.
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My poem "Phantom Thread" is in the new @s2fjournal, based off a spark from Annie Liang. You can read the piece here (pg. 14): s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
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I was lucky enough to write a spark AND a flame for Issue 7 of @s2fjournal 🕯️♥️ I loved the collaborative writing process so much and I think the results speak for themselves.
If you’re craving some unique and memorable poems, devour here: s2fjournal.com/archive/
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I'll have a second poem in Inlandia's next issue! My prose poem "Pining for Radha" will also be included, so I can't wait to have this ekphrastic piece in the next issue.
My @RobertAllenPoet inspired duplex “Briar Rose” will be in the next issue of Inlandia Journal! Can’t wait to share this new poem!
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My poem "Estrangement Bop" is live in the new issue of @VagabondCityLit. Check out my first Bop poem here: vagabondcitylit.com/2025/10/…
This month's issue includes art by David Boyle, CNF by Max Greenhill, fiction by Iman M'Fah Traoré, and poetry by @carriganak, Aron Olson, and Neal Allen Shipley
vagabondcitylit.com/tag/issu…
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Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
ALT Spark to Flame’s Best of the Net Nominations 2026. From issue four: “here in the dreaming” by Ashley Varela (Flame) and mk zariel (Spark). From issue five: “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark); and “fire” by nat raum and D.W. Baker.
Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.
What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎
Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
#poetry #writingcommunity
s2fjournal.com/submit/
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!! Thank you for trusting us with your work and howling at the moon with us for three whole years. To celebrate, we’re opening subs! 🌙🦄
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Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by @karinawrites25 (Flame) and Michael Kellichner (Spark).
Check it out, page 14: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Photo of hands around a sapling
“Draught” by Giada Pesce (Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring.
“It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.”
Check it out, page 13: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT photo of open sea
“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and Giada Pesce (Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties.
Check it out, page 12: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Photo under the surface of the ocean.
“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?”
Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and Angela Heiser (Spark).
Check it out, page 11: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Photo of a white ceramic heart, shattered.
The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by @carriganak (Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent!
Check it out, page 10: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Image of white bed sheets
Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by @lowermelody (Flame) and Angela Gonzalez (Spark):
“...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…”
Check it out, page 9: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
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“The radio songs all distilled the same sweetsick shit / about the shaky meatblood heart.”
The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and @karinawrites25 (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild.
Check it out, page 8: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Photo of a silhouette of a person against dawn backdrop, at the sea. Grainy, dramatic image.
“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…”
“fire” by @gr8earlofhell and @lowermelody is a poem that burns.
Check it out, page 7: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT An image of the earth against black sky, fire engulfing the right side.
I love “The Truth About Mushrooms” by Michael Kellichner (Flame) and Van Rung (Spark):
“Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.”
Check it out! Page 6: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Photo of a mushroom up close.
First up from Issue Five is “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark):
“this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses”
Check it out, page 5: s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues…
ALT Image of a coyote against a dark blue and purple dusk sky.
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I have two poems in the new issue of @TwinBirdReview. You can read my MST3K-inspired poem "I Have Terminal Enchantment Right Now" and my prose poem "Entombed" here: twinbirdreview.com/carrigan-…