Anti-Heroin Chic - Submissions open.

"If we keep telling the truth, no one will suffer." An interview w/ #singersongwriter @kristinhersh @shauna_ummagma heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview…

"I think about our mountains, these Alleghenies, about the weight they carry—how they hold the heaviness of our too muches, too hards, and not enoughs, the things we can’t or won’t, our unbearables and unthinkables—and, yet, ask nothing of us in return." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

"How weird is it that I miss  A time that  Made me want to  Be 26 and  In a better marriage Then my parents were in Because I somewhat believed That even though they loved each other I did not want “their” love." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

Hope is only found in the dark, is a word for when all the other words fail. Hope. Beyond all reason and measure. Share with us that sunken, but enlivened, treasure. heroinchic.weebly.com

Six more days before our submissions close. Though much of life is pain, and the world on fire, we must thread our joy to our grief, all the while extending our hand to struggles near, far, beside us, and inside us...

"I carry the burden to the place where the rock is warm, my pelvis flying In search of nectar; honey-fied I taste the double helix; in the background my mother swims She sighs, kind and murmuring" heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light" heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/already-b…

One week left before submissions close. Guidelines: heroinchic.weebly.com

"fireflies don’t eat unless  it’s each other. In the dying light they flickered slow, then quick quick quick I wanted to keep them alive through winter, but of course that same week Curtis shot himself You understand why I try not to think of fireflies" heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

"I rise, smooth the eulogy against the podium; the wrinkles are deep... My eyes are on you in the casket, all the judgement and unhappiness ironed from your face. You are someone else here, in the box. I could make you someone else." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/i-muse-ab…

“I always knew that death is not the evil thing. In fact, I only hate dying when you tell me how to do it." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

A week and a half left before submissions close. We'd love to read your work. heroinchic.weebly.com

"there is a candelabra  in every dark bar. The chihuahua running to you, jumping, twirling telling you, take of this life,  take of this bone, here anything is possible, you, dear one, are possible" heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

"You’re  invited to join the whirling  red circle, to resurrect  who you are, little one  in blue, little one all alone  in your bedroom." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…

Two more weeks before submissions close. Share with us that ongoing story the words give shape to, a life, yours, ours. Words as medicine, weapon, or small patch of silence. As forgiveness, as mercy, as almost. heroinchic.weebly.com

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three weeks left to submit ✨ send us a poem!

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"When night bore down like wild horses you rode its back to dark and distant corners.  Disappeared into buildings and other places  you would forget. Tell me months later  how much you loved the disappearing.  That world took you. Held you under." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by…