A small independent literary press from Wisconsin shares daily-style writing prompts, short Wiktionary-and-Wikipedia word histories, sample poems, and featured contributor poems in its issues. Readers get craft prompts for writing sonnets and poems plus occasional original poetry from contributors.
Website: https://thistleandthread.org/
Poems, short essays and reflections from poet David Whyte, often prefaced by notes on how each piece came to be written. Issues also include announcements for his live events and material from his Three Sundays Series.
A personal newsletter of reflective essays, poems and album announcements by Kristin Lueke, drawing on daily life in New Mexico with her dogs, garden and rain barrel. Readers get intimate, lyrical writing about presence, grief, patience and small rituals rather than news or advice.
Theophaneia is a literary and philosophical newsletter with essays on Surrealism, poetry and metaphysics, such as a history of Robert Desnos and a critique of natural selection's metaphysical role. Readers get learned, idiosyncratic long-form writing that draws on poets, philosophers and religious thought.
Dada Drummer Almanach mixes literary prose poems with essays on music and art. Its recent issues argue against generative AI in music and critique the financial bubble around AI, with a strong personal voice.
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