Rena Aliston's personal gothic newsletter shares updates on her health and writing, announces an upcoming anthology featuring her poem, and shares short original poems and occasional notes on writing software. It reads as a small, intimate creator update mixed with a few brief literary pieces.
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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.
Chisel is a literary magazine and digital newsletter that publishes essays, criticism, reported features and poetry on beauty, obsession and play, with an emphasis on timeless rather than timely work. Recent issues include a long essay on the comic character Concrete and a reprinted poem, plus calls for contributors and updates on its print edition.
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