Voicemail Poems

15/07/2024

tabling at the Scribes Gala was a blast! thank you to Scribes on South for having us, to Tattooed Mom for being so hospitable as always, & to all who stopped by our table! 💜💜💜

14/07/2024

PHILLY: we’ll be tabling alongside some rad presses at Tattooed Mom this evening for the Scribes Gala, ft. four awesome local poets & an open mic! come say hi 💫

01/07/2024

last call for submissions for our summer issue! ⌛️ send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered 💙💙💙

we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌴✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

☀️ deadline july 1st ☀️

30/06/2024

tomorrow is the deadline for summer issue submissions! 💫 give us a call, send us a poem ❤️

we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌴✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

☀️ deadline july 1st ☀️

24/06/2024

one more week to submit! ✨ send us your 🔥

we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌴✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

☀️ deadline july 1st ☀️

05/06/2024

we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌴✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

☀️ deadline july 1st ☀️

04/06/2024

"What a dog, what a dog
Weaving back and forth
On the skin of the water
Crying for love like water
When it blathers under a bridge"

- Megan Wildhood

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/way-down/

03/06/2024

"Warm fuzzy orb
Growing in gut
And all you have to do
Is sit there and look at me
Like that."

- James Milanesi

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/warm-fuzzy-orb/

01/06/2024

"I’m 30!!

Scream that. Put that on everything. It’s the–
dash of cinnamon on my coffee (30!)
sweet almond oil in my hair just as I’m heading out (30!)
chenille sweater coming off (30!) and on (30!) and off (30!) and on (30!)"

- Sebastian Ellios

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/thriving/

31/05/2024

“The ladies keep stripping, keep singing, keep sagging all over / the place and I’ve been told that getting old / is a death sentence — but damn / if they don’t look / alive.”

- Jillian Stacia

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/the-womens-locker-room-10-am-on-thursdays-immediately-following-water-aerobics/

30/05/2024

"And so the money, having flowed through many different streams and over many different fields, now returns to the lake from which it came.

Welcome home, money. The lake has missed you."

- William Hazard

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/resentment-big-water/

29/05/2024

"We were children of the stadium, filling it with waves and chirps, / dreamy trombone, clarinet, and the orange trumpet blare in wind."

- Gwenyth Wheat

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/pantoum-for-marching-band-lore/

21/05/2024

"The rule was we ate the fish’s tail last,
the last inch or two of it at least,
an old tradition we had kept from
the years before, attending to it,
believing in us, telling ourselves this,
this part of the river, this part of the fish
holding some knowledge."

- A. Logan Hill

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/on-the-nottoway/

20/05/2024

"I hear you tell me to come. Your voice
already a familiar song I sing to myself

for weeks—at the grocery store, folding
clothes, at the gym. Everywhere

you are with me, telling me to come.
I am already home."

- Ronnie K. Stephens

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/incantation/

17/05/2024

"I’ll wear it until it is worn
In every stitch and seam, with soda can
And champagne flute condensation
On the sleeve edges, and the lapels lick
The sweat of your perfect palms
When you kiss me like you can’t
Picture anyone else wearing it."

- Hillary Nguyen

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/ill-wear-your-love-the-same-way/

16/05/2024

"cannot admit homesickness
for the journey

hot flesh
in belly

Who could?

nobody asks the lynx
if it regrets the chase."

- Reece Rowan Gritzmacher

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/fresh-blood-in-snow/

14/05/2024

"I want everyone
to live I want
my hair to grow
into the earth
the blankets
to a river
flowing over me"

- Mike Bagwell

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/excerpt-from-poem-of-thanks/

13/05/2024

"My gospel is wood dust billowing and
watching it float through a ray of sunlight.
In knowing all that you have created
and destroyed will fall transformed at your feet."

- Camille Norvaisas

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/deism/

11/05/2024

"Did you ever hear 'Dirty Girl' that FELT song where Murs and Slug sing verse for verse about girl after girl? There really aren’t enough stanzas like that in women’s poetry & i’m making up for it – call it Dirty Boy. i’ll go on & on about all my mysteries."

- Genevieve Greinetz

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/call-it-dirty-boy/

10/05/2024

"I tell you I am sick, suffering my ass off, burdened with pain that is a howling / iPad toddler, forever kicking my back-of-an-airplane-seat body, / they ask: But have you tried yoga?"

- Anna Boughtwood

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/but-have-you-tried-yoga/

08/05/2024

"Give me a Bacchanal, to forget the Buddhist suffering in this world. Give me a Bacchanal, because I just want to feel."

- Shannon Frost Greenstein

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/bacchanal/

07/05/2024

"They almost glow
in my white kitchen,
turn million dollar
smiles at my
seasonal malaise.
I can’t stay mad.
Yes, it’s just
stupid April,
but what else
have we got?"

- Marjorie Tesser

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/05/06/another-april/

06/05/2024

so excited to present our SPRING 2024 issue!

featuring poetry by James Milanesi, Shannon Frost Greenstein, Camille Norvaisas, Marjorie Tesser, Ronnie K. Stephens, Mike Bagwell , Hillary Nguyen, William Hazard, Megan Wildhood, Anna Boughtwood, Gwenyth Wheat, Genevieve Greinetz, Reece Rowan Gritzmacher, A. Logan Hill, Jillian Stacia, & Sebastian Ellios

we love these poems so much & we hope you will, too ❤

Marjorie Tesser Shannon Frost Greenstein Anna Boughtwood Genevieve Greinetz Camille Norvaisas Mike Bagwell Reece Rowan Gritzmacher Hillary Nguyen Ronnie K. Stephens A. Logan Hill Gwenyth Wheat William Hazard Jillian Stacia Sebastian Ellios James Milanesi Megan Wildhood

01/04/2024

⌛️ LAST CALL ⌛️ send us a poem by midnight pacific time to be considered for our spring issue! 💜

we are currently accepting submissions for our SPRING 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌷✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

💜 deadline april 1st 💜

25/03/2024

✨ one more week to submit! ✨

we are currently accepting submissions for our SPRING 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌷✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

💜 deadline april 1st 💜

11/03/2024

💫 three weeks left to submit! 💫

we are currently accepting submissions for our SPRING 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌷✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

💜 deadline april 1st 💜

04/03/2024

we are currently accepting submissions for our SPRING 2024 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🌷✨

details + instructions: http://voicemailpoems.org/submit

💜 deadline april 1st 💜

03/03/2024

"how is this sustainable? you and I. with me eating so much of you. and you, eating me back. a hole burns through my stomach and with it this thought—that to love me is an illogical act."

- Lauren Saxon

https://voicemailpoems.org/2024/02/07/you-once-told-me/