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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal

A journal of collaborative poetry (Active on Bluesky)

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Spark to Flame@s2fjournal
15 Jun 2025
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.
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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Alex Carrigan@carriganak
27 Oct 2025
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.
Alex Carrigan@carriganak
12 Oct 2025
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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Alex Carrigan@carriganak
20 Oct 2025
My poem "Estrangement Bop" is live in the new issue of @VagabondCityLit. Check out my first Bop poem here: vagabondcitylit.com/2025/10/…

Estrangement Bop by Alex Carrigan

I’m not sure how to talk to my father anymore.I know how to reach out to him, but I don’t thinkI can make that effort after this election. I have tothink about what’s on his TV and the circles hefi…

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Vagabond City Lit@VagabondCityLit
20 Oct 2025
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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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Thank you to all who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this issue 😎
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The Child and Its Enemies@childenemies
7 Oct 2025
👻✨ BOY APPARITION is alive! my #transmasc #anarchist #poetry #chapbook—full of love letters to the #BashBack tendency, #feral #boyhood, & lipstick-mirror #gender devotions—is up for preorder 💥 vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy… 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

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Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
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.

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.
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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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A Journal of Collaborative Poetry

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ICEBREAKERS 🦄@icebreakers_lit
13 Aug 2025
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! 🌙🦄 icebreakerslit.com/submissio…
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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…
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“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…
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“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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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“...& 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…
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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…
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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…
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Alex Carrigan@carriganak
17 Jun 2025
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-…
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D.W. Baker@lowermelody
15 Jun 2025
I am grateful to my collaborators for the poems we made in this issue of @s2fjournal: "Pour one out for my unreliable narrator," with Angela Gonzalez, and "fire," from a series with @gr8earlofhell. Both texts combine prose blocks with verse fragments
Spark to Flame@s2fjournal
15 Jun 2025
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.
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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Alex Carrigan@carriganak
15 Jun 2025
The new issue of @s2fjournal is out! My poem "Adultery Pantoum" is included, based off a spark from Mahailey Oliver, so check it out:
Spark to Flame@s2fjournal
15 Jun 2025
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.
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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